Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-25
SEA DOGS ARE CHAINED
Sixty-SX Warships at Anchor
in New York Harbor.
BEST OF FIGHTING CRAFT
Visitors From England, Germany,
France and Other Nations.
TWO OFFICERS OF HIGH RANK
Admiral Seymour of England and
Rooster of Germany outrank
American Commandant.
BEST OF FIGHTING CRAFT
TWO OFFICERS OF HIGH RANK

NEW YORK, September 25.-With more
than three score picked fighting ships of
eight nations swinging at anchor in the
Hudson river awaiting the coming OF the
CIermont ard the Half Moon sghtseers
at the Hudson-Fulton celebration locked
upon the most impressive assembly of
foreign warships that has probably ever
been seen in American waters.
Riding in the river between 44th street
and Spuy-ten Duyvil, besides the fifty YES
saIs of the United States Atlantic feet
under Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder the
foreign navies are represented by sixteen
fighting craft in all. Great Britain has
four, Germany has four also. France has
two. Italy has two. Mexico has one, Ar
sentine has one and Cuba has one.
Best Of Fighting Craft.
Their massive hulls, Juggling lazily at
their anchorases, represent the highest
DEVELOPMENT in construction from the
great sfipyards on the Clyde ard the
hest efforts of the German naval con-
.tructors The trirnmest ships of France,
the pick of the fleet of Italy are most
impressive emissaries from the old world
to the new.
Swift cruisers with triple-expansion en-
zines and Ions, rakish lines, like grey
hounds of the ocean: massive battleshlps,
mounted from tuTrets to hShtlng tops
with batteries of the highest type; swift
torpedo boats and torpedo boat Destroy
ers, wonderful ubmarines-every type
of fighting ship known TO the Inlted
states and eight other navies. four OF
them world powers, are In this impress
sive assembly.
The United States Atlantic fleet. under
command of Rear Admiral Seaton
ships Connecticut 5000 tons. hagshlR
Vermont. 5000: Kansas, 5000; Lens
lana. 10000: Minnesota. 5000; New
Hampshire. 10000: Mississippi. $1,000;
Idaho. $4,000: Georgia. AIS: New Jer-
Island. 14.o4s: Virginia. 14.94s: Missouri,
Island, IA. 94s; Virginia. 14.94s; Missouri.
1900. and Ohio, 12.44O: the armored
cruisers North Carolina, 14.5O tons.
speed % 4S knots: New York. 500 tons;
Montana, a. 800 tons. 80 knots: the scout
cruisers Chester. Birmingham and Salem.
3.15o tons. Is knots. and fleet of five
submarines and twenty-four destroyers,
torpedo boats and other auxiiaries.
Admirals Of England and Germany.
Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder is out
ranked by Admiral Won Rooster of the
German imperial navy and Admiral Sir
E0Waf0 seymour Oh TIE bIltisu ioydf
navy. A movement to petition the Presi-
dent to place Admiral Dewey in command
was promptly halted by Admiral Dewey
himself, who said that his health and
age would not permit him to undertake
eight days of fun dress duty and ban
quoting.
The appointment of Admiral Seymour
to these waters is regarded as another
evidence Of King Edwards tact. Adj
mfral Seymour was in command of the
British fleet in Manila hay on the day
when Commodore George Dewey annihi-
lated the Spanish fleet. The rejoinder of
his captain. Sir Edward Chichester. to the
German commander who inquired, before
Dewey went into action and while the
attitude of the German fleet, then at
anchor in the same waters, was still a
matter of anxiety, what action the Eng
lish proposed to take, won him instant
popularity In this country and passed
into history. crystallized in the aphorisms
of Mr.. Dooley:
That" said Sir Edward. with signif1-
cant ambiguity. ''is matter known only
to Admiral Dewey and myself
Seymour in Peking Campaign.
Admiral Seymour became still better
and even more favorably known to
Americans during the international occu-
patton of Picking at the time of the Boxer
uprising. His fleet here consists of the
armored cruisers Infiexible, 1850 tons.
. knots; Drake. 100 tons, ~ knots
Argyll, 10,s5O tons, 23 knots, and the
Duke of Edinburgh, 13,.LO tons. % knots.
Grand Admiral Won Rooster Is also we'll
known to Americans. An intimate friend
of the kaiser. fifty years an officer. and
one of the committee which drew up the
plans resulting in the German-American
Conder-klasse races at Kie1 and Marble
head, he recently retired commander
in-chief of the imperial navy, to be sue
ceeded by Prince Henry of Prussia. He
consented. however to accept the presi-
dency of the German Navy League.
His appointment to the Hudson-Fulton
command is both a compliment to his own
honorable career and to this country. His
feet consists of the cruisers Dresden.
3,544 tons: Herthar $3.50 tons; Victoria
Luise, $500 tons, and Bremen. 3 300 TONS
France sends three battleshps under
Admiral lie Pord-the Verite, IA ,635 tons
Justice. 4,435 TONS and Liberte 14635
tons. Italy sends two-the Etruria and
Etna: Argentine Republic, the Neither
lands, Mexico and Cuba, one each.