The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-04-27
Warships of Five Great Ma
tiOnS Welcome Chief EXecu-
tive of America.
MARVELLOUS DISPLAY OF
FIGHTING SEA POWER
Sharp Contrast Between For
eign and United States Yes
sells Especially Noted.

NORFOLK, Va, April 26.-rhe deep
throated guns of five great nations to-
day voiced a salute In unison to the
American flag and TO the President of
the United States. The reverberatlng
boom of the cannon sped laundering
and re-echoing over the waters of the
far-famed Hampton Roads, where nearly
half a century ago the Monitor and the
Merrmac met in the memorable conflict
which brought into beng the armored
cruiser. From the 'little Yankee
cheese box set up on raft and the
triangular mass of IRON which carried
the Confederate flag of 1862 TO the mod
ern fighting machines typiied by the
flower of the American navy gathered
in holiday assemblage today, is n far
Try. Yet many of those who stood on
the shore and witnessed the naval pa
geant in the roadstead vividly recalled
the historic date when the wind-rlppled
waters which formed the setting of this
greatest international rendezvous, of
war vessels OF recent years were splash
Ing with the shot and shell of the first
great battle of steel.clad ships.
President Reviews Pageant.
President Roosevelt. from the bridge
of tie trim little yacht cruiser May
flower, whose decks were the meeting
place of the peace plenipotentiaries of
Russia and Japan less than two years
ago. reviewed the great assemblage of
Aag-draped fighters gathered from the
corners of the world to make notable
opening day of the jamestown tercen-
tennial exposition commemoratIng the
three hundrcdth anniversary of the first
English settlement i'll America.
SteamIng down the long column of
dark-hull foreigners, the President
was greeted by each vessel in turn with
salute of twenty-one guns. The May
flower then turned down the lane of
American battleships and cruisers and
again the roar of salutlng cannon swept
across the waters. The new American
navy was in its infancy fourteen years
ago when the brilliant rendezvous of
1898 was held in Hampton Roads, To
day the magnificent Atlantic fleet, un-
der command of Rear Admiral Robley
D. Evans presented picture of i'm
Pressivc fighting strength notable In
the naval annals of the world
Foreign Vessels Honored.
The foreign vessels were given the
positions of honor IN a line stretching
nearest and parallel to the shores of
the exposition grounds. Frowning and
formidable in their dark drab coloring.
with tunnels as black as the smoke
which poured from their tops. the squad
rons sent by Great Britain, by Austria,
by Germany and by the Argentine Re.
public, loomed in deep-shaded relief
against the dazzling background of
American vessels whose glistening white
sides sparkled in the light rays from
the water and whose light buff super
structure and stacks lent q harmonious
setting to the many-hued flags floating
from mastheads and peaks, from fight
ing tops and flying trucks The foreign
vessels were suggestive of the Amer
lean ships during the days of the war
with Spain when the traditional and
exclusive dressing Of white gave way to
the sombre gray OF war apparel
American vessels at naval gatherings
abroad have always been an attractive
center of interest because of their grace
full lines and clean.eut appearance. To-
day, assembled in the full strength of
home protecting fleet, they made an i'm
preston which will live long in tho
memory of those who looked while the