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J. THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13, 1007. GREAT BATTLESHIP FLEET SESiSS Stages Navy to ' Sail For San Francisco "in December; -Urgent 'Needs Pacific Ports; Coaling a Squadron; More Drydocks Are Needed, Only Two Available At .Tnif Time COMING OF THE IK battleihlDB and elht arm- docked at leaat every nine montha or I , t . ) i ' - ?' , , , " r , t a r t ' a- ' 1 V 11 11 mi i impi ino win irn the aperd will be reatly reduced. Be- I , " " . v M lf "h,fi y9 ' S ' 'f , ' ' ' f d V l ored crulaera to the Pacific In idea docklna for oalntina. to keep a I , v kl ffM I i f . ' T - x ,f rt aoon after. All iteel ahlpa moat be docked at leaat every nine montha or the aperd will be greatly reduced. Be side docking for painting-, to keep a warship at her beat, routine overhaul ing In a dockyard la required at leaat once a yejr. There are not the necer eary facilltlea to carry out thla work and It la the duty of thoae representing this coast to see that provision Is made for these facilltlea at once. fHE conmlng of the great fleet of battleships and eight arm ored cruisers to the Pacific In the near future is a tardy rec ognition of the importance of our commercial Intereata In the Pacific. The center of the commercial world has been slowly hut surely working Itself westward, and flan Francisco Is destined to become In the near future Providing for Fuel one of the greatest commercial centera. The Importance of San Francisco and the Pacific coast in the commercial world haa not been fully appreciated in Europe and In the eastern state, except by those whose business rela tione have brought them In touch with the real situation. Now the coming of the great fleet changea all thin in !- most a day. The whole world knows that we now realise the importance of our commercial interests and opportun ities in the Pacific and Intend to en courage and foster' them, and if need be, protect them. With our great Interests In the Phil ippines and the Hawaiian islands and the markets of China and Japun open Provision must also be made to pro vide the fleet with fuel. At the pres ent time all these vessels burn coal and the amount required can be appre ciated from the following figures: A large battleship or armored cruiser at anchor In port burns 25 tons a day and cruising at 10 to 12 knots burns 130 tons a day, while at full apeed from 400 to BOO tons a day are required. The fleet of battleships and cruisers will require approximately 600 tons of coal a day In port and 3,250 tons a dav while cruising at .1 apeed of 10 to 12 knots, or 10,000 tons a dav if at full speed. The navy department to us, there must be an enormous In- now finds It Impossible to obtain Ameri can vessels to transport to tnis coast coal for the present needs nd must charter foreign vessels. With the new fleet. It will require a large fleet of merchant colliers to keep up the supply of coal. , The monitor Wyoming Is being con verted into an oil burner at the Mare Island yard. The conversation of a man-of-war built for burning coal into an oil burner Involves many difficulties not encountered in merchant' ships, the principal of which is providing oil stowage that will be safe in fiction. If the conversion of the Wyoming proves successful there Is no doubt that a con siderable number of vessels of the battleshlD fleet will be made Into oil crease In our over-sea commerce. The Japanese realize thla and are making preparations to capture their share of this commerce. They already control a considerable portion of It and they are building new and larger ships for this service. We must take care or they will have all of It or at least the lion's share of this trade. It Is be lieved that the coming of the fleet will draw attentlonto the importance of making prepartlons for our share of this trade. At the present tlmo under our existing laws, we can not compete with the Japanese In this respect. If congress does not remedy these condi tions the commerce of the raclflc will go to Japan, and In a few years there will not he a ship on the Pfl'clflc under burners and the fuel difficulty disap the American flag, except. In tho coast- Pears. California supplying all that la- wise trade. required. Storehouses Demanded. 