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IFTEEN yenra ago Qcorgo Dowcy
stood on tho brldgo of the famous
Olymplii and won tho battle of
Manila bay, William T. Sampson
from tho brldgo of tho armored
crulsor New York directed tho
operations before Santiago, and
tho pennant of Wlnlleld Scott
Schley fluttered from tho mast
head of tho beautiful thrco-fun-noled
armored cruiser Urooklyn.
Tho world acclaimed tho com
manders of tho aquadrona of
which those vessels woro tho flag
hlpa, while all America Joined In ono grand hur
rah for a navy that was admittedly ono of the
tost on tho Boven sens.
Tho American nuvy Is btill among tho best, but
the ships that wero fought by Dowoy and by
8ampson and by Schley aro no longer figured In
tho line-up that makes tho great fleet under com
mand of Hear Admiral Badger ono of tho moat
powerful fighting organizations the world has
aver ecun.
Every ono of the famous Bhlpa of 1898 ia today
officially admitted to bo obsolete and all of them
put, together would not bo as powerful aa la tho
Slant superdreadnaught Wyoming, or tho Arkan
sas, or tho Florida, or tho Utah, any ono of
which would bo a match for all tho Bhlps that
fought under Dowey and Sampson combined, if
uch a test should bo made
Just a oar ago tho then secretary of tho navy,
Georgo von L. Meyer, publicly called attention to
the fact that tho American navy hud moro than
Its full quota of battleships whoso day in the
first lino had passed and tho plucc3 of which
would havo to bo taken by moro modern shlpa of
tho Wyoming and Florida classes If tho United
States was to retain its position aa tho world's
second naval power. Tho other day tho observa
tion of tho ex-naval secretary waa recalled by a
naval officer in Now York, who took pencil and
pad and, going back fifteen and twenty and
twenty-five years, figured out Just what the obso
leto ships now adorning tho naval lists originally
cost tho United States govornmont.
It was bo ridiculously easy, tho computation of
that total value of famouB shlpB that are ready
to die u naval donth of old ago. Tho result was
astounding, and when at last tho navy man wiped
his brow -and nnnouncod tho result of that llttlo
mathematical feat of his ho had proved that the
y&luo of those ships, somo of them Btill less than
a dozen years old, reached tho stupendous total
of more than $100,000,000, or, to bo exact,
$129,932,814.
Of this $130,000,000 fleet that was. It Is Inter
eating, and in n way sad, to note that It includes
the Saratoga, the namo given Sampson's old flag
ship New York when her nnmo wan taken so
that It could be given to the mighty superdread
naught New York, now nearlng completion in the
navy yard In Brooklyn; Schley's flagship, the
Brooklyn; the Olympla, from tho bridge of which
Dewey uttered bis famous order to Captain Grid
ley, "You may fire when ready, arldloy;" the
Iowa, that was "Bob" Evans' ship in 1898; the
Indiana, and the Massachusetts, sister ships,
which won fame and glory before Santiago, and
the Oregon, which won tho plaudits of an ndmlr
. Ing world by her great run around the Horn, and
which in her old age will probably he given the
honor of being tho first American war vessel to
pais through the Panama canal in April of next
fear.
Then, of course, there was the old Texas, the
hip that was commanded by tho beloved Captain
Philip, the vessel from tho deck of which he
offered his prayer of thanksgiving to God when
Santiago's battle was ended and the Spanish
10. Tho battleship Ohio, Btill in tho Atlnntlo
fleet, but slatod to lo.uo In tho near future novor
to return.
17. Tho coimnerco destroyer Columbia, bo long
missing In tho nows of tho navy that u genera
tion lum grown up Unit knows her not, and Hho
was of tho Hying squadron of 1S98.
18. Tho commeieo deatroyor Minneapolis, a
speed record breaking cruiser of tho into nineties,
a bister of tho Columbia and, like hor, of thn
dying squadron of IK'.IS.
19. Tho monitor Amphltrlto.
Tho monitor Mluutonomnh.
Tho monitor Mouadnock.
Tho monitor Cheyenno, formorly the Wyo-
Plalnt of a Plant.
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mo work."
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"What kind of a position waa It?"
"At tho burlcsquo theater, sitting
In tho nmllouco whero a soubrotto
could come down twice a day and kiss
me.M Judge
She Knew.
Bookkeeper If 1 asked the boss to
raieo my salary, what do you think ho
would Bay?
Stenographer Mr. Tenner, 1 am a
lady I novor oven think such
things!
His 8pectes.
"I'll bot that crooked looking fellow
Is a bird."
-1 know It. He's a stool pigeon."
Tho groat princlplo of brotherhood
Is not by equality, nor by likeliest,
but by giving nud receiving. Hunkln.
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ships had met their doom the uamu ship from
which Philip ordered his men not to cheer when
tho Vizcaya, tho Cristobal Colon, tho Maria Thor
csa, tho (lower of Cervera's squadron, were burn
ing mid sinking down into the grave to which the
deadly shots of Sampson's gunners had consigned
them. Dut the old Texas, which, Uko tho Now
York, was renamed bo that the namo of the Lone
Star state might adorn that of tho now New
York's slater, has long sinco mot her fato.
Ripped, riddled and torn by tho shells of tho
newor and moro modern ships, to prove the
marksmanship of whoso men tho Texas was de
stroyed, tho hulk of that old ship a slater of
tho Maine that went down In Havana harbor,
and which going down hastened tho conflict with
Spain still half floats In Chesapeake bay, Just
enough of her left to provldo nnothor marksman
flhlp tost for eomo mighty drcadnnught of tho
fleet under Admiral Badger.
