The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-07-10
DEPARTURE OF THE FLEET
FROM SAN FRANCISCO PORT

/ reception to the officers and men, which
will be of the nature of reception
and belated Fourth of July celebra-
ton combined. 1t will be the first
special entertainment of the fighting
men since Puget Sound cities delighted
to do them honor, and preparations
have been making for months at Ho
nolulu that no pleasing feature shall
be lacking.
After a stay Of ore week in Homo
lulu, the feet will proceed TO Auckland,
New Zealand. 1t is by special invita-
ton Of the New Zealand government
that the American ships go there, and
at this port the Yankee sailors will
receive their first greetings from a for.
eign people since leaving South Amer.
, lea. This greeting will be particularly
cordial and the entertainment arranged
for officers and men promises to be mag
nificent. The fact that this greeting
will come at the end of the longest leg
Of the voyage around the world, when
the men are worn by stretch of seven
teen successive days out of sight of
land, will tend to make it all the more
welcome.
Perhaps the greatest of all the en-.
tertainments to be given the men of
the fleet in any foreign city, however,
will he waiting their arrival at Sydney
the great port of Australia, where the
war ships after leaving Auckland on
: August Is, will arrive on August 20.
Half million dollars is the sum the
government and the people of Sydney
have appropriated for the entertain
ment of the American sailors. Varied
and many are the pleasures the Aus
9 tralians have planned and placed in
store for them during the nine days of
their stay at that port. The govern
ment will take an active part in these
entertainments, those in the official life
of the colony wing with private citi-
zens in efforts to display their hospi-
tally. A series of elaborate social
y functions for the officers, and parades
and excursions and sports for the en-
" listed men comprise the program.
~ Melbourne and Albany are two other
" ports of Australia where the fleet will
stop, and where openhanded hospital.
:, ity will be given the men. From the
- port of Albany the fleet will steam on
September II for Manila, and it will
III arrive in these American waters, the
y last home port until Hampton Roads
y on October i.
:" The reception to be accorded the
o. fleet in Manila will be a striking one
D. and the entertainment of the officer.
IN and men ashore will be as cordial ant
q heartfelt, if not as elaborate, as the re
III ceptions at other places. The American
W colony in Manila is looking forward
n to the event with fervent anticipation
III A large fund has been subscribed, ant
u committees are at work on the prepar
'e ations.
a. Great interest is felt in the fleet ;.
u visit to Japan. Proceeding to Yoke
II hama from Manila, the fleet will ar
81 rive there on October II. Here, or
he October "a, it will be divided, the first
d squadron returning, October 81, to Ma
at Mia, where it will arrive November
~ The promise is that the welcome to b,
T. given the Americans in Yokohama will
at not be second in graciousness at least
no to anything met with at any port prev
In iously touched; for it is upon the gpe
ID cial invitation of the Emperor of japan
IS that the fleet goes there. Elaborf t,
functions at court, and social affair
at will be held for the officers of the fleet
at AT Annoy, China, the reception vii
es doubtless be the occasion of a grea
lg celebration characteristic of the Chi
= nese. The two squadrons of the flee
will be brought together again at Ma
Mia on November 7, and the departur,
thence for Alden, and the passage of th'
Suez will take place within the follow
ing few days, the exact date not we
having been determined.
The ships of the Pacific fleet, wbicI
assembled here previously to the de
parture of the battleships for Hampto
Roads, will remain in this harbor unit
August 5, at which time they will star
for Samoa and the Philippines, with tn
little black boats comprising the AT
lantic and Pacific torpedo fotillas i
tow. Preparatory to this summer voy
age of the Pacific fleet, squadron o
the cruisers will take some of the tol
pedo boats in tow, and steam down tn
Pacific coast as far as San Diego b,
way of a test of the possibilities o
towing the little craft for long dis
taices. The towing to Samoa and tn
Philippines is contingent upon the SUE
cess of this experiment.
Admiral Dayton, now in command o