The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-05-08
SPECTACULAR MARINE PAGEANT OF ALL NATIONS AT MORT
In Spotless' Array Uncle Sans Great Armada Awaits
. in HAMPTON Roads the Foreign Guests Of the
Jamestown Ter-Centennial Exposition.

The British fleet will consist Of four
armed cruisers-the Good Hope, Ar
gyll, Hampshire and Roxbourg, I'M
der the command Of a Rear-Admiral.
The German fleet will consist Of the
armored cruiser Room and the pro-
tected cruiser Bremen, under the
command Of a Commodore.
The Austrian ships will consist of
the armored cruiser Sankt Georg and
the protected cruiser Aspern, under
the command of a Commodore, who
will be promoted to be a Rear-Ad-
miral. ...'
The Brazilian feet, under a Rear
Admiral, consists of the battleship
Riachuelo, the cruiser Barroso and
the gun vessel Tamoyo. The Brazil
ian feet will be the only foreign n
containing a b~attleship.
The Argentine Republic wilg send
the training ship Presidente Sarmien-
to under the command of a comman-
der.
The Japanese fleet, in command of
a Vice-Admiral, will consist of the ar
mored cruiser Trukuba and the pro-
tected cruiser Chitoso.
1t is noticeable that while Japan
| sends some Of her finest warships to
represent her navy, and one Of her
foremost generals, the Russian Gov
| eminent will not be represented by a
| single ship, MOI is 1t known that any
officer of her army will come here.
The other foreign countries to be
| REPRESENTED will be France, Italy,
Chile and Portugal.
Italy will send two vessels in COM
mand of a captain, the armored cruis-
er Varese and the protected cruiser
| Etruria. Chile will send the protect
I ed cruiser Ministro Zentene under the
command of a captain, while Portu-
gal will send a protected cruiser,
! probably the Don Carlos. Spain has
not signifed her intentions OF send
| ing any war vessels.
The entertainment committee of
the fleet is now arranging a water
| carnival. Each vessel Of the great
! fleet has been asked to provide a
| float for the occasion. The pageant
| will be on some evening yet to be de-
termined. Several ships have al
ready decided on the floats they will
| send. Three will send three of their
cutters to representthe three old-time
craft which brought the Pilgrims to
| jamestown.
Another float will represent the
| Great Harry, a renowned ship OF war
| of that period, and on the request OF
| the Admiral the Navy Department is
now searching the archives to know
lust what the vessel was like. Then
there will be pirate ships, gondolas, a
float showing Neptune and his trl-
dent and much else besides. During
the carnival the ships will be illum-
mated, and there will be a hundred
ssarchlights playing yer the brilliant
scene.
Aside, from such diversions the
strong armada will have little to DO
in the waiting days. The ships long
ago completed their toilets and are so
spic and span they hurt the eye. No
where is there an atoning blemlsh.
It is all spotless buff and white,
touched off here and there with the
CLINT of polished steel and the SHIN
mer of shining brass.
From the flagship definite an
nouncement came that the feet Will
.disperse on May Is. Two divisions
will then go to sea for manoeuvring
purposes, one division will go to navy
Yards for such minor repairs as may
be needed, and n division will re-
main here until relieved by one OF the
divisions coming in from manoeuVres
The four divisions, sixteen battleships
in all, are to ~reassemble here on June
10, set apart as Georgia Day, when
there will be a celebration in n
of the birthday of the mother of Pres
ident Roosevelt. &c.,
AS the foreign ships arrive they
are officially welcomed by a boom OF
cannon from the Connecticut, the
flagship of Rear-Admiral Robley d.
evans, commanding the Atlantic
fleet. All the American vessels now
at anchor belong to this fleet.
The unique feature of the Exposl-
tion will he the harbor for small craft,
with an area of 100000 square
feet, inclosed by piers, costing the
United States Government 100000.