. Review of reviews and world's work. ©bjE. Muller. N. V. ONE OF OUR LATEST COLLIERS. U. S. S. JUPITER The submarine is blind. It cannot \vorkat night. A Zeppehn can make long flights; but itis so noisy that auditory detectors can alwaysforewarn its approach. It can also be over-taken and destroyed bv the swifter and more agile aeroplane. TheZeppelin is too cumber-some to be dependableeyes for a fleet. Like thehawk, the Zeppelin willalways be a bird of smallprey. Neither the sub-marine nor the Zeppelin canever carrj enough torpedoesto act independent of ahome base. Neither cancarry thick
. Review of reviews and world's work. ©bjE. Muller. N. V. ONE OF OUR LATEST COLLIERS. U. S. S. JUPITER The submarine is blind. It cannot \vorkat night. A Zeppehn can make long flights; but itis so noisy that auditory detectors can alwaysforewarn its approach. It can also be over-taken and destroyed bv the swifter and more agile aeroplane. TheZeppelin is too cumber-some to be dependableeyes for a fleet. Like thehawk, the Zeppelin willalways be a bird of smallprey. Neither the sub-marine nor the Zeppelin canever carrj enough torpedoesto act independent of ahome base. Neither cancarry thick armor-plate todefend themselves. Theyare fearfully frail in mak-ing, an attack. Such is the briefest out-line of some of the newthings Uncle Sams new Navy will em-body. Personally, I think he is going to gethis moneys worth—certainly a great dealmore in returns than he gets for hisspendings on liquor and chewing-gum (ji^ rij iiiieriigtioiial I Venice. THE KIND OF BATTLESHIPS VIE 6U1LT A HLTSTORED YEARS AGO I (The old Inited States frigate Frat\klin was burned Monday, October 2. at Eastport, Me., by a salvage com-,.any to recover the copper in her rivets and also about $4,000 worth of gold which is said to be contained inher copper. The Frattklin was sold by the Government for $16,766. The old frigate was built at Philadelphiain 1815, and was 188 feet long, with a SOfoot beam. In 1863 she was rebuilt and had an engine and scrcwjsinstalled. Her hull was also made over and was 265 feet long, with a and eight-inch beam. The hrankhn stonnage was i,\i, displacement 5,170 tons, and cost $l,. As flagship of the European squadron, theFranklin sailed from New York, June 28, 1867. with .Admiral Farragut on board, for a cruise to Europeanwater-i, laMing about seventeen months, and during this time visited nearly every large seaport there, and alsovisited several ports in Asia and Afric
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