Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 257, 24 July 1910 — Page 8

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THE I1ICII2IOXD PAXLADIU2I AXD SUN-TELEGRAM, SUNDAY, JULY 24, 1910.

SEDUCE SUPPLY STATIONS TO BE;

LOCATED BY I). S.

by naval officers that some nearby

fully equipped base Is Imperative.

The point Is brought out by cer

tain officers that if It is imperative to

add to the protection of the Canal sone, the strength of the navy, why not make a naval base on each side of

the Canal and do away with, the num

ber of naval bases suggested in Southern states where they could only be

established through the expenditure

of large sums of money for harbor Im

provements? The advocates of the

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Series OI uaSeS IOr Military the nearer home a permanent base is

and Naval Sunnlies to nfl located, the better,

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Just what disposition of the sub

ject will be made is of course uncer

i

tain at this time. It will in all prob

ability be worked out by a combined

board composed of army and navy ex

perts,

During the present difficulties with

Nicaragua, naval expeditions which have been sent there have generally

Although No Military Supplies S.VcSKTiS:

UauA Roen Kont in thp bv at least three dav8- Later vessels nave Been epi in xner d Panama a bage Some

SOllth for YeaJS BeCaUSe Of TeB8e, have bad to make the trip to

Poor Harbors.

Erected Along Coasts of the

Country. EVEN DIXIELAND TO ,

HAVE ITS STATIONS

was formerly in, charge of the Bureau of Supplies of the navy. Sometime ago vast quantities - of brown powder was purchased by the department to be used for certain guns In experiments with explosive shells "after contrast" The experiments demonstrated the unfitness of the powder and its use was discontinued. Subsequent naval appropriations have been small and for the navy department to have thousands of dollars tied up in worthless powder, Is a heavy blow to the ambitious secretary of the navy, Meyer. Paymaster Cowie has tried to sell the store of powder to the army but

the wiseacres smiled. He attempted to saddle his troubles on the various quarry men but to no purpose. His other heritage will fall to the lot of all subsequent paymasters the disposition of dilapidated ships of the navy. At present the department Is up against a proposition to dispose of the Boston, Detroit and Winslow. Naval officers say that they are utterly worthless for anything except as coal

barges. In this way, it is estimated that more than $2,000,000 of hitherto valuable property will pass out of the hands of the navy with practically no return, thereby shattering the hopes

of a number of pet plana which have been urged upon Secretary Meyer and for which this "salvage" money could be used.

That fine old cup defender, Volunteer, which was bought by Captain Barr last year, has been sold to a firm of wreckers, who will break her up for the value of the lead and fittings.

BY SIDNEY ESPEY.

Washington. July 23. A series of

naval bases and military magazines

for the storage of supplies for the army from Maine, around the gulf

states and up the Pacific coast to Pu-

get Sound. Is one of the few plans

that will be worked out in the future

by the war and navy departments. Up

to the present time military stores of

all kinds have been kept in arsenals

located throughout the states north of the Mason-Dixon line, while naval

bases following the coasts are gen

erally situated in what has become

known as the North.

Since tbe Civil war, military stores of all kinds have never been located

In southern territory, nor is there a naval base from Newport News, Va., to Galveston, Tex., with tbe exception of coaling stations at Pensacola and

Key West. Fla. Through a general re

organisation scheme, however, which

as yet has not evea reached tenta

tive plans, , a system of naval bases

and arsenals will eventually wind themselves from the northern-most port of tbe United States In Maine, on the Atlantic side to Galveston, Texas, and from Puget Sound to Los

Angeles, Cay on the Pacific. Southern Ports Poor.

Naval officers in discussing the new

propaganda of the departments to not

believe that sectional feeling has In any way entered into a prohibition of locating bases, la the South. It is pointed out that very few Southern

cities offer facilities of sufficient depth to permit of easy access to the big battleships now being used by the navy, or of the procurement of skilled

laborers. Charleston. Pensacola, Mo

bile, New Orleans and Galveston, are

each cited as examples of cities whose harbors are not of the required depth

to permit of ship evolution.

Since tbe Interests, however, of the

United States In both Central and South America have attained such importance, the advisability of establishing a omdern naval base In some of the southern states has been deemed

necessary. Pensacola, which has the

best harbor In the Gulf. It Is said, will

be one of the first cities to have a naval station. A coaling station Is located there now. As American com

mercial Interests spread In the south

ern countries, other naval bases will

be established. The army too will fol

low suit and as naval bases are established. It is the Intention to locate an arsenal at the same place capable

of holding enough munitions of war

to supply troops quickly who happen

: to be called out of the country. New Coaling Stations.

At present the navy department has obtained through purchase and by courtesy, the privileges of coaling sta-

; tlons and naval bases in some of the Central and South American seaboard countries. . In Cuba, the navy has a base at Guantanamo equipped with docking facilities and a repair shop and in other points coaling stations have been located. The difficulty

there, however, is the same that has been generally experienced In the South the lack of skilled laborers.

It follows, however, according to Secretary of the Navy Meyer, that If a naval base Is located la the South,

plenty of skilled laborers as well as

unskilled laborers will be easily ob

tainable.

The building of the Panama Canal,

While it will be fortified by the army, needs the aid of the navy, It Is said, and a further argument Is advanced

Guantanamo where they have been

repaired temporarily under much difficulty, owing to the limited capabilities of the station. It is pointed out, that at New Orleans or Galveston, a

day and a half sail further from San

Juan, Nicaragua, than Santiago, a ves

sel could be placed in commission

much faster and much more satisfactorily.

At all events, the navy department

will endeavor to . have some action

looking to the establishment of naval bases In the South taken at the next session of congress, but it Is said, it will not ask that any appropriation

be made for extensive work until af

ter a complete board of army and naval experts pass upon the advisabil

ity of the scheme.

On the Pacific, the question it is

said has resolved Itself into the establishment of at least one more yard.

there being naval bases now at Puget

Sound and San Francisco. Tbe third

base is needed as an auxiliary base in the event that other yards are too crowded.

Couple of "Lemons." The navy department has a couple

of "lemons" on its hands, not the

yellow kind with the acid taste, but several big lime-like propositions that

have caused Paymaster General Thos. Jefferson Cowie a few uneasy days.

Unfortunately for him, his source of

trouble was a heritage from Paymast

er General E. B. Rodgers, retired, who

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