Cañon City record., 1908-08-20

INC Ao1JAhp Az l - <AAe' AS' AN
.-.: 4::c.-al Robley D. Evans
>-a--- ~-i,one 20 private life, after
EH~8a: Yeas 0: service in the
Gated S.a:eo navy. he having reached
~ ~: 81 G: years. friends and
~----:s o: Fighting Bob" gathered
,e.e last night to attend the elaborate
banquet arranged in his honor.
To the expressions Of love and ap-
probation from his friends and ad-
mirers, the words of esteem from those
men with whom he has been asso-
ciated in official capacity for so many
years and to the words of high re-
gard and commentator from Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and the expressions of
love from the rank and file Of the
navy, Admiral Evans responded in
characteristic fashion.
Regrets Retirement of Admiral Evans.
Mr.. Simmons said that the occasion
of the retirement of Rear Admiral Ev-
ans was to be deeply regretted. first
because OF the Ill health which COM
PEELED him to surrender the chief COM
mand of the greatest feet of battle
ships that has ever made a tour of the
world, and because the admiral's bril-
liant career terminates under the law
on his 62nd birthday and the navy
loses one of its most experienced Off
GERS at a time when in building up
the new navy, his professional SER
vices would be of inestimable value
1t was appropriate. Mr.. Simmons
said, That the retirement Of Rear Ad-
miral Evans should be celebrated in
the Temple of Peace" created by the
Mohonk Society of Peace years ago,
because, while Rear Admiral Evans
had justly won the title of Fighting
Bob Evans" he is an outspoken. in
sistent and persistent fighter for
peace. =
"Now that we have become a world
PV"CAp 6oiu tAC oPCohCA, anu Ao"
that our domestic affairs. as we'll as
our responsibilities In the Philippines.
at Panama, in Hawaii, in Cuba and
Porto Rico, subject us to constant dan
ger from over Jealous and ambitious
aggressions of great naval establish
ments in Europe as we'll as in the
Orient, it stands to reason that both
prudence and duty now demand that
we do precisely what our kinsmen in
the British isles long ago found abso-
lutely necessary to their self preser-
vation."
In conclusion Mr.. Simmons said:
I'VE welcome you, Admiral Evans,
to the shade of private life. We hope
your health will be speedily and per-
manently re-establishred. and we wish
for you and for your family all the
sweetest blessings of prosperity and
happiness"
Roosevelt Expresses Admiration fol-
"BOb.r
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 10.
my Dear Mr.. Simmons: l thank
you for your kind invitation. 1t is MOI
regret. Through you may I convey
to the guests assembled my cordia
sympathy with their purpose, and tt
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans. in par
ticular let me renew the assurance o
the high regard and esteem which hi
already knows I hold for him. Hi.
has been one of the most honorabl,
careers OF our public service. Al
good Americans owe him a debt o
gratitude. In a peculiar degree hi
name typifies the growth Of our nav.
from the days of Farragut to the da!
when Admiral Evans himself brough
into the Pacific waters the mighties
war fleet that had ever appeared ives
Of Magellan or east of suez, command
ing this fleet during the first perlot
of a voyage such as no other fleet o
the kind Of any nation has ever tax
en-. 1t is eminently appropriate tina
the reception to Admiral Evans shouls
be given In what you well call q yer
liable temple Of peace for the Unitst
States navy is the best guarantee o
peace we have, and all men who be
lisve in the peace of justice through
ont the world should do everythial
that In them lies to maintain and build
Up tie navy.
"gincsrely yours,
THEODORE ROO0EVHT."
Bvaas Ve1ees Love Ter Klal.