New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-30
BATTLESHIP LAUNCHED.
CROU-DS SEE CEREMONY.
Mss U7eIIcs Fails to Break Bottle,
but U'orkmau Docs 1t.

Despite The ugly ruuors ~ attempts 10 tamQer
with her cradle. The hatrlesalp Connecticut was
successfully -UIehed yesterday gliding with
siIken ease down smooth untrawweled ways.
Fully thirty thousand persons IN the shlpyard
and as many more from outside saw Tho ponder
Gus mass If lighting steel sweep down into the
water II the Waliabout Channel at The Brook
Ign Navy Yard. ar exactly HIS H. T7- The sue
cess of the launching WAS considered mag
rincent tribute ~ those responsible Tor the man
agement ~ The affair The .fEnenlas was pE2"-
5iy The last official aet of Rear admiral Rod
gers, commaHdaHt of the bFoot.1a navy 14fa
1ho retires on Monday. ana shFe me '''" I'-iS
touch 10 a long career
0t The scores of 'yQrkmen swor"ing over ana
beneath ,he ship. not one was h"it ~ az me
vast and complex ma'i'nerE Heedeo ''' '''e
lalnei.a5 H'--.'s
though blunt lit into me "al~1 win s'.',P
precision ho.aihE hhe'y 10 '"e "a'S
ship was "al@Fh''"e-
= jAeEe was s'-'--@
JOY ~ the occasion il lay ID MISS AN,
the sponsor = iai'lFT' pfo'4"'y .'.' .''--'-
L-Ss, either 20 mama OF 9l''
craft Even so. d qdsiteTIrth sl''--l'''S A' "
bow Of the boat saved 'he dly anu
sailors hoodoo.
As early as o'clock the vast crown ''-''i -
stream into the navy yara' spe''a' 1s'-
marines and yard policemen pel'S s''.'-7-
near every entrance and along the Fo'1""'9
leading 20 The scene. BY 1913 O'Clock hi-eeH
minutes before The hour set Tor me ''" -.----7'
the throuE had become fairly settled ana ia...
a spectacle not lightly 70 be forgotten DIes77-
rain boH--V.ise. the Connecticut. red leao Hiv4
from keel TO guuwale. section oi mann
bridge and a stumpy aft turret alone showing
above her hull lay stern on toward the river
resting Oh her ways on her starhoard quarter
lay the kearsarge flying the red pennani 'i
Rear Admiral Barker the blueiaekets laying
aloft 10 her signal yards and manning her dsht-
ing tons as rlicE, as sggartaing bees
over on The Hancock on The Kentucky and
fra Texas further thousands gazed and waited.
To h1naFe4 tee' away f[oiH l',s 'i-.1g b9-
manitv. and within the Inclosue was the same
dense throng.
on every side. FAR as the eye could reach, men
tbronged the piers v.harves and abuments.
r.sr,be,I themselves dizzilv i'm the rigging Of
calling craft near bv. stood framed in easements.
b,,nq o,a- rteon roofs gathered by thousands on
( tr5e ana ,-ee,,,-,-e5 a,.er,, conceivable colgn
80 ,-ertsga within a vide radius.
Ar,org the FRS ~ me guests 10 arrive was
NC yyauae rba srorsor who Is a grand
,7a,gb+er. ~ Gideon yycIIes. Secretary of the
-, ir, tbe Cabinet Of President Lincoln with
+ ,,- ,.-se Pear Admiral Rodgers. who carried
,~n,f,,l Of American Beauties Behind them
we're governor Chamberlain Of Connecticut and
Mrs Chamberlain. well Miss Weiless t""
--nacial afesfs
The snTInkIing stand now began 10 dll rapidly.
49,, arrivals including Mrs Rodgers. wife OF the
,.,,-,s,.asnt Of the yard: Secretary Morton.
/ r,e.r A417iTa!s Coghlan. Melville Barker Sands
md chester. Chi-g Naval Constructor Carpe.
L'-a, 80, anair os ~, ,rro,o. ,,.ior