St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-13
All the Nations of the Earth
Invited to Send War
Ships.
Practically All the American
Modern Men-of-W ar to Be
Ordered Home.
The Procession Of Ocean
TerPorS to Start From
Hampton Roads.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-Under the
act of congress authorizing the president
TO invite foreign naval powers to par
tlcipate in the naval review to be held
in New York harbOr next April the
state department has issued invitations
in the name of the president to the
naval powers of the world. The follow
ing is the folm of the notification of the
action taken by the department sent to
our ministers in the countries which
have been invited to send ships to take
part in the review:
by an act of congress, approved
April %, 1890. it is provided that the
president is hereby empowered and di-
rected to hold naval review in New
York harbor in April, 1898. and to ex-
tend 10 foreign nations invitations 10
send ships of war to join the United
States navy in rendezvous in Hampton
roads and proceed thence to said re-
view.
The government of the United
States, in pursuance of the above law,
will assemble its fleet at the prescribed
rendezvous at Hampton Roads in the
month of April next, with instructions
to proceed thence 10 New York harbor,
there to take part in a naval review in
connection with the international eX-
position at Chicago, commemorative of
the 400th anniversary of the discovery
of America by Columbus.
lit is the sincere and earnest wish of
the president that this proposed cele-
bratiOn shall be commensurate with the
Importance of the historical event
which it commentaries, and shall illus
trate the extraordinary advance in the
progress OF naval architecture at the
present time. To this END the fleet of
the United States will be composed of
vessels of the most modern types
which shall have been completed at the
date named, and the demonstration will
further include reproductions of the
caraVelS which composed the fleet of
Columbus upon his voyage of diScOv-
cry.
You are hereby directed to COM
municate to the government to which
you are accredited the purpose of the
government of the United States thus
solemniy declared by an act of the ma
tional congress and approved by the
president, and Its cordial Invitation TO
send squadron of vessels which may
httlngly represent its power and dignity,
to join the United States fleet in rem
devious at Hampton Roads, Va, April
20, 1893. and proceed thence to the re-
view in the harbor of New York.
"This invitation has in like method
been extended to all naval powers. You
will take occasion, III representing it, to
assure the government of the sincere
pleasure it will afford the president to
learn OF its acceptance by that govern
ment."
The navy department will soon take
up the plan and scope of the proposed
review, and begin preparations to make
the rendezvous the most imposing the
country has ever witnessed. 1t is quite
certain that every ship of modern con-
struction in our navy that can possibly
be spared from service abroad will be
ordered home to rendezvous in Hamp-
ton Roads preparatory to proceeding to
New York, and it is fully expected that
the review will equal. if not exceed. any
naval concentration of war vessels the
world has ever seen.