Show Battleships are becoming expensive luxuries The three new ones for the American navy the designs of which have been accepted will cost S7OOiooO each and be able to run 7000 rnileawith one coaling They will be fearful highpower machines when afloat is powerful as ever were built but a smallsized torpedo could send cither one of them to the bottom And when that fact is considered the thoUght I which strikes n person Ilrst is that somehOW some-hOW arrangement will certainly have to bo made soon because the nations naLon cannot can-not afford to go on building that sort of craft thatare at once so terrible and at the same time BO easily destroyed |