Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-10-03

10. The battleship Ohio atili In the Atlantic
fleet, but slated 70 leave insths future never
60 return.
II. The commerce destroyer Columbia 40 long
missing In the OF the navy that q genera.
ton 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 ninetea.
sister Of the Columbia and like her OF the
flying squadron OF 1898.
u. The monitor Amphitrite
30. The monitor Miantonumah.
ii. The monitor Monadnock
~. The monitor Cheyenne. formerly the wyo-
ming.
2S. The monitor Ozark. formerly The Arhan.
~. The monitor Tonopah formerly the No
yada.
rs. The monitor Tallahassee formerly the
Florida
26, The minotor Puritan.
"a. The monitor Terror
%. Tho monitor Monterey.
20. Tho protected cruiser It, Louis.
30. The protected cruiser Charleston.
81. The protected cruiser Milwaukee
Ss. Tho protected cruiser Newark
80. Tho protected cruiser Chicago
81. The protected cruiser Cincinnati.
3b. The protected cruiser Raleigh. Coghlana
ship at Manila.
30. Twenty-olsht torpedo boats
Twenty years ago this fleet Of alxty.thres ships
would have been "a match for any naval orRaHza.
tion then ahoat slth the exception OF tho fleet Of
Great Britain. Today ali the vessels IN IL could
not last half an hour In a battle with the fivo
dreadnaughts that constitute ths great first divi-
sion OF the United States Atlantic feet.
And this mighty fest Of naval has.beens" cost
tho United States government more than tig9.
100000 and tho oldest among them not including
tho old monitors. 10 not yet twenty-five years old.
The battleshipa IN 10 build and equip cost the
government s6fs435.z1b. and the gcruiHers. mon
itors and torpedo craft raise the total 20 the
12e.0O0006
What viii become OF these shipsY some are
now In reserve and there they will stay until
their end 10 decided upon. VIII that end be the
target range or the auction block and the Junk
pile. or viii they be permitted 10 rust away in
navy yards nominally units IN reserve neeta
but In reality as useless reminders OF = navy
that In its day great but which. owing 20
marvellous progress In naval construction. has
reached quickly but surely thai state Of obmoiat6
ness from which there can be no Comeback"
The Oregon aud the Olympia will probably be
retained for generations TO come ~ glorious
mlndeTg 70 Americans NJ future years Of tho
navy that won Immortality IN the brief conflict
that wiped Spain on the map of the western
world and which added to American territory an
Island empire 10 the far east and won for thia
country for the first time full. free recognition
by all the nations Of the world Of the rght 70 bS
numbered among those powers whose mission
and influence ia "worid vide.
In the lineup Of the has been" feet Il siil bs
noted that there ia included ths entire fourth
division Of the great fleet that oircunna VI gated
the globe In 1907 and 1908 This division was
made Up Of the Alabama the flagship Of spaFry
when he began ths voyage a division com.
mandeT; he Kentucky. the KsafaArKs and the
Illinois IN that fleet three Of the vessels Of the
third division are also listed among tho
obsolete fighters, the chips In question being the
Ohio. the Missouri and ths Maine all sister ships
and In their day held up 10 the world a. ena-
bddVAnN all aua heat afH4lsl IA
equipment OF modern menof.uar 81 the battle
ship class
The Atlantic feet when IL sailed out or Hamp-
ton Roads IN December. 1907. Was made MP OF
sixteen nrstelaa1 batteBhlps. and = look ~ the
makeup Of the organization shows that Ia a %
Rod Of less than sir years seven. 81 lacking one
OF exactly half Of those famous ships. have been
relegated into the reserve. the first stepping.
stone that leads 70 Junk pile and oblivion.