Show THE BATTLESHIP Beyond question of every boy and girl of the schools of our State will be delighted to possess a certificate stating that they have contributed toward the purchase of the Silver Service for the Battleship which was launched at New December and named in honor of Our State the This great will when placed in the largest vessel completed for the United States Navy and will have a speed of about 21 The vessel expected to go on her trial trip the latter part of shortly after she will go into The U. S. S. is a vessel of the Dread-naught feet 88 feet wide and displaces with a draft of 28 feet 6 Her armament is composed of ten sixteen guns and the usual small calibre She has two submerged torpedo The vessel will be by Parsons being the first United States Battleship with this type of machinery and she will burn oil fuel in connection with She has the usual complement of officers and men and is fitted in every according to the customary practice of the United States i A patriotic custom has been followed by the several states of the Union in whose honor battleships have been for providing the vessel with a silver cost of these services has ranged from five to twenty-five thousand The funds for purchasing the same have been raised in the several states in various ways by legislative private and subscriptions by the various cities of the A number ow ways were open for securing the necessary funds with which to purchase the silver service for the great battleship but our Governor and the silver service committee appointed by him were of the opinion that such an should not pass by the school children of the state and so it was decided that the silver service should be presented as a gift of the school The silver service consisting of D. C. A. C. D. H. A. R Elizabeth C. McCune and Eay solicited designs and fixed as the cost of the service to he presented by Utah to the Five firms responded to the and the proposal of the J. H. Leyson Company of Salt Lake acting for the Gorham of New was The silver service selected by the committee consists of about one hundred and thirty On the larger pieces of the scenes typical of Utah's natural scenery and as well as those which are of a historical nature will be Among the larger engravings will be a scene representing pioneer and modern means of the artists having selected for this purpose the pioneer ox team and the modern palatial steam train crossing the Lucin Black Rock at showing the lake in the a composite picture of a mining Pioneer and a number of typical Utah mountain The twenty-seven punch cups which go with the service will bear scenes typical of the twenty-seven counties of the state and each individual cup will bear a legend setting forth in a few words the resources of the county it The silver service is well under way and the committee is prepared to receive Each donor will receive a very handsomely embossed bearing the autograph signature of the Governor of the state and the members of the so worded that the amount contributed is not shown on the thus eliminating rivalry and placing contributors an equal Quite a number of the schools of the state have already taken advantage of this rare opportunity and |