Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-07
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FLEET IS
INFR|SCOBAY
Every Vantage Point Crowded
by People to Witness
the Entry
Atlantic and Pacific Fleets
Combine Making "A Yes.
sells in Parade
Pandemonium Of Enthusiasm
Welcomes the Great
Wafships

San Francisco, May 6-Into the
world famed harbor of San Francisco
to be reviewed two days hence by the
secretary of the navy in honor of the
first great stage of their tour around
the world and to be entertained for
ten days in the most elaborate and pic
turesque fashion, the residents of the
city, with the immense fund at their
disposal, have been able to devise, the
16 battleships of the Atlantic fleet, &C.
companied by six hardy little black.
hulled destroyers and a squadron of
auxiliary and dispatch boats, sailed in
today in the presence of multitude
unnumbered, that covered all the high
hills, coastal precipices, tall buildings;
army reservations, Wharyes and park.
ing spaces that surround the Golden
Gate and the shores of the spacious
bay. No accurate estimate Of the vast
throng that gazed at the beautiful
marine picture painted by the long
line passing within the gateways and
the maneuvers of anchoring in the
harbor roadstead has been given.
It was not alone an outpouring of
nearly every resident of the city, who
was able to drop work long enough to
catch glimpse of the incoming ships
but a representation of scores of cities
in California and surrounding states
attracted here by the fame of the
feet, whose progress has been watch
ed almost hour by hour ever since it
set out upon it's journey to the west.
ern seas. Thirty vessels were in the
imposing line, stretching far out to-.
ward the dimly distant Farallones.
that swept within the gateway.
The IA vessels of the Pacific fleet
eight of them heavily armored cruis,
ers and rivaling the greatest of the
visiting battleships in displacement
and weight of gun fire-joined the
line inside the entrance off Angel is
land and then followed the greatest
parade of ships of war the navy has
ever known.
Through the crowded harbor the
combined fleets, under command of
Rear Admiral Evans, who yesterday
refung his flag to the breezes at the
main truck of the Connecticut, head.
ed their way to the anchorage ground,
their progress being heralded by the
never ceasing blasts of steam whistles
afioat and the ringing of bells ashore
On top of Telegraph Hill a huge
Welcome" sign of letters so feet
high was visible from every incoming
ship and constituted an expression OF
cordially with which the fleet is tt
be received.
The head of the four long lines Of
anchorage berths assigned to the A
ships in the combined fleets is just
south of Folsom street, several hun
dred yards within the ferry lanes
leading from the foot of Market stree
to Oakland and other terminal points
OF the eastern shore Of the bay.
No sonner had the ships reached
their final anchorage than a commit
tee boat carrying Mayor Taylor Of Sa1
Francisco and members of the officia
reception committee, including Jane.
y. Phelan, chairman, put off officiall,
to welcome Admiral Evans and tn,
officers and men of the fleet to SAL
Francisco. The ceremonies aboar,
the Connecticut were brief
Admiral Evans has promisedd tt
ride part of the distance in the nava
and military parade through tn
streets of the city tomorrow, whel
S,OOO blue jackets and marines, 300
soldiers of the regular army an,
many civic and military bodies will b.
in line, but further than this he will
not take an active part in the city
long program of entertainment Ad
miral Evans will be on board the Cor
necticut Friday during the review a
anchor by Secretary Metcalf, the lai
ter on the gunboat Yorktown, O,
which he has made his headquarters
since coming to San Francisco ha,
Dor.
He witnessed the arrival toady fror
the gateway and afterward followe
the long column to its anchorage.
Tonight the city is gay with merry