The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-31
INTO HAVEN OF
 BAY FROM STORM Presidents Last Hours on Water
 Were GStoIny ENORMOUS SEAS RUNNING Plan to Tranship the President From
 the West Virginia to the Dolphin Had to Be Abandoned.
ENORMOUS SEAS RUNNING

Norfolk, Va, October 3o.--After fighting a northeast gale up the coast for "A hours. the fierceness of the wind and sea causing a wide divergence from the usual route, the armoured cruiser West Virginia bear ing President Roosevelt from New Or leans, passed in Cape Henry tonight, con- veyed by the armoured cruiser Maryland, Pennsylvania and Colorado.
 Owing to the ehoppy sea that prevails off Cape Henry and on Lynn Haven Inlet the plan to tranship President Roosevelt from the West Virginia to the dispatch boat Dolphin for the remainder of his journey to Washington was abandoned long before the squadron reached the capes Early in the afternoon Admiral Brownson communicated with the Cape Henry station by wireless and instructed that a pilot of the Maryland waters be ready to board the West viringia off the cape at o'clock.
 Searchlights Are Seen.
 The admiral expected his squadron would reach the entrance to the Chesa- peake by that time, but the heavy wind and sea prevented the vessels from com. ing in until half past g. Then it was dflnOunceu by WlTeleSS llhl lue IltSlucil would transfer to the Dolphin off Smith S Point at the mouth of the Potomac river The Dolphin had started up the bay for this point several hours before. About half past o'clock the searchlights of the approaching warships could be seen on the horizon from the Cape Henry obser- vation station, an hour later the outlines of the cruisers were dscernible.
 All four were in column, but during the If..r fTxI bad been separated from the other ships In the storm and efforts to reach here by wireless were unsuccessful for some time. No stop was made at Cape Henry. The vessels passed into the bay and took the bay channel which runs to the north from the course into Hampton Road. All during the day the West Virginia had been in communication with the Cape Henry station, about forty messages be- ing exchanged. Some of these were off cial dispatches in cipher. other personal messages to the President and officers of the squadron, while others directed the movements of the Dolphin and made ar engagements for the change In the pro- gramme of the Presidents transfer.
 Voyage Was Very Rough.
 The voyage of the squadron from the South Carolina coast to the capes was a rough one. The northeast gale pitched up a nasty sea and off Hatteras the waves were running dangerously high. but while no fears were entertained for vessels of the West Virginia class 1t was evidently deemed wiser to give the treach- erous shoals in that vicinity wide sweep and the cruisers went out to sea. This caused the delay of the Presidential squadron reaching the capes on schedule time.
 Some idea of the roughness of the wa ters around Cape Henry and the impracti- cabllity of the President transhipping is given by the fact that when a Mary land pilot was asked for by Admiral Brownson to take the West Virginia up the bay it was necessary for the pilot boat to go into the sheltered waters of Hampton Roads, 20 miles inland to pick up a pilot when there were pilots ashore at Cape Henry who could not get out to the boat.
 The wireless telegraph station at the Norfolk yard reported the receipt of message from the President to Governor Myron T. IIerrick of Ohio in which the President thanked Governor Herriek for message congratulating him upon his es- cape from injury in the collision when he was leaving New Orleans The mes sage from the President to Governor Her rick said:
 Many thanks. I warmly reeiprocate your good wishes
 Will Reach Home Today.
 Washington. October H--President