The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-28
MISS REED CHR|STENs
NEW MALLORY LINE SHIP
Breaks Bottle Of Champagne on
Great Hull as II Starts Initial
Trip to Water.
MANY WITNESSES TO BArTtsMAL
As Guests Laugh and Applaud,
Steam-ThrOatcd Craft Take Up
Welcome and Give Noisy Recep-
ton to New Bride of the Decp.
Especial to The Times Dispatch. ]


Newport News. Va. June 2T.-Fathcr
Neptune took another bride just be-
fore high noon to-day. when the beau
ttful steel frcighter Nethcs. building
for the Mallory Line was successfully
launched ut the plant of the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com
pany. This bride was christcncd with
native champagne by Miss Alice Bur
we'll Reed, daughter nt President Will
liam +. Reed, OF the Richmond Cham
Der of Commerce., aud her baptismal
WAS witnessed by quite IA party of dis
tinEuished person. from Richmond.
This new bride Of the deep took
quickly to the water. moving rapidly
down the launching ways out on the
bosom Of the James. No pr-tticr
launching has ever occurred at tho
local plant. and the craft was sent
overheard without Il hitch in amy ar
rangcments from the time the work
men hogan to wedge her UP TO trans
fer the weight from the keel blocks
To the launching cradle until the ny
draulic trigger was released and the
new ship was set free to find her way
to her natural element.
DOT'rIE OF CHAMPAGNE
CRASHES AGAINST Hull.
with the first pcrccptible movement
of the steel prov that projected over
the canvas colurcd and yaily deco
rated launching platform. the fair spon
Sor sent tn" bottle Of champagne
crashing against the hull and named
the ship Ncthcs The surrounding
guests laughed and applaudcd as drops
of the bubbling fluid showrred down
upon them. Their applause was taken
up by steam throatcd craft tied up at
the yard, and il was Il right noisy wei
come that the new ship received as
she moved rapidly down the ways ana
into the water.
Miss Reed was attended by Misses
jeanette Montague. daughter. OF Con
grcssn,nu Andrew Jackson Montague.
OF Richmond; Ethel Aston Cabcll and
Louise Warren. and was accompanied
here 1T 1880 o'clock this morning over
the Chesapeake aud Ohio by President
O. J. Sands. of the American Nationai
bank: Thomas =. Winston. T. NJ Car
rington. MIR. and Mrs. T.. Il. Laird, MIR.
and Mrs. Coleman Worthani. and Pres
ident Wainwright Of the Virginia Rail
way ana Power Company, and Miss
Wainwright
President y. l.. Hopkins Of the
shipbuildine comp3 ny. and General
Manager Raymond. of the Mallory and
Clyde Lines, arrived early in the morn
ing from New York. and, with other
yard officials, met the Richmond WISH
tors at the train. automobiles took
the party To the yard and the sponsor
took up her position in the elevated
christening booth where she was in
structcd In the art uf christening "A ship
she ana her maids posed for photo
graphs and the three young women
made a lovely rroup behind their huge
bouquets Of American Beauty roses
While tins WAS going on. General
Manager Homer l.. Ferguson and other
yard officials took the men Of the Rich
mould purity around under the bulgin-
sides of the steel freiEhtcr and showed
them Just how II ship was put over
board. The steel trigger which held
the ship in position by means OF nv
draultc pressure. and which system WAS
used nrst IN THIS country at the local
yard in the launching OF the mammoth
preadnouEht Texas. attracted the at
tontion of the visitors