IN EVENT OF WAR. Navies of United States and Spain Compared. An Interesting Summary Showing What Would He the Strength of the Two Nations in a Conflict on the High Sejis.—Spain Would Soon He Left Without a Vessel Afloat. Wliat would bo the Immediate effect of a declaration of war against the United States by Spain? In view of the strained condition of affairs be tween these two powers and the cer tainty that the contest that would fol low opening of hostilities would be chiefly a naval one the subjoined list of tha effective modern ships owned by each Is published to give an Idea of the Seats they would he uble to set agulnst each other. It should he Iwrne In mind that the tour United States first class battle A OLYMP/A. •hips are admittedly among the finest In the world, as are also the two urm ored cruisers, while Spain's single bat tle ship Is of a less up to date type, carrying lighter guns and having In terior armor. The Spanish urmored cruisers are good ships from every point of view, having two guns heavier than any curried by the New York and the Brooklyn; hut either of the two latter would bo more than a match for one of the Vizcaya class because of the greater number of heavy guns. Although the Maine and the Texas are classed with the Numancla and the "Vitoria, neither of the Spanish vessels would stand for ten minutes before cither of the two former. In fact, tha "JVnpBjl :i\cuu* flAitW- Ww**. of rm> KnuniarrlN In the accompanying cut the vessels •re shown In u size proportionate to the number of ships in each clasB In the United States and Spanish navies respectively. Thus, as the United States has four first class Irattie ships and Spain only one, the Pelayo Is pic tured as of only one-fourth the nlze of the Indiana. The Maine and the Texas are thrown Into the armored cruiser clans, an are alno the Numancia and the Vitoria, giving the United States four vessels of this type and Spain six. Hut although Spain has tho greater number of this type the four United States voshcIs could undoubtedly de stroy all the Spanish six. Still, as the latter are the more numerous, tho Viz caya Is shown one-half larger than the Brooklyn. Without going Into details eoncem i " ' INDIANA. Ing all the craft on each aide, it la safe to eay that within three months of the beginning of a war Spain would not have a vessel afloat outside of her best defended ports. The United States has thirteen non seagoing coast defence monitors of from 1.800 to 2,100 tons displacement, which could be utilized for the defence of harbors. Spain has two, of 553 and 700 tons respectively. Spain has a number of small gun boats, used as coastguard and patrol in Spain, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, which are more than off set by thirty-four vessels in our rev enue marine service, and the small Hteamers that are employed by the En gineer’s Department of the United States Army. There are also in the navies of both nations a number of old ships, such as the I^ancaster, Hart ford, Richmond, Wabash, Minnesota and Franklin (American), and the Al manza, Illanca, Carmen, Lealtad and Asturias (Spanish). Many war ships are being built for each nation—77,547 tons of the United States and 53,676 for Spain. America builds her own ships, but several of the Spanish ships are being built in Eng land and Germany. Should war hr U out the ships building could not ./» finished in time to take part in it, -r It Is certain that Spain would bo ex hausted financially in a few months, oven If her ships were not destroyed In less time. . In the winter of 1874 the Spanish ridiculed the motley fleet that the United States sent south to enforce our demand for reparation on account of the Virginias affair. They said we sent . .1 ALFONSO XW Y/ZCAYA. pllayo. landing parties on shore to drill be cause we were afraid to trust large bodies of men on the rotton decks of our ships. El Cronlsta, a Spanish newspa per published In New York, declared that twelve thousand Spanish regulars could march from New Orleans to New York, whereupou a Chicago paper re plied that "they could If they behaved themselves, hut if not the police would take charge of them.” That these ideas are held by men of supposed intelligence Is shown from a conversation that took place a few months ago between a Spanish Consul at one of our important seaports and a well known American author. While discussing the Cuban question the Con sul became very