4' dTQTqo'Q o o o d Needs of the Pacific. This, however, will never be. The coming of this great fleet to the Pa cific will bring our representatives in congress west of the Rockies to a real isation of the importance of the sit uation and they will unite and demand that the necessary laws be enacted which will give to the Pacific Its share of the commerce of the world under our flag. With the west united on this there can be no doubt of the out come. With this commerce and a great fleet to protect it the advance In the industries on this coast will be rapid. Manufacturing Industries of all kinds will be established here and no longer will the Pacific rely on the east for the great bulk of Its manufactured articles. To business men aftve to the situa tion this qViestion Immediately suggests itself. Is the Pacific coast prepared to take, care of this fleet? There is only one answer to this question, and that is no! We have not tho docks in which to clean and paint, nor have we the fa cilities for repairing these large ships. This statement applies to peace con ditions, while under war conditions the situation would be almost hopeless. At present there are. but two docks on the Pacific coast in which the battleships and armored cruisers can be docked. One Is the government dock at Brem erton, and the other Is a private dock A, UnnlAr'l TVtlnt Th nrK'Ufa i rr l la required continuously for work on mer chant vessels but even If available, these two docks would not suffice for routine docking for cleaning and paint ing, and routine repairs If used for this purpose and no other. In case of se rious accident to one vessel the dock might be held for that one Job from two to five months. The Pacific Mail Steamship Manchuria has occupied the dock at Hunter's Point for 200 days for repairs to her bottom, causedN by grounding. Drydocks Required. To take care of the fleet that will be In the Pacific within the next eight months the government should have at least seven drydocks large enough to take the largest battleship or armored cruiser. There should be located as follows: Two, Puget sound; two. Mare Island; two, San Francisco, and otic, San Diego. The government already has much money Invested in Mare Is land and the Puget sound navy yard. At Puget sound there is abundance of water and vessels of the deepest draft can enter the dock at any time. At Mare Island there is plenty of water at high tide for our largest ships,' but a large vessel badly damaged and out of trim would not be able to dock at Mare Island. San Francisco, in time of war, will undoubtedly be the point of attack, and It Is Imperative that a repair sta tion with two larea docks should be Immediately established on San Fran cisco bay. Mare Island should also be greatly Improved and another large dock provided. Puget sound now has one large dock and another one Is building. This station, however, is badly in need of additional shops, tools, and appliances for handling large re pairs. A repair station with one large dock should te provided at San Diego. This would give three large repafr centers, well distributed, and these. If properly equipped, could well take care of the fleet either In peace or war. This Is, however, the minimum re quirement and when these proposed re- ?alr facilities are compared with the acilities now existing on the Atlantlo coast, one wonders that the Pacific rep resentatives In congress have so long agreed to such an unequal distribution. There are large repair stations at Ports mouth. Boston. New York, Norfolk anJ Pcnsacola. Appropriations have been made for a large yard at Charleston, South Carolina, and there la a large dock at New Orleans with small repair nops. At the present time the facilities for handling and storing clothing, stores and provisions for the present fleet are Inadequate. With the coming of the great fleet additional storehouses must be provided at Mare island. Puget pound and San Francisco, where stores, clothing and provisions can be nsem lileil mid distributed to tho fleet as needed. When the drydocks are built and the shops equipped there is still larklnit an important essential that must be pro vided, that Is. mechanics lo make the repairs. At Jhe present tine It is Im possible to obtain at Mare Island and Puset sound sufficient men to cirrv on the present work. 'J his Is true of prac tically all trades empTbyed on ship re pairs Khlpfltters, machinists. ship wrights, riveters, chippers and cnlkers, drillers, painters and laborers. The wages paid are high and the living con ditions are excellent. To summarize: The fleet is coming because our coun try's Interests in the l'aclflc are at present greater than In the Atlantic, and the fleet is needed to encouratts these Interests find protect them Is ncessary. The coming of the fleet will result In: 1. Notification to the world of the importance of the commercial Interests of JHan Francisco and the l'aclflc coast. 