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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON NE February morning just thirty ex’"Sip w years ago the news flashed over the pi country that the United States battieship Maine, commanded by ('apt. Charles Dwight Sigsbee, had been 4 , blown up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, and that two hundred and sixty-four men and two officers had been killed. Since that time disasters at sea have claimed many more American lives and after the first outburst of horrified amazement at them the public has quickly forgotten. But far different was the aftermath of the destruction of the Maine, for it came at a time when relations between two great nations were strained almost to the breaking point and it proved to be one of the factors which plunged America into a war from which she emerged as a different nation from tlmt wliich the world had known before and Inevitably committed to a role as a world power and a player In the game of international polities. Although historians of today do not usually point to this disaster In Havana harbor on February 15, ISPS, as a turning point in history, historians of the future may do so. To get a proper perspective on the importance of the Maine disaster, it is necessar.v to go back to the beginning of American history. For three centuries and a half Spain had held the island of Cuba, although she had lost most of her colonies in both North and South America. The Cubans, moved by the success of oilier LatlnAmericans in throwing off the yoke of Spain, which had become a galling one, began to dream of the day when they, too, should be free. As early as 1822 sympathy with tliis desire was openly expressed in tlie United States, but no opportunity for showing sympathy in a more tangible form occurred until ISIS when the Cubans revolted against their Spanish ruler* ami succeeded in keeping up a guerrilla warfare for a number of years. In ISSI Col. William L. Crittenden of Kentucky joined a filibustering expedition wliich set out from New Orleans under Narciso Lopez, to &id the Cubans. The Spaniards captured tlie whole party and Lopez, Colonel Crittenden and some fifty others were shot at Havana. There was nothing that America could do about Crittenden’s execution, for a nation cannot countenance a filibustering expedition against a presumably peaceful neighbor nation. But wlien Spain put Cuba under martial law American sympathy grew more outspoken. And then came the famous “Virginius aff;<!r." In 1873. the Vlrginius. an American-registered vessel, was c.6ptr.red by a Spanish gunboat, taken to a Cuban port and fifty of her crew, most of them Americans, were stood before a firing squad. At this I outrage excitement in America ran high, but the I American administration, after a long series of ! negotiations with Spain, allowed her to settle by । paying an indemnity. Meanwhile the rebellion in Cuba was continuing and tlie horrors of the Spanish attempts to put it down continued with it. In 1875 the United States intimated to Spain that unless the war were stopped intervention might become necessary and Spain took tlie hint. She granted certain reforms and tlie struggle seemed to be ended. But it proved to be only the beginning, so far as the United States was concerned for the Don failed to keep his promise to tlie Cuban patriot, and in 1895 another Insurrection was under way. Under the leadership of such men as Gomez, Maceo and Garcia, the rebels put up such a valiant fight that they gained control of most of the provinces and their plucky resistance to the harshness of Spanish rule won for them the admiration and the active sympathy of tlie American people. As the struggle continued America was more closely involved by outrages against American citizens living in Cuba at tlie hands of General Weyler—"Butcher” Weyler, they called him—and early in 1897 the situation in Cuba became tlie subject of considerable debate In congress. Up to this time the question of inter- | vention in Cuba was one upon wliich the Ameri- ' can people probably were as much divided as j were the members of congress. All during that year the war In Cuba and the j efforts of President McKinley to bring about a I peaceful solution of the problem, that would be satisfactory to both Spain and the United States, was foremost in tlie minds of Americans. But as time went on the realization of that hope seemed more and more remote. Then the situation of Americans In Havana began to cause uneasiness and It was decided to send a warship to that port, not only to protect American interests in case the need for such protection should arise, but as a friendly gesture to the Spanish authorities and a symbol of good will between the two . nations. Accordingly the battleship Maine was ordered to Havana for that purpose. Compared to tlie battleships of today, the Maine would not be coni sidered such a mighty engine of war, but thirty [ years ago she was one of our finest vessels and as a fighting machine she was as formidable as any of her class. The Maine was launched at the Brooklyn navy yard in November, 1890, at a