much excited and de clared that he, as well as hundreds of thousands of his countrymen, would hall with delight the outbreak of hos tilities between Spain and the United States. When asked what Spain would do, he replied: "First, wo would cut up your little navy and then destroy your coast fortlllcatlons and lay your cities under tribute.” If they should succeed with the ships they might eventually collect the tri bute, but our navy was always difficult to swallow and apt to disagree serious ly with those who attempted It. urmi noni viiui'M. A person is never more surprised than when Informed that the best pay ing gold mines In (he world are those In which the ore never exceed* an average of lit) per ton, for the masses of the people believe that the great gold nilue* produce $.'00 to $100 per ton. The Treadwell mine on Doug las Inland In Alaska, which has paid a greater dividend to Its owners and stockholders lor the last seven year a than any other mine in tbt world, has never exceeded l»‘< per ton on an aver age for twelve months The next great producing mine In the Tolled Mute* Is the Homeaiake In the (Hack Hills, wht- h yield# an average of less than la per liu Th* Anaconda mine, at Holt#, give* an average uf II: do par | ton Th# richest mines In d»uth u rUa do n«t exceed lit per tan «$*«• ooilsh dV'iwk • Tribune, If It U proper to give g supper, and t call tt a tea, why isn't H proper la cat) | a hreahfast a pam she * PIN POINT* tbs loag aa a tans Ba ts at# gnttar but ; tun the house is sever ta dtsMOei. No a'*UMa la »vu»p»***t tu handp ! th* hla gucetiea. she is turn syaieuthet In Me men is *■ autvblese tx*t , ^ PM* silt mot treat him an* greai respect The mmmt s stvanateai is ptu si i *«*• • man dies, th* aPet the thm* ) said on M nmi'B IN 4JUM MISSION FC UNITED STATES. V First Class Battle Ships. Dluplfi.ee . * ment. * Tons. . Massachusetts . 10,288 Indiana. 10,288 Oregon . 10,288 Iowa . 11,110 Second Class Battle Ships. Texas . 6,300 Maine . 6,682 Seagoing Coast Defenders. Monterey . 4,084 Puritan . 6,060 Amphitrlte . 4,000 Mtantonomah . 4,000 Monadnoek . 4.000 Terror . 4,000 Armored Cruisers, ‘ -w • - Brooklyn . 0,271 Mew York. 8.200 Protected Cruisers. Minneapolis . 7.375 Columtila . 7,375 Olympia . 5.870 Baltimore . 4.413 Chicago . 4,500 Newark . 4,1041 Ban Francisco. 4.100 Charleston . 3.730 Cincinnati . 3.300 Raleigh . S.20O Partially Protected Cruisers. Boston . 3,00o Atlanta . 3,000 Marblehead . 2.88# l>elroll . 2,08# Montgomery . !.«8# ItunlMtats, Partislly Protected luuningmu . l,7lo Ommmui .. l.7lo York town ...... I .Tin Machlia ... I 177 Cost inn .. 1177 MMkt . "**' Maui ndi ... *»o fwiwiiu tian Vtwirl, Ve*u.In* . #.”* Tails lu Beale First Class Rtkc >ii ... I.’O Cushing ... .. lid f*t|s4ii It at* Ho'iiimI i’ki# One #WU . II Two . . 13 R IMMEDIATE SERVICE. SPAIN. First Class Rattle Ships. Displace ment. Tone. Pelayo. 9,100 Second Class Rattle Ships. Kumancia . 7,000 Vitoria . 7,000 Seagoing Coast Defenders. t it j None. * '71 "* Armored Cruisers. Imperador Carlos V. 9.100 Almlrante Oquende. fi.900 Vizcaya. 0,890 lufuniu Marla Teresa. 0,800 Protected Cruisers. Alfonso XIII. 5,000 l.epaiiio . 5,000 Partially Protected Cruiser*. AlfotUo XII. 3,090 Retaa Cristina. 3,o9o Itflna Mercedes .. 3.090 Castilla . 3,312 1 Navarra . 3 342 Aragon . 3,312 1 OunbuMi, Partially Protected. Finnic do Veuadltu . t,t52 Infanta Isabel .. I,|si2 Torpedo Run Vessel one . T»T 8ev«u .. 3|n Our .. .... t't Turprdu lt».»u First Fla**, Iw ... loa TUtr*«»n .. 47 to *T 1 wrjs tlu Huso Ibrsfttl Chute tine .... .u One .. 2a OP# .. ft ju*t roii ruN ti* m-v «» • »» ' #<'#* o. 4 (M’U* <**•>* ilinl<» •>« w*i w»M *■ •>*»«*»* «n>« that •»** *«*» »*•»* »M«* ». o t.» •* M„ mwmmi mm >•' * on# N«KMi*> •»*» Hum •*»•* M*>* » fkd mm* mmi **• '« * ***** 4 u' ' Ikl#k lk«t If* *»«*»•* »***!» IMIl If Ik* »*• «t4«hl l* h*lp hi* »* it h* t** Kum ni«u ft»tl *v»«t* i*»«hl «0 h*>« NMttttaNl it h* *•». >;**»» •*»*!• th»H»l 4 • hi* Wttffc i» mil hi» *.