2. It will awaken interest in our merchant marine and unite the western representatives in congress to demnnd laws which will permit our merchant marine to carry our commerce Instead of giving It to our commercial rlvuls. 3. It will result In establishing ship yards and repair sho;is to build and repair our merchant marine. 4. It will result In establishing many manufactories and industries on the Pacific coast. 6: It will show the lack of facilities for repairing the fleet either in time of pence or war. This will result In build ing additional docks at Puget sound :ind at Mure Island, and greatly Increas ing the facilities at those yards. It will also result in establishing a lame naval repair station In San Francisco bay perhaps on Goat oth-T at San Diego. 6 It will result in the Introduction of oil fuel for vessels of the Pacific fleet, this fuel being supplied by Cali fornia. 7. Considerable Increase in business due to the lane nmoiint of money put In circulation tor supplies for the fleet and the pay of officers and men. Also In the acquisition of desirable citizens ,ln the skilled mechanics who will be drawn hero o:i account of the Increase in repair work. 8. Once the Pacific has the battle- BATTLESHIP Island and an- ship fleet It wfll never willing! riy give It lp. Interests on the Atlantic will also demand a fleet anrl we shall event ually have both a Pacific and an At lantic battleship fleet. This Is a nec essary to our Interests, not the Inte rests of the Pacific nor of the Atlantic, but of our whole country, as fire In surance In solid companies is necessary for San Francisco. An adequate fleet Is the bei.t kind of insurance and the peouie are ofKininriK tu reftiizo mat when the need for the insurance comes thev will not find that they have paid their premiums to a "welching" company BROOKLYN A BEAN-EATER CITY--L iterature Follows the Bean Hat it and Brooklyn Has High Hopes T CARUSO REALIZES DREAM OF YOUTHSumPtuou5 Residence Near Florence Just . -a. ? t re - Ft , , I m UliiiniiHWMiii ui iiijnmimm Wljiriixaiii i n iftl hi - I I Purchased by P the Great l enor ic r .W,'Hll.mwmiMi f r"j .Wif . ' ShSJNsNS .WW 1 ' P 1 i www: vj.v..jyi .,,', V "i f " " C x i. N OT far distant from Florence This new home, wiiich awaits In fact, near enough almost to be owner's return from singing on mm ss i mipii 1 1 imm I ii s i i iuiihiii IffS'lf -r Aiiiiitaa i . . n t riiiiiiiiHui () some this piece of news will ap peal to nave no Importance what ever. Not bo to others the pro found thlnliers. They, who have carefully studied the history of the bean in tho United States, will know but too well what is foreshadowed by Brooklyn's bean-buying activity. Literature follows the bean. That Is a well-established scientific fact. Boston's proud eminence as the modern Athens was due to the popularity, among Bos- tonlans, of the bean. erary decadence may be traced directly to her latter-duy Bnobblsh lack of In terest in that same succulent food. Do vou doubt this? Do you venture to disbelieve that so Insignificant a veg etable could cause so significant a liter ature? Very well. Det us have proofs. Det us trace thehlstory of Boston from the earliest benn-eatlng days to the present. First, we pick up that most quaint and Interesting document: "Ye Diary of Perseverance Doollttle, Puritan, of ye C'olonle of Massachusetts Bay," and read this entry: "Today there came to ye governor of ye colonle a great Indian sachem, call ynge himselfo ye chief of all here abouts. And he spake, saying: 'Pale faces, whatte brlnge ye to me better than thatte whyche I have gott?' " 'Marry, come up?' quoth our gov ernor, 'we bring ye civilisation, with divers trimmings thereto.' " 'Tush!' exclaimed ye savage; 'civili zation Is naught but an idea that clothes cover defects in character. Ye can bring us naught like unto that whyche we have rhyte here on ye spotte, and ye whvche I now freelie give unto ye. Catch!' "And he handed ye governor a bean. It causes adjectives to break out all over its victims' vocabularies. It tend to bring on Ibsen and complications Sudermann. Hauptmann, Everyman. It causes spectacles. Boston soon showed all the symptoms of stationary culture. Its citizens talked in sentences of such alarming length that the world stood amazed. In the meantime those who had for years supplied Boston beans had never thought of the possibility of Boston's turning the cold shoulder to Its staple food. All their dreams showed them m "Bigger, better, buster, beanier Boston." Now, however, they found themselves And Boston's lit- confronted with a