The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-27

] President, as commander-in-ch chief, dotted
| his hat in acknowledgment of each thun-
/ dernus salute which marked the progress
! Of The review.
Not the least impressed of those who
witnessed this inaugural ceremony OF
| the opening of the exposition were the
military and naval officers of the thir-
ty"seVen Of the nations of the world
! The ambassadors and Ministers of all
. these nations were also among those
/ who gazed upon the beautiful naval
/ show. The foreign diplomatists and Of
/ fcers were on board the steamer New
port News. which brought them down
! from Washington last night, and which
was given position Of vantage over
! the hundreds of excursion steamers and
pleasure craft of every imaginable de-
scription which formed frame about
| the background of assembled vessels.
! None of the pleasure or excursion craft
were allowed to cross before the war
vessels on the east, thus assuring those
at the exposition grounds an unoo-
stucted view of the impressive cere.
monies pictured as in miniature several
thousands of yards away in the blue
waters Of the roadstead.
Mighty Display of Strength.
Back of the first line of foreign YES
sells was ranged the mightiest column
~
the nation has ever known. Stretching
away in curving line up the broad
channelway, from the Government pier
off Old Point Comfort, sixteen mighty
fortresses of the sea. wide-hulled squat
and heavy. the backbone of the AmeTi. :.
can navy, fttIngly formed the center or
the feet arranged for the days review,
In third line-and all but hidden
from the shore by the bulk of the heavy
battleships-were tnr cruisers and spec
ter line torpedo craft attached TO the
American squadrons. Clustered far In"
shore, toward the exposition water
front, were the several naval vessels
which have been assigned as station
ships and will remain here until the
close of the fair, the last of November.
There was thirty eight American
ships in today $ review. The foreign
ships numbered twelve typical modern
fighting craft and furnished pictur-
esque and striking contrast as between
the foreign built cruisers and the prod
ucts of American ship and navy yards.
All Of the vessels of the combined
fleets were "dressed' in the flags of
the nations and the brilliant-hued pen
nants and bunting which form the inter
national signal code. During the sa-
lutes to the President the white puffs
Of powder smoke foated away like tiny
flecks of summer clouds amid the slut
tering flags of the decorated ships, the
effect being one of unexpected beauty.
Britain Well Represented.
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 RoXburgh, Mt
tracted large share of attention. The
Cnnl Hon, unGSc1 with Tho CT noftb
and striking power OF battleshlp com
bined with a speed of twentythree knots,
and OF horsepower a score of thousands,
serves as Admiral Neville's flagship.
Her tonnage, l4,l00, is equal to that
of more than one-half of the American
ships, but Is not so great as that Of the
new type Of American cruiser repre-
scnted by the Washington and Tennes-
see in today's fleet, each registering
1880 tons The 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 mill
tary masts being the striking features
of similarity, were assigned bcrths to
the big l6,000"ton battleship, TO which
Rear Admiral Evans recently trans"
ferred his flag of command. These
three fagships formed triangle, where
the Mayhower, at the review, dropped
anchor, The Room has on board Com
modore Carlo Won Hoff, commanding the
German South Atlantic squadron. Capt,
Won Rebeur Paswitch, adiutant of En-
peror William, is also aboard as spc-
cisl representative of the Emperor. The
flag officer of the Austrian squadron is
Commodore Hermann Plescott The
Austrian flagship Sankt Georg is 1000
tons lighter than the Room. Dark of
hull and tunnels, she and most of the
other foreigners might have been con-
sidered today rs one fleet, but for the
variance of the flags at truck and stern.
The great asscmblage Of ships seemed
to be divided only in the classes--the
immaculate white of the American YES
sells being in opposition TO the murky,
gloomy darkness of the visitors from
across the seas.
President Arrived Early.
The trim Mayhowcr, bearing the
President and Mrs Roosevelt, Secretary
Loeb and "A few invited guests, APP
preaching from the eastward, arrived at
the head Of the column of war vessels
this morning almost m hour before the
usual call for quarters is sounded aboard
a man-of.war. AS the Mayflower ap-
preached with rainbow flags a-hutter,
the American flagship doomed out the
iii ST guns of the Presidential salute. In
a flash the American ships and the for
cign vessels had manned their cannon
anc n roar of twenty-one guns fired from
each vessel of the fleet sounded almost
simultaneously.
I he Maylower pointed her way up
ire roads toward 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 salutes, repeated in turn by
every battleship and cruiser Of the big
feet.
The Mayiower's IS 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. Dart
ing here and there like flashes of light
ming, with shrill whistle screochinr n
warning TO trcspassing craft, the little
policemen of the roads were a unique
and interesting feature of the pageant.
Each of the foreign and American
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