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Show THE FLAGSHIP READY FOR SEA. Tha Chiracs will mart Out on liar C'rnlM on Monday, Brooklyn, N. Y.. Jan. 17. Special to Thk Times. Tho work of getting the Chicago, the flagship, ready for sea has b?en completed and she will start upon her cruise Monday morning. Tho Boslon, which U also attached to the squadron of evolution, will sail three weeks hence when the work of putting in her new shaft Is finished, and will join the other vessels at New Orleans, where they will take part in the Mardi (iras celebration. The Chicago will join the Dolphin, which has been transferred trans-ferred from the North Atlantic squadron squad-ron to the squadron of evolution at Hampton Roads. A careful survey of the bull of the Chicago since she was placed in tho granite dock demonstrated demon-strated the fact that the Rnhtjnr paint, put on in Malta last April, had flaked off by friction with the salt water. Before Be-fore the squadron of evolution returns north, which will be early in April, it is to take part in fleet and squadron drills with the vessels of tho North Atlantic squadron. |