The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-05-18
Miss Barber Pressed the
Button and Miss DcShlcr
Smashed a Bottle of CAL
ifOrnia Champagne Over
the Nose of Uncle Sans
Greatest Floating For
trcss, Launched Today.
(By Associated Press.)

(By Associated Press)
San Francisco, May S-Miss pressed the button
Miss Deshler smashed of California champagne
and at 1926 big battleshp took first dir
into the
Fifty thousand people cheered themselves hoarse the
big guns of the warshps doomed salute and every
steam whistle within radius of five miles shrieked its
loudest as the steel monster gided into the
noise lasted for nearly half hour when finally
s'mmered down there lay the Ohio peacefully floating
the little cove in front of the Union Later
she owed to the where she will be tied for a
year of more until finally completed.
AS the vessel slid into the foremost, she
created big wave that made the biggest
near by bob uncomortaby smaller
ciaf they fairly stood end Mrs. Mckinley have
pressed the button that started Ohio ways
but illness her niece Miss Barber acted
in Mrs. McI<inleys place.
Hon Irving NJ. Scott Henry T. Scott took the pres-
dent and governor and their parties cursory nspec
ton OF the more important sections Of the yards
where the ocean warriors built Both President
Knley and Governor Nash followed the explanations
cerning the works closely and with evident
hour of - the nations official
sentatves and other guests had arrived
side the hull of the battleship.
They lying there great shape STEEL ready for
the sea- The greater of the supersructure
slp wherein the Ohio built had been removed The
battle craft lay in her
snPpery ways Toward the
well up her Sides shortening toward the length
firm foundations in the earth the Ship
standing along her sides On table on the
by was an electrical instrument The pressing
OF the button meant the launching of the ship
The ceremonies We're simple but significant. There was
the formal exchange of accepances the part
government and then the tide having reached it's
word given.
The bottle champagne was suspended from
the bow by ribbons of red white and blue braided into
The hour come At 1926 D. m. sharp Irving NJ
Scott Miss Barber the signal
electrical machine. The guiotine like a
flash of lightning severng dogshore toppled
over OF Its weight and the cevery
of props caved in like house Of cards.
her entire length There was scarcely motion perceptb
but in twnkng she began to slide, rush, a
pound cracking and creaking and groaning of the tim
hers beneath and around her-she shot down the ways
stern foremost and took her dip into the
When it became generally known this morning that the
was to attend the launching of the bateshp Ohio
the of San Francisco and vicinity seemed to be
moving toward the Union Iron Works. Although
for the launching set for 1926 the people
Only few allowed to enter the enclosure
ing the but thousands spectators clustered the
bluffs overlooking the works.
On the bay shore the farther side from the ship
OF the cove in which the Ohio glided stands had
On the bay the scene was most animated Every pleasure
craft and steamer sail boat and rowboat that
kept with difficulty by patrol of tugs It was
estimated that fully $4,000 people the battleshp
Three of picked men, have in their time
launched some of the best of great fighting Ships
SCOTS do the work preparing steel hun
for its first dip into salt water No outsider was
gates to open-11 O'Clock.
Work knocked off 10:15 for few minutes so that
the engaged in striking the blocks
fellow wormen in hearing the address president
who had arrived at that hour the United
tug. Socum, with the cabinet officers specially inv tied
guests Of the army and navy.
After the speech making the launching returned
rattle mauls splitting tmbers
warning the cradle being down to
the restraining block. shore
patroed the channel In front of the final
Soundings to make certain that all clear.
The launching platform had been enlarged somewhat to
of of abOut
lower yard number of seats in guests
fortunate enough to hold general admission invitations
the east of the anchored the barges
Society. with seating capacity for 800 persons.
The big, broad hull of the Ohio anything but
pretty the lines flags large national
and when the ship took the a On the
decks waved small American flags with which
provided The customary decorations prevailed the
launching stand and bunting and banners
about the adjoining and the vessels building
awaiting repairs the company docks.
The Ohio sister ship Maine now building at
the works of the William Cramp Sons Ship and Engine
Building and of the building the ward
of the Newport News Ship Building Dry-d COM
The hull which is divided like the most recent
battleshp is built of steel and is unsheathed
long the load water ne p feet 21a extreme
BREADTH and the draft of % dspaces
Il, ego tons.
The hull is protected abreast of the boilers
side belt extending feet inches above
line, and four feet below it. having thickness
inches depth Of feet inches tapering ~
the bottom of the belt and by the six