Show battleships are expensive toys the bursting ol of tho big gun on the io iowa w I 1 involved n v 0 1 v e d a d deplorable e p 1 0 r a r i 11 c e nt b le ot 1 life I 1 e f 0 or r w which h ac h t there h e r e f Is s no r repair e aspia I 1 r 1 it t Is now declared that the cost 0 of putting the steel monster again in fighting trim will be involving six mouths months stay in some boms ship hospital this does docs not cover the whole loss the great gun which exploded with such rightful frightful consequences cannot be replaced without heavy additional expenditure pend iture ture the report that the famous oregon has been so wrenched and disabled in her late tussle with a pacific typhoon as to make her affa anc yda ds still further proof of 0 the costliness of the game in which battleships and cruisers are the pawns when neptune takes a hand in the performance philadelphia ladelphia record |