The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1907-10-03
WELCOMES
CRUISER SQUADRON
FOUR VESSELS JUST FROM THE
AsiATIc STATION ARRIVE
IN PORT.
Greeted by Big crowds-Rear Ad.
miraI Dayton Brings in Fighting
Ships That Have Made a Cruise of
$4,000 Miles.

San Francisco, Sept. 2S.-The first
division of the Pacific fleet, the fore
guard of the American navy which is
to assemble in Pacific, coast waters
Thursday or Friday, steamed through
the Golden Gate at sunrise Friday
morning.
The four armored cruisers passed
the heads in file formation, led by the
flagship West Virginia flying at her
masthead the two-starred flag of the
commander Of the fleet, Rear Admiral
James H. Dayton. Five hundred yards
to the rear came the Colorado, fol-
lowed at a like distance by the Mary
land, and that by the Pennsylvania.
The arrival of the four big sister
ships marked the end Of a 10000
mile cruise. which began at Newport,
R. l., last September.
Greeted by Big Crowds.
The squadron was sighted outside
the head at daybreak, steaming at
half speed out of a coast fog. By
bringing his ships to anchor off the
city front a few minutes before eight
o'clock Admiral Dayton fulfilled his
promise by wireless the night before
to ARRIVE some time in the early
forenoon" Thousands of people, an
%ticipating the event, were gathered
along the water front and on the hill
tops commanding a view of the bay.
Oblivious Of the fact that they could
not be distinguished from the decks,
they signalled a welcome to the huge
fighting machines by waving hats and
handkerchiefs, and as 1eecy puffs of
smoke rose and drifted from the
mouths of the ~six-pounder saluting
guns Of the West Virginia they
cheered.
Admiral Swinburne Calls.
Opposite North Beach the cruisers
slowed down to allow Chief Quaran.
tine Officer Bobby to come aboard.
In quick succession the West Virgi.
MIA, Colorado and Maryland submit
ted their health certificates and were
given clean bills and allowed to pro-
coed to their anchorages a mile fur
ther on, passing some of the other
cruisers of the fleet on the way. Ad-
miral Swinburne put off with his flag
ship, the cruiser Charleston, as soon
as the West Virginia moored. On
board the latter the yards were
manned and the band struck up a
lively air as Admiral Swinburne step.
ped onto the quarterback to greet the
commander-in-chief of the fleet.
At n o'clock in the afternoon a
joint committee of 100 men prominent
in political, business and social life
OF San Francisco and nearby cities
boarded the West Virginia to greet
and welcome Admiral Dayton and the
other officers of the fleet. United
States Senator Perkins made a brief
formal address Of welcome.
Two Out of Commission.
Vallejo, CAL, Sept. 28.-Orders were
received at the Mare Island nav
yard Friday morning. to place the
cruisers Cincinnati and Raleigh out
of commission. These vessels arrived
from the Asiatic station during the
past month and are in need of extern.
sive repairs. The crews will be trans
ferred to the cruiser California, which
is now short of men, and any surplus
will be received on the South Dakota
expected here from the Union Iron
Works to be commissioner. The St
Louis will come here for coal and
provisions and will rejoin the ships
now at San Francisco.