The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-15
BIG SHIPS WEATHER
THE RAGING STORM
CONTINUED From First Pasc.)


as is the godspeed which they give
us on our departure. and that
should our ommunder-in-chief
then decide 10 send us to the other
hemisphere that the same warm in
tercst will FOLLOW there In the
future as it has always In the
past"
May Circle tho Globe.
j; has bene repeatedly rumored that
the neet might eventually circle the
globe.
a conference Of the ordnance officers
of the various ships was called on the
Connecticut o-day by Lieutenant-Com
mander Ridley Mclean, tho fleet ord
nance officer. but it was postponed un-
I'll tomorrow on account OF the storm.
With each ship carrying the greatest
amount of explosives ever stored under
the American flag the ordnance officers
hold position of peculiar RESPONSE
bility.
Being III cruising trim, with every
thing above decks snug and tight, the
feet did not feel the stiff southeastern
which swept the coast line last night
and turned the usually placid anchorage
ground into a choppy sea.
Toward noon the wind Stacked and
veered. and the fleet suddenly was lost
to view In Il binding fog. After an
hour or TWO the fog lifted as suddenly
as it fell, and the fleet. bursting into
View, made u magnificent marine spec
tacle.
Wins Fleet Championship.
This afternoon the football team
from the Kansas won the champions
ship of the fleet by defeating the Yer
-,
kansas getting u field goal and Ner-
mont safety in the first half. The
game was played on a rainsoaked turf
Commissioned officers. veterans of An
napolis teams. played with the enlisted
men on botl, eleveus. Other officer:
led the cheering from the blue Jacket:
gand marines of the opposing ships
Bands, goat mascots, tiuttering flags
tin horns and cheering, with subsc
quent parades by victors and van
i.quisiied made the afternoon gay. nd
miral Evans was at the Hotel Cham
| berlin When the sailors returned from
| tie game. they stopped and cheere'
| him, and then the Vermont sailor
/ clieered the champions OF the Kunsa
| and We're in turn cheered By the vic
tors. They all boarded the ships to
night happy and ready for the llar,
cruise that is before them.
/ Sunday viii be o day of farewell
partings at Old Point Tho families Q
many of the officers who so ont in til
/ fleet are here. and the last visit ushor
by the officers viii be made Sunda
night,
4 Review by PRESIDENT.
! Monday morning the flag and lin
/ officers Will go to the Mayilower to b
received by the President, and follow
Ling this feature OF the program OF de
tparture the officers will return to thei
ships, which at 10 o'clock will got I'm
der way, The Naynower, leading wi
! iayto OF the tail of the Horseshoe. an
lit will b. at this point In lower Ches
iapeake Bay that the President will nc
y view the fleet as the vessels pass |
\ single file. proceeding at the rate {
/ ten knots an hour, led by Rear Admir-;
1 Eyans's flagship, the Connecticut.
The signal to get under way will /
flown frpm the towering Yards OF II,
flagship Connecticut shortly before
O'Clock. and the ships will pass outsit
the Virginia capes. turn their prows
the south aud lay a course through Il
eastern end of the West Indies to Tril
dad, the first scheduled stopping plac
II will be the object of Kcar-Adnlir
Evans and the officers and the me
cruising in the wake of his donbl
starred flag to bring out on their l4,0o
mile Journey all the information Il
Navy Department and the President d
sire In sending them--~to show wh
some OF the needs Of the navy ura al
10 enable the authorities tof'provi,
FOR them,
VIII Not Visit ships.
81. n
fleet that President Roosevelt will n
visit any of the vessels on AIonda
. He would find the navy at ita We
best. When tho Mayflower s,ean,s in
, the midst OF the anchored fleet
: Monday1 morning lust after S cello.
she Will be saluted from every sic
and viii find every ship dressed
~ lts ga9est array, Of bunting. AS so