New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-27
FROM THE TEUTONICS DECK
MIR. LUCY DESCRIBES THE NAVAL DIS
PLAY AT sPITHEAD.

NEVER BEFORE SUCH SIGHT PRESENTED
TWENTY-FIVE MILES OF FIGHTING-sHIPs
MIR. IsMAY's GUESTS.
fBY CABLE TO THE TRTBUNEI
Ryde Isle of Wight June 26-Last night the
Teutonic steaming out of a fog that lasted all
day, took up her mooring off Spithead. AS the
pick Of armed cruisers, she had assigned to her
a favorable place in the line Of special merchant
vessels North of her ranged long line,
numbering a score, Of foreign men -of-war. Be-
yond that, nearer to Portsmouth. were the four
lines Of British battle-ships cruisers. gunboats,
torpedo boats and boats for destroying torpe-
does. The Teutonc, in ordinary times peace
full transatlantic passenger boat is to-day trans
formed into an armed cruiser that could. In case
Of need make herself exceedingly disagreeable.
She is armed with eight quick guns and
as many Nordenfedts. The significant part OF
the business is that the ship arrived in Liver
pool on Monday last, and resumes her peaceful
avocation Wednesday. In forty y-eight hours
the Transformation was effected, the guns. equal
in power to all the Victory could do al Trafalgar.
being in position and ready for business
Mr.. Ismay Is entertaining distinguished COM
pany, some joining the ship at Liverpool. others
coming down last night by special train from
has served the Queen in both hemispheres the
German Emperor's bosom friend. Lord Ions
dale; Lord Charles Beresford who has done
more for the British Navy than any man: Lore
Dunraven. the Bishop of Chichester Mr. Henry
Stanley, Sir John Gorst, Lord Hertford. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Loeb, happy
in having quilted his Governorshp at the Cape
before the raids broke cut; Lord Onslow. Lord
Playfair and Ian Maclaren," the novelist
Among the Americans are Lady Randolph
Churchill, Lady Playfair Mr. and Mrs. Bradley
Martin Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Letter and Mr..
Chaunoey NJ. Depew.
THE TEUTONICs GOOD LUCK.
The Admiralty orders forbade ships Of the tom
mage of the Teutonic to pass between the lines.
The dilemma of the Admiralty became the op-
portunity Of the Teutonic Sir Novel; Salmon
the Admiral in command. whose flag flies from
the Renown found himself at the last moment
with three hundred naval officers come down to
see the show and no boat available for their SER
vice. He appealed for help to Mr.. Ismay who
placed at his command the Teutonics tender
In acknowledgment Of the service special per-
mission given for the armed cruiser to
make the tour of the lines. Up and down the
Teutonc slowly passed. herself not the least
beautiful Of the ships afoat.
Never before was such a sight presented. The
muster In Kiel HarbOr on the opening OF the
canal was memorable spectacle and had the
advantage Of being framed in compacter COM
pass than the spacious Solent offers but at Kiel
all the naves Of the world contributed 20 the ef-
feet. There were foreign ships at anchor at Spit
head to-day, decks br dyes and yards crowded
with keen-eyed critics. but the show was the
home fleet of single Power-twenty-tive miles
Of fghting-ships including some of the suprem-
est results of naval architecture and armament
There was significant lesson In the acct
dental contiguity Of the Russian cruiser, the
Rohsiya, with the British cruisers, the Powerful
and the Terrible. About two years ago the Rus
slams built what at the time the most pow
erful and swiftest cruiser In the world The
British Admiralty responded by building the
Powerful and the Terrible, which beat the Burik
out Of the water. The Russians made the re-
tort courteous by launching the Rohsiya. but she
is only the finest cruiser outside the sweep Of
the British flag. She does not either In size
power or speed come up to the British cruisers
These steam 22 knots and each fire eight
tons Of metal per minute.
INTEREST IN THE BROOKLYN
The United States armored cruiser Brooklyn
attracted much attention. her colossal tunnels
Lord Charles Beresford, with constitutional
unconventonality, pOoh-poohs the fundamental
arrangement Of the review. Any housemaid, he
scornfully says, could have placed in position
the 100 ships forming the fleet, and leave them
safe at anchor, and the mighty fleet circum-
navigating them That is a bold idea which, II
need hardly be said, received no encouragement
from Mr.. Goschen. AS ii stood IL was mag
nfcent sight TO watch from the deck OF the
Teutonic the Victoria and Albert, compare
lively a cockleshe, making her way through
the lines of mammoth sentnels In the wake
Of the royal yacht went the Carthage and the
Elfn, with the distinguished foreign visitors on
beard; the Admiralty yacht, carrying the fort
unes Of Caesar, Mr.. Goschen; the Wildfre, with
Emperor Joseph Chamberlain and his suite Of
Colonial Premiers the Edorado, with a flock Of
foreign Ambassadors; the Danube with MEM
bers Of the House of Lords, and the Campania
carrying the Commons.
The yards were manned as the royal yacht
passed each battle-ship. and down the quiet
waters Of the Solent came the faint sound Of
cheers. rising into gusty as the Prince
Of Walls completed the survey and the whole
fleet led from the flagship shouted its tri.
umphant farewell. HENRY w. LUCY