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Show THE CREAT BATTLE SHIP TEXAS. She Starts, She Moves, .she Seems to Feel that all Eyes of the Nation are on Her. Portsmouth, Va., June 88 The Norfolk navy yard and Contractor Francis C. Bowles secur el a signal triumph in the successful launching of the great battle ship Texas today. to-day. Tlie scene, in spite of the rain which fcil durmg the entire forenoon, was most ifnimated. Fifteen thousand spectators Jivere in the yard and as many more on 'Iteamers, tags, yachts and the opposite 6ore of the river. At a quarter after 11 -sJjr Mise Madge Houston Williams of Texas at the signal ready, uttered the words, "I christen thee, Texas," broke a bottle of wine on the bow of the noble vetesel aud she started. It was just forty-six seconds from the time the bottle was broken that the Texas was standing in the stream as firm as a land battery. Five minutes later she moored to the warf. |