Show TO ABANDON WREKING Government Will Not Raise Sunke Warships 4 IT IS TOO EXPENSWE EXPENSIE 4 COLON NOT TO BB BROUGH RE I RED 4 Swedish Company Wit Phenomenal Record of Success Ready to C4 nnte Raising of Warships and Delivery of the Maine I New York Dry Dock Or No Pay 4 New York Nov 2A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington says The navy department has practically decIded de-cIded to abandon wreckIng operations under existing contracts on the cruisers cruis-ers Cristoba Colon Vzcaya and Almf rante Oquendo near Santiago which have become onerously expensive to the government and to approve the rca ommendatons In part at least of Na sai Constructor Hobson and other olE cers who have been superintending the work of rescuIng thee vessels The department has reached the conclusion that the Vlzcya and the Almlrante Oquendo will probably never be rescued res-cued and the Cristobal Colon if saved sve at all will not be brought to the United UnIt-ed States by the Merrit Chapman Wrecking company of New York whlcq has ben working on this vessel under special contract InvolvIng the payment or 82925 a day since JUly 29 without visIbly Improving the chances ot that vessels salvage The same company since July G when It executed the frt contract fo the poecuton of wrecking operations on the ships of Cervers squadron has ben receiving a separate payment o 800 a day with the single result that the Infantn Maria Teresa is now on her way to NorfolK where a commission trill decide what additional compens ton not exceeding OOO shall be paId to the wrecldng company on her account Naval officers have not expressed any partIcular dissatisfaction wIth the work of the lleTrtt Chapman Wrecking company whIch has received 160 3 day for more than three month at Santiago but the experts are thoroughly ly agreed that little mOle can be a cmplshed beyond the raising of the Mercedes wit the present plant at Santiago and they have decided that further expense in other directions is unwarranted This decIsIon has been influenced to some extent by the arrival In Washington Washing-ton of the repreentat o n great Swedishtvrecking cotporaion which succeed in rescuing the British bat teship Howe fro 3 condition comparative compar-ative with that of the Cstobal Colon and which points to 3 record of over 500 ships whIch it has extricated front more or less serious pitons nearly all of them beIng submerged at considerable con-sIderable depth ThIs company It seems is not only confident of Its abl Ity to brIng the Crstobal Colon and the other Spanish vessels to the United UnIt-ed States but Is ready to guarantee the delivery of the Maine in the bg dry dock at the New York navy yard The Swedish wreckers propose to take aU the risks of failure without eenso to the government and to rely if they arbitration succeed fo compensation wholly on |