Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-24
ADMIRAL TAKEN
EOR AUTO RIDE
FAST RUN OF SEVENTY MILES
ENDS FR0LIC
PASADENA, SOLDIERS HOME AND
SANTA MONICA VISITED
Flower Shower and OverWhel Inning
Attentions Greet 200 Officers Who
Accompany - Everybody Is
Praising Entertainment

II OS ANGELES ended her entertainment
of the Atlantic fleet yesterday.
A Two hundred officers rode seventy
miles in autos, visiting Pasadena, Sol
diers' home, Santa Monica, Ocean Park and
Venice. They were showered with flowers
and overwhelmed with hospitality.
The evening was marked by receptions
at the California and Jonathan clubs.
The enlisted men were entertained for the
fourth day at Chutes park and Agricultural
park. Their final entertainment Is this af-
ternOOn at Agricultural park-the wild
West show.
Today is Beach day and San Pedro, Long
Beach, Santa Monica and RedOndO have at
tractive programs.
Tho admirals and officers of the fleet
to the number Of 200 took a land cruise
yesterday. SiXty-eight ships of the
road took them on a seVenty-mile run
and few cases of land sickness were re-
ported. Admirals Thomas, Emory and
Sperry, whose flag cars headed the
column, as well as the officers, voted
the cruise a success, even if the smell
of gasoline was little bit worse than
the smell of powder and the rolling of
the cars on the rough roads was little
more harassing than the familiar
lurching of the ships on the high seas.
Admiral Willis H. Booth, who COM
manded the auto cruise, with Com
mander G. Allen Hancock and Capt.
Hopper, officers of the Auto club of
Southern California, as assistants,
agreed that the seamen behaved very
we'll even on the placid boulevards.
The cruise was not like the famous
one of the Atlantic fleet around the
Horn. Such cruise could not be cur
tailed. The one yesterday, by reason
of a late start and a mistaken idea of
what the roads would be if it rained
the day before, was curtailed and sew
eral features on the itinerary were
omitted.
The event was an entertainment for
more than 200 officers of the fleet who
had participated in no other entertain
ment. Eligibility for the ride was sub
mitted to lot, and consequently the
members of the party were mostly new.
Besides more came than were expected.
But this did not matter, as Admiral
Booth had autos to give away, so gen.
erous were the Los Angeles owners in
their desire to aid the entertainment.
Many of the machines were driven by
their owners.
The start was from the Alexandria
at 10:30 o'clock, and it soon became a
more imposing parade than Tuesdays.
On the way to Pasadena, by way of
Alhambra, the column was over mile
long, and it flew between roadsides
sprinkled with groups who waved and
saluted the flying parade. At Oneonta
and Alhambra official delegations eX-
tended greetings to the car of Admiral
Thomas, which were cordially returned.
"FIagship" Autos
The column was headed by big car
in which Admiral Thomas, Gen Chat
fee, Mayor Harper, Lieutenant Com
mander Mclean, fleet ordinance officer,
and Lieut.. V. G. Castleman, the ad-
miraps flag officer, sat. In the second
car Admiral Sperry, Gen. Harrison
Gray Otis and Lieut.. T. w. WurtZ-
baugh were seated. The third car con-
tanned Admiral Emory, Gen. Robtert
Wankowski, Lieut.. r. P. Crandall and
Lieut.. r. w. Henderson. The party in
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