The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1913-09-27

IG. The battleship Ohio. still IN the Allan !
fleet but slated to leave in the near future neyI
to return.
Il The commerce destroyer Columbia so Id
missing in the news of the navy that gens|
ton has grown up that knows her not, and /
was of the flying squadron of 1898
IS The commerce destroyer Minneapolis
speed record breaking cruiser of the late nnet1
a sister of the Columbia and, like her, Of 4
flying squadron of 1898.
10 The monitor Amphitrte.
20 The monitor Miantonomah.
q. The monitor Monadnock.
90 The monitor Cheyenne formerly the VI
ming
% The monitor Ozark, formerly the Arb
sas.
"a The monitor Tonopah, formerly the
vada.
% The monitor Tallahassee. formerly
Florida.
26 The mnotor Puritan.
81 The monitor Terror.
%. The monitor Monterey.
% The protected cruiser st. Louis.
50 The protected cruiser Charleston.
81. The protected cruiser Milwaukee.
80 The protected cruiser Newark.
49, The protected cruiser Chicago.
81 The protected cruiser Cincinnati
35 The protected cruiser Raleigh, Coghh1
ship at Manila.
Sc Twenty-eght torpedo boats
Twenty years ago this fleet of sxty-three sh@
would have been a match for any naval orgaHll
ton then afoat. with the exception Of the feetl
Great Britain. Today all the vessels in II ecl
not last half an hour in battle with the A
dreadnaughts that constitute the great nrst on
sion of the United States Atlantic feet
And this mighty fleet of naval has-beens' ca
the United States government more than va
100000 and the oldest among them, not inciud1
the old monitors, is not yet twenty-five years q
The battleships in it to build and equip cost
government s64, 435.225, and the cruisers n1
itors and torpedo craft raise the total 70
sl29.0000G0
What will become of these ships? Some y
now in reserve and there they will stay ul]
their end is decided upon. VIII that END De
target range or the auction block and the w
pile, or will they be permitted to rust away
navy yards nominally as units in reserve ne
but in reality useless reminders OF
that in its day was great but which, oWins
marvellous progress In naval construction, j
reached quickly but surely that state OF ooso1
ness from which there can be no comeback
The Oregon and the Olympia will probaop
retained for generations TO come as gloriow
minders to Americans Of future years Oh
navy that won Immortality in the brief COM
that wiped Spain off the map OF the "eSJ
world and which added to American territon
island empire in the far east and won iof
country for the first time full free recosnl
by all the nations of the world OF the right ~
numbered among those powers whose m''
and influence is world wide" j
In the lineup of the has been" feet II vi
noted that there is included the entire ~
division OF the great feet that circumna"eI
the globe in 1907 and 1908. This division
made I'D OF the Alabama the flagship OF opJ
when he began the voyage as division y
mander: the Kentucky, the Kearsarge ana
Illinois In that fleet three OF the vessels VI
third division are now also listed among
obsolete fighters the ships In question oeins
Ohio the Missouri and the Maine. all sister "
and in their day held up to the world %
bodying all that was best in the construcuon
equipment of modern men-of-war OF the o''l
ship class. -
The Atlantic feet when 1t sailed out OF ~
ton Roads In December. 1907, was mace
sixteen firstclass batteships. and look
makeup of the organization shows tnat
Rod OF less than six years seven, or iachne
of exactly half OF those famous ships nav.
relegated into the reserve, the nrst s'ep'
stone that leads to junk pile and oblivion'