The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-05
FRISCO READY
TO GREET
FLEET
Extensive Decorations in
All Parts Of Big Coast
City..3OO,OOO Visitors
are Expected

ger expectancy San FRANCISCO Is
awaiting the arrival of the Atlantic
battleship fleet. The meats are
baked, the house is in order and the
feast is set. The members of the
household are clothed in their best
raiment and are busy with the final
arrangements of bow and other
adornment.
Fluttering flags, navy pennants
and streamers and Rear Admiral Ey-
street is a long vista of bunting In
the national colors and flags waving
from white poles so feet high, every
one hundred feet, one large and a
cluster of five smaller ones flying
from each one. and terminating in
the huge red. white and blue shield
on the tall ferry tower. On each side
of the tower. stretched on long wire
cables, are the words Welcome to
the Atlantic Fleet in the kaleido-
scOpic colors of the international na-
Wy signal code flags and pennants.
while on Telegraph hill the word
Welcome" stands in letters so feet
high. which can be read for many
miles. and which at night will be
Illuminated by $500 electric lights.
Relatives and friends are coming
in from the north. south and east to
assist in the entertainment and to
witness the pomp and pageantry of
an event which beyond kindling pride
and love of country, marks the be-
ginning of new epoch in the devel-
opment of the .acifie ocean. Ii is
estimated that there will be between
| 100000 and 100000 people IN San
Francisco on the day that the fleet
arrives. The suburban cities ada
cent to the bay, and towns within
a radius of 80 miles. will practically
be depopulated and vii. contribute
100000. while the railroad compa-
nies estimate that they will bring at
least 80, 900 from points beyond. as
far east as Omaha and from British
CClnIllia on the nortl, ~ the in
ternational boundary line on the
south. The Southern Pacific com
pany has placed $50 extra cars and
sleepers in commission in addition
to their regular equipment Twenty
special trains from California points
and the Pacific coast states are
scheduled
Two specials. one OF nine sleepers.
carrying Salt Lake City high school
cadets, who will be Admiral Evans
{ L. ~F
Pullmans, arrived this evening from
Salt Lake City. Three extra trains
are reported out of Portland by the
Southern Pacific and all trains north.
east and south are running in two
and three sections.
Governor Sheldon and his party of
100 from Nebraska, will arrive in a
special train Tuesday night
Practically all reservations in the-
big hotels are taken. The Fairmout
stopped making reservations more
than a month ago. While the hotels
are rapidly filling up, the fleet recep-
tion committee, headed by ex-Mayor
James d. Phelan. gives assurance
that there will be. ample accommo-
dations. More than $4,000 rooms in
San Francisco. Berkeley and Oak
land have been listed with the com
mittee, which has established an in
formation bureau at the Ferry
building
On Wednesday forenoon. from the
vantage point of hill and steamer.
will be seen the most imposing and
spectacular parade in modern naval
history, in which a total of ~ war
ships will enter the Golden Gate in
single line formation and drop an
chor midst the road of IL inch guns.
the shouts of three-quarters of
million people and the shrieks of
steam whistles.
Rear Admiral Robley ID. Evans,
who, for the past month has been
under treatment at Paso Robles Hot
Springs, has so far recovered mat
he will reassume command of the
fleet at Santa Cruz Tuesday after
noon. just before sailing for this city.
The fleet will arrive at the Golden
Gate Tuesday evening. where 1t will
be joined by the Pacific squadron Of
armored cruisers of the West Vir-
ginia type, under Rear Admiral Day
ton, the following morning at >
O'Clock.