The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1902-01-02
lHE MISSOURI lUNTHED.
The Great Varsity Sister to the
Ohio and Maize success
fully Takes ater.
wITHADAsH OFsOODV ONHEn PROV
The Christening Pertftrned by Miss
Marian COckrcIl, Missouri
Addresses DeliveJn' by secre-
tary of the Navy ipng and senR-
tor cOckrciI. of Missouri.

Newport News, Val pee. 29.-At
1l:12 o'clock saturdaI norning the
new battleship AIissouE Jas launched
here with impressive emonies. AS
The big sea fighter sill d down the
ways Miss Marian Coo II. daughter
Of Senator Cockrell, of ssouri, with
a bottle of wine Of Mi uri vintage.
christened her.
II name thee Misso said Miss
Cockrell, beside who stood her
maids of honor, Mis-, arie Houx,
OF Warrensburg. and IS Virginia
ID. Lee, of st Louis, laughter of
Lieut.-Gov. John A. Lee.
When the big ship \ ghded OFF
the ways into the watf, the crowd
on the guests platform gave three
cheers for Miss Cocl<rdl, three for
the army and navy, thf1e for Secre-
tary Long, then three pr the ship
yard.
Just before the props Iere knocked
away an address was delivered by
Secretary John ID. LongI
Secretary Long said, part:
Il have been interested lin tie cir
cular signed by many t4inent citi.
zens, my beloved friendl i. E. Hale,
at the head, in which thef regret the
estimate of $1oO,O0O,oOO for the in
crease of the navy. The bize of the
navy, if there is to be havy at all,
IS question like the tafiff-of adj
9ustment rather than of Tfinciple. OF
course, it is rather tald&g thing to
ay as a matter of theky, as this
circular says, that $4,000 900 for the
navy means tax of a every fam
ily in the United Statf md yet, on
the other hand, as liz of prac-
teal fact, If that SUM mt there
is probably not famisl the Unit
ed States whose ftt income
could be shown to q less and
there are good manyh4 ss whose
income would be Sc ie and still
more families whose lof he would
he many times So lessbh were not
spent. 1t is also rad, taking
thing to say that $l0d,( DO could
be better spent for alton or
charity. And yet on tbb Ter hand
ploO,OOo,oOO spent in THIS. DloJment
Of labor is the very bespt =, which
i can be put. q
i Is it true, as suggest e cir
.glar, that q great nasy ssprx.
inhames the Gghfing spir ads
to war? If my recollectio Is me
right, while Great Brita as had
troubles in Egypt and Al /, else
where, she has had no cont on sea
Tor many years, and yet he Wy has
been twice as large as I'll Of any
other power. The recent i Ease in
our navy did net induce the r with
spain, which, as things wer seems
% have been inevitable. o. -'other
land, it is more than lilod hit il
n the beginning of 1898 w deven
Is large a navy as we havt Tcer-
ainly as large a one ash 1pro-
'osed, there would have bi war
With Spain, and that cou{e 'ould
ave come to terms, as shl very
ear coming, without battIl that
inc, however, il was the oil inn
ression among foreign I'D, and
robably in Spain, that 81 bavy
'ould blow us out of the !, teIn
After inspecting the VI oul de-
artments of the plant, the est4 re-
aired to the shipyard VIII. where
hey boarded the steamer ASKING
IN, going to Old Point.
At the Chamberlin hotel in HE
Eternoon the customar pdkt-
banquet was gi y, the
tests mentioned above beiri 3n the
'ogramme as the principe peak
s.
IT WAS A PIPE STos