Show NEWt NEW WYOMING GLIDES INTO SEA SEAt t 4 Monitor Is Successfully ly Launched n CHRISTENED BY BYi p i MISS M SS Work on Namesake of Mountain State to Be Rushed San Francisco Sept S The United States monitor Wyoming was success successfully fully tuIl launched at high tide this morn morning morning morning ing from the ship yard of the Union Iron Works Thousands of people lined along the shore or crowded on excursion steamers and other craft shouted themselves hoarse as the low hull of or the new war vessel plunged Into the bay The event had been made madea a feature of the cel celebration celebration celebration of admission into the Union and among the multitude of spectators hundreds wore the Otis ous badge of the Native Sons of the I Golden West The launching was managed by Su Superintendent Superintendent Dickie of or the Union IronWorks Iron IronWorks IronWorks Works and everything worked without a hitch Only persons with passes were allowed to enter the gates but every foot of space around the huge cradle In which the Wyoming rested was oc on occupied occupied T e monitors hull huH was supported by shores over the sliding ways Early this morning workmen began ramming in wedges s so 80 o as to create an incline of one foot to sixteen feet Later on most of the blocks sustaining the ship were knocked away and by 1030 everything was in readiness for the launching About the bows of the vessel a plat form ronn had teen built for the guests of honor including Governor Richards of Wyoming Adjutant General Frank Colonel A H Hansen and wife Major Thomas Wilhelm Captain P Covert and Captain Patrick Sullivan constituting his staff and Miss Hattie Warren V Christened By Miss Niss Warren To Miss Warren who is the daughter of United States Senator Warren was assigned the duty of christening the latest addition to the American navy naw This she did in regulation style break breaking ins ing the usual bottle of or wine ine and ex exclaiming exclaimIng x claiming laiming 1 name thee Wyoming as the last supporting props were removed and nd the monitor started from the whys ways and slid sUd slow slowly ly into the sea When the vessels stern touched the water wat r the spectators sent up a mighty cheer which however was soon drowned in the din made by scores of ot steam whistles The Wyoming is yet without her Heavy vy armor and in fact little more her hull is finished The turret where h re the monitors big guns will m ill re revolve volvO volve is at present nothing more than thana a big hole near the center of the deck Back Ba k of this Is the ing super superstructure superstructure superstructure structure of A what hat will be when finished the Quarters of the officers and crew Through gh the center c of or this protrudes the smokestack stack also in dingy dinky red like everything e else from front the armor up lP Work on the vessel is to be pushed Continued oa ou Page P g 2 r NEV NE WYOMING ELIDES INTO SEA Sf A Continued from page paco 1 1 forward f and ad she will wi be b In readiness for service at no very ver distant ditt date date The coast coat defense defene monitor Wyoming Is I one of the four tour similar vessels vesel de tIe designed I signed by Chief Chie Naval Constructor Hichborn with wit a view of securing the r greatest results with wih the least leat expendi expenditure expenditure ture tur of ot money Her sister ships ship wit wiL wiLbe be named the Arkansas Akana Connecticut and Florida Florida The Te Wyoming V oming was wa built buit by the Union Iron Irn Works Work the te contract price being b Her dimensions are are Length on load water line lne 2 feet extreme breadth breath fifty feet draft twelve feet mean mea six sh Inches displacement about 27 tons tens The hull hu l is of ot steel not sheathed with double bottom and water tight subdivisions subdivisions visions The hull bull hul Is protected by a a a side armor aror belt bel ranging from eleven to five inches In I thickness The turret is of the balanced type Its armor being nine inches thick A con conning conning ning tower with seven and a half inches of armor and a single military mast will also appear above the deck The vessel is to snake make twelve knots an hour Her main battery will consist of two rifles and four rapid fire rifles In the second secondary secondary ary battery will be three rapid fire guns and four au an rifles Miss Warrens Choice Popular The choice of Miss Warren to the vessel was eminently popular in her Cheyenne home and in the rest of the state for though Taut but a miss in her teens Miss Frances is charming tact tub ful bright and well known Miss Warren who has made an en enviable enviable viable record in her studies in Wash ington and who has won much distine tion in her home city as a reader and entertainer Is certain to be quite a so social social cial leader and a powerful ally of her father in his public life |