Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-04-13
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United States BattIeship Fleet Will
Drop Anchor In Bay of San
Diego Within Few Hours.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
San Diego, CAL, April 13.-Within
the next twenty-four hours the United
States battleship fleet will drop an
Choir in the beautiful bay of San Diego,
after voyage unprecedented in naval
annals. The ships will rest in United
States waters for the first time in
four months, during which time they
travelled distance of approximately
1S,400 miles.
The ships are to remain here until
Saturday, according to the plans
mapped out by the navy department
at Washington. The people of San
Diego have completed elaborate ar
rangements for the entertainment of
the officers and men. The main
streets are gay with bunting, and the
indications are that the decorations
tomorrow will be among the most
elaborate ever seen on the Pacific
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pected here to view the fleet.
Coronado, ''the gem of the Pacific
coast" will join with San Diego in
furnishing entertainment for the
naval visitors. 1t is intended to give
the officers and men the time of their
lives, and there will doubtless be such
an outburst of genuine California hos
pitality as has never before been
seem
When the ships enter the handbook
ed bay of San Diego, a magnificent
panorama hundreds of miles in extent
will unroll before the eyes of the
men. A high range of mountains
forms the eastern horizon. In the
foreground is the city of San Diego,
with its beautiful enyirons, its semi
tropical vegetation. Situated on
plain but little raised above the level
of the sea, nearly the whole of the
city may be seen from the decks of
the vessels. Tall buildings, spires of
churches and. overlapping all, the
Bennington monument, are the con-
spicuous features of the scene
The bay or harbor of San Diego is
thirteen miles long and has enough
deep anchorage to float all the navies
of the world at one time. The harbor
is acknowledged to be one of the best
in the world.
To the west is the high promontory
of Point Iona, the top of which is
nearly 500 feet above the level of the
ocean. From the harbor entrance,
continuing to the south and forming
the west boundary of San Diego bay,
is the long and narrow Coronado pen
insula, with its famous hotel and city
of tents. The bar at the entrance to
the harbor has been dredged to a
depth of thirty feet at mean low tide
so that the largest ships can enter at
all times, and there are no reefs, no
sunken rocks, no treacherous currents
1t is matter of record that no vessel
has ever been wrecked in San Diego
bay. No matter how severe storm
may be raging on the ocean outside,
the waters of the bay are hardly more
than ruffled.
One reason why San Diego bay is a
fayorite resort with the officers of the
Pacific fleet is because of the fine OPP
portunities it affords to the men for
drills both on water and on land. For
this purpose there is said to be no
American coast, east or west, as San
Diego bay. Both in summer and in
winter the weather is ideal, and
there is never a day throughout the
year when the men cannot practice
on the water with comfort. So many
advantages does San Diego bay offer
in this respect that many of the high
est officers of the navy have ex-
pressed themselves strongly in favor
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ing station here.
The city of San Diego is laid out
with fine broad streets and avenues,
and beside there are magnificent bou-
levards extending into the country A
coast road from San Diego to Los An
geles is very popular with automo-
biles. Within the heart of the city is
the Plaza, lined on all sides by tall
palms. AT the eastern end of the city
is a beautiful park of fourteen hun
dred acres, planted with trees and
shrubs and intersected with drives
and walks.
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