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Australia (Australia) (search for this): chapter 24
e amount saved to the commerce of the United States by shortening the voyages fifteen days by the use of these charts will show the following startling results: The average freight from the United States to Rio is 17.7 cents per ton per day; to Australia 20 cents. The mean of this is a little over 19 cents per ton per day, but to be within the mark we will take it at 15 cents, and include all the ports of South America, China and the East Indies. We estimate the tonnage of the United States er of the seas have been to lessen the expenses of the voyage (by shortening the passage) of every 1000-ton vessel from England to Rio, India, or China, by no less a sum than ,250, while on a voyage of every ship of this tonnage to California or Australia and back the saving effected was £ 1,200 or £ 1,500. When the San Francisco with hundreds of United States troops on board foundered in an Atlantic hurricane, and the rumor reached port that she was in need of help, the Secretary of the Navy s
Neva (Russia) (search for this): chapter 24
set of all the medals struck during the pontificate. England and Belgium also offered medals. Denmark, Portugal, Russia, France, Belgium and Mexico presented decorations and orders of knighthood, which last he declined (being an officer of the United States Navy). He had, besides, about twenty diplomas from as many foreign scientific societies, but from the United States nothing, except his pay as a commander in the navy. The Czar of Russia offered him a princely home on the banks of the Neva, and abundant means to prosecute his scientific researches, and the Emperor of France made a similar offer, but he declined both; he could not leave his native State. We are every day making history. What will be the fate of that nation that fails to make an honorable history for itself by fitly eulogizing its departed great ones? Is England less proud to-day of the laurels won and worn by Milton because he threw himself on the side of the Protector? or does not France erect monuments
California (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
een that the annual sum saved will swell to an enormous amount; beside, to many ports the voyage is shortened forty and even ninety days. Sir John Packington, of the British Admiralty, said: The practical results of the researches of this great American philosopher of the seas have been to lessen the expenses of the voyage (by shortening the passage) of every 1000-ton vessel from England to Rio, India, or China, by no less a sum than ,250, while on a voyage of every ship of this tonnage to California or Australia and back the saving effected was £ 1,200 or £ 1,500. When the San Francisco with hundreds of United States troops on board foundered in an Atlantic hurricane, and the rumor reached port that she was in need of help, the Secretary of the Navy sent to Maury for information. He at once showed on a chart where the winds and waves acting upon a helpless wreck would drift her. To this spot relief was sent, and there the survivors were picked up. When the Prince of Wales returned f
Europe (search for this): chapter 24
daily observations for three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days on the temperature, velocity, evaporation and precipitation and amount of salt contained in its waters, which observations, reported to and digested by Maury, contribute the main data of the knowledge we now possess of the habits of this, our greatest river. Maury was the originator of the plan to Redeem the drowned lands on the Mississippi river, of the Warehousing System, of the Great Circle Routes between American and European or Asiatic ports. The Steam Lanes which are still used by all steamers crossing the ocean, were laid off by Maury, and the merchants and underwriters of New York were so pleased with their success that they presented him with a service of plate and five thousand dollars. Maury planned the two Arctic expeditions of Dr. Kane and De Haven, and both those officers received their instructions from him. The same was the case with Captain Lynch's exploration of the Dead Sea and Herndon's explo
Mississippi (United States) (search for this): chapter 24
he published for several years his Astronomical Observations Cataloguing the Stars, and his Physical Geography of the Sea, by which, as Baron Humbolt said, he founded a new science. He also established Water works and river guages for the Mississippi river and its tributaries, and directed Lieutenant Mann to make a series of daily observations for three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days on the temperature, velocity, evaporation and precipitation and amount of salt contained in its waters, which observations, reported to and digested by Maury, contribute the main data of the knowledge we now possess of the habits of this, our greatest river. Maury was the originator of the plan to Redeem the drowned lands on the Mississippi river, of the Warehousing System, of the Great Circle Routes between American and European or Asiatic ports. The Steam Lanes which are still used by all steamers crossing the ocean, were laid off by Maury, and the merchants and underwriters of New York we
