Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-09-26

16. The battleship Ohio, still in the Atlantic
feet but slated to leave in the near future never
to return.
IT, The commerce destroyer Columbia, so long
missing in the news Of the navy that genera
ton has grown up that knows her not, and she
of the flying squadron of 1898.
49, The commerce destroyer Minneapolis,
speed record breaking cruiser OF the late ninetes,
a sister Of the Columbia and like her. Of the
flying squadron OF 1898.
49, The monitor Amphitrfte
90 The monitor Miantonomah.
FL The monitor Monadnock
22 The monitor Cheyenne, formerly the Wyo-
ming.
49, The monitor Ozark, formerly the Arkan~
a. The monitor Tonopah, formerly the Ne
vada.
25 The monitor Tallahassee, formerly the
Florida.
49, The minotor Puritan.
81. The monitor Terror.
y %. The monitor Monterey.
49, The protected cruiser st. Louis
80. The protected cruiser Charleston.
81. The protected cruiser Milwaukee.
80. The protected cruiser Newark.
SO. The protected cruiser Chicago.
a. The protected cruiser Cincinnati
IS. The protected cruiser Raleigh, Coghlan's
ship at Manila.
SO. Twentyeight torpedo boats
Twenty years ago this fleet of sixty-three ships
would have been match for any naval Organiza-
ton then afoat with the exception of the fleet OF
Great Britain Today all the vessels in 1t could
not last half an hour in battle with the five
dreadnaughts that constitute the great first diVi-
sion of the United States Atlantic fleet
And this mighty feet of naval has-beens' cost
the United States government more than $685.
1000 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 tho
$129, 1000.
What will become of these ships? Some are
now in reserve and there they will stay until
their end is decided upon Will 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 nominally as units in reserve fleets
but in reality useless reminders of navy
that in it's day was great but which, owing to
marvellous progress in naval construction, has
reached quickly but surely that state of obsolete
ness from which there can be no come -back.
The Oregon and the Olympia will probably be
retained for generations to as glorious
minders 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 won for this
country for the first time 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" fleet it will be
noted that there is included the entire fourth
division of the great feet that circumnavigated
the globe TN 1907 and 1908. This division was
made up of the Alabama the flagship of Sperry
when he began the voyage division COM
mander; the Kentucky, the Kearsarge and the
Illinois In that fleet three Of the vessels OF the
third division are now also listed among the
obsolete fighters, the ships in question being the
Ohio, the Missouri and the Maine, all sister ships
and in their day held up to the world as en-
bodying all that was best in the construction and
equipment of modern men-of-war of the battle
ship class.
The Atlantic fleet when 1t sailed out of Hamp-
ton Roads In December, 1907, was made up Of
sixteen frst-class battleships. and look at the
makeup Of the organization shows that in a pc
Rod OF less than six years seven, or lacking one
of exactly half of those famous ships have been
relegated into the reserve, the first stepping.
stone that leads to junk pile and oblivion
LESS FOLIAGE.
This is great age
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