The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-27

| which have been assigned as station
| ships and will remain here until the
close of the fair, the last of November.
There were thirty-eight American
ships in today's review. The foreign
| ships numbered twelve, typical mod
ern fighting craft, and furnished pic
| turesGue and striking contrast as be-
tween the foreign built cruiser and
the products IF the American ship
and navy yards.
| All Of the vessels of the combined
| fleets were dressed" in the fiuttering
! flags of the nations and the brilliant
! hued pennants and bits of bunting
which form the international signal
code.
| During the salutes to the president
the white puffs of powder smoke
| fioated away like tiny fiecks of sum-
mer clouds amid the fluttering flags
of the decorated ships, the effect
! being one of unexpected beauty.
British Squadron.
| AS representatives of the greatest
naval power of the world, the British
! cruiser squadron commanded by Ad-
miral Sir George Neville and consist
| ing of the armOred cruisers Good
Hope, Argyll. Hampshire and Rox-
| burgh, attracted a large share of at
with the strength and striking power
of a battleship combined with a speed
of twenty-three knots and of horse
power a score of thousands, served as
Admiral NeVille's flagship. Her ton
mage, 14,1OO tons, is equal to that OF
more than one-half of the Americas
ships, but it is not as great as that
of the new type of American armOred
cruiser presented by the Washington
and the Tennessee in today's fleet,
each registering 1880 tons. Tn0
Good Hope, together with the German
imperial flagship, Room, an armored
cruiser lighter than the British boats,
but built much along the same lines,
four tunnels and two military masts
being marking features of similarity,
were assigned berths to the right and
the left OF the Connecticut, the big
sixteen thousand ton battleship to-
which Admiral Evans recently trans
ferred his flag of command. These
three fiagships formed a triangle
where the Mayf1Ower at the end of
the review dropped anchor.
The Room has on board Commodore
Carl Won Hof, commanding the Ger
man South Atlantic squadron. Cap
tain Won Rebeur PaSwitch, adjutant
of Emperor William, is also on board
as special representative of the en-
peror. The flag officer of the Austrian
squadron is Commodore Hermann
Plescott. The Austrian flagship
SanktgeOrg is 1000 tons lighter than
the Room. Dark of hull and tunnels,
she and most of the other foreign
ers might have been considered to-
day as one fleet but for the variance
of the flags at truck and stern. The
great assemblage of ships seemed
to be divided only in two classes, the
immaculate white of the American
vessels being in opposition to the
murky, gloomy darkness from across
the seas.
The Old Canonicus.
In the American fleet was repre-
sented almost every type of vessel
known to the navy of the country.
The stalwart 5000 TONER'S the Con
necticut, Louisiana and Virginia, had
to share honors with the almost for
gotten monitor Canonicus, a cheese
box herself and slightly improved
over her famous prototype. A relic !
of civil war days, the old Canonicus
has Just been fitted out at the Norfolk
navy yard at d cost of $4,000 to en- |
able her TO take a place alongside the |
proudest vessels of the navy, in which |
abe unit. Heavy coats of black paint !
do not altogether hide the scars OIL
the antiquated ship which will remain |
a permanent feature of the exposition |
The trim MayhOwer, bearing the |
president and Mrs. Roosevelt, Secre- |
tary Loeb and a few invited guests, |
approaching from the eastward, ar /
rived at the head of the column of |
war vessels this morning almost an !
hour before the usual call for quar- |
tiers sounds aboard man of war.
AS the MayfOwer approached with |
rainbow flags afiutter, the American |
flagship doomed out the first guns of |
the presidential salute. In a fash the |
other American warships and the for |
eign vessels had manned their can
non and roar of twenty-one guns |
fired from each vessel of the fleet |
sounded almost simultaneously.
Series of SaIutes.
The Mayfiower pointed her way I'D
the roads towards Norfolk. passing
along the outer line of foreign ships, |
CLOSE aboard" AS she cleared the
first of these, the visiting vessels
opened fire with a new series Of sa-
luteS repeated in turn by every bat
tleship and cruiser of the big fleet I
The MayflOwer's way had been kept |
clear for her since early morning by
the little steam guard launches sent /
out from the ships to do picket duty
Darling here and there like little 1
flashes OF lightning with shrill Whistles
screening "a warning to trespassing
craft, the little police of the Roads /
were unique and interesting feature
of the trip. Each ship manned the
rails as the president passed in re-
view. The crews were drawn up in
close order along the forward and L
quarter decks and elevations of the
superstructure and stood at attention Il
as the Maytiower skirted each line. Il
The first of the British ships en-
countered was the ROXburgh, then the l.
Hampshire and next the Argyll All L
three are sister ships, the four-piped
flyers forming with their flagship, the b
Good Hope, one of the many brilliant
cruiser-squadrOns of the English navy /