Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-29
Getting Ready to Welcome
Louis Of Battenberg.
COMING TO THIS CITY
BRITISH SHIPS TO REACH AN
NAPoLIs NOVEMBER /.
After Remaining for Seven or Eight
Days They viii Sail for New York
Big Time for the Tackles.

By direction OF the President the State
and Navy Departments have at last begun
the preparation of plans for the reception
In this country OF his serene highness
Prince Louis OF Battenberg The British
ambassador. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand
following up a notice sent to the State De-
partment by Mr.. O'Beirne, the British
charge. May 8 last that the squadron
would be at Annapolis under Prince Louis
command early in November, has now sup
piled the State Department with revised
list OF the staff of the prince and of the
captains of the ships.of the second cruiser
squadron who will accompany the rear adj
miral on his forthcoming visit to Washing
ton. The staff consists of Flag Captain
Mark E. F. Kerr member of the fourth and
fifth classes OF the Victorian Order; Flag
Lieutenant Gerald Sowerby, Secretary Ed
ward F. shearme. and Engineer-Command-
er William F. Pamphlet.
The captains Of the ships of the second
cruiser squadron are: Charles H. Robertson
of HIM. 8. Cornwall, companion st. Mi,
chael and st. George and member of the
Victorian Order; Richard B. Farquhar of
the II. M. 8. Essex; Richard H. Peirse of
H. NJ. s. Bedford, member Victorian Order;
Charles H. Dare of the H. M. s. Berwick
member Victorian Order; Herbert G. King
Hall of H. NJ. s. Cumberland Distinguished
Service Order.
Arrival at Annapolis.
The English squadron under the command
of Prince Louis of Battenberg will, ac-
cording to the present plans, arrive at An
napolis November /, remaining there until
the 7th, or Sth. when it will sail for New
York, arriving there the 9th. and remaining
in New York until November IT, when the
squadron will sail for Gibraltar, where it is
to be on November % During the time
of the stay of the squadron at Annapolis
probably on the I'd or 3d. the prince will
President.
Welcome at New York.
In appreciation of the courteses extended
them in England and Gibraltar, the crews
of the vessels of the first squadron, North
Atlantic feet, as already noted in The
Star, are making arrangements to give the
bluejackets of the British Atlantic fleet the
time of their lives when they arrive at
New York. 1t has been decided to enter
tain the Britishers at a great banquet,
smoker and theater party, and the visitors
VIII also be taken In tow by American
buejackets. and shown the sights of the
city. A committee, made up of B. Schu-
macher, chief quartermaster of the II. S.
s. Maine; G. H Samson, chief turret cap
tain of the Massachusetts, and j. P. LOTUS,
boatswain's mate, first class, of the Mis-
souri,, has at its disposal a considerable
sum, raised by subscription among the sea-
men, which is to be spent for the enter
tainmentz of the visitors
The British squadron will be escorted by
the first squadron of the North Atlantic
fleet, under command of Rear Admiral Rob-
ley D. Evans. Prince Louis of Battenberg
will sail upon his flagship, the Drake and
following will come the Essex, the Corn
wall and the Berwick. The ships of our
navy which make up the first squadron of
the North Atlantic fleet are the flagship
Maine. the Missouri the Kentucky, the
Kearsarge the Alabama the Illinois, the
Iowa and the Massachusetts.