Efforts to Save Brig Tanner Fail

Newspaper illustration of the Tanner, showing her under sail.

PORT ANGELES (Wash.), October 28.—Efforts so far to haul off the brig Tanner, which went ashore last Saturday near Elwha river, six miles west of this city, have proved futile. The vessel so far is not damaged by the seas. Further effort will be made by tugs at high tide tomorrow. The tug captain believes the vessel can be hauled off if more tugs can be procured before the storm comes, otherwise she will prove a total loss.

The news that the old brig Tanner had gone ashore at Port Angeles and probably would prove a total loss was received yesterday in the local shipping world with considerable interest. The Tanner was about the oldest and one of the most picturesque vessels on the Pacific. In 1855, when she was launched at Smithtown, N. Y., she was as tight and saucy a brig as ever flew the stars and stripes. Forty-eight years of sea service, however, transformed the Tanner into a floating sieve in which no sailorman less brave than her skipper and owner, Captain Newhall, would have dared to venture beyond easy reach of a life-saving station.

Saved by Swans

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.

Butte, Mont., June 14.—Owing to the fact that the assistant manager of Columbia Gardens, the pleasure resort of this city, has trained the swans in the little artificial lake to bring to the shore articles thrown into the water, little Gertrude Onell owes her life.

How Our Naval Gunners Break Records

Their Marvellous Accuracy Only Attained by Constant Practice With Most Ingenious Mechanical Aids.

Champion gun crew of the USS Alabama

Almost simultaneously with the publication of a statement by a British general that the practice of English naval gunners was so bad that he offered to take girls out of school who could do as well. The United State battleship Indiana sailed into this port with the boast that her gunners had broken the world record. With an eight-inch gun of the Indiana a seaman named Treanor had hit a bull’s-eye four times consecutively. The mark was four feet square and at a distance of 1600 yards. The four shots were made in the record breaking time of two minutes and sixteen seconds. Had the target practice occurred in Fifth avenue, the cannon might have stood at Forty-second street and the target could have been represented by an umbrella near the Flatiron Building.

Many attaches who are stationed in this country have been instructed to learn the secret of American marksmanship and to report to their home governments; and to the attaches has been accorded every opportunity to carry out their mission. But they have learned no secret. They found no new mechanism, no novel combination of levers and wheels which were not already known to the naval experts of Europe. As one expressed it:

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