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—Cartoon by C. R. Macauley, in the New York World.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TESTS
OF NAVAL ORDNANCE TO BE SECRET
Important Experiments Costing SIOO,OOO Planned to De
termine Relative Efficiency of Various Elements
of Offence and Defence,
Washington, D. C.—The experi
ments in naval ordnance, for which
the last naval appropriation act con
tains an appropriation of SIOO,OOO,
now available, will be conducted in
secret. For some time the naval ord
nance officers have been anxious to
conduct certain tests which require
much expense, and which could not
be made out of the usual allotment
lor the naval bureau of ordnance. It
was not expected that Congress would
make provision for such a purpose,
largely for the reason that objection
prevailed in some quarters to the ex
penditure of public funds in direc
tions which did not always show tang
ible results. It was pointed out,
however, that the beneficial effect of
the tests would be no less real mere
ly because new material was not be
ing acquired. There was much in
the way. of theory vyhich it was de
sired to supplant by actual knowledge
obtainable only by tests. So many
questions have arisen among the ex
perts as to the relative efficiency of
various elements of offence and de
fence that they are highly gratified
to have an opportunity to settle them.
One of the most important tests is
that which will show whether the
armor now being placed on American
battleships will resist the projectiles
of high power guns at battle ranges.
Guns are now fired in tests at short
range with velocities w r hich are esti
mated to equal that -which would
exist if the distance were what is
known as a battle range. It is as
serted by many that the armor will
not serve its purpose. Actual experi
ments in firing at such ranges against
armor supported in the same manner
as on a battleship have hever been
carried out, and no one knows what
the actual effect will be.
Another question is whether high
explosive shells will have the effect
claimed for them and whether the
pressure of the gases of such a vio
lent explosion will blow in the armor
side of a battleship. Then, too, it is
desired to know -what will be the ma
terial effect of such explosives on the
personnel and whether the structure
of the ship will stand it. Connected
with such an experiment is the de
termination of the maximum depth
to -which a twelve-inch shell will pen
etrate the water at battle ranges and
the effect of the explosions on the
underwater body. Tests will also be
■conducted to determine the resist
MUIR GLACIER FREE OF BERGS.
Strange Changes Wrought by a Subterranean Earthquake
in the Famous Alaska Ice River.
Victoria, B. C. —A recent remark
able phenomenon in Alaska is the
drifting away of icebergs from the
front of Muir Glacier in Glacier Bay
so that for the first time in nine years
this famous river of ice, the most
noted on this continent, has been vis
ited. In 1889 a subterranean earth
quake occurred at Yakutat. and ever
since the approach of this glacier has
been so choked with ice that boats
have turned away with their passen
gers disappointed. Now through some
peculiar drifting of the ice steamboats
can enter the channel and go near the
right wing of the glacier, and after
cautiously pushing their way get a
glimpse of the left face.
In" the nine years that it has been
inaccessible the glacier has under
gone remarkable changes. When
Professor John Muir, after whom it
was named, visited it it had a solid
face two miles long and rising about
250 feet above the water line. It was
a live glacier,, and great masses of ice
ance of exterior armor to the attack
of twenty-one-inch torpedoes. It may
develop that the armor now used will
not exclude torpedoes, in which event
the disclosure would be disconcert
ing, to say the least. ?t w'ould have
its value, however, in showing to
what extent and in what direction
improvements must he installed to
give exterior armor its necessary
power to resist such a form of naval
attack.
/ It is also proposed to ascertain
whether the turrets as now con
structed and equipped on battleships
will withstand the impact of heavy
projectiles at battle ranges. It is a
question whether there will not he
under such an attack material dam
age to the structure itself, to. the
sights, the electric and other gun
gear contained in the turrets. It is
important in this connection to as
certain whether the sights now in
stalled cn the twelve-inch turret
would he permanently disabled by
six-inch gun fire, which demonstra
tion would show whether it is neces
sary to design a turret that can be
disabled only by heavy gun fire.
One of the important experiments
will be with movable water planes in
stalled on the sides of a battleship,
operated automatically, so as to di
minish the roll of a vessel, and so im
prove the accuracy of gun fire in time
of battle. The record target practice
of thobAtlantic fleet this summer will
be with the vessels rolling, so as to
ascertain if the target could be hit
under the most adverse conditions at
sea in time of war. It is also desir
able to ascertain if under such unfav
orable conditions it would be possi
ble to offset the influence of the sea
and contribute to the stability of the
ship as a'gun platform. It is appre
ciated that anything which improves
marksmanship on board ship is a di
rect and vital contribution to the
fighting power of the navy.
These are only a few of the sub
jects which will be taken up by the
naval ordnance officers during this
fiscal year. No previous announce
ment will be made of the experi
ments, most of which are likely to be
conducted at the naval proving
ground at Indian Head, Maryland.
The tests will be made solely with
the view of obtaining information for
the Navy Department and no an
nouncement of the results will ba
made.
toppled into the sea from' time to time
with reverberations like thunder.
Water splashed fifty feet high at each
fall and the sight was fascinating.
