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...Last week, citizens again saw the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, as fireworks went off and Baltimore in bunting celebrated the 115th anniversary of siege and anthem, also the 200th anniversary of Baltimore's city charter. The Navy sent to Baltimore the big-gunned battleship New York and five other ships to fire salutes. Squadrons of Army, Navy and Marine airplanes gyrated geometrically. Three soldierly divisions paraded with artillery, cavalry, tanks. Maj. Gen. Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff, orated patriotically. In pageant and parade appeared facsimiles of Poet Edgar Allen Poe, Philanthropist Johns Hopkins...
Before vacationing Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams hung a matter requiring the wisdom of Solomon. The time for awarding the Navy's annual pennant to the battleship most efficient in engineering, gunnery and communication was drawing near. Two battleships, New Mexico and Maryland had tied for first place in the complex system of scoring. Never before had a Secretary of the Navy to meet such an unprecedented crisis...
Great is the rivalry among U. S. battleship crews for the efficiency pennant, highest naval prize, fondly called the "meatball." Secretary Adams knew no uninspired solution of the tie would do. Last week, inspired at last, the Navy Department announced that when the Maryland and New Mexico are apart on separate cruises this year, each may fly the pennant. When they are together in the same fleet, the New Mexico shall have it on odd numbered days of the month, the Maryland on even numbered ones. This compromise seemed Solomonic indeed-until the crew of the Maryland realized that...
...obscure Newsman Harden gave the New York World a scoop on the battle of Manila Bay. Last week Mr. Harden, now a potent New York banker (James B. Colgate & Co.), was saddened by the ignominy in store for old battleship Olympia...
Sporadic clashes continuing at Haifa, Hebron and in Jerusalem itself, rolled up an estimated total of 196 dead for all Palestine. A known total of 305 wounded lay in hospitals. Speeding from England in a battleship the British High Commissioner to Palestine, handsome, brusque Sir John Chancellor, landed at Haifa, hurried to Jerusalem and sought to calm the general alarm by announcing that His Majesty's Government were rushing more troops by sea from Malta and by land from Egypt, would soon control the situation...