| Show Battleship Utah Rides the Stream Biggest Bigge Fighting Machine in the United States Navy is Named as She Slides Down the Ways Miss Mary Alice Spry Breaks Bottle of Wine in Customary Fashion F Crowds Cheer and Whistles Blow as asI I Huge Vessel Touches T ou hes the Water Fifth of Type of Battleships for Uncle Sam Philadelphia Dee Dec 23 Declared to havo no equal afloat as a 3 fi s fighting machine the thc battleship Utah the greatest warship ever built In n tho th United States was WIlS launched at 11 Ii a m rn today toda at the yard ard of o the tho New York Ship building company at Camden N NJ NJ J 3 In the presence of or several thousand people who crowded the docks and very everY el vantage point In the vicinity of or orthe r the yard As the big hull started to leave the tho thickly greased ways was Miss Mary Man Alice Allee Spry of or Salt Lake City Cit daughter of or thc the governor of or Utah raised her arm armend end broke a gaily beribboned bottle of or I champagne against the of the tho great ship as she sho spoke the words that gave tIle the vessel Its name of or big warships on the Delaware river liver havo become a common sight but hut nevertheless the latest con oon contribution to the American AmerIn navy stirred the tho enthusiasm of or the crowd whose I cheers and the din created by the tho whistles of or tho the river craft continued several minutes Among Amon those on the platform were of or tho the navy na depart department mont ment Gov GO Spry end and members of his family camily f a congressional delegation In Including eluding the members 11 tI f f i om Utah representatives of or the Utah Ut il legislature and andI I 1 all tho the officers of ot the ship shipbuilding shipbuilding building company j Tho rhe Utah Is III tile the fifth firth ot of the tho gun kun typo of ot battleship b for tho the United States navy to ho be launched When she sho will bo be o more powerful the tIle Delaware and tho the North Da Dakota Dakota kota of or tho Dreadnought class While the Utah will havo no equal when completed she will not hold that position long as the tho navy program following the tta one ono which called for two ships of or the Utah class provides for vessels that will be bo considerably heavier Ser ier These later ships will mount two more guns than the Utah and TV wIll ivill have a heavier secondary batt battery bat battery tery t er List of or persons to whom Invitations were sent for the tho launch GOVERNORS Hon Wm Spry pry and suite Utah Hon Iron John Franklin Fort New Jersey Hon Edwin S Stuart Pennsylvania SENATORS Hon ITon Reed Smoot Utah Hon George Georgo Sutherland Utah Hon John Kean Now NOI oa Jersey Hon Frank O 0 BrIggs New Now Jersey Jerge Hon Boles Penrose vanla vanIa lIon Hon George korge T Oliver Penn Pennsylvania PennSylvania i sylvania Hon Jacob H Gallinger Gailinger New i Hampshire NEW N W JERSEY REPRESENTATIVES Hon H C Hon John S Gardner Hon Benjamin F Howell lion Ira W V Wood Hon C N Fowler Hon Wm Vm Hughes lion Hon Richard W Parker Hon William H Wiley Hon r Eugene F Kinkead Hon James Jamea A Hon Thomas B Butler Hon HOIl Joseph Howell or of Utah MAYORS Hon Chas Clias H Ellis nills Camden N J 3 lion Hon John E B Reyburn Philadelphia tip Pa ia Hon Hoe Robert A Lincoln ter N J NAVAL OFFICIALS S lion Hon Geo o von L Ij Meyer leyer 1 Hon Beek Beck i man Winthrop Admiral George nil Dewey Hear Admiral W S Cowles Conies s Rear Admiral A Raymond P Rodgers S Rear Admiral John E Pillsbury Rear Hear Admiral New N ton E Mason Mawn Paymaster General Eustace Eus ce B D Rogera Rear Ad A 11 mimI miral E H ii C Rear Admiral A mra I lit Casper F P Goodrich Rear Admiral Adolph Rear Admiral Uriah R n Harris Roar Admiral R F r Nicholson Capt Henry T Mayo Capt Copt A F 1 I Fechteler Capt Wm Vm J 1 Baxter Capt Robert Crawford Capt John H Lin Linnard I r nard Capt D W V Taylor Capt Albert 2 D B Wilts vt pt Henry j Baird Wilson Capt John F Ff f Hanscom Lout Commander W G Gt t Groesbeck Ernest F 1 Eggert I Commander W P Robert W It II Fogarty Capt R n s G Capt W V S Smith Commander J 3 S K Ie Reeves Commander W W V White Commander Cha Cias W V Dyson Commander H P F Norton orton Mr Ir G A 1 Anthony quartermaster department MaJ David S 6 Stanley Brig Gen G n Jail Jas B Aleshire Rear Admiral Washing jl tor ton L I Capps Cappe Rear Admiral H J S Cone r Rear near Admiral T I 1 C McLean Rear Ad Admiral mimi miral Jl no C Hollyday Capt Edward 0 H n Campbell Admiral P M 1 Rear fear Admiral Albert R Cau Can Caution CanG G r den tion Admiral George GOrge W Melville Commander F B D Bassett Jr Com r I G S Galbralth 0 Commander J 3 C Leonard Capt A W V Stahl Commander Robert Stocker Commander Richard RJ H Robin IS ion Leut L H M B or Gleason GI ason F D Hall James Reed Jr A H 11 Van nn n Capt Commandant J Worth Woith G Ross Hess Capt Ira Ir Harris Harrl l len Gen leni i i I Goo Gao Uhler Capt apt John Virden VII en Com Corn Commander Commander mander H A Bispham MaJ aj Herbert Hon Eugene 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