The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-04
HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS
AWAIT FLEET
Flags and Bunting Flung to
the Breeze in Happy
San Francisco.
CLIMAX OF PACIFIC
COAST EXCITEMENT
WEDNESDAYS PARADE TO MARK
AN EPOCH IN MODERN
NAVAL HISTORY.

San Francisco, May BIN eager expect
ancy San Francisco is awaiting the arriv-
al 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 raj
ment md are busy with the final ar
engagements of bow and other adOrn-
mert.
streamers and Rear Admiral Evans pic
ture are everywhere. Market street is a
long vista of bunting in the national col
Ors and flags waving from white poles
one large and a cluster of five smaller
flags flying from each one, and terminal
ing in the huge red, white and blue shield
on the tall ferry tower.
Illuminated Welcome.
On each side of the tower. stretched
on long wire cables, are the words "WeI-
come to the Atlantic fleet in the kaleid-
OscOpic cOlOrs of the international navy
signal code flags and pennants. while on
stands in letters fifty feet high. which
can be read for many miles. and which
at night will be illuminated by $500 cleo
trio lights. Festoons of incandescent
lights run on both sides of the principal
streets and prominent buildings are out
lined In electric bulbs. furnishing at night
a most magnificent illumination.
Crowds Pouring In.
Relatives and friends are coming in
from the north. south and east 10 assist
in the entertainment and to witness the
pOmp and pageantry of an event which
beyond kindling pride and love of coun-
try. marks the beginning of new epoch
i'm the development of the Pacific ocean.
II is estimated that there will be between
100000 and 10000 people in San Francisco
on the day that the fleet arrives me
suburban cities adjacent to the bay ana
towns within a radius of fifty miles Will
practically be depopulated. and will con-
tribute 200 600, while the railroad compan-
les estimate that they will bring at least
10000 from points beyond. as far east as
Omaha and from British Columbia on the
north. to the international boundary on
the south The Southern Pacific COM
pany has placed go extra cars and sleep
ers in commission in addition to their reg
ular equipment Twenty special trains
from California points and the Pacific
coast states are scheduled.
Salt Lake Cadets Arrive.
Two specials. one of nine sleepers. car
rying the Salt Lake City high school ca
diets. who will be Admiral Evans hon
orary escort. and another of ten Pull
MANS arrived this evening from Salt Lake
City. Three extra trains are reported out
OF Portland by the Southern Pacific and
all Trans nOEtn. east anu SOuln art III
ming in two and three sections.
Governor Sheldon and his party of lo0
from Nebraska. will arrive In special
train Tuesday night.
Practically all reservations in the big
hotels are taken. The FairmOnt stopped
making reservations more than n month
ago While the hotels are rapidly filling
up, the fleet reception committee. headed
by ex-Mayor James d. Phelan, gives as
surauce that there will be ample accom-
than N 0D in
San Francisco. Berkeley and Oakland
have been listed with the committee,
which has established an information bu-
reau at the Ferry building.
Wednesdays Spectacle.
On Wednesday forenoon. from the van
taee point of hill and steamer, will be
seen the most imposing and spectacular
parade in modern naval history, in which
a total of forty-nine warshipS Will enter
the Golden Gate in single line formation
and drop anchor midst the roar of u
inch gums. the shouts of three-quarters
of a million people and the shrieks OF
steam whistles.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, who
for the past month has been under treat
ment at Paso Robes Hot Springs, has SO
far recovered that he will assume COM
mand of the fleet at Santa Cruz Tuesday
afternoon Just before sailing for this
city. The fleet will arrive off the Golden
Gate Tuesday evening, where it Will be
Joined by the Pacific squadron of az
mored cruisers of the West Virginia type
under Rear Admiral Dayton, the follow
ing morning at o'clock.
Evans in Command.
At noon the flagship Connecticut. fly
ing the flag of Rear Admiral Evans. will
on full flood tide. lead the battleships
cruisers, armored and unarmored; tor
pedo boat destrOyers. torpedo boats, gun
boats, hospital supply and other auxil-
larry vessels, past lighthouses into the
portal where bay and ocean meet. and
on past Lands End and Point Bonita.
The big Pinch guns at Fort Baker, on
/ the heights OF the rocky Marin county
shore. and the big disappearing guns in
the batteries browning the Preside hills
will bay deep-mouthed welcome, contrary
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