The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-02
|O0UBLE LAUNCHING
/ At NEWPORT NEWS
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
Prominent Officials Present
When Ossipee and lalla-
poosa Are Christened
Ossipee Bumps
Into Pier Head
No Serious Damage Was Done,
However-lmportant Event
In the Annals of the Coast
Guard.


Newport News, Va, May Twin
coast guard cutters-alike save that
tina Ossipee is an ice-breaker, with
PROV cut away, and the Tailapoosa IS
an ice-maker. with apparatus for that
purpose built into her huli-Were
launched this morning from one build
ing slip and on one launching ways at
the Newport News Shipbuilding and
Dry Dock Company's plant, amid
cheers and shouts of the attendant
party. The double launch
ing. the double christening, the double
marriage of water craft with the sea
was doubly an important event In the
annals OF the coast guard.
Both new guardians or the sea were
christened in champagne. the coast
guard not yet having subscribed To
grape Juice ideals of the navy. Miss
Mabel Hartwell. little Southern girl.
broke the bottle over the PROV of the
TaIlapoosa as she started to slide into
the waters of the James River at 1890
o'clock. The Ossipee was similarly
christened by northern girl. Miss
Sally Fleming McAdoo, daughter OF
The Secretary OF the Treasury. fifteen
minutes later, as the blocks were
knocked from under the coast guard
cutter and she moved for the hrst
time
General Manager Fl. L. Ferguson, OF
the shipbuilding plant, gave the worc
when all was ready to Superintendent
Joseph Weaver. Superintendent Weav-
err advised the ceremonial party and
had the sponsors made ready
The vessels slid down the ways al
1918 and 1l:Io O'Clock. respectively
The Ossipee swerved sharply 70 the
fright on leaving the ways and bump
ed into a pier. but no serious damage
was done.
The Ceremonial Party.
The ceremonial party consisted oil
| Acting Secretary Byron r. Newton, OF
the Treasury Department. AIRS New
ton and their son. John Newton. John
/ Burke. treasurer OF the United states
| and Mrs. Burke: Captain E. ?. Bert
| hoIf commandment of the coast guard
Mrs, Bertholf and their daughter, Miss
Dorothy Bertholf: Captain c. A. NC.
AiIister. engineer-in-chief coast
guard: Captain E C. Chapman, super
lintendent division. coast guard: cap.
| tain s. R. Jacobs. coast guard, and
Mrs Jacobs: First Lieutenant r.
Hunneweil. constructor. coast guard
and Mrs. HunneweIl: First Lieutenant
7. O Walton, constructor, coas'
guard: Second Lieutenant of Engineers
w. M Prall and Mrs. Prail: Q. NJ
Maxim. chief of division. coast guard
F. HI. McAdoo, son of the Secretary
of the Treasury. and Mrs. McAdoo'
Senator John X. Shields and Mrs
Shields, Senator w A Smith and Mrs
Smith. Representative John "A. Sinai
and Mrs. Small, Representative JOSEPH
Fl .Shinn and Mrs. Shinn, Clifford l
Willard. Mrs Willard and Miss MIL
lard; Ralph Collins and Mrs. Col
llins, Robert Dugan and Mrs. Dugan
Jerry c Mathews and Mrs. Mathews
Isaac Gregg l.. w. Shavis. Roy Yer
non, Mrs H. r. Hartwel. Miss Edn'
Manning. r. W. Brahaney, assistan
lsecretarye to the President and Mrs
| Brahaney. W. P. Ramsey. w p Doy
lin. inspecting engineer. Panama Cana
Commission; DIR. p v. Dolan. coas
guard; E. H. Jameson, suuerintenden
| Of the Treasury building; r II. Marks
| ONCE of the chief clerk of the Treas
/ ury Department.: c.. III. Ridenour and
the two sponsors
/ The coast guard cutters Apache anc
IOnondaga were anchored in the rfvel
Ito observe the launching.
Assistant Secretary Newton was th'
orator OF the occasion.