Admiral Wainwright strongly concurs, and the War College Conference recommended it year after year without a dissenting voice.
In the afternoons the fleet has two or three hours' practice at battle maneuvers, which excite as keen interest as gunnery exercises.
The competition in coal economy goes on automatically and reacts in a hundred ways.

It has reduced the waste in the use of electric light and water, and certain chief engineers are said to keep men ranging over the ships all night turning out every light not in actual and immediate use.
Perhaps the most important effect is the keen hunt for defects in the machinery causing waste of power.

The Yankton by resetting valves increased her speed from 10 to 11 1/2 knots on the same expenditure.
All this has been done, but the field is widening, the work has only begun.
* * * * * C.S.

SPERRY.
When I left the Presidency I finished seven and a half years of administration, during which not one shot had been fired against a foreign foe.

We were at absolute peace, and there was no nation in the world with whom a war cloud threatened, no nation in the world whom we had wronged, or from whom we had anything to fear.