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Gomez, christciu'd tlio "Patria." The 

 young ladies were assisted in their task 

 by Sr. Dn. Julio Morales Coello, ranking 

 officer of the Cuban navy, and \Ir. Charles 

 T. Taylor of Cramps. 



Among the guests were Commander 

 Vassilieff, Imperial Russian navy ; George 

 W. Andrews and L. G. Buckwalter, of the 

 New York Shipbuilding Co. ; E. G. Grace, 

 Bethlehem Steel Co. ; Captain Robert 

 Crawford, U. S. N. ; Naval Constructor 

 Elliot Snow, U. S. N. ; Charles H. Cramp, 

 Admiral Edwin C. Pendleton, Philadelphia ; 

 Captain Frank W. Kellogg, U. S. N. ; 

 Antonio Martin Rivero, Cuban minister, 

 Hon. Mariano Rocafort, Cuban consul 

 general, New York ; Dr. J. J. Luis, Cuban 

 consul at Philadelphia ; Dr. Gonzales Perez, 

 president Cuban Senate ; Matthew Baird, 

 Jr. ; Rear-Admiral Capps, U. S. N. ; Frank 

 Steinhart, Gabriel Diaz Quibus, Louis V. 

 Place, Colonel J. Morales Coello, Jose 

 Perez del Castillo, etc. 



Two new 200-ton gunboats, the "Diez 

 de Octubre," or "Tenth of October," and 

 the "Veinticuatro de Febrero," or the 

 "Twenty- fourth of February," were let 

 for construction to the shipyards of Samuel 

 White, Ltd., at Cowes, and were launched 

 last September. 



The first-named has arrived at Cuba, 



been given her trial trip and ^quipped with 

 her artillery, consisting of two 47 mili- 

 meter guns mounted on the prow and 

 poop, besides two other small rapid fire 

 guns. The length of the vessel is 110 feet 

 and is 20 feet wide, her draft being only 

 10 feet to allow her to travel among the 

 keys which surround the coast. 



President Gomez has signed a decree 

 providing an appropriation of $40,000 in; 

 payment for the artillery for these new 

 gunboats. 



The general opinion of the United States 

 press on the new navy seems to be pretty 

 much as follows. That the islanders should 

 not spend their money trying to build up a 

 fleet strong enough to whip any outsiders. 

 There is no one in Cuba's vicinity that is 

 of her size except Hayti and San Domingo,, 

 and Uncle Sam will attend to them if they 

 start anything, says one New York 

 journal. 



Another publication, in Wisconsin, holds 

 that a small navy to patrol the ancient 

 Spanish Main and protect the commercial 

 interests of the island republic will be a 

 valuable auxiliary to our own ships in West 

 Indian waters, and will relieve us of the 

 necessity of occasionally detaching vessels 

 from squadron maneuvers for patrol duty 

 in the tropics. 



The "Cuba" Leaving the Ways 



