Show two lahe steamers launched CHICAGO april 24 stecial SD ecial an immense crowd went out to the yards of the chicago shipbuilding company on the this morning to witness the launching of the twin steamers minneapolis and st paul which have been built to the order of R E rhodes the CI oveland to enter the service of the soo line they will run between gladstone Glad stona minn and buffalo N Y in the flour ana general merchandise trade the new vessels do not belong to the largest class of freight steamers on the lakes but are built to kaaa through the welland canal into lake ontario being just the size of the locks the minneapolis was the first to be launched at two and the st paul followed half an hour later it is said that a double bunching hunching hun ching is a rare ebent while the last triple launching recorded was in 1850 when three echo were sent down the ways on the same afternoon at the yards of john oades at claytonna Clay tonNY |