Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-05-08
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F0RTY-SIX BATTLERS FORMED
Line In THE BAY.
All Vessels of Pacific Fleet Joined
Those of Atlantic and Made Grand
est Review Ever Held in History of
Nation-Every Kind of Fighting
Craft in Procession.

Oraft IN PROCESSION.
The entry of the great Atlantic
fleet through the Golden Gate into
San Francisco bay provided for the
most formidable and picturesque naval
display in the history of the nation.
All the vessels of the Pacific fleet
joined the Atlantic battleships outside
the Golden Gate and steamed with
them through the harbor entrance to
the anchorage in the bay where the
review of the navy was held. Prac-
tically the entire fighting force of the
navy, with the exception of a few new
ly commissioned ships in the east and
few gunboats in Philippine waters,
was in the great column of white and
buff vessels that threaded their way
between the headlands of the gateway
Point Bonito on the north and Point
Lobos on the south.
Forty-six vessels were in line and
the long column stretched as far out
to sea as the eye can see. The variety
of fighting craft ranged from the mass
i've 16000-ton Connecticut down to the
little destroyer Fox, of only 154 tons
displacement.
BatteshipS, armOred cruisers, pro-
tected cruisers, gunboats, destroyers,
torpedo boats and auxiliaries-in fact,
every class of vessel in the navy save
the obsolete monitors-were repre-
scented in this remarkable parade
through the famous port entry.
The steaming of the ships through
the Golden Gate was a far more i'm
pressive and enduring picture than the
review at anchor, which is to be held
two days after the arrival. Read Ad-
miral Robley d. Evans was on the
bridge of the Connecticut, where he
commanded full view of the fleet in
entering San Francisco bay. Strict
orders for fair way for the host of
naval vessels were issued by the
department of commerce and labor at
Washington, and the scores of excur-
sion steamers that took crowds
out to Angel island and beyond to
view the spectacle were under close
federal supervision. Revenue cutters
and naval launches patrolled the
pathway and keep excursion and pleas
ure craft out of danger.
Fluttering flags, navy pennants and
streamers and Rear Admiral Evans
pictures are everywhere. Market street
is a long vista of bunting in the ma
tional colors. and flags waving from
white poles so feet high every 100 feet,
one large and cluster of five smaller
flags flying from each one. and termin-
ating in huge red, white and blue
shield on the tall ferry tower. On
each side of the tower, stretched on
long wire cables, are words Welcome
To the Atlantic Fleet" in the kaleidos-
copic colors of the international navy
signal code flags and pennant, 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 came in from
the north, south and from the east to
assist in the entertainment and to wit
ness the pomp and pageantry of an
event which. beyond kindlfng pride and
love of country, marks the beginning
of a new epoch in the development of
the Pacific ocean. 1t is estimated that
there are between 100000 and 100000
people in San Francisco.
The Land Parade.
On Thursday, $4,000 men, 5000 from
the fleet. $500 from the Preside, 10
companies of national guards, G.. A. r.
and Spanish War Veterans, were in
parade.
On Friday, Secretary of the Navy
Metcalf, on board the Yorktown, re-
viewed the combined Atlantic fleet and
the Pacific fleet in the harbor.
TOWN SWEPT nv EIRE