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Show BIG SHIPS TO BE SCRAPPED H No Special Ceremony Will Mark This Event EH Ilillndolphlu. Without ostontntlon, H the obsequies of four historic battle- H ships will bo held this wook. The H Maine, Missouri, Wisconsin und the jjH cruiser Columbia, recently purchnsed as Junk by n Philadelphia firm, will bo H tmved from tho Philadelphia navy IH yard to n last resting placo In the Dol- EH awnre river. Thore they will lib scrap- SH pod, their armor nnd big guns melted B and recast Into the needs of peace. Tho Mnlno was launched in 1001 nt H a oont of $3,000,000. Tho other threo H battleships were of tho same type and M cost nliout tho same nmount As JunJc JmWt thoy draught less than $100,000 each.- M9 The cruiser Columbia, launched la mjM 1803, wns ono of the fastest ship M afloat at that time. Hfl |