Show NAVAL CIMTHCCTOH TAI148 Do it Tko Ally Mk In he Aldut I helory At 1n Washington lb 11Un all circumstances cir-cumstances raid Naval Constructor Phtlllp lllchborn It does not seem ton to-n I ho Malnes disastercpuldvha > e re i 9 sultcd fromanuccldent Everything was quid and orderly about the ship all far n a have any knowledge and the probabilities are that only one of the four entlnes was being Used With all the safeguards Imaginable and lyIng ly-Ing at unchol as quiet as possible It recalls unlikely that p accident could have Occurred Men were about the ship everywheie but none of the I machinery a In motion with the I poesible exception of one ot the smaller nglnei foe rw < cssary ork aboard I the Maine had been < at sea or II action I ac-tion then might have been some valid rea8m for much un explosion Patch leg occurred but not under conditions sui rounding It In Havana Then toct there was 10 lslhle manner for the ammunition In the magazine to be ex plotted unis by some Internal machine or other contrivance No lights ere carried Into the magazine mag-azine nor were there allY wires running run-ning through It All the light nee mary was on the outside with the wires a safe distance from the explosive or In flammable matter that Nvas II the magalne 1 a modern man 01 war In I lot sate lying at anchor In port what can be I expected of the vessel when It Is I at Bell or engaged In battle Med couldnotbe Indu < Me-d to enlist In thenst vy under any Inducement that could beheld be-held out II I won dmontrated that cruisers are merely floating deathtraps death-traps 1r war I vessel An staunch and wellbuilt us nnithlng that ever left a ship yard and In Instant almost the worl ot years goes for naught and we are told Bush them was nn accident at the bottom ot thc affair lutl will never believe anything of the kind and I hava Ito t best rcaponH for entertain Ing such opinions from mj knowledge of the manner In which the Maine was cOItrueled Paris N1 t a a Areldlit < t Nw York Fb 1Tho Journal and Advertiser quote Assistant feetar of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt a Bllg I nm convinced front the destruction of the Maine wa not nn aeclenl |