The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-31


 Roosevelt has transferred to the United States dispatch boat Dolphin and aboard that vessel left Wolf Trap light on the last leg of his journey to Washington at 12:4O o'clock this morning. He Is scheduled to reach Washington today.
 Norfolk, Va, Oct. 30.--After fighting 2 northeast gale up the coast for twenty four hours, the fiereeness of the wind and sea causing a wide divergence from the usual route. the armored cruiser West Virginia. bearing President Roosevelt from New Orleans. passed in Cape Henry tonight, conveyed by the armored cruisers Maryland. Pennsylva- nia and Colorado.
 Owing to the choppy sea that prevails off Cape Henry and on Linn Haven In- let, the plan to tfans-ship President Roosevelt from the West Virginia to the dispatch boat Dolphin for the re- mainder of his journey to Washington was abandoned long before the squad- ron reached the cabes.
 Early in the afternoon Admiral Brown son communicated with the Cape Hem ry station by wireless and instructed that a pilot for the Maryland waters be ready to board the West Virginia off the cape at o'clock tonight. The Ad- miral expected that his squadron would reach the entrance to the Chesapeake by that time, But the heavy wind and sea prevented the vessels from coming in until half past nine. Then 1t was announced by wirelhss that the transfer to the Dolphin would be made off Smiths Point at the Potomac River. The Dolphin had started up the Bay for this point several hours before.
 Cruisers Come in Sight.
 About half past eight o'clock the searchlights of the approaching war ships could be, seen on the horizon from the Cape Henry observation station. and an hour later the outlines of the cruisers were discernible. All four were in column, but during the earlier part of the day the Colorado had been separated from the other ships in the storm and efforts to reach her by wire- less were unsuccessful for some time
 No time was lost at Cape Henry. The vessels put into the bay and took the bay channel. which rtns to the north from the course into Hampton Roads All during the day the West Virginia had been in communlcation with the Cape Henry station. 3bout forty mes- sages being exchanged. Some of these were official despatchss in cipher, oth- CTS personal messagesI to the President and officers of the squadron while oth- CTS directed the arrangements of the Dolphin and made chAnges in the pro- gram of the Presidents transfer.
 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 of Hatteras the waves were running dangerously high, but while no fears were enter tained for vessels of the West Virginia class, it was evidently deemed wiser to give the tremendous shoals in that aEv xrrt 11 Akw, owaI khA aru went out to sea. This caused the de- lay of the Presidential squadron reach- ing the capes on schedule time.
 Roushness If the Sea.
 Some idea of the, roughness of the waters around Cape Henry and the in- practicability of the President trans shipping there Is given by the fact that when a Maryland plot was asked for by Admiral Brownsoa to take the West Virginia up the bay 1t was necessary for the pilot boat to go into the shel- tered waters in Hampton Roads, twen- ty miles inland, to pick up a pilot, when there were pil)ts ashore at Cape Henry who could n2t get out to the boat. b..
 The wireless telegraph station at the Norfolk navy yard reported the receipt of message from President Roosevelt to Governor Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, in which the President thanked Cover nor Herrick for a message congratu- lating him on his escape from injury In the collision when he was leaving New Orleans. The message from the President to Governor Herrick said:
 Many thinks I warmly reciprocate your good wishes"
 The two battleshp divisions of the North Atlantic fleet, under command of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, sailed from Hampton Roads at o'clock this morning and at S:4D o'clock were re- ported by the United States weather observer at Cape Henry as they pro- ceeded up Chesapeake Bay for Annap- oils. where they go 10 prepare recep- tion to the British North Squadron, under command of Prince Louis of Bat tenburg. which are due at Annapolis In the next few days.
 The vessels which proceeded to An napolis were the battleships Kentucky, kearsage. Alabama, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Maine and Massachusetts and the gunboats Mayfiower and Yankton.