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Show Four Famous Old Warships Will Be Sent to Junk Pile PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March 21 Without ostentation the obsequies of four historic battleship will be hsld this week The Maine. Missouri. Wts-consin Wts-consin and the cruiser Columbia, re-cently re-cently purchased as Junk by a i'hlld-delphla i'hlld-delphla firm, will be towed from the Philadelphia navy yard to a last resting rest-ing plast In the Delaware rivf-r. Ther-they Ther-they will be scrapped, their armor and big guns melted and recast into the needs of peace. The Maine was launched in 1901 at a cost of .$3,000,000. The other three battleship's were of the same type and cost about the same amount Aa Junk they brought less than $100,000 each. The cruiser Columbia, launched in 1893 was one of the fastest ships afloat at that time. |