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Show RAISING OF BATTLESHIP MAINE. At last the battleship Maine is to be raised from its muddy grave at the bottom of Havana Harbor and the bones of Uncle Sam's sailor lads which have been permitted to lie buried deep in the mud for twelve years will be recovered and laid to rest under the monument mon-ument whichh marks the last resting place of the heroes in Arlington Arling-ton cemetery. It has been nothing less than a national disgrace that the wreck of the Blaine has not been raised long ere this and the Spaniards have certainlly had plenty of reason to question the motives mo-tives of the government in refusing to remove the wreckage. .The Spaniards have always contended that the explosion occurred on the inside of the ship and not from the outside, and it is believed experts will solve the mystery as soon as the wreck is raised. .Arrangements .Ar-rangements were made at the war department yesterday for Captain Cap-tain Harley B. Ferguson, member of the board of army engineers appointed to remove the wreck of the battleship Maine from Havana harbor, to superintend their investigation into the present condition of the wreck. , Since the last meeting of the board it has developed that at least some of its members do not look with favor on the O'Rourke plans for raising the battleship, wich were explained to President Taft this week. One member of the board has expressed himself as believing the plan would not give the board the proper opportunity to determine whether the Maine was blown up by an explosion from within or without. The O'Rourke plan provides for the raising of the Maine by placing cables underneath the wreck and lifting her bodily out of the water. The army engineers are said to favor the construction of a caisson around the wreck and of raising of it by that means. |