fearful problem. Bos- ion ttmiifu no Deans. Literary dining clubs turned them down Emerson societies offered none for their weekly talks. The Symphony orchestra Ignored them. The Concord School of Philosophy passed them by. Poets shunned them. The Atlantlo Monthly wrote spiritedly against them. Dealers were dumfounded. One, who had shipped a tralnload of beans to Boston, Immediately rushed them over to Buffalo, where the dealers bought them, owing to the low pries at which their owner let them go. But the Inhabitants of Buffalo wouldn't take them. The purchasers were obliged to shdot the tralnload t Cleveland, and sell them there at sn absurd figure. The Clevelanders refused to be tempt ed by the neglected Boston beans. They were hurried on to Indiana. There the purchasers promptly failed, abandoning the tralnload to the railroad company. The railroad company abandoned tils beans on a siding. Fateful siding! Farmers came In all sorts of rural conveyances to gaze curiously at the abandoned tralnload of beans. They read on large placards: "Take 'em. You're welcome " So every Indian rarmer aid as he was bid. and drove "Since then I and ye other colonists away home his carriage weighted down have eaten largelle or simitar vegeta- witn Deans on t nued to eat the loston bean. Soon !uhi"ffa '"J"-1 U t h,i ,.rn,fcioH nnon the nedestal of suddenly became The New School. ?,erarvSglorf ' whence" u'reYu-'ed'U- t.K.TeV the UtTr' " Of th . n.. i,. ,ii.i.i r inhnhi. i nueq states. ..r CftAPBL OP TtE VILLA CAR.USO. included in the suburbs of the city Is the new home of Caruso, a quiet retreat where the cele brated tenor proposes henceforth to rest between his triumphs of the stage. The "Villa Caruso," as It Is called by the people of the neighborhood. Is an old-fashioned mansion that has been restored and embellished by a well known Florentine architect, and is situ- great opera stages of the world, was, so gossip affirms, one of the enrly dreams of the singer. its a certain grandeur of the past; shrubs the adorn the green plots, and everywhere. dappling its summery beauty with artis tically sown color, glows the rose-pink The villa, prior rhododendron. In the center of the gar den Is a large marble well, , enriched with bas-relief representing1 a dance of cherubs, that, were It not for Its fresh look and the signature of the sculptor, from the latter point inspires the ques tion whether the architect has made his restorations in true orthodox Florentine style. The huge tower, for instance, has too much of Moorish suggestion about it; and the mullloned window on the left wing seems hardly in keeping with a bies, ye whyche grow hereabouts in grente abundance, and we do become stryklnglie literary and disputatious, sittynge about quotynge from Master Will Shakespeare by ye reame and wrlt ynge essays that do astonlshe by ye length of their paragraphs. Ye gov ernor, flndynge hlmselfe writynge epycke poems before breakfast and son nets In hys sleep, hath forbidden us to eate ye Boston bean, but we do so on ye slye hopynge for future fame." The fame in uuestlon arrived. Hoston co It li emotorllv to be dislddged. Its inhubl tjints, highly pleased with the great world-thoughts which any coursed through their brains, were not at all ashamed to acknowledge their origin. The hem was worshiped as were the heathen gods of old Everybody ate and praised It. In those palmy days the word bakery, in Boston, meant a place where beans were baked, not bread. Late, when the eyes of the world, turning to Boston on account at the lit erature pouring madly from that city, caught si.-rht of the mountains of beans consumed there, a good deal of ridicule followed. Some Bostonlans began to grow sensitive about It. For Instance. there is no doubt that those who laid Park Slope. out jseacon eircei mienuea o call ii uoncora Bean street witness the three first let ters. But having got as far as that, thev feared the Jokes of the vulgar, un literary world lying beyond the Boston suburbs. So they called the new street Beacon street, pretending that they did so because It started at Beacon hill. Absurd! Everybody knew that the street began at the H1U of Beans. But the sensitiveness to ridicule which was uesunea to ena Boston s literary su Well. Indiana consumed everv hean In that tralnload. and howled for more. So the men who had been supplying Boston turned from their ungraeful former cus tomers to pour beans into Indiana. What happened! Farm hands, working blithely about the old place, would suddenly stop to write literature. Farmers, tilling the soil, would suddenly grow listless, drop to the ground, fondle daisies, and tell the magazines about It. Rough, uncouth men. who had never been able to tell But presently, when everybody there was a poet, or an essayist, or the most " promising of the younger novelists, th Hooslers began to grow ashamed of v humble diet. "Bah!" they chorused, "beans ain't' Parnassan!" And they pushed the plates pettishly awav. Again the poor dealers were confront- ed with a change of taste. In despair they picked up the list of greaU Amer ican cities. They read tha name of Boston and burst Into tears. , Under It ' was "Brooklyn." ; What will hannen? 