As went tho old Texas, bo will go Bomo of tho
other Bhlps of tho fleet that Is obsolete. Already
tho Indiana la mentioned as tho noxt martyr Bhlp
for tho Atlantic fleet, and nftor her tho Massa
chusetts, nnd then tho Iowa, and perhaps within
a year or two tho Kearsargo and tho Kentucky,
the Alabama, tho Illinois, nnd tho Wisconsin, all
of them beyond all question or doubt now of tho
obsolcto type of fighting craft.
Hut let's call tho roll of tho obsolete fleet, and
tho flngshlps shall lead off Just as they did at
Manila and nt Santiago:
1. The crulsor Olympla, flagship of Dewey at
Manila.
2. The armored cruiser Saratoga, flagship of
Sampron nt Santiago.
3. Tho nrmorod crulsor Tlrooklyn, flagship of
Schloy nt Santingo.
4. Tho battleship Oregon, Clark's Immortal
around-tho-IIorn Bhlp.
5. Tho battleship Iowa, "Fighting nob" Evans'
lost command ns a captain.
C. The battleship Texas, already gone, "Jack"
Philip's old ship.
7. Tho battleship Massachusetts, anothor fa
mous Santiago memory.
S. Tho battleship Indiana, sister ship of the
Oregon and Massachusetts, nnd, Uko them, one
of Santiago's famous contenders.
0. Tho battleship Kcarsarge, first of superim
posed turret BhlpB.
10. Tho battleship Kentucky, sister ship of the
Kearsargo.
11. Tho battleship Illinois, one of the around-the-world
voyage ships.
12. The battleship Alabama, also of the fleet
that went around the world under Evans and
Thomas nnd Sporry.
13. The battleship Wisconsin, with the Ala
bama and Illinois the only battleships of tho navy
whoso twin funnels are arranged In parallel fash
ion, one to tho port and the other to the star
board. 14. The battleship Maine, built in memory of
the martyr ship of 1898, and yet a ship that Is
already obsolete nnd has been missing from the
Atlantic fleet for several years.
15. The battleship Missouri, another around-the-world
voyager.
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25. Tho
Florida.
20. Tho mlnotor Puritan.
27. Tho monitor Terror.
28. Tho monitor Monteroy.
29. Tho protected cruiser St. Louis.
80. Tho protected crulsor Charleston.
31. Tho protected cruiser Mllwaukoo.
32. Tho protected cruiser Newark.
33. Tho protected crulsor Chicago.
34. Tho protected cruiser Cincinnati.
35. Tho protected cruiser Raleigh, Coghlan'i
ship at Manila.
36. Twenty-eight torpedo boats.
Twenty years ago this fleot of sixty-throe Bhlps
would havo been a match for nny naval organiza
tion then afloat, with tho exception of tho Hoot of
Groat Britain. Today all tho vessels In It could
not lost half an hour In a battle with tho five
drcadnnughtH that constitute tho great first divi
sion of tho United Statos Atlantic fleet.
And this mighty fleet of "naval has-beens" coat
tho United States government moro than $12'J,
000,000 and tho oldest among them, not Including
tho old monitors, la not yet twenty-flvo yoara old.
Tho hattleshlps In It to build nnd equip cost tho
government JCI.435,225, and tho crulsors, mon
itors nnd torpedo craft ralso"tho total to tho
$129,000,000.
What will hecoino of thoso Bhlps? Somo are
now In resorvu nnd thoro thoy will stay until
tholr end Is decided upon. Will that end bo tho
target range or tho auction block and tho Junk i
J11IU, UT Will UIL'J uu li;i llllllt-ll iu luni iiu ill
navy yards nomlnnlly as units (n resorvo fleets
but In reality aB uboIobb reminders of a navy
that In Its dny was great but which, owing to
marvoloua progrrsa In naval construction, has
reached quickly hut surely that stato of obsolete
ness from which thero can bo no "come-back."
Tho Oregon and the Olympla will probably bo
retained for generations to como as glorious re
minders to Americans of future years of tho
navy that won Immortality In tho brief conflict
thnt wiped Spain off the map of tho western
world nnd which added to Amerlcnn territory an
island omplro In tho far cast and won for this
country for tho first tlmo a full, free recognition
by all tho nations of tho world of tho right to bo
numbered among thoso powers wIiobo mission
and Influence Is "world wide."
In tho llnc-up of tho "hna boon" flcot It will bo
noted thnt there is included the ontlro fourth
division of tho grcnt fleet thnt circumnavigated
tho globo In 1907 and 1908. This division was
mado up of tho Alabama, the flagBhlp of Sporry
when ho bogan tho voyage as a division com
mander; tho Kentucky, tho Kearsargo and the
Illinois. In thnt fleet threo of tho vessels of the
third division aro now also listed among tho
obsoloto fighters, the ships in question being tho
Ohio, the Missouri and tho Maine, all sister Bhlps
and In their day held up to tho -vorld aa em
bodying all that waB best In tho construction nnd
equipment of modern men-of-war of tho battle
ship class.
Tho Atlantic fleet when it sailed out of Hamp
ton Roads in Docombor, 1907, was mado up of
sixteen first-class battleships, and a look at the
mako-up of tho organization shows that In a pe
riod of leas than six yoars seven, or lacking one
of exactly half of those famous ships, have beon
relegated Into tho reserve, the first stopping
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