The Arvada enterprise., 1913-09-25

16, The batteship Ohio still in the Atlantic
to return.
II. The commerce destroyer Columbia so long
missing in the news of the navy that genera
tion has grown up that knows her not. and she
was of the flying squadron of 1898.
IS. The commerce destroyer Minneapolis a
speed record breaking cruiser of the late ninees.
a sister of the Columbia and, like her, Of the
flying squadron of 1898.
49, The monitor Amphitrite.
20 The monitor Miantonomah.
81 The monitor Monadnock.
% The monitor Cheyenne, formerly the Wyo-
ming.
2& The monitor Ozark, formerly the Arkan-
"a The monitor Tonopah. formerly the Ne
vada.
25 The monitor Tallahassee. formerly the
Florida.
26. The minotor Puritan.
27. The monitor Terror.
2S. The monitor Monterey.
%. The protected cruiser st. Louis
80. The protected cruiser Charleston.
81. The protected cruiser Milwaukee.
30. The protected cruiser Newark.
33 The protected cruiser Chicago.
"a The protected cruiser Cincinnati
50. The protected cruiser Raleigh, Coghlan'i
ship at Manila.
SO. Twentyeight torpedo boats
Twenty years ago this fleet of sixty-three ships
would have been match for any naval organza-
tion then afoat, with the exception of the fleet Of
Great Britain Today all the vessels in It could
not last half an hour in a battle with the FIVE
dreadnaughts that constitute the great first divi-
sion OF the United States Atlantic fleet.
And this mighty fleet Of naval hasbeens" cost
the United States government than s129,-
100000 and the oldest among them, not including
the old monitors, is not yet twenty-five years old.
The battleships in it to build and equip cost the
government $64,435225, and the cruisers mon
itors and torpedo craft raise the total to the
$l29,O0OOOO
What will become of these ships? Some are
now in reserve and there they will stay until
their end is decided upon. VIII that end be the
target range or the auction block and the junk
pile, or will they be permitted to rust away in
navy yards nOminay as units in reserve fleets
but in reality useless reminders of a navy
that in It's day great but which, owing to
marvellous progress in naval construction, has
reached quickly but surely that state of obsolete
ness from which there be no comeback"
The Oregon and the Olympia will probably be
retained for generations to come glorious re-
mnders to Americans of future years of the
navy that won immortality in the brief conflict
that wiped Spain off the map of the western
world and which added to American territory an
island empire in the far east and for this
country for the first time a full, free recognition
by all the nations of the world of the right to be
numbered among those powers whose mission
and influence Is world wide"
In the lineup Of the has been" feet it will be
noted that there is included the entire fourth
division of the great fleet that circumnaygated
the globe In 1907 and 1908 This division was
made up Of the Alabama the flagship of Sperry
when he began the voyage a division com.
mander, the Kentucky, the Kearsarge and the
Illinois. In that fleet three of the vessels Of the
lhird division are now also listed among the
obsolete fighters the ships in question being the
Ohio, the Missouri and the Maine all sister ships
nud IN their day held up to the world as en-
bodyinE all that was best in the construction and
equipment Of modern men.of-war OF the battle.
ship class
The Atlantic fleet when It sailed out Of Hamp-
ton Roads In December 1907 was made up OF
sixteen hrstcass battleshlps, and look at the
makeup OF the organization shows that in pe-
Fod~ot less than six years seven. or lacking one
OF exactly half Of those famous ships, have been
reIegated into the reserve. the first stepping
stone that leads to Junk pile and oblivion