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Show BIQ SHIPS TO BE SCRAPPED No Special Ceremony Will Mark This Event Philadelphia. Without ostttrtntion, the obsequies of four historic battle ships will be held this woek. The Maine, Missouri, Wisconsin and the cruiser Columbia, recently purchased as Junk by a Philadelphia Arm, Trill be towed from tlie Philadelphia navy yard to n last resting place In the Delaware Del-aware river. There they will be scrapped, scrap-ped, their armor nnd big guns melted and recast Into the neods of peace. Tho Matno was launchod In 1001 at a cost of $3,000,000. Tho other three battleships were of tho same type and cost about tho same amount. As Junk they brought less thnn $100,000 each. Tho cruiser Columbia, launched In 1803, wns one of the fastest ships afloat at that time. |