The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-24

non from the Connecticut, tho flagship
of Rear-Admiral Evans, commanding '"e
Atlantic fleet.
Headed by Connecticut.
All the American vessels now at an
chor belong to the Atlantlc meet. Ihers
are probably twenty-five battleships and
cruisers in the line, which is headed
by the Connecticut, just of the Gov,
eminent pier at Fortress Monroe, and
which trails away almost to the van
ishing point up the broad channelway
leading to Norfolk.
The fleet has been arranged so as to
give the visitors to the exposition the
best possible opportunity for viewing
the fighting strength OF the American
navy.
Practically every typo of lighting
craft in the American navy is repre-
sented in the positions. Battleships
range from the 16,000-ton monsters of
the Connecticut and Louisiana class
the forerunners of the Dreadnaught
about to be added to the navy-down
to the all but abandoned old Texas the
oldest American battleship, and sister
of the Maine. which was wrecked in
Havana harbor. The Texas was built
at the Norfolk navy yard many years
ago and. being a local product, is to
remain at the exposition as a pcrma-
nent feature of the naval exhibit With
her eight guns and paltry 6.3l5 tons of
weight, the Texas, when ranged along
side the mammoth Connecticut, which
mounts twenty-fou1r guns. and displ,aecs
5000 tons OF water, offers q striking
example of the progress of the Ameri-
can navy since the days when the Texas
and the first Maine were authorized
by Congress.
Many Modem Craft.
The cruisers of the feet are all mod
ern craft, though the variance III size
between the largest and the smallest is
as great as that which marks the
heavier vessels Of the battleship class,
The armored cruisers Tennessee and
Washington, each Of 14,500 tons and
mounting twenty guns each, are the
heaviest of the cruisers. They can hurl
weight of metal almost equal to the
frst-class battleships. while they pos
sess the feetness of tho ocean grey
Denver and the Cleveland, of 800 tons
each-the third class of the protected
vessels of the navy. In the cruiser class
the most interesting vessel is perhaps
the Brooklyn, the flagship of RearAd-
miral Schley in the battle off Santiago.
The English naval squadron, under the
command of Rear-Admiral Neville, is
expected in Hampton Roads either TO-
morrow or Thursday. There will be four
armored cruisers in the squadron, q
homogeneous set of graycoated fighters,
built along the fleet lines of all the
modern English vessels. The flagship
will be the Good Hope and the com.
panion ships will be the Argyll, Hamp-
shire and RoXburgh.
Austrian Vessels Coming.
The Austrian vessels, the srmored
cruiser Aspern, VIII arrive either late
Thursday evening or early Friday
morning. II is hoped they will be here
IN time for the opening ceremonies,
The vessels of the navies Of the world
will arrive on dates yet to be fixed.
The Japanese squadron is expected
May S.
President Roosevelt will review the
American feet and the visiting for
eiguers from the bridge of the May
flower, on Friday morning, before he
lands on the exposition grounds. The
foreign vessels will be given positions
of honor inside the long. sweeping cir
Gle of American ships during their STAY
Fifteen hundred blue jackets will be
landed from the American vessels 10
take part in the military and naval pa
rade Friday afternoon. which will be
reviewed by the President from the
grand stand erected on the exposition IS
plaza, known as Lee S parade. The for
elgn vessels IN port at that time viii
be invited TO land parties, and If they
consent to do so their fo1ceS Will be
given the right of line.