Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-13
NO LAPS ON WARSH|PS
Places of Mikado's Men on Iron
 clads Taken by Negroes.
READY FOR START TO PACIFIC
President Roosevelt Will Figure Con spicuousIy In the Dispatch of the Greatest Collection of Sea Fighters Ever Sent on a Peace Mission.

spicuousIy In the Dispatch of the
 Greatest Collection of Sea Fighters
 Ever Sent on a Peace Mission.
 Fort Monroe, Va. Dec. 13-Sitting
 in his cabin on the battleship Connec-
 ticut, with his gentle wife opposite en-
 gagged in the anything but warlike
 occupation of crocheting shawl of
 pink worsted, "Fighting Bob" Evans,
 in command of the sixteen warships
 sion' next Monday, received the report
 "All ready" from Rear Admirals Elm
 ory, Thomas and Sperry, commanding
 three of the four divisions of his fleet. | A bad cold has confined the fighting | admiral to his cabin for couple of | days, during which he has alternately held the pink worsted and issued the
 multifariOus orders necessary in the
 preparations for departure. With Lieu
 tenant Commander Chanler, his flag secretary, as his mouthpiece, Rear Ad- mira Evans has directed the work of getting things in shipshape for the start when President Roosevelt will come down on his yacht, the Mayfow- CT, to give the signal
 All on Board Sunday Night.
 The president will figure conspicu- ousy in the dispatch of the greatest war fleet ever sent on peace mis- SinnN ntrr except when an obnoxious nation was to be shot out of the water. As mat ter of fact, the president will be the whole thing. He will be the only off cia! connected with the expedition who will return to shore.
 When the taps sound Sunday night every officer and man among the H. 300 who will sail with the battleship fleet will be on board and will not step foot ashore again until the war yes sels reach Port of Spain, on the Brit ish island of Trinidad, the day after Christmas, as they are scheduled and if there be no mishaps. The presidents yacht. bearing six small peace" guns, " III III lHS Ccuttl Ol lut lllc cc mile semicircle of warshps. Every fighting tar and marine, in his best Sunday clothes, will man the yards and rails of the warships as the presi- dential yacht passes to it's station.
 To Call on President.
 As soon as the Mayflower has an rhored Rear Admiras Evans, Thom- as. Emory and Sperry. accompanied by their staff officers. will put off from their respective ships and go aboard her to pay their respects to the con- nander in chief of not only battleships, torpedo boats, submarines, aneous descriptions, but the army, he lighthouse board, the American In- Han and the Republican party as well. { The president and his guests will I zee his heavyweight fighting men in heir best uniforms with the heaviest : ,old braid ever loaded on to any uni T orm outside of a Weber and Fields how. When the reception is over and fter the president has instructed c Fighting Bob" when. where and how | o use the 35.oOO.n0O pounds of ammu- s iton most effectively in the promo I ion of peace the fleet will get under | vay. n
 To Fire 336 Guns. c The Mayfiower will lead the way through the roads toward the open ca. Then she will fall back. and the I mighty fighting ships will sweep past r CT with every officer at his station Il nd every man jack of sailor and d larine lined above. under. on either II ide and behind the great guns.
 AS each ship passes the Mayfower Is blank cartridge crews will fire wenty-One guns in acknowledgment ." the presence of the commander in a hief. AS there are sixteen distinct D lutes. the fleet will fire 336 rounds h blanks.
 The president will watch the fleet cam away and clear the Virginia u 'pes. and then the Mayfower will n roceed to Washington. With the final all complete and only S waiting the signal from the president Il depart Rear Admiral Evans and C le other officers and all the men had Ither an easy time of it. The Con- ecticut, the flagship of the fighting imiral was given a fresh coat of il 'arl white paint. which our battle lips wear in piping times of peace. th
 Negroes Take Place of Japs. According to the report of petty off, io ITS on shore leave. when the fleet g Ills out for the Pacific there will not Japanese cook or servant on any n.
 the ironclads. Their places have af en filled by negroes. The Japs. 1t is Ri i'd. have been separated from the tr ct by steady process of elimination Pl hich has been going on for some time - der the direction of the various com lnders.
 ont Let Divoreee Wed In His Church New York. Dec. 13.-The Rev. Dr. iiIiam R Huuffn1fou nf Eraaa