The record-union., 1899-05-22

to be named California. With the Mon
terey and San Francisco already on the
list, that State can have no complaint
to make.
Next on the list comes Illinois, with
the battleship of that name and the
cruisers Chicago and Peoria. Maine is
to have one of the three 12.500 ton bat
tleships named for the State, and Two
Of her towns have already ramesakes
in the gunboats Casttne and Machias.
Ohio comes into the list with battle
ship named for the state, two cruisers
named for cities, the Cincinnati and the
Cleveland, and a gun5oat named for
the town Of Marietta. The battIeship
Massachusetts, has naval comrades in
the cruisers Marbiehead and Boston
and one in the torpedo boat destroyer
Gloucester. The Boston fought with
Dewey at Manila and the Gloucester
covered herself with glory at Santiago,
while the Marblehead rendered distin-
guished service at Cienfuegos and
Guantanamo.
Pennsylvania is to be the name. Of a
new battlesnip. the cruiser Philadelphia
is already in service and is just how
conspicuous in Samoa. West Virginia
is to have one of the new armored cruis-
ers named for the State, while the
Wheeling is in service as eunboat
named for the West Virginia city.
But why West Virginia? navy officers
ask. These, in a jocular mood, have
asked why Little Rock was overlooked,
as that name painted on the stern of a
war ship might have had some recon-
dite reference to an indisposition Of the
vessel to roll. But West Virginia sug-
gests nothing to the naval mind any
more than East New York would.
OF the Southern States Georgia, Ala
! bama, Texas and Kentucky have name
sake battleships, and all except the lat
ter have cruisers named from cities
within their boundaries. Thus Georgia
has the cruiser Atlanta, Alabama the
Montgomery and Texas the Galveston.
Mississippi, the Carolina, Virginia and
Louisiana were very nearly overlooked.
Mississippi having a third class gum
boat named for her city of Vicksburg,
South Carolina having the second rate
! cruiser Charleston. North Carolina the
second rate cruiser Raleigh, Virginia
the gunboat Yorktown and Louisiana
the second rate cruiser New Orleans
From the States of Arkansas, Florida
| Wyoming and Connecticut the four new
monitors will take their Names Della
ware has the little gunboat Wilmington
credited to her city of that name:
| Maryland the cruiser Baltimore and the
gunboat Annapolis; Michigan the cruis-
er Detroit, Vermont the gunboats Ben
nington and Concord. along with a
dispute with New Hampshire about the
latter; Kansas the gunboat Topeka,
Montana the gunboat Helena, Rhode
Island the gunboat Newport and Colo
RADIO the cruiser Denver Washington
has the Olympia and will have the Ia
! coma. Tennessee has the Nashville. a
third rate gunboat named for one of
her cities, and one of the new cruisers
is to be called the Chattanooga In
! diana has a battleship named for the
| State as has Iowa. That State is TO
be further honored by the naming of
new cruiser the Des Moines. The
her name from a Minnesota city, and
the battleship Kearsarge from a New
! England mountain.
! Wisconsin and Missouri are to have
battleship namesalzes. and Nebraska
is to have one of the big armored cruis-
ers named for that State. Oregon is re-
membered in the splendid battleship
of that name The States that have
been overlooked in the selection of navy
names are New Hampshire, Nevada.
Utah. Idaho and North and South Da-
| kota.
| Torpedo boats and torpedo boat de-