The daily Panhandle. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1909-09-25
ORDINATIONS
SEND BATTLE
SHIPS
COME AS GUESTS OF AMERICA IN
THE HUDSON-FULTON (ELE-
BRATIOS.
Famous English
Admiral on Hand
MAN WHILE DENEY SNEtA
MANILA BAY.

New York. Sept. 25.-With more
than three score OF the picked fight
ing ships of eight nations, swinging
at anchor in the HUDSON rl'er
awaiting the coming OF the "C!er-
mont" and the Half Moon, sight
seers at the Hudson-Fu Ce!eOra-
ton looked upon the most impress
give assembly OF foreign ships
that has probably ever Heen seen in
American waters. Riding in the
river between Forty-fourth street
and Spuyton Duyvil, beA-es the fifty
vessels of the United States Atlantic
fleet 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.
Argentine has one and Cuba has
one.
Their massive hulls tagging lazily
at their anchorases represent enc
highest development in constru2t iou
from the great shipyards on u
Clyde and the best efforts OF me
German naval constructors. tle
trimmest shops OF France, the pici
Of the fleet OF Italy, are mos i'm.
!, preseive emissaries from the oil.
world to the new
Swift cruisers with triple exIan'
sion engines and long raEish lines
like greyhounds Of the ocean. mas
sive battleships mounted from tur
rets 10 the fighting tops with bat
tleships OF the highest type. uwi!
torpedo boats and torpedo boat de
stroyers, wonderful submarines -
eevry type OF fighting ship know
To the United States and eight 9th
err navies. four OF them world-pow
ers. are in this impressive Assem-
bly,.
The United States Atlantic flee
under command OF Rear Admira
Seaton Schroeder. is represented b
the battleships Connecticut, 1900.
tons, flagship: Vermont. 5000
Kansas. 1900. Louisiana, 10000
/ Minnesota 10000. New Hampshire
1900. Mississippi 1900; Idaho
1900. Georgia. lI,94S. New !er
sey. l494S. Nebraska, 1895
Rhode Island. l4s4S. virginia. Il.
GAS: Missouri. 1880. and Ohio
l2,4O0: TIE armoured cruisers NoTtl
Carolina. 1850 tons; speed :2.4'
knots. New York. s,2OO, Montana
lli,5OO tons. % knots, the scou
cruisers Chester. Birmingham an'
Balen. 3.750 tons, % knots, and
fleet % five submarines and - de
stroyers. torpedo boats and othe
auIiliarics.
Rear Admiral Seston Schroeder
outranked by both Admiral g0'
Rooster o. the German ImpeT.a
navy and Admiral sir Edward Sey
/. mcur OF the British Royal navy. I
movement 20 petition the presi1"n
TO place Admiral Dewey IN couuar,
was promptly halted ny Admirc
Dewey himself. who said that h'
health and age would not p'rwi
him 10 undertake eight days Of I'M
dress duty and hauquett.ns. TIT
appointment of Admiral Seymour &
these waters is regarded az annthc
Evidence o. hing ElysIG's tat. 80
mral Seymour was n command ~
the British fleet IT, Nsni'a or u
day when Commodore George Dewe
anuihilstcd the spanish fleet. an
the relonder Of his captain. s.
Edward Chichester. 20 the German
! commander who inquired t,for0
Dewey went into action and while
the attitude of the German feet
J then at anchor IN the sane waters
was stIll a matter % anxiety. villa
action the EnEN1A propc 'ed to take
won him instant popularity IN thi
country and passed intc history
b crystallirei in the aphori ms q vi
Oooiey-
Tat said Sir Edssr with sig
nifieant ambiguity. Is matte
known only % ADMIRAL Dewey an
myself
|. kfr.Iral Seymour tecarls sin bet
,e- and even more favorabiy know
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p q, ,he Do1er uprising HIS Zee
here consists - the sruored cruiser