The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-05-19
SAILED
FOR NORTH
ON Time
Left San Francisco Yes
terday Mornine--Ad
miral Gives Praise te
Men Of the Navy

DAN rhANClcCO, may lc--InG
Atlantic feet OF battleships, after II
days of naval pageantry and merry-
making in San Francisco harbor. satl-
ed this morning at 10 O'Clock fer
Puget Sound, arriving OF Seattle ea
May %. One-half of the ships win
dock at the Bremerton navy yard.
while north, and the others will re-
turn here for repairs and painting
beneath the water line. Play days
in Puget sound will be over before
the end of the month, and then the
officers and men will resume the us
ual routine of man-of-war life. Or
ders call for the reassembling of the
feet in San Francisco harbor not
later than July 3. On July 7 the.
fleet sails for Honolulu and after =
weeks stay there goes direct tn
Auckland t
The Pacific feet of armored cruis-
ers. under command of Rear Admiral
Dayton, sailed south yesterday morn
ing at O'Clock and Rear Admiral
Sperry, in command of the Atlantic
fleet, hoisted for the first time his
commanding flag of blue. Being
junior in lineal rank to Admiral Day
ton, Admiral Sperry was compelle4
by naval regulations to fly subordf-
nate flag of red 80 long as the Pacific
feet remained at this station. Tia
long line of armored cruisers which
sailed for Santa Barbara was headed
by the flagship West Virginia, ana
included the Colorado, Maryland.
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washing
ton and California. The protecte6
cruiser Charleston, flagship of Rear
Admiral Swinburne, also sailed with
the feet, but her destination Is Mon
terey. The gunboat Yorktown ac-
companied the cruiser to Santa Bar
bara. The South Dakota, one of the
eight armored cruisers composing ther
second squadron of the Pacific feet.
which returned late yesterday from
her official trip. did not sail with the-
others.
The last of the official entertain
ments provided here for the Atlantic
and Pacific fleets was the banques
rendered last night at the Fairmont
hotel by San Francisco council No.
Is, Knights of Columb bus, to the pet
ty officers of the two fleets. The ar
rangements for the affair were car
ried out by the Rev. Father Gleson,
chaplain of the flagship Connecticut
Admirals Sperry and Thomas both
spoke, and there were in attendanca
Captains Sutherland of the New Jer-
sey and Nicholson of the Nebraska
Many wives of officers and petty on
GERS were also among the diners. Ad-
miral Sperry made the first speech
since assuming command of the At
lantic fleet. He spoke directly and
pointedly. He declared that the en-.
listed men of the navy were the buf--
warks in the defense of the navy.
Their training" he continued, ''is
entirely in the hands of the petty Of
ficers, who stand between the men
and the commanding officers. We
have now in the navy the most splen--
did body of young men that could he
selected in all the world. Above ev-
erything else they are American gen
tlemen, and their training should al
ways be along that line. And when
they salute a superior officer they
should remember 1t Is not hard line
of caste that is drawn, but that 1t Is
merely the courtesy due, and the sa--
lutation of one gentleman to another.
They are brave men. and true, all Of
them, and I amproud to command
such a force