To-day the glacier assumes a differ
ent aspect. Erosion has worked out
a new bay, which will soon be charted,
and the glacier itself seems to have
tw r o parts, the live part, from which
icebergs break and fall with tremen
dous noise, and a dead arm, with land
forming between it and the sea.
This change is due to a hill which
projected through the top of the ice
when Professor Muir was there. Now
that hilltop is a large mountain di
viding the ice fields. The ice has also
receded four miles in the nine years.
The captain of the first steamboat
piloted in front of .this glacier in re
cent years was presented with a sil
ver service marked in large letters
“Muir Glacier.” This is without
doubt the most remarkable known
glacier on this continent. It has 35 4
square miles of ice.
RAINS INJURED CROPS
Condition of Georgia Crops Mow
Rat id at .GO.
COTTON AND COHN SHORT
Commissioner of Agriculture Hudson
Says Cotton Crop Will Be Curtailed
500,000 to 600,000 Bales.
Atlanta, Ga.—Crop reports received
at the department of agriculture, fol
lowing the recent heavy rains have
caused Commissioner .of Agriculture
T. G. Hudson to rate the present crop
condition at 60 per cent, as against
82 per cent, the estimate given out a
month ago.
The continued rainfall is assigned
as the reason, and it is further stated
the cotton crop in Georgia, as a re
sult, will be curtailed from 500,0tH)
to 600,000 bales.
In North Georgia the crop condi
tions, both for cotton and corn, are
given as exceedingly bad. In middle
Georgia they are some better, though
suffering, too, there from too much
rain, while in some parts of south
Georgia the grass has run away with
the cotton.
Only in extreme south Georgia are
the conditions given as fine. In that
section it is stated that the crops are
as good as ever grown in Georgia.
NEWS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
The house of representatives held
only a brief session on Saturday morn
ing, and aside from passing two local
bills affecting the city of Augusta,
reading now bills and bills up for a
second reading, transacted no busi
ness. There was no sesion of the sen
ate. The two bills passed were: A
bill to authorize the city council of
Augusta to secure by condemnation
proceedings lands needed for the ex
tension of the city’s waterworks sys
tem. Also a bill to create a .river
and canal commission for Augusta.
Among the most important new
bills introduced in the house was
one by Mr. Davis of Albany to amend
the law with reference to the exam
ination of banks in this state and to
provide for the appointment of a
state bank examiner and his assist
ants.
Now that the last dollar due from
the convict lessees has been paid, and
the convict lease system forever clos
ed, so far as Georgia is concerned,
there will be more financial embar
rassment for the state, which the co
lons will have to unravel. State Treas
urer Pope Brown received a check
for $2,729.29, from the E. E. Fov Man
ufacturing Co., of Egypt, Effingham
county, the same being the last quar
terly instalment due by them to the
state on leased convicts. This com
pletes all the payments from lessees
on convict hire. After defraying the
expenses of the prison commission,
there was $60,000 left of the convict
lease fund, which is now due, for
distribution to the several counties.
The sum, together with other war
rants for bills of the state, overdue, is
now being held up in the executive
department, for lack of available
funds in the state treasury to satisfy
them.
Governor Brown will not give up
his place as head of the Marietta
board of education while he is gov
ernor.
An important bill affecting the
banking laws of the state is pending
before the senate, where it was intro
duced by Senator Rutherford. This
measure, it is .stated, has the approval
of the state banks generally, partic
ularly those belonging to the Georgia
Bankers’ Association. One of the
first purposes of this bill is to make
such provision as will both require
and insure two examinations annually
of each state bank. Under the new
bill there are to be five assistant bank
examiners, each at a salary of SI,BOO.
instead of the $1,500 now paid. The
expenses of bank examination are not
to be paid by the state, but by the
banks.
The house special judiciary commit
tee voted to favorably report a meas
ure which will revolutionize criminal
procedure in Georgia. It provides that
the jury shall assess the punishment
within the limit of the law as ex
plained by the court. At present the
jury only declares the guilt or inno
cence of the accused, while the judge
pronounces sentence. The bill was
Introduced by Mr. Lewis, cf Hancock.
The present session of the general
assembly has a burden of $430,000 to
face and must cut its cloth accord
ingly. said Representative Reid of
Campbell, chairman of the committee
on ways and meanst After impress
ing upon the members the serious
and irksome nature of their work, Mr.
Reid showed that last year there was
an excess of expenditures over re
ceipts and this year adidtional appro
priations to be met as follows: Excess
of appropriations for 1908, $1S0,000;
increased appropriations already made
for 1909, $250,000; total increase, $430,-
900. He said the report of the comp
troller general showed that some $70,-
000 of extraordinary receipts came in
last year which could not be counted
upon this year. Thus the present
legislature must, in financing the
state, make allowance for an extra
half million dollars.
Senator Johnson has introduced a
bill in the senate making it unlawful
for any person, firm 3r corporation to
sell any commodity for a lower price
in one section of the state than in
another section. The first offense is
made punishable as a misdemeanor
and in case of a foreign corporation,
the second offense is punishable by
ousting from business in the state.
Domestic corporations may suffer a
revocation of their charters for sec
ond offenses.
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G. W. MOKIUS, Pres. J. G. WARD, V-Pres.
J. T. BOND, V-Pres. C. M. POWER, Cashier.
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