Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-26
FLEET BAND
MAY BE BIG
ATTRACTION
ENSEMBLE OF MUSICIANS
FROM SIXTEEN SHIPS
SEARcHLlGHT DISPLAY AN I'M
PoRTANT OPENING
Sixteen Hundred Patriotic Women
Will Serve the Barbecue Lunch
to the $4,000 Jackies.
South Dakota
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that will announce its presence in San
Pedro On the night of its arrival. That
will be the only night when the six
teen battleships and attending cruisers
will be together, and 1t is expected that
1t will be made the occasion for a full
demonstration of the use of the search
lights for maneuvering and signaling
purposes The big battleships speak to
each other with code of flashes in
dots and dashes just as plainly as they
do with wireless or with flag signals
The opportunity for a drill with the
gigantic lights will also be made use or
it seems sure. In such a display there
will be not less than forty of these far
reaching eyes in use, illuminating the
valleys and the mountain tops and
sweeping the broad expanse of ocean.
This feature alone Is regarded as one of
the most interesting of the visit of the
fleet, as 1t is a free show that may be
easily witnessed from the hill tops.
The arrival of the fleet will not be
accompanied by the firing of guns. In
United States ports Uncle Sans ships
do not salute unless there happens to
be in the harbor the flag of another
nation on a war vessel or a warship
of the United States which the fleet has
not seen In six months. The proba bill
ty is that the harbor will be clear of
warcarft April IS and that the arrival
will be silent.
Scout Tactics
In connection with the arrival OF the
fleet il is regarded as certain that Ad-
miral Sebree's division of the Pacific
squadron is practicing maneuvers. The
South Dakota is assigned to Sebree' s
division but has never Joined it, 1t has
always been conspicuously near but has
not been in company with the other
three cruisers. When the people of
Long Beach looked seaward at daylight
yesterday morning they saw a full ar
mored cruiser lying in the offing about
eight miles from shore. 1t took its
place so naturally along the sky line
that until signals revealed what it was
the population was divided as to wheth-
er it was the Tennessee, Washington or
California, which had just left their
sight Monday. Signals disclosed that it
was the South Dakota. While the pur-
poses of the navy departments are dubi-
Gus and their ways inscrutable, there is
popular belief that the pathfinder
flaet is now playing a game of scouting
just as If an enemy was expected to
intercept the battleship squadron.
Sixteen Hundred Women
Chairman NJ. II. Flint has completed
arrangements which will provide his
vices will bn given in serving the bar
becue at Chutes park 1t was no small
undertaking to obtain the number re-
quired in voluntary capacity, but the
appeal to the patriotism of the women
had instantaneous and spontaneous eff
feet. and each days service is now ade-
quately provided for. The work has
been divided as follows:
Monday, April 20--Ladies of the G. A.
r.. auxiliary to Sons of Veterans, Wo-
mems Relief corps, Ladies of Veteran
Legion, Mrs. II. b. Powell, 1887 East
Twenty -secod street, chairman.
Tuesday, April 21-The Rebekah or
ganizations of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows, Mrs. W. A. Lathrop,
719 East Twenty-fifth street, chairman.
Wednesday, April 22-Ladies of the
Fraternal Brotherhood, Mrs. Emma r.
Neidig, Fraternal Brotherhood hall,
chairman.
Thursday. April 23-Ladies of the
Catholic organizations of Los Angeles,
Mrs. p. P. O'Brien, 800 West Twenty
second street. chairman.
Under the suggestion of the women of
the Eastern Star the executive COM
mittee has directed them to take charge
of the rest room for the enlisted men.
It is the purpose to rent a large room
in the center of the city and provide it
with beds, cots, chairs and other things
necessary to the comfort and con-
venience of the jackies Rolls and cof-
fee will be served day and night,
trained nurses and a physician will be
in constant attendance, and the room
will be officered by number of male
attendants