The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-09-25
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lCur OF tIem world-pOwels, are in this
impressive assembly.
The United States Atlantic fleet
under command of Rear Admiral Sea
ION Scroeder, is represented by the
battleships Connecticut 100000 flag
ship; Vermont (1600Ol. Kansas (l6.-
00, Louisiana O6,O0O), Minnesota
10000, New Hampshire (16.000)
Mississippi G3,OOO), Idaho QS,0OO),
Georgia Q4,94S), New Jersey IA
94S), Nebraska 04,94S), Rhode ISL
and (14.94S), Virginia G494S), Mis-
souri, Q2,300), and Ohio (l2,44O), the
armoured cruisers North Carolina
G4.50O tons). speed p As knots, New
York (S,20O), Montana Q4,500) y
knots, scout cruisers Chester Birming-
ham and Salem 1850 tons, %
Snots) and a fleet of five submarines
and "A destroyels. torpedo boats and
other auxliaries.
Rear Admiral Seaton Seroeder is
outranked By both Admiral van koes
ter of the German Imperial navy and
Admiral Sir Edward Seymour OF the
British Royal navy A movement tc
petition the President to place Ad
miral Dewey in command was prompt
ly halted by Admiral Dewey himself
who said that his health and age
would not permit him 10 undertake
eight days OF full dress duty and ban
quoting. The appointment of Ad
mlral Seymour to these waters is re
galded as another evidence Of King
Edwards tact. Admiral Symour was
in command of the British fleet II
Manila bay on the day when Com
mOdore George Dewey annihilated
the Spanish fleet, and the rejoindel
OF his captain, Sir Edward Chichester
10 the German commander who IN
Quired before Dewey went into ae
icn and while the attitude of the
German fleet, then at anchor in the
same waters. was still a matter o.
anxiety. what action the English prl
resed to take, won him instant popu
Iarity in this eountry and passed int
history, crystallized in the aphorlsms
Of Mr. Dooley:
That" said Sir Edward, with sig
nificant ambiguity, 1t is a matte
known only to Admiral Dewey ano
myself
Admiral Seymour became still bet
ter and even more favorably known
10 Americans during the interna
tonal occupation of Pekin at the
time of the Boxer uprising. His fleeI
here consists Of the armored cruis
els Inflexible Q7500 tons % knots)
Drake G4,100 tons, "a knotsl, Argyll
1O.S5C tons. % knots) and the Duke
Of Edinburgh, O5,550 tons, ~ knots).
Grand Admiral Won Rooster is also
we'll known to Americans. An inti'
mate friend of the Kaiser, 80 years
N officer, and one of the commit
Tee which drew up the plans resulting
n the German-American Sender
Glass races at Kiel and Marblehead'
he recently retired as Commander-in
Chief of the Imperial navy to be sue
oeedel by Prince Henry of Prussia
lie consented however, to accept the
.rosidencv of the German NaVN
eague and his appointment to the
Hudson-Fulton command Is both Q
compliment to his own honorable ca
reer and to this country. His fleet
,onsists of the cruisers Dresden
C3.544 tons). Herthar (5,569). Vic
toria Luise (5,569) and Bremen
(3,210)
France sends three battleships un
Ter Admiral le Pord-the Verite "a.
i35 tons). Justice 144S5) and II
,erte C4,635); Italy sends tvN-th'
Truria and Etna; the Argentine lie
ubir, the Netherlands, Mexico ant
cuba. one each.