Denmark (Denmark) (search for this): chapter 24
ttractive manner her great resources of the field, forest and mine, to induce immigrants to come and settle up her waste places). In grateful recognition of the past services conferred by Maury upon navigation and science, gold medals were struck in his honor by Prussia, Austria, Holland, Sweden and Norway. Spain, France, Sardinia, the Republic of Bremen, and Pope Pius IX presented him with a set of all the medals struck during the pontificate. England and Belgium also offered medals. Denmark, Portugal, Russia, France, Belgium and Mexico presented decorations and orders of knighthood, which last he declined (being an officer of the United States Navy). He had, besides, about twenty diplomas from as many foreign scientific societies, but from the United States nothing, except his pay as a commander in the navy. The Czar of Russia offered him a princely home on the banks of the Neva, and abundant means to prosecute his scientific researches, and the Emperor of France made a sim
Portland (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
0 or £ 1,500. When the San Francisco with hundreds of United States troops on board foundered in an Atlantic hurricane, and the rumor reached port that she was in need of help, the Secretary of the Navy sent to Maury for information. He at once showed on a chart where the winds and waves acting upon a helpless wreck would drift her. To this spot relief was sent, and there the survivors were picked up. When the Prince of Wales returned from his visit to the United States he sailed from Portland, Maine; his coal gave out; he got into a region of contrary winds, and was overdue ten days. The Lords of Admiralty waited on Maury and asked for information of his whereabouts. Maury showed them, and they sent aid and brought him home in triumph, in time to celebrate his birthday. These were mere incidents in his study of the winds an d waves. By the use of Maury's whale charts, the New England fishermen have saved millions of dollars. There he shows at a glance those parts of the ocean w
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 24
icked up. When the Prince of Wales returned from his visit to the United States he sailed from Portland, Maine; his coal gave out; he got into a region of contrary winds, and was overdue ten days. The Lords of Admiralty waited on Maury and asked for information of his whereabouts. Maury showed them, and they sent aid and brought him home in triumph, in time to celebrate his birthday. These were mere incidents in his study of the winds an d waves. By the use of Maury's whale charts, the New England fishermen have saved millions of dollars. There he shows at a glance those parts of the ocean where at any season of the year whales (sperm or right) may be found. The observations of one whaleman would necessarily be limited, but this arrangement of Maury enables him to profit by the experience of thousands of others. [See report of Committee on Naval Affairs in 1856.] Besides these there were Maury's Pilot Charts, his isothermal charts, &c., which are of incalculable value. In 185
Preussen (search for this): chapter 24
, by peace commissions, &c., and he died while filling the post of Professor of Physics at the Virginia Military Institute in 1873. His last work was a Preliminary Report on the Physical Survey of Virginia (setting forth in an attractive manner her great resources of the field, forest and mine, to induce immigrants to come and settle up her waste places). In grateful recognition of the past services conferred by Maury upon navigation and science, gold medals were struck in his honor by Prussia, Austria, Holland, Sweden and Norway. Spain, France, Sardinia, the Republic of Bremen, and Pope Pius IX presented him with a set of all the medals struck during the pontificate. England and Belgium also offered medals. Denmark, Portugal, Russia, France, Belgium and Mexico presented decorations and orders of knighthood, which last he declined (being an officer of the United States Navy). He had, besides, about twenty diplomas from as many foreign scientific societies, but from the United S
Harry Bluff (New Mexico, United States) (search for this): chapter 24
n New York, given to celebrate the arrival of the first message, Maury furnished the brains, England gave the money, and I did the work. The cable company, in gratitude, gave Maury priority of use of cable when finished. (See many letters on file at the Observatory, also a full account of the whole in Maury's Sailing Directions.） Besides all these schemes for national advancement Maury's papers on Naval Reform, under the caption of Scraps from the Lucky Bag, and over the signature of Harry Bluff, led to the building of the Naval school at Annapolis and the adoption of Maury's Navigation as a text-book. Big Guns and Little Ships, The Establisement of Forts and Lighthouses at Pensacola and Key West, The Memphis Navy Yard, and The Illinois Ship Canal and Ports on the Great Lakes, followed (for which last a vote of thanks was offered by the Illinois Legislature). These papers were received and acted on with so much enthusiasm that he was placed at the head of the Depot of Charts an
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