The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-16
WILL REVIEW NAVAL FLEET It Will Be an Imposing Spectacle. SHIPS NOW AT ANCHOR Rear Admiral Barker Is in Command. Dewey and Other Naval Hen. With High oAicers of the Army, win
 Hs the Guests of the
 President.
SHIPS NOW AT ANCHOR

Oyster Bay, Aug. 16.--ArrauHef1ent9 practically have been completed for the review and inspection by Fresident Roosevelt of the North Atlantic dest next Monday.
 The ceremony will take place in Long Island. almost directly north of the en- trance to Oyster Bay. 1t gives promise of being an imposing naval spectacle. | nearly score of the nations best fight ing ships being expected to participate | in the maneuvers.
 President Roosevelt will review the fleet from the bridge of the auxiliary cruiser Mayfiower. which win break out his flag at her peak at o'clock Monday morning.
 Guests of President. On the Mayfiower as the guests of the President will be Admiral Dewey, ASni- raj Taylor. Admiral Rolgers. Captain Bronson, General Chaffee. Sir Thomas Lipton. Colonel sharman-crawfords c. Oliver Iselin, Butler Duncan, Captain woodbury Kane and Commodore Bourne of the New York Yacht Club. besides other friends of the President. Tho re- view will begin at Q a. na., and the cero@ mony probably will not be concluded un- ttt 2:s0 ?. m.
 The following vessels viii take part in the review:
 Battleships Kearaarge. Alabama. IIiin- ois and Texas.
 Cruisers Baltimore. Olympia. Yankee. Prairie. Topeka and Panther.
 A flotilla of torpedo boats and destroy- CTS.
 The ships will arrive off Oyster Bay about sundown this evening. The PreBt- dent expresses great regret that the ac. cident to the Massachusetts should have detained that battleship and the Indiana in the North.
 Plan of Review. n Monday morning the larger ahips twin be anchored in double column ofi lines bearing east and west at intervals of about 1000 yards. At 4. m. the May | flower will pass jn reviAR. staaning 10 l the head of the south column. then along the southside of that column between l it and the westward, followed by the the north side of the north column. finally anchoring between the columns After the Mayfiower shall anchor the | flag officers and commanding officers will call upon the President; later the Presi- dent win return these visits. At 1:s0 ?. m. the Mayfiower will go to the torpedo fiotilla. passing around it in shall stop the fleet will pass in review. after which 1t will continue down the sound and the Maynower will return to | Oyster Bay. | The Fleet at Anchor.
 The North Atlantic fleet came to anchor in the sound off LIoyds Neck point at sundown and Hes inifour long lines reach- | Ing east and west for 2.0O0 yards. The fleet left Bar Harbor at noon wednesday. The disposition of the fleet is that the first squadron consisting of the flagship of Rear Admiral Barker, the Kearsarge, and the battleships Illinois and Alabama, making the first division and the flagship of Rear Admiral sands. the Texas and the cruiser Baltimore mak- ing the secand division, lie in one column with 500 yards between each.
 Eight hundred yards to the north ie ths second squadron. the first division under Rear Admiral Coghlan, consisting of the cruiser Olympia flagship and the Topeka and the second division under Rear Ad- miral Wise. consisting of the Yaniees Prairie and Panther. There are twelve torpedo boat destroyers. in the fleet.
 Services on Kearaarge.
 President Roosevelt and his family and his guests will attend services tomorrow
 morning on board the battelship Rear sarge. M
 The President has as his guest tonight Captain w. H. Brownson, superintendent of the Annapolis Naval Academy.
 Tomorrow Rear Admiral Taylor, chief of the bureau of navigation. will arrive at sagamore Hill. This afternoon the
 President and Mrs. Roosevelt entertained the junior officers of the Mayiower and Sylph at o'clock tea.
 Admiral Dewey is expected to arrive tomorrow. He will so aboard the Nay flower and subsequently, will call upon the President to pay his respects.