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cost <>f $2,509,000, and was first commissioned in S“pteniber, is"' She wits a st< cl ;irmor< d battleship with two ten-inWl barbette turret*, with a length of 31S feet, beam 57 feet, draft 21m fert and displacement of ti.t'.xj tons. The barbette armor was 12 Inches thick and the plate* of the turret armor uiw eight inches thick. The hull was mica-ed In an armor belt 12 indie* in thickness, tapering to seven Inches below the wafer line. Like most of her < la**. her end* were tin protected by side armor, but tit both end* there were transverse armored bulkheads of sufficient thickness to deflect projectiles. a steel deck covered the vital parts of the ship and afforded protecti< n to the madihiery and ladlers. The Maine's armament consisted of fofir ten inch rities, on barbette in turrets, in the main battery and six *ix im h rifles on the b tic > dec . for the auxiliary battery. Four six pounders, eight threopounders and two one pounder rapid fire guns, four revolving cannon and four Guttling* made Up the second battery and th<re were armored tops on each of the two masts. She was propolled by twin screw* of manganese bronze, the power being furnished by two screw em_'im s of 9,<K»O indicated horst* power. Carrying *22 ton* of coal, she could steam 2.770 knots at 1 I.S knots an hour or 7,o<Hf knots at 10 knots an hour. She had a double bottom ami numerous waler-tight compartments. A bulkhead d.vided flu engine room, so that each set of the machinery was in a water tight compartment by its ( If. I'he story of the tragedy which caused tlie loss of this magnificent vessel and was a contributing factor to the Spanish-American war is told in the following excerpts from the message by President .McKinley to congress late in March 1898: o The Maine entered the port of Havana on the Zoth c>t January, her arrival being marked with no special incident besides the exchange of customary salutes and ceremonial visits The Maine continm d in the harbor of Havana during the three weeks foPowing her arrival. No appreciable excitement attended her stay; on the contrary, a feeling of relief and confidence followed the resumption of the long interrupted friendly intercourse. So noticeable was this immediate effect of her visit that the consul general strongly urged that the presence of our ships in Cuban waters should be kept up by retaining the Maine at Havana or in event of her recall, by sending another vessel there to take her place. At 40 minutes past nine in the evening of the 15th of February the Maine was destroyed by an explosion, by which the entire part of the ship Was utterly wrecked. Tn this catastrophe two officers and two hundred and sixty-four of her crew perished, those who were not killed outright by the explosion being penned between decks by the tangle of wreckage and drowned by the immediate sinking of the hull. . . . The usual procedure was followed, as in all cases of casualty or disaster to national vessels of any maritime state. A naval court of inquiry was at once organized, composed of officers well qualified by rank and practical experience to discharge the duty imposed upon them. Aided by a strong force of wreckers and divers, the court proceeded to make a thorough investigation on tbo spot, employing every available means for the impartial and exact determination of the causes of the explosion. . . . The finding of the court of inquiry was reached after 23 days of continuous labor. . . . The report of that court of inquiry, headed by Capt. W. T. Sampson, president, and Lieut. Com. A. Marix, judge advocate, was briefly this: That the loss of the Maine was rmt in any respect due to fault or negligence on the part of any of the officers or members of the crew. That the ship was destroyed by the explosion of a submarine mine, which caused the partial explosion of two or more of her forward magazines That no evidence has been obtainable fixing the responsibility for the destruction of tlie Maine upon any person or persons.

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Thus a great economy is obtained and the furniture so made is as at tractive as that of solid wood. Objects of Girl Scouts The Girl Scouts, a national association, is ncnsectarian and nonpartisan. The object of the organization is to give girls, through natural, wholesome pleasures, those habits of mind and body which will make them useful, responsible women, ready and willing to take a definite nart in the home.

Although the Spanish author'.ties in Havana gave' all the aid possible to the Americans after I the destruction of the Maine ami paid the highest ' honors to the first recovered dead when they were buried by the municipality In the public ' cemetery in the city, this was offset by the attl- I tude of Spain that the disaster tiad been caused | by an explosion of her magazines, due to the • carelessness of her otlicers. Tim first blaze of : wrath which swept Arm rica the day after the ' explosion was calmed somewhat by the report ' of Captain S uslice, asking that Judgment be sus- | pended until the cause of the accident be inves- | tigated. and by President McKinley's plea for a i < dm consideration of the facts as established by I tin* I card of inquiry. But the conviction grew ! that Spain had struck in the dark ami in a later | message from the President to congress he ; summed up the fording of America toward Spain In the words "'rhe destruction of the Maine, by ' whatever exterior cause, is a patent and impressive proof of a stale cf things in Cuba that is | Intolerable. That condition is thus shown to be I such that the Spanish government cannot assure safety and security to a vessel of the American I navy i.i the harbor of Havana on a mission of \ peace ami right fully there." In tint message he asked congress for author!- | ty to establish an independent government in I Cuba ami on April 19 congress adopted a resolu- j tion declaring that Spanish rule in Cuba must cease. recognizing the independence of Cuba and empowering the President to use the entire land ! ami naval forces of the United States to drive | Spain from Cuba. That meant only imp thing— i war. When America went to war It was by a formal document passed by congress on April 25. But the American people went to war with no : formal phrases. Their declaration was summed I up in the now battle cry of “Itemember the ' Maine 1" It was one of the shortest wars in American history. Beginning in April its end was foreshadowed in August when Spain made overtures for peace, a protocol was signed and hostilities ceased. The end came with the treaty of peace signed on December 10. By the terms of the treaty Spain gave up all claim to Cuba and ceded Porto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the Vnited States, receiving the sum of twenty million dollars for the latter. The decisive naval victories of Manila and Santiago definitely established the position of the United States as a naval power and her acquisition of territory in the Orient brought her out of the seclusion of concern with only domestic affairs to a new international relationship. No doubt the Spanish-American war was inevitable ami would have been fought whether the Maine had been destroyed or not. But that disaster was the one thing necessary’ to give the American people the will to fight and the de- ! termination to hack up their leaders to the utmost in prosecuting the war. So it may fairly’ be regarded as a turning point in history, one of those unlooked-for incidents whose importance may not be appreciated at the time, but which grow in importance with the years. The men who perished on the Maine were : afterwards removed from the cemetery in i Havana and the flag-draped coflins of these first victims of America’s shortest and most bril-liantly-won war were returned to the United States on American warships. They were buried in Arlington National cemetery and the marker for the place where they rest Is the gigantic anchor of the battleship on which they perished, the name of which Is still remembered by Americans whenever the battle cry of 1898 is repeated—“ Remember the Maine."

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