The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-09-30

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ness Il vary from 100000 TO n
\ 2~,500,00o0.
New York. Sept. 2s-with more than
three score OF the picked lighting ships
Of eight nations swinging today al an
Choir in the Hudson river, awaiting the
coming of the Clermont and the Half
Moon, sightseers at the Hudson-Fulton
celebration looked o the most inn
pressive assembly of foreign warships
that has probably ever been seen In
American waters. Riding in the river
Spuyten Duyvtl, besides the 80 vessels
OF the United StateO Atlantic fleet un-
der Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder, the
foreign navies are represented by 16
fighting craft in all. Great Britain a
four, Germany has four also, France
has two. Italy has two, Mexico has one.
Argentine has one, and Cuba has one.
Their massive hulls tugging lazily at
their anchorages represent the highest
development In construction from the
great shipyards on the Clyde and the
best efforts of the German naval con-
structors. The trimmest ships OF
France, the pick OF the leet Of Italy,
dLO NAO9l AliRAC CAAAA0DAAAN AAOAAA
the old world to the new.
Swift cruisers with triple expansion
engines M long rakish lines like grey
hounds OF the ocean; massive battle
ships mounted from turrets 10 the
fighting tops with batteries OF the
highest type, swift torpedo boats and
torpedo boat d~estroyers, wonderful sub
marines-every type OF fighting ship
known tc the United States I'M eight
other navies. four of them world-pow-
ers, are In this impressive assembly.
The American Fleet.
The United States Atlantic fleet I'M
der command IF Rear Admiral Seaton
Schroeder, is represented by the bat
tleships Connecticut Q6,e00 tons), flag
ship; Vermont q6,000l, Kansas 10000,
Louisiana (16,000), Minnesota 10000,
New Hampshire 10000, Mississippi
CS.OO0l, Idaho / 10000, Georgia Q4.94S),
New Jersey (14,948), Nebraska Q4,94S),
Rhode Island (l4,948), Virginia IA. 94S),
Missouri (12,300), and Ohio 1 2,440), the
armoured cruisers North Carolina GA
500 tons, speed 22,48 knots), New York
$4,000, Montana Q4,500 tons, 20 knots),
the scout cruisers Chester, Birmingham
n Salem q, $50 tons, 25 knots), and a
fleet Of five submarines and "a destroy
ers, torpedo boats and other auxiliaries.
Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder is
outranked by both Admiral van Koes-
ter, Of the German imperial navy, and
Admiral Edward Seymour, of the Brit
Ssh royal navy. A movement to petition
the president 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 full
dress duty and banqueting. The APP
pointment of Admiral Seymour to these
waters Is regarded as another evidence
OF King Edwards tact.
Admiral Seymour was in command Of
the British fleet in Manila bay on the
day when Commodore George Dewey
annihilated the Spanish fleet, and 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 h
same waters, was still a matter OF
anxiety, what action the English pro-
posed to take, won him instant popu-
larity in this country and passed into
history, crystallized in the aphorisms
of Mr.. Dooley:
That" said Sir Edward, with sig
niflcant ambiguity, els a matter known
only to Admiral Dewey and myself"
Admiral Seymour became still better
and even more favorably known to
Americans during the international oc-
cupation OF Pekin at h time OF the
Boxer uprising. His feet here consists
Of the armoured cruisers Infiexible a.
500 tons, 25 knots; Drake (14,1O0 tons. "a
knots); Argyll Q0,850 tons, % knots),
and The Duke of Edinburgh Q3,560
tons, % knots).
Grand Admiral Won Rooster is also
well known to Americans. An intimate
friend of the kaiser, 80 years an ofi-
Ger, and one of the committee which
drew up the plans resulting In the
Gcrman-American Sonder-K lasse races
at Kiel and M~arblehead, he recently re-
tired as commander in chief OF the i'm
perial navy, to be succeeded by Prince
Henry, of Prussia. He consented, how
ever, to accept the presidency OF the
German Navy league, n his appoint
ment to the Hudson-Fulton command
is both a compliment to his own hon
orable career and to this country. His
fleet consists of the cruisers Dresden
(3,544 tons), Herthar (5,5e9). Victoria
Luise $3.50 and Bremen l3.200).
France sends three pattleships under
Admiral lie Pord-the Verite Q4,635
tons), Justice (14,435) and Liberte GA
$3.50. Italy sends two--the Etruria and
Etna; the Argentine Republic, the
Netherlands, Mexico and Cuba, one
each,
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