The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-09-30


New York. Sept. 2S-With more than
three score OF the picked flghting ships
Of eight nations swinging today 1t AM
Choir In the Hudson river, awaiting the
coming OF the Clermont and the Half
Moon. sightseers at the Hudson-Fultuq
celebration looked upon the most ims
pressive assembly Of foreign warshipa
American waters. Riding In the river
between Fourty-Fourth street and
Spuyten Duyvil, besides the so vessels
OF the United States Atlantic fleet ur4
der Rear Admiral Eeat0n 6chroeder, this
foreign navies are represented by 10
four, Germany has four also, France
has two, Italy has two, Mexico has nj
Argentine has 0ne, and Cuba has ono.
Their massive hulls Juggling laxily al
their anchorages represent the highest
development in construction from the
great Ehipyards OF the Clyde and tho
best efforts Of the German naval con-
structors. The trimmest ships Of
France, the pick OF the fleet OF ITALY.
are most impressive emissaries from
theo old world to the new.
Swift cruisers with triple expansion
engines n long ralkish lines like grey
rounds of the ocean; massive battle
ships mounted from turrets to the
fighting tops with batteries Of tho
highest type, swift torpedo boats and
torpedo boat destroYelB. wonderful sub
marines-eyery type Of Fighting ship
other navies, four OF them world-pow-
ers. are In this impressive assembly.
Tho American Fleet.
The United States Atlantic fleet UNI
der command of Rear Admiral Seaton
Schroeder, is represented by the bat
tleships Connecticut 10000 tons), flag
ship; Vermont Sls.oool, Kansas $4,000.
New Hampshire a6.0oo). Mississippi
(13,oool. Idaho (13,oOo). Georgia 1915,
New Jersey (14,94S), Nebraska 14,948l.
Rhode Island (14,948). Virginia (14,94S),
Missouri Q2.300), and Ohio (12,440), the
ar1noured cruisers North Carolina Ga
500 tons, speed 22.4s knots), New York
$1,000, Montana G4,500 tons, % knots).
the scout cruisers Chester, Birmingharn
and Salem (3,750 tons, 25 knots), and a
fleet of five submarines I'M "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
ish royal navy. A movement to petition
the president to place Admiral Dewey
IN 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 n banqueting. The APP
pointment of Admiral Seymour to these
waters is regarded as another evidence
of King Edwards tact.
Admiral Seymour was in m OF
the British fleet in Manila bay on the
day when Commodore George Dewey
annihflated 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 the
same waters, was still q matter of
anxiety, what action the English pro-
posed to take, won him instant popu-
larity in this country and passed into
of Mr.. Dooley:
."That," a Sir Edward, with sig
nif1cant ambiguity, tis 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 the time of the
Boxer uprising. His feet here consists
of the arnoured cruisers Inf1exible (17.-
500 tons, rs knots; Drake (14,100 tons. 81
knots): Argyll Qo,85o tons, 90 knotsl,
and The Duke Of Edinburgh (13.5
tons, % knots).
Grand Admiral Won Rooster is also
well known to. Americans. An intimate
friