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Show will leave the island after President Gomez has been sworn into office. NEW MANE SAILS INTO HARBOR OF HAVANA Havana, Jan. 26. On yesterday, the eleventh anniversary of the arrival of the old battleship Maine on her ill-fated ill-fated mission to Cuban waters, the New Maine, with the still more modern mod-ern Mississippi following in her wake, sailed into Havana harbor to be present pres-ent at the Inauguration of General Jos. Miguel Comez and the new Cuban Cu-ban government on Thursday next. This is the first Havana visit of the namesake of the wrecked warship and her coming excited great interest among all classes of the residents who lined the harbor walls from LaPunta battery, opposite Morro to Machlna "wharf, off wnich the' two American battleships are moored to anchorage buoys within a few hundred yards of the tangled mass Of 6teel and tho old lighting lop, visible, the remnant of the ship destroved February 15, 1898. The new Maine arrived at 11 a, m., precisely the hour the old Maine sailed sail-ed into the harbor on January 25, 1898. Tho old Maine saluted the Spanish flag over Morro castle. Yesterday the new Maine, which Is the flagship of the third squadron .of tho Atlantic fleet, commanded by Rear Admiral Arnold, Ar-nold, saluted the Cuban pennant flying fly-ing from the historic old fortress. The salute waa returned by the Cabanas battery on a high bill overlooking the harbor. Last night Havana's downtown streota were filled with hundreds ot flogs of liberty. Commander C. Lu-verluo, Lu-verluo, of the Mississippi, is a survivor, surviv-or, of the old Maine, on which he was serving a midshipman at the time of her destruction. Lieut. Commander Sumner E. W. Klttelle. navigator ot tho Mississippi, is a son-in-law of Rear Admiral Slgsboe, retired, who was tho commander of the old Maine. The Maine tnd Mississippi will remain re-main at Havana until Jan. 28, when they will accompany the cqut cruiser cruis-er SaleNn on which Governor Magoon |