Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-06-30
ANOTHER BIC BATTLESHIP
Governor McLane's Daughter Hazel Broke Bottle of Champagne On the
 Bow of the New Hampshire
woRKMEN WERE INJURED

Camden, N. J., June 30.-The bat tleship New Hampshire was launched at the yard of the New York Ship building company here to-day. Miss Hazel E. McLane, daughter of Gov ernor McLane of New Hampshire, christened the battleship. Miss Mar ion Shortwell of Cambridge, N. H.. and Miss Margaret Thayer of Con- cord were maids of honor. Governor McLane and his staff and other dis tinguished persons witnessed the launching. The New Hampshire is sister ship to the battleship Kansas which was recently launched.
 Five workmen were injured while at work clearing away the props which held the big vessel. The tim bers gave way without warning and the men were hurled some distance by being hit by the props. James Campbell of Gloucester and Joseph Kappakinski were taken to a hospital severely bruised about the head and body. The condition of Campbell Is said to be serious. The other work men are only slightly injured.
 The launching party had not reached the christening stand when the accident occurred and were ig- norant of the fact that anything un- usual had happened until the vessel had left the ways. The accident oc- cured nearly half an hour before the launching. Several workmen began to saw and knock the props from under the vessel shortly before 7:30. They had not been at work long when sev- eral props gave way, probably caused by the New Hampshire settling. The injured men were hurriedly removed from the yard and every effort was made to keep the news of the acci- dent from the christening party. In this the company was successful as Miss McLane knew nothing of the unfortunate occurrence when she smilingly broke the bottle on the New Hampshire's bow.
 Miss McLane visited the shipyard yesterday afternoon and rehearsed the part she was to play this morn ing. Her first effort was failure, but when the bottle struck the prov of the New Hampshire to-day, she used sufficient force to completely shatter 1t.
 The New Hampshire is about 50 per cent completed. The contract un- der which the battleship was built calls for a maintenance of eighteen knots speed for period of four con- secutive hours. The hull Is of steel throughout and is fitted with bilge and docking keels. The general di- -Inensions are: Length on load water line, 450 feet: length over all, 456 feet ( inches: extreme beam to moulding, 75 feet 5h inches; to out side of armor, 76 feet 10 inches.
 The armament of the New Hamp- shire will be: Main battery. four 12- inch, eight S-inch, twelve 7-inch breechloading rifles. Secondary bat tery, twenty 3-inch tor 14-pounders) rapid fire guns, 50-caliber in length {; twelve 3-pounder, semi-1utomatics, two 3-inch field pieces, two machine guns of 30-caliber and six automat- ics of 30-caliber.
 The battleship's propelling power will consist of twin screw, four cylin- der, triple-expansion engines of a combined indicated horsepower of 16,500. Each engine will be placed in a separate water tight compart- ment.
 The time for the launching prob ably was the earliest that ship of war was ever launched from ship yard in the east. Originally the ship was to have been launched at o'clock, but flood tide was at 1850 and at that hour the automatic trim mers were released and the boat slid down the ways.
 Governor McLane and party ar rived in Philadelphia last night and came to Camden shortly after o'clock, accompanied by Miss Mo Lane. Besides the governor and his wife and daughter the party included I Clinton A. McLane, John B. McLane of Milford, N. H., Secretary of State Edward N. Pearson, Concord: Mrs Pearson, Edward c. Leach, Franklin Mrs Leach, General William F. Thay- CT, Concord: General Frank B. Ka- ley. Colonel Clement J. Woodward Colonel John H. Bartlett, Mrs Bart lett. Colonel A. Melvin Foes. Colonel Frederick J. Shepard. Colonel Ed
 ward c. Bean, Mrs Bean, Colonel Henry W. Exeter. General James E. Tolles, Lieutenant Charles w. Sc ward. Captain J. B. Crowley, George H. Moses, Mrs Moses, Calvin Page and Captain Charles H. Manning. all of New Hampshire.
 After the launching the party left here and went to Philadelphia where they were the guests of the ship. building company at luncheon. They