The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-07-09
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the longest voyage ever undertaken by
such powerful fleet during which they
will completely encircle the world, from
Hampton Roads to Hampton Roads,
have a total tonnage of 1876, 100 tons.
The fleet is capable of steaRing on an
average of ten knots an hour under
anv sea conditions. andais following an
| itinerary which will bring the ships to
Manila on October 1, 1908. The com
pIete route from Manila to Hampton
Roads has not vet been definitely an
nounced, but it is expected that the
feet will arrive at its ultimate destina-
ton during the latter part of Febru-
ary. 1909, when it will be joined at
Hampton Roads by most of the other
ships of the American navy then on the
Atlantic coast, and this great fleet of
war vessels-greater even than that
which scattered in San Francisco bay
on the morning of May 9th, and great
er than the one that assembled at
Hampton Roads December 16, when the
present record breaking voyage began
and where it will again be reviewed
by President Roosevelt Just prior to his
going out of Office.
The fleet is scheduled to arrive at
Honolulu July Is. Residents of that
remote possession of the United States
have prepared a magnificent and fitting
reception to the officers and men, which
will be of the nature of a reception
and a belated Fourth of July celebra,
ton combined. 1t will be the first
special entertainment of the fighting
men since Puget Sound cities delighted
to do them honor, and preparations
have been making for months at Ho-
nolulu that no pleasing feature shall
be lacking.
After a stay of one week in Homo
lulu, the feet will proceed to Auckland,
New Zealand. It is by special invita-,
ton of the New Zealand government
that the American ships go there, and
at this port the "Yankee sailors will
receive their first greetings from for
eign people since leaving South Amer
lea. This greeting will be particularly
cordial and the entertainment arranged
for officers and men promises to be mag
nifcent. The fact that this greeting
viii come at the end of the longest leg
of the voyage around the world, when
the men are worn by stretch OF seven
teen successive days out of sight of
land, will tend to make it all the more
welcome
Perhaps the greatest of all the en-
tertainments to be given the men of
the fleet in any foreign city, however,
will be waiting their arrival at Sydney,
the great port of Australia, where the
war ships, after leaving Auckland on
August Is, will arrive on August 90.
Half million dollars is the sum the
government and the people of Sydney
have appropriated for the entertain
ment of the American sailors. Varied
and many are the pleasures the Aus
tralians have planned and placed in
store for them during the nine days of
their stay at that port. The govern
ment viii take an active part in these
entertainments, those in the official life
of the colony vying with private citi-
zens in efforts to display their hospi-
tally. A series of elaborate social
functions for the officers, and parades
and excursions and sports for the en-
listed men comprise the program.
Melbourne and Albany are two other
ports of Australia where the feet will
stop, and where openhanded hospital
ity will be given the men. From the
port of Albany the fleet will steam on
September IL for Manila, and it will
arrive in these American waters, the
last home port until Hampton Roads,
on October l.
The reception to be accorded the
fleet in Manila will be a striking one,
and the entertainment of the officers
and men ashore. will be as cordial and
heartfelt, if not as elaborate, as the re-
ceptions at other places. The American
colony in Manila is looking forward
to the event with fervent anticipation
a large fund has been subscribed, and
committees are at work on the prepar-
ations.
Great interest is felt in the fleet s
visit to Japan. Proceeding to Yoko-
hama from Manila, the fleet will ar
rive there on October II. Here, on
October "A, it will be divided, the first
squadron returning, October 81, to Ma
Mia, where it will arrive November >.
| The promise is that the welcome to be
given the Americans in Yokohama viii
| not be second in graciousness at least,
| to anything met with at any port prev
| iously touched; for it is upon the spe-
/ cial invitation of the Emperor of Japan