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Show Battleships Aro Expensive Toys. The bursting of tho big gun on tho Iowa Involved n doplornblo sacrlflco of llfo for which thoro Is no repair It Is now declared that tho cost of put ting the steel monster ngaln In lighting light-ing trim will be $500,000, Involving sl months' stav In some ship hospital This does not cover tho whole loss The great gun which exploded with such frightful consequences cannot bo replaced without heavy additional expenditure ex-penditure Tho report that tho fa mous Oregon hns been so wronched nnd disabled In her lato tusslo with a Pacific tv phoon as to mako her uusoa-worthy uusoa-worthy affords still further proof of tho costllnoss of tho game In which bnttloshlps nnd cruisers nio tho pawns when Noptuno tnkes a hand lu tho performance Philadelphia Record. |