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Show BIG BATTLESHIP MAINE HOODOO TO MANY SEAMEN Superstitious Sailors Refuse to Snip "on Her, and She Is Not Ablcjo Sail. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 8. Although the r.cw battleship Maine ought now to be with Dewey's P.-et in the C.ivihbear. -'he 1" still in Philadelphia. The reasons lie in her name and the superstition of siilors. The fate of her namesake makes them hold aloof. Although the big battleship needs G 1 men, she has now only about 400, and j enlistments have practically stopped since it was announced that men were : vantd fe- the Maine. j -i i ml ti.-it are sor.v s- nmon vho are sut rst'.tios." said ("apt. Leutz. j "and they do net c.-ue to serve on the Mair.-. Some eo;i-lor the name Maine a ; hoodoo,' a;id that is v. by th-y are not so ar.:oa;- to nllst." |