>%»*»•»* It h# »** K«*r» ****•» *h««*M H«4W hu «IN It h* «*». K**l» »lt* *h«M«M pt**x h*r kwhuil It *ll* ft* »:«•♦» hit* *nm*W ium> III*** but I h*» luft(U* If *lh4 i Aft U»»#r fthftftM MWfiiM»« 1*11 Hm ir«ih I* h* tfth DIED LIKE HEROES. STORY OFTHE FOUNDERINOOF A GERMAN GUNBOAT. They Went I»i>vn Charring Thrlr Flag, ' anil Hinging thr Herman National Anthem One of thr Moat Kemarkulila ! Event* of Naval Life. HE crew of the German guaboat Illla have given the world a leauon in how to die well. With their ship on the bring of Inevit able destruction, they Joined hands and sang the na - tional military hymn, "The Flag genlled." Singing that song they went to their death cheerfully. The Illis be gan her last voyage on July 23 last, when she left Chefoo, in China, for Nagasaki, In Japan. She was a gun boat of 2500 tons, a small vessel of the class which is maintained by European powers in Asiatic waters for the pur pose of punishing natives, protecting citizens, and so forth. It does not ap pear that she hail any one particular defect, but she was too weak to face the terrible storm which overtook her. Hefore nightfall the ship was over taken by one of those terrible storms which rage with such fury on the east ern coast of Asia. When darkness came the storm was still Increasing in fury. The crew were helpless and crouched under the bulwarks holding on to ropes and rails for their lives. Great seas broke over the deck, drown Ing and Injuring many men. The ship was beyond control of helm or engines and incapable of making a course In the direction In which safety lay. Un til nearly midnight the storm flung the helpless ship about. Then, having been lifted on the crest of an enormous wave, she fell with a crash which shook her from stem to stern. She had struck on a reef, which proved to he one off tho southeast promontory on the Chinese coast. The boats were washed away, the men were powerless to save the ship, and their only chance of life lay In clinging to a ship that was fast breaking up. After nearly twelve hours of battle with the storm It only remained for them to die. Cap tain Braun, who had never for a mo ment relaxed his efforts to save the ship, saw that his work was over. His stalwart form and his calm, but strong German face will live In the memory of the few survivors until their last hour. He called all the officers and men around him on deck, and, taking each one by the hand, bade bins fare well. Then he told the whole crew that they had done their duty like men, and would do well to end by giving three cheers for the Kaiser and for Germany. These were given with a strength that struggled with the roar of the wind and waves. The ship was then fast breaking up. A chasm had opened abaft the foremast, and the waves breaking over the deck threatened every moment to tear away the greater part of the ship and sink In under the boiling sea. Then Gunner Kaehm yelled to the men to sing the national military hymn, the “Flaggenlied.” By that time a sort of intoxication horn of contempt for death had come over them. Joining hands for good fellow i ship and also to save one anotb v for a few moments more from the i atches of tho waves, officers and men aanced on the deck of the Blis as they sang the hymn, the refrain of which Is: “The Kaiser and our standard, Hoch! “The flag, black, white and red.” They had barely concluded the hymn I when the ship broke up and the after | part of her was engulfed in the sea. A very few managed to reach the small part fast on the reef—not one officer among them. Of the thirteen men who succeeded in clinging to the wreck, eleven were eventually saved. They spent a terrible night, during which several of them were washed ofT and two drowned. The whole of the next day the storm continued with consid erable violence, and they remained In their miserable position. At the end of thirty-six hours the lighthouse keeper at Southeast Promontory was able to reach them In a boat uud then taken off. Moalohner, boatswain of the wrecked ship, has written a letter to a friend describing that terrible night, in the course of his letter, the boats wain says: "It almost made my heart shk, though, when, as the lilts lay pound lug on the rocks, almost on her beam end. ('apt. itrnun came down from the bridge and shook each of ua by the hand, I could have cried like an Infant, hut he waved Ills hand to ward the Hag, and la-fore we knew II we were nlngitig at the top of our voice* uur dear old national hymn Our voice, M.midcd weird and strange above the storm I can't describe the erst- li was so unlike anything you can Irnag In** There we were darning aroua< tile deck like school IhIjtS, white every one of us knew uur lime had come P Is said that one tonjuree up everythin! that has lowed when death comes bat I thought uf not king but the gram words of that song and the cheers wi gave the Hag I't fact, before I ha much