Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-01-14
ADMIRAL EVANS TELLS
OF FLEETS LONG CRUISE
Saw. il is No One.Man Job to Carry
10 Battleships to
PecnC

the moment he had promised months
before, Rear Admiral Robley ID. Evans
losi ma oppo.tunity OF imprtSSlng ms
audience with the need for more
adequate navy. The l"ctur" aud re
c"ption at Carnegie Hall were u'"''
,br auspices Of the Navy icaGuc. an
organization whose sol" ann Is 20 III
still enough patriotism into ne MIG
die West and ether parts OF the couh
try outside OF a view OF iu' ""''i
To make tn" citizens prod 'h'iF repre-
s.n1atiyes into maintaining IN" couh'
trvs credit ahOa;.
HAD no one In the Audience ever
seen the rear admiral l"ior" 'hPE
would have known who h" was ai'''
listening 20 him a moment. E.'lH
rrisp, tcrSe sentence and Dlt or "h'ir-
yjcal humcr that he used. every 'uEh
Of phrase and expression, cou'd come
from no other than Rear Adlnlrai
Robloy d. Evans, He had TO sit whli'
he talked. ior his crippled leg r"aii
not hear his weight Il stIil carry
about some SCuNcnirs Of NE 'N Il
War" he said. as he begged pornis,
sion t. remain seated while he talk
cd ara one VI Ii''il IA -
ing m. hat cannot do as | pleas
Ii want 10 stand. the only way t!ia'
I can 10 it in comfort is by standing
on my head
No Ore-Man Job.
"\uw one word about that Meet.
No one man could have taken II
around the world and only Oh" man
in the world could nave Thought Oh
sending il 1t took $1,000 men to ran
me fleet The man who boiled water
down in the ,tckChold ard the man
who peeled potatoes. these all should
have some Of tn" credit.
The Navy Leagu" is a great ana
! important organization. n" Sai''
speaking of that body. We he'a
ONLY to look at the naval force CT
Great Britain TO So" what such d
loaeue has done in that country. ana
,bn Kaiser could have done noth!nG
| in building up the German nav hau
! i, TO, been for the Navy League oi
thai empire.
| After rehcarsing tn" history OF the
! formation OF the fleet, Admiral Evans
| smoke of its first visit to Hampton
Reads. to help OUT the James own tx
| nosition 1t had to entertain all ilc
visiting foreign officials and nota Dc :
and Americans as well. lut lot tNea'
! latter, the admiral said. congress Az
| it's infinite wisdom and Geheto"i '
! made no appropriation to- entertain
, ing our own people. ard We had u
do that out of our own POCKETS.
| OF the work of preparation Il
Hampton Roads he said:
| The task of preparing sixteen pa
tlcsh;ns for a cruise Of fourteen thou
Sand mics is the easiest job IN the
wcrld for the man VINO does no' n',
! TO do it, But we had one or w"
good men to h"lp-Mr \e"n,rf!
| che Of the ablest men who ever new,
mis- position. and Rear AdmiFa'
Rrownson. who. | thinn. had some
difficulty about a medical snip.
"Jf Won asked me why the fleet "aS
snnt TO the Pacific should say IN al
| confidence i do not know. Having
known presiden, KoC sevelt for thirty
wears did not ask HIM. ana II
had he would no. have told me. II
he hal told Newell. have no wish
TO ioin a certain club. Well, was
broueht I'D in the oil school OF oolhS
| ,hires and not talking back. so when
! I xas ordered to take the nest INTO
the Pacific | got ready 10 40 II.
Goodbye In Hampton Roads.
SnrGking Of the parting from sweet
hearts and wives at Hampton ROADS
he had manv pleasant words ZOE
,hcm Navy women all behave well.
h. said All American women be
and 2IIeT
them the army women. behave beS'
of all"
or the war -umOrS at the outset OF
the VOYAGE he said:
The talk Of war with Japan or any
other power was too silly for an!
sane man. II was only arOuhu
the word. ard it was no one busi'
ness. The President who would not
dar. TO order i; on such cruise
would not he worthy TO be President
| II vas a crime for any one to say
chat the nation which brought Japar
into the civilized world was going 10
war with il. have been in Japan
| and know the people. They do h"'
want 10 fight with any one. and have
no reason to want TO fight with an!
mart Of the world except perhaps 4
Mace IN on the northeast corner OF
the map.
The description Of the voyaE" by
tho admiral was rcpiete with aa"c'
ido;c which showed the fitness Of YES
| sci and feet. The one criticism was
| that after Punta Arenas was paEs"d
ali ,hc cal was carried in British
bot.oms. a thing which l. is one Of ID"
aims Of the Navy Leaguc 10 remedy
SUNSEAMS.