New-York tribune., 1908-08-22
AUSTRALIANS GUESTS
Manu- .American Sailors ashore
Dinners for officers.

cxdnax & w AUG 2a-The city again
paid honors to-day to the American Atiantic
battleship fleet The entertainments OF the
morning and afternoon were designed prlnol-
ually for the enlisted men, many OF whom mac
shore leave Five hundred OF them started
early this morning guests of the government
in snecial trains for Newcastle and the Blue
Mountains. returning to Sydney TINS evening
Many of the visitors preferred to see the foot
ball and baseball matches the aquatic sports
and an exhibition in the Domain by the fremen
of the CITY Twenty thousand spectators at
tended the exhibition and the American sailors
anplauded the fine showing made by the fire
lighters
While there were no official entertainments
scheduled for the day. many officers visited the
city and were guests at luncheons and recep-
tions 4 dinner will be given this evening for
Admiral Sperry and the senior officers of the
fleet by Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Poore com
r11ander in chief of the British squadron in Aus
tralasan waters
While the sky to-day is overcast. the men
enjoying their liberty ashore and are loud IN
their praises OF the hospitality which they meet
at every hand
Sydney y. S. w, Aug. 21.-Following the
official landing OF the American visitors to-day
and their public reception by the state and COM
monwealth authorities. the city, the harbor and
the shipping brilliantly Illuminated this
evening. The Governor OF New South Wales,
Sir Harry Rawson gave dinner at O'Clock IN
honor of the American officers, and the COM
monwealth goverpment entertained the officers.
sailors and marines of the fleet at theatre partles
and at other places of amusement
The ilIuminations were most striking All the
public buildings were outlined with numberless
lights. and there many devices and decora-
tions conveying sentiments of welcome and ira
ternity. Private buildings We'd with the mu-
nicipaI edfces in the briliiancy of their decora-
tons while the American hattleships in the
harbor did their full share. being covered with
lights large and small while the flashlights
threw brilliant streamers in every direction
The gorgeous spectacle was viewed, by vast
crowds which filled the streets of Sydney until
a late hour.
There were upward of one thousand guests at
the dinner given by Sir Harry Rawson at the
Town Hall. and the balconies were thronged
with women. The hall was beautifully deco
rated for the occasion with American. Austria
lian and British flags fntertwined. A large bust
of President Roosevelt was pedestal be-
hind the seat of Admiral Sperry.
Charles G. Wade, Premier Of New South
Wales presided Alfred Deakin. the Prime Min
lister of the commonwealth, made address of
welcome, in which he said:
Australia is in body and soul in well
coming our American visitors. The sixteen
white clad battleshps in the harbor scarcely
can be described as vessels of peace. but they
might rightly be called harbingers of arbitra-
ton. 1 trust that President Roosevelt will be
Informed, in the words of the famous American
captain. Josiah Tattnal, that blood is (and
always will be) thicker than water"
When Admiral Sperry arose and reiterated his
statement of the Indebtedness of the American
navy to the example of Great Britain he was
heartily cheered He said he knew no better
training for American naval officers than
systematic study of Great Britain's triumphs at
sea. Something more than sentiment, he said
underlay the magnificent welcome that had been
accorded in Sydney. Ties of blood, community
of interest and intermarriage united the Ameri-
can and the British peoples. and these bonds
would be drawn closer with the completion of
the Panama Canal