The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-05

cade, \ man in the crowd was hurt but the officers escaped There was big reception of the admirals and off, cers at the exhibition, and then the men turned in for dinner
 on Monday evening there was glorious searchllght display from s till 2. The lights were playing in every direction, now crossing in a lattice, now flashing in ones face, making paths was magnificent, A blg torchlight pro- cession of metropolitan fire hrgades also took place on Monday night, sharp shower of rain just as thls was over caused terrible crush at the en- trance to the Central railway station In which the men of the fleet were con splcuous for the way in which they helped women and children to get through Many of the women falnted and few were injured II was in- evitable that numerous things would he lost, and among them was an epaulette which was torn off an officer from the Vermont
 and about l2 o'clock a steady drizzling rain set In which lasted all day A party of officers and men went to Mirboo North, and another party to Bendlgo, they had pretty wet time but the people of the places visited made up for the bad weather by their enthusiastic and whole hearted well come The trip to Mirboo was specially | an nd ha n opportunity of seeing Australian coun- | try life in typical bush village. Tues days chief event in the city was a demonstration by school children on the exhibition oval in the presence Of Admiral Sperry and other officers Of | the fleet, But for tho rain, the display would have been very pretty, as 1t was both children and spectators, with | the exception of favored few in the grandstand. were wet through before 1 the program was finished At one | part of the demonstration a number of 1 boys came on the oval and formed the leters "U, g. A." in front of the ad- miral Then 5000 children came on and gave three cheers for the Amerl- cans, the compliment being returned
 with great yigor by the officers pres ent.
 Wednesday was very stormy, with a high sea. In spite of this however, many people wanted to go over to the
 warships, hut the hOatmen said IL
 would not be safe. They still crowded
 down, begging first the boatnen and
 then the fleets launches, to take them
 over II was only when the liberty
 men came ashore and 1t was seen that
 many of them were seaslck, that the
 people would be persuaded to go home
 Thursday brought the big review-a a
 task which the men had been dreadins
 all the way from Sydney There were
 thousands upon thousands of specta-
 tors who cheered the Americans with
 the widest enthusiasm as they marched
 past After 1t was all over Admiral
 sperry paid q special compliment to
 the excellence of the local cadet sys-
 tenn Many sporting competitions were
 held during the week in which the
 Americans almost always won There
 were three baseball games-Virginin
 beat East Melbourne, l0-7; Nebraska
 beat M C. C., l0-i, and the Fleet bea,
 Australia, l6-l The last game was a
 fine one The American play was per
 feet no fumbling of any kind; q great
 contrast to the playing Of the "Ball-
 more" team three years ago when ths
 ball was flimbled most of the time
 The game fig not very popular out here
 yet and a good many of those presen,
 at the big match went chiefly for the
 purpose of listening to the roofing
 They were disappointed, for after thu
 first three innings, the game was tr
 one sided The most effective bit Of
 roofing was one long drawn-out "R-r'
 r-r-ubbish," uttered by a marine. and
 taken up by the spectators all over tho
 ground
 After the boat race between the Hi
 nols and Louisiana at sydney H. NJ
 S Challenger challenged the Louis.
 jana for the Baltenberg cup. The
 race was fixed for Monday, August 31
 (the challenger using the Illinois cut.
 ter) over straight three-mile course | rough, the Louisiana coxswain suggest.
 cd starting at a. m. instead Of 1 1 q
 m. as arranged, so that they nigh have calm sea, but the challenger coxswaln said, "No. eleven was tht , time fixed" He thought his crew , could do better in A rough sea. H.
 had it rough enough to please him s for the waves were breaking over th' , low boats, drenching everybody il them, while as for the cutters, thu Louisiana coxswain had to order tho l bow oarsman to ship his oar and bal, 3 the water out, for fear the race would , be lost through the boat foundering 5 In spite of all this, Louisiana crossed ! the line winners by three minutes. , The Americans likewise won Q rih, match against the strongest team tha ] Melbourne could ge together, scorinl in all 14li points against the loca l mems 1869. The next day, however l they were beaten by the Ladies Riff, | club!
 Most of the decorations were form 9 ed by flags English, Australian anC , American. The St, Kilda pier wa ] very prettiy fixed up with three fern , and other plants in tubs, while oppos Z itc on the wall of the Esplanade, 'St g Kllda Heartily Welcomes American 9 Cousins" was framed in greenery anC surmounted by trophy of flags. Mos of the private houses along the rout, were artistically decorated, too, On, , place had "Welkum" in big gilt lettcr on the balcony; another had Indian | heads and gilt sWastikas; while stil another had a Yale flag in a promin ent position. Flags were to be seer |, in every hXable place in the city--h hats, in buttonholes, on walkini sticks in the collars and even on tn 9 tails of dogs As for the building and streets, they blossomed all owe . ,st A t.,