The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-05-10
WRECKslN MANILA.
May DO Mountaineering cost . pain Near.
IL Three osiiIion Deilars--aisy saye some

May be Worthless they cost spain Senr.
iy Three ,siilien Deilars-aisy save some
of lhsm
New York Pres: on the efforts OF the
government ship carpenters. wreekers
and divers who are to 60 to Manila on
II, CITY OF Pekln may depend the aucs-
t!on OF whether there will be finally in
our navy any OF the Spanish warships
funk BY Commodore pewey's squadron.
While xome OF the ships are sc badly
torn and smashed that they may not be
worth Tho trouble and expense OF rals-
ipr. others have been sunk near shore.
and they should be ct for repairs and
for incorporation in the United States
navy. providing the spaniarts have not
destroyed them utterly since the fight
In order 70 prevent the seizure OF them
by the Americans.
The vessels were ten to u~eventeen
years old and OF 10 particular excel
fence IN speed, armor or gun power.
SIN they would beNusetul as auSlllar-
les. and the efforts to raise them will
no carried on as far Us the value OF the
ships makes It wise. The only avail
able data as to tho value OF the craft Is
furnished by the cost OF construction.
and that gives only a poor basis for es-
Innate, as the cost OF constructing SINH
lar ships to-day would be much less.
md they have detcrlorated excessively.
as the Spanish navy Is notorious for
leaving It's vessels to rust and run
down. Almost all Spanish men-ot-war
to-day are badly found" and the Ma
Mia feet was a striking example.
The cost OF building and the dates OF
launching the ships that were defeated
BY Dewey are: Reina Christina, cruis-
er, Ferrol, Spain. 1855, almos. 81, 00o, 900;
Don Juan de Austria, cruiser, Cartha-
sena. 1887, $1,000 900; Velasco, cruiser,
Scotland. 1881, cost not known; Castillo,
cruiser, Spain. 1881. cost unknown; Don
Antonio de Ulloa. cruiser, Spain, 1887,
about $500, 900: Isla de Cuba. England,
1857, about 5000. 900: Isla de Mlndanao.
unknown; gunboats Elscano. General
LEO and Paraguay, Spanish built, 1885.
value about 500, 600 together.
The large wrecking companies in
New York have not, even considered the
a~dvlsaplllty OIL Trying 10 raise the YES
GELS. The president OF the largest coast
wrecking company in the country said:
THE ships would have to be enormous
" valuable 70 make It worth while to
consider the matter, and this particular
lot Of ships Is not worth enough to pay
the cost Of transporting our derrIcks,
men and tools to the Philippines. We
would no. undertake the Job Il the gov
eminent gave us the ships. Those
which have been sunk In deep water
cannot be raised with any engine or
machinery that lis 10 be found in that
part OF the world. and to send to Eu-
ropefor this country for the necessary
appliances would entail an enormous
and utterly useless expense. The other
ships. which are sunk near the shore In
shallow water, II they arc o In wa
ter over their h~eads-that Is. Il their
decks show so that they car be pumped
out witaou. making It necessary to
build cotferdams OF to do other elabor-
ate work On them-pro5ably can be
raised with the machinery at the dis
posai OF the authorities In TIE Philip
zines,