. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. rite. We made an aver-age of knots coming up, which meansover sixteen miles an hour. The instructionswere to avoid Spanish ports and war vesselsduring our trip up the China sea, and thefact that we passed comparatively close tothe Philippines gave the last five days a con-siderable interest, especially as no one knew whether or not war had been declared. Everyvessel we saw was studied anxiously untilher identity was established. The first three days were rough, and thespeed of this small shi
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. rite. We made an aver-age of knots coming up, which meansover sixteen miles an hour. The instructionswere to avoid Spanish ports and war vesselsduring our trip up the China sea, and thefact that we passed comparatively close tothe Philippines gave the last five days a con-siderable interest, especially as no one knew whether or not war had been declared. Everyvessel we saw was studied anxiously untilher identity was established. The first three days were rough, and thespeed of this small ship battling against thebig waves kept a procession of heavy seaspiling over the forward part of the ship. Of course we were all very eager to hearthe news at Hongkong, for we expected thatthe crisis had been reached. Since our arrival here last Sunday therehas been the greatest activity among theAmerican warships. Last Monday, April 18,the situation at Washington seemed so criti-cal that orders were signaled from the flag-ship Olympia commanding that no shore THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES 121. ADJUSTING MOTOR MECHANISM OF A TORPEDO. [Prom a photograph by James Langland.] liberty be granted and tbat the ships mustbe ready to go to sea on the shortest Tuesday morning the work of paintingthe squadron a battle color was begun. Thiscolor is a dark drab or gray, contrasting veryslightly from the color of the deep-sea water,and is intended to render the vessels as in-conspicuous as possible. In the civil war theblockade runners used nearly the same 10 oclock the Boston had put a coat ofpaint on every spar and boat and mast andfunnel, as well as the entire hull itself, there-by absolutely changing the ship in appear-ace in less than four hours. During theday the McCulloch, which has now becomeone of the squadron here, completed herpainting, and before night the Raleigh andConcord and Petrel were transformed. Theflagship Olyinpia remained white until thelast, but
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