The Red Cloud chief., 1906-09-07
BIG NAVAL REVIEW
MORE WARsHIPS THAN EVER BE.
FORE ASSEMBLED OFF COAST.
Ships Of All Sizes and Character Pres
ent When President Passes Through
Fleet on the Maytower-Proionsed
Boom for Roosevelt.

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oyster Bay. N. Y, Sept. A salute
OF twenty-one guns, fred simultane-
ously by every fighting craft in a
mighty fleet of two score warships.
greeted President Roosevelt when he
stepped on board the naval yacht May.
flower to review what is believed to
be the largest war fleet ever assem-
bled in American waters. When the
president stepped on board the May
flower the great feet lay in three col
umns, each about two miles in length.
with battleships and monitors in the
center column, the cruisers and sew
eral other battleships in the off-shore
column and a long line of torpedo
boat destroyers outstretched between
the remainder of the feet and the
shore. Encircling the entire feet was
a Gordon OF cutters, making a picket
line for the exclusion of the excursion
boats.
A large number of guests of the
board the Doliphan. Followed by the
cruiser Des Moines. which was de-
voted to the service of the foreign
naval attaches, and by the Dolphin,
the Mayfower proceeded out of Oyster
Bay to where the battleship Maine,
with Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans
on board, lay in tie central position at
the head of the fleet.
The Dolphin and Des Moines took
up their positions respectively at the
head of the third and first columns
and the Mayfower passed down be.
tween the long lines of w~arships
while the roar of the presidents sa-
lutte of twenty-one guns each burst
from the three-inch guns of each war.
ship a the Mayfower swept majestic.
ally past. Each ship in turn, with
sailors manning its yards, sounded its
tribute of honor to the commandment.
chief as the yacht passed up and
down through the two lanes made by
the formation of the fleet, and then
having circled entirely about the feet,
anchored az the position of honor at
the head of the central column.
There was a ship OF war for every
state, forty-fiye in all, ranging in size
from the big $1,000 ton Louisiana,
just completed, to the fleets little tor
pedo boats and the submarines, and
including n troopship and GOLFERS
AS the Mayiower dropped her an
Choir at the head of the feet on the
completion of the review, the presi
dent descended from the bridge, his
face wreathed in smiles and enthusiasts
tically throwing his arms around the
shoulders of a group of senators and
representatives, exclaimed:
ANY man who fails to be inspired
periodically by such a sight as this
is a mighty poor American, and every
American who has seen it ought to be
q better American for it,"
The sentiment was echoed enthusl.
astically by the group around the
president.
And you, gentlemen" he said, ad-
dressing ne naval committee, "aie
responsible for It.. 1t is your handi.
work and it has all been done within
the last ten years. Every one of these
ships is a fighter and ready to go into
action at a moments notice. Again
appropriations for the target practice,
for there Is where the American navy
excels. Our men can shoot and shoot
straight, and therein lies our nayal
strength and orr Sun0riOritvn