The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-04
GREATEST NAVAL REVIEW
 IN HISTORY OF COUNTRY
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT GREET ED BY LAUNDERING SALUTE
 OF 173 GUNS.

Imposing Spectacle Presented by the
 Most Powerful Aggregation of War
 ships Ever Assembled Under the
 American FIag-Course of the Presi-
 dents Yacht MayfOwer in Passing
 of Persons on the HeadIands and fin
 Small Craft.
 Oyster Bay, Sept, 3.-Amid the suc- cessive reverberations of eactly 173 six pounder salutes, the blare of twelve crack navy bands amid sights and sounds that will not fade from mem ory, President Roosevelt at il o'clock this morning, standing on the deck of the dispatch boat Mayf1ower, reviewed the Atlantic fleet under command of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, the most powerful, most formidable aggre- gation of sea-fghters ever assembled in the waters of the Western Hemi- sphere, with few exceptions, most all &llOIQ6u lDY lllE DIlllSIl IlStRys L44V AA1O9I powerful fleet of modern times.
 After President Roosevelt boarded the Mayflower, no time was lost in weighing anchor. At 10:45 o'clock the yacht proceeded out towards the fleet. The grim battleship Maine, lying at the head of the first squadron, took cognizance of the approach of the dis patch boat in characteristic manner. From snow-white sponsor shot long, lance-like line of flame, blood red, embedded in tumbling, angry clouds of smoke. A boom rolled over the waters the other battleships an- sweEed gun for gun, until the green Long Island hills seemed to rock in rhythm to the blasts. It was the near est apprach to the semblance of naval battle that will ever be seen in Amer jean waters, perhaps. It was splendid, but 1t was not war.
 On went the Mayflower, passing the Sylph, on which were Mrs. Roosevelt, her children, andsa number of relatives and friends; on past the cruiser Des Moines, the other reviewing craft, bear ing naval attaches and members of diplomatic corps representing every important, and almost important, na- tion of the world, who will have inter- esting, if lengthy, reports to transmit ito their various chiefs.
 As the Mayflower passed clear, the Des Moines fell in astern, and, follow ing the presidents boat beyond the tor pedo boat destroyer Whipple, both boats turned to the southward, passing between the head of the torpedo boat column and the Ibattleship Maine, rain bowed with bunting-a prize-fghter in cap and bells, as 1t were But the lighting leviathan belied her frivolous appearance in broadsides of smoke and flame, as the president and diplomats passed, saluting with twenty-one guns By the time the salute was drawing to Its last few rounds the Mayfower was abreast the Missouri, which took up the gunpowder chorus. Then in succession, under quarter steam, the two review ing craft passed the Kentucky, Rear sarge, Louisiana, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Virginia, and the monitors Puritan, Nevada, Florida and Arkan- sas. Thence along the western extrem- aty of the fleet to the north side of the second squadron, passing suceessively the Denver. the Cleveland the Tacoma, Minneapolis, Maryland Colorado, Pennsylvania West Virginia, Iowa, In- diana, Illinois. Passing these, the May flower and Des Moines skirted the western extremity, and reviewed the torpedo boats Blakely, Stockton, Rod gers, Tingey, Wilkes, Marlborough, Lawrence, Hopkins, Truxtun, Worden, and Whipple, after which they turned in between the first and second squad rons and anchored, the Mayt1oWer on the line of the first squadron, 800 yards from the battleship Maine, the Des Moines further south.
 The fleet consists of three squadrons of two divisions each, two torpedo boat f1otillas, submarines, troopship and hve auxiliaries. The entire column repre- sents the heaviest tonnage and fighting capacity of the fleet This column Is headed by the Maine, the flagship of Admiral Evans. Directly astern is her sister ship, the Missouri, then the two 12,0OO-ton battleships Kentucky and Kearsage, next the Teton Louisiana, just completed, succeeded by the l494S- ton Rhode Island, New Jersey and Vlr- ginia. The column is completed by the -four monitors, Puritan Nevada, Flori- da and Arkansas.
 Boarding the Mayfower about 1O:SO o'clock, President Roosevelt reached the head of the column a half hour later When the Mayfiower came with an signalling distance of the Maine a tremendous salute of twenty-one guns in unison. every ship participating, was fired. When the Mayflower swung around the stern of the cruiser Den Ter, the last ship in the third column she passed the cruisers Cleveland, Ia coma and Minneapolis, &rmored eruls- CTS Maryland, Colorado, PennsylVania and West Virginia, and the battleshlps Iowa, Indiana, Illinois and Alabama The Mayfower next steamed to the shore side of the first column anc down its length This column is com posed entirely of the two torpedo boa f1otillas, the Whipple, WOrden, TruX- tun Hopkins, Lawrence, Macdonough Wilkes, Tingey, Rodgers, Stockton Blakely and DeLong.
 To complete the cruise of the May flower between and around the entire fleet, the course lay between the secont and third column and this the May flower took, afterwards anchoring 60t yards ahead of the flagship Maine.
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