The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-08
THE CHATTANOOGA LAUNCHED
little DAUGHTER OF THE CITY'S
MAYOR NAMES NEW CRUISER.
Gov. Frazer Gets . Champagne shower
Bath-sinGins and speechmakins Mako
the Launching . Jolly and Patriotic
Occasiou Gov. FraZer's Address.


the Launching . Jolly and Patriotic
occasion Gov. FraZer's Address.
The cruiser Chattanooga was launched
.. the Crescent Shipyards yesterday after
nom. The ship went into the water "a easily
md as gracefully and ~ safely Is though abe
~ rehearsed the ceremony for weeks b fore
irving IL in the presence Of AZ large and dis
,inglished an euuienoe as was present
,.sterday. As the Chattanooga started
toward the water, Lillian Nelson Chamb-
Iss the twelve ear-old daughter OF the
Mayor Of Chattanooga, smashed . bottle
NJ champagne on the bow and named the
sbn. So yalorously did the pretty little
Girl do her part that Gov. Frazer OF Ten
nessee was drenched from head to foot with
the spray OF champagne, and his roars OF
laughter over his plight mi ngled with the
cheers that sped the ship on her way while
Mn. Frazer gleefully informed the gather
inc that the Governor always took his
champagne externally.
The entire occasion had much more OF
the atmosphere Of big family picnic than
that Of the most trying time in the life OF
A shipyard Lewis Nixon, pesident OF
the United States Shipbulding Com
many. and the founder OF the Cres-
cent wards, went about exchan ging felcities
with the trainload OF brave and fair Ten
nessesns who came on for the launching
and at the same time keeping watchful
ore ON the whole delicate process OF getting
the ship properly down the ways. Little
Miss Chambliss, on the raised platform
under the bow, did her best not to look
conscious. and found that she was most
ulccessful when she kept her eyes on those
Of her young father, the Mayor. who didn't
care how proud he looked or how many
people knew It.
While waiting fcrthe wedges to be Knocked
out from under the ship the assembly
listened to young woman who sang Dixie.
and then gave the rebel yell for her and for
the Chattanooga. Then she sang America
and everybody cheered again.
In the crowd were Senators Bates and
Carmack OF Tenn essee, Senators Keen and
DRYDEN Of New Jersey. ex-Secretary OF the
Treasury Gage, and hundred or more
New Workers well known in public life.
Among them were Street Cleaning Com
missioner Woodbury.. Health Commissioner
Iederie, Police Commissioner Greene and
Ebstein and Deputy Assistant District
Attorney Morgan, who went out from New
York OH the police steamer Patrol.
The color given to the assembly by the
women's gowns was increased by the gilt
tering uniforms Of number Of the Mexican
officers who are experimenting the con-
struction of Mexican cruisers in the yard s.
The narrowness of the Kill Won Kull
opposite the Crescent yards makes the prob
lem of sending a big ship down the ways
rather an interesting one. There are
always those who prophesy that the ship
will run across the kill and bump disas-
trously on the opposite shore The Chat-
tanooga, however, Jared a. well as the
hundred ships that have gone overheard
there before her number Of three
inch cables had been arranged in series 80
that after reaching the stream she would
break them suooessvely and so gradually
decrease her momentum and stop ~ mid
stream. The arrangement worked per-
fectly. The ship stopped before all the
ropes had broken, and then the tide swung
her slowly around beside the bulkhead OF
the yard, without 90 much as push from
AZ Xite 70 the launching there wa. . luncheon
In the offices Of the yards, which were far
too small to hold all the folks who had come
to felicita'e Mr.. Nixon and the Tennes-
scans on the occasion.
The guests Of the bodybuilding company
from this city were taken to and from
Elizabethport on the steamer Nassau.
On the way home there was song and speech
making. Gov. Frazer. who Is a tall clean
cue ~ a =, na 81 kaniel Rome re-
noue. 10 tha h;s,orw ~ Cbattanooes In the
vem y, ~, ,ha ,ion and said thai he and ali
rs so III wv ,i,izans raioicad Tbs, fine little
M ~. ,o. 49, Us 70 - carried abroad as
y LIE y. 4, .o,,,d ba On the prov on the
nonosaJ,.y 40 II cioSing he said
ne NJ :, Iii r.onani1e ihst The haiti Of the
~, we aa ,hors ,,,,s, Ia hattIas viii he
t,r' - VI r.,har thar an land and thai
ioutit ~ 1870 ~ the ITni,ed statee. ought 10
w ~ orea,as, 49, in The World at
n nsS ", J sbst this GOOD sbip NAV never have
vs. WI va, Ia ~, stsJ tha blnod ~ onr fe,.
- u'ru a., ~ ,hs o',arreIs ~ The world
LOW, t,a ,,,nSessf,lly s1bmitt ed to arbitra-
no, ny b., ~ ,hera aver comes a time when
,ha rlopy ~ The nation IL threatened. then
Cha,,an;o.a and ali Tennessee will rally
~ T.. 'ysnc. Nth the same devotion and
,b. I"vsl,y A. will the great state OF
W '"'''
N,ror ch.ubliss made a little speech
N Which he thanked eyeryi,ody on behalf
-, The cour,ssies thew had eIperienced.
Ssn,,nY Carmaok said that he hoped that the
80 Gh.t,sn"oSa would he worthy OF The
nam 81 The iful an brave CITY which