1 Emerson will blossdn forth on the carnarsja will be a second Bay Rid re will fmilver with culture. Flatbuah will bristle with adjectives, Williamsburg will irnold Thought For Just as westward the course of empire takes Its way.- beanward the course of literature takes its. Parnas sus will move to Oowanus. Hail. Brooklyn, future bom of Amer ican Letters! second-story one that displays a rich entablature and gable. Yet one must nremacT was beetnnins- to show irlf lral.li. ,l....i...l , T . . . " a iew years isier mis reeiins naa sav that the whole is admirably blended. Mancini, might be mistaken for one or and that this crisply new country home grown-enormously. Boston was divided muse rviiaiKsnnce jewels mat one nnas i oignor i aruao, muugn umereni irom into two hostile camp adorning Italian palace and villa court- anything In the neighborhood. Is not bean eschewers. to Its restoration, belonged to a dear friend of Signor Caruso, when the young tenor first came to Florence -the city that christened his genPus -to sing for the modest "quartale" of the begin ner. Owing to financial difficulty the friend, who was deeply attached to the property, was compelled to sell It; and It is said that Caruso vowed at the time, if he ever grew rich, he would purchase the villa and make it his while a huge centenarian cypress, sol- riation of hue, nor as yet do moss and fell Intn Hlarmnit. , TTnnnurtahwl hv the friend the rare the time tn rome In ITlnrenne r a r 1 1 m r ' vtlln nnp sret en th flrt view macnlAt fracli n o a Hn. nnuM . . , . . . . . i. . K..n (a ------ - - --------- . - - - - - - wmau lauv'T - ITU mtnNiLii inr nsnT m TMr miLi-r - n". . - . . ,, ... The villa is surrounded by a large the flank of the building, and It hardly that here It were impossible to trow nli . n tho hun ltm culture was far to a meejum, ana in ' Mist and Semnt. , From tin Weekly, Telegraph, 1 hope. Jennie, thst yon have riven -bean eaters and tho .nutter serious consideration." said has ttphnr . " . it . k. yards. At one end of the erounds a without its merit. Weather, the exeat k w... t.. Uay to servant w.iw s"-"" "pergola" covered with a tortuous grape artist of color and nuance, has not had burn in onestlnn in th cltv Jnotlce because she waa.to pe married vine strikes a happy note of light green; time to stain the walls with happy va- ; The not-tobeaners won. The bean? that day two weeks. mi. T ki. ma am.-1 was the earneot He has kept his word, and the emnly mournful as an elegy, keeps guard mold help to bring out the effect of tha " literary vegetable. Boston literature fell replv, 'I've seen two fortune-telliws and is his most cherished guest on In front of the house. ornamentation; yet in compensation the In ouality " T ' " f a clairvoyant, sad looked in a slirn-boon. e occasions when Caruso finds From the winding avenue landing to villa looks coiv and enticing In Its 1m-- Of course the cltV did not tumble off and dreamed on a lock of his lr n f e to come to Florence. Caruso's villa one sets as the first view maculate freshness. One could fnncv ... a ,i I .ftA..tha been to one of those ssterri"ri, J yf Ith the eomlna- of the fleet the Pa- atl on a knoll hardly rising above the clflc will, be the drill ground and San i? r v"st plaln s9.10- Among Francisco will be the headquarters and Jhe rountry houses scattered over the rendesvous for the combined squadrons, lonely valley of the Arno. Its fresh No matter how good the condition of whiteness catches the eye at a great tha .....I. KKr Ko . fl tat n nee. en Lro-est I n a n twlnkllnar itar Mviit IK. 4vMlrlMw M. fillan imM m wlldernesai nf Hverv-crav r rl-fu h lnnH rarftn. whfeH with itm tirennre nn tnr thjk nointlnl nrniuir. ai that Savam ahnuM n K A V, i , , , , m , . pairs when they arrive on thi coast or olive groves and emerald meadows. Xormal box-bordered paths, stlU retains Uonsof the facade. Seeing the house even under the nlpf autumn winds... But stationary culture Is a bad thing, reckless-like, ma'am- ell
