The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-11-11
Under Flags Of America
and Great Britain.
LOUIS IS DELIGHTED
United States and British Warships
Trembled Under The Booming Thun.
der of Saiu!es to Edward Of
England sisty.Four Years
Old Yesterday.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York. Nov. "a large crowd
stood and watched on the banks of
the Hudson River at noon today while
six British warships in unison with
double that number of American men
of-war, fired a national salute of 81
guns in honor of King Edward, who
celebrated today his sixty-fourth birth
day. Bedecked from stem to stern
with gaily filuttering flags of many col
ors the column of ships stretched for
four miles up the Hudson. from
Forty-second to One Hundred and
Twenty-fifth Street, by far the largest
and most formidable Anglo-American
naval force ever assembled in home
or foreign ports.
Gracefully they rode at anchor in
midstream at intervals of four hum
dred yards. each wearing full dress,
in honor of the Kings birthday. Fly
inc at the fore of each British man-of-
war was the Royal George and at the
main the Stars and Stripes. The
American flag floated at the fore of
the ships of the North Atlantic fleet
and the Royal Jack at the main in
honor of the British sovereign.
An Inspiring Scene.
Overhead the sky was clear and the
bright sunshine and stray breezes
combined to make a perfect autumn
day. AS the last gun of the salute
numbered forth across the water came
the strains of God Save the King"
The bands on the Drake. the flagship
of Rear Admiral Prince Louis of Bat
tenberg, and on Rear Admiral Evans
flagship, the Maine, struck up the
British anthem, and quickly the mel
ody, as it echoed down the column,
was taken up by the bands on the
battleship Alabama, flagship of Rear
Admiral Davis, and on the armored
cruiser West Virginia, flagship of Rear
Admiral BrOWnSOn. until the music
resounded to the shore, where the hum
OF thousand voices swelled its vol
ume. An inspiring and memorable
moment this. when the navies of the
two countries spokes in cannon roars
and music their salutation to the King,
scene greatly alike in beauty anu
in International Significance.
Steaming to within four hundred
yards of the flagship Maine. the flag
ship Drake dropped anchor shortly
before nine o'clock, and gracefully
her head swung around to the stream.
Straightaway the British cruisers
dressed ship. and the royal standard
was broken out.
Although the official saluting be-
tween the squadrons occurred of An
napolis, as a special mark of courtesy.
Admiral Evans flagship greeted the
royal standard with a national salute
of II guns. This keenly delighted
Prince Louis, who thanked Admiral
Evans when the latter. accompanied
by Rear Admirals Davis and Brown
son, went aboard the Drake at half
past nine o'clock to felicitate the adj
miral prince on the birthday of his
sovereign.
From the time his squadron an
chored, Prince Louis has been kept
busy receiving and returning official
calls. He found time however. to re-
ceive this morning Il delegation of
New York reporters, who were cor
daily welcomed aboard his flagship
and to whom he talked quite freely of
his visit to this country
1T is just thirty-three years ago
that | came here as a midshipman.
Prince Louis remarked, reflectively
THAT the time l came here entirely
tor amusement. and / got it. l wish
to impress on you. first of all, that L
am here as an admiral in command
of this squadron. My name and my
personality are of secondary import
ance. 1 am moro proud of the uni
form l wear and W, flag l serve than
of anything else"
Prince Visits Mcclellan.
Later. accompanied by the Ameri-
can officers, the consul general and
Captain Ryan, naval attachee of the
British embassy at Washington, Prince
Louis visited the navy yard. The
Prince then returned to Manhattan
and paid his respects to Mayor Nc
Clellan at the City Hall.
Mayor Mcclellan was most cordial
i'm his welcome, and Prince Louis and
the mayor sat for some time chat
ting. A rousing cheer came on his
way to Govern>A Island where he
called officially on Brigadier General
Grant and was received with mill
ldr honOrS.
As night fell the lines of the ships
faued from sight. but about o'clock
the watchers on the river banks saw
SIX British cruisers and the eight
battleships of the American first
squadron suddenly flash into view,
their outlines marked by strings of
electric lights. Searchlights played
upon the American and British flags
with silvery radiance.
Crowds watched the beautiful pic
ture and cheered Admiral Prince
Louis in his barge came alongside
the boat landing and the Prince en-
tered waiting carriage which took
him to the Waldorf-Astoria, where
he was the guest at the annual dinner
of the association of British societies.
rhe health of the President and the
King were drunk amid great enthus
iasm.