time to thtnh of anything else •he w it to pi- « and I found misel goatling the briar water. I'he*. hat l wua rough! I was caught ta the erea I t V4,s ,,u I carried toward It. and '• 4 w| hwliisu Managed l*» > lot* h a top that waa daunting from the Uowsptit I I •- rambled up on the top uf the wreck I and In a few minutes ethers ns fortu gate as | Joined tue " Iht'Ota • harthwat Vtw* fhe ipocw Was baptised UstruSf v'l tens. tile ( -#•<«! sets, being gt* t.s b»r n* hut father the duhe uf Ken | In ostiMpitM-en' ta the * up* fur of He vSw CATCHING A DEER’S TAIL. It Cn» Done bat It Haw Horn* PI* •dvanlKK^ The process of grabbing deer by the tall Is full of difficulty, but It Is not to be compared with banging on after getting a grab on the tall, says the Milwaukee Sentinel. The deer is wary. The deer Is fleet and the tall Is short, but, In spite of all difficulty, a man who Is not over 100 feet from me ns I write caught a young deer by the tall a few days ago and remained a sort of tall attachment for a considerable distance. The man was out in the forest on his big farm and he espied a fawn at a lick. While he was looking at the little spotted lxiauty it lay down beside a log and the hunter resolved to ge.t the ani mal alive. He knew that If he could get hold of one or both of the fawn’s legs he would succeed. Luckily, the cows of the farm appeared at that mo ment, on the way to the creek for a drink, and the fawn, evidently a fre quenter of the pasture, seemed to oe unconcerned after a quick glance at tho cows. Seizing the opportunity, thfe hunter, while tho cows were coming and cracking branches and sticks, stole up to the log. A moment later tho fawn passed directly In front of him and the hunter made a quick thrust of his arms to catch the deer by the hind legs. Ho partly succeeded, but In the struggle that followed the delicate limbs of the fawn began to slip out of the vise of the human hands and, somehow or oth er, In desperation, the man grub!**! tho fawn's tall. The little unlmal began to run and the hunter, who Is a very strong mail, held desperately to the tall, Down tho old logging road they went, a little way and then the fawn turned In. It could not run very fust with a man attached to Its tuil, but the first quarter of a mile was done In good time, nevertheless. About the begin ning of the second the fawn went, over a log and headed for a. thicket. In spite of all the little beauty reached the brush and plunged In. The hunter was scraped off and had the pleasure of seeing the fawn Join the mother on the other side of the thicket anil dart off with her into the depths of the for fiut QUEER HOSPITAL. It It (.ncali'il In New York mill It for Animal*. The animals' hospital Is In charge of the New York College of Veterinary Surgeons, uml that, If you please, is part of the University of New York; so Coat If you wanted to send your dlckey-blrd there for the pip, he would be in a manner under the shlterlng wing of all the D.D.s and LL. l),s that shine as regents of that noble lnstiTii tion. A great deal of the hospital's most Interesting practice Is among the animals kept In zoological gardens or In traveling shows. An old circus lion was brought here not long ago to have hlu ulcerated tooth pulled. Now If tho toothache makes you feel "cross as a bear,’” how cross does the toothache make a live lion feel? To tell the truth, no one at the hospi tal wanted to know how cross that lion did feel—they thought It was a case In which it would be folly to be wise. The first thing to be done wus to drop nooses of rope on the floor of his cage, and then draw them up when he put his foot in one—he knew he had “put his foot in it” when he found himself snared—and so, step by step, get him bound and helpless. If you will think how particularly hard It Is to tie up a cat, you may guess that It Is no Joke to make a lion fast; he is Just like a stupendous cat in his agility and slip periness. The only way to render him helpless Is to get his hind quarter tied up outside his cage, and his head hound fast within it; the next thing, for dental work, is to put a gag In hls mouth; that is the easier because there is no trouble at all about getting him to open his mouth he does It every tim© any one goes near him. When medicine cannot be given disguised in drink or food, it is usually squeezed down the patient’s throat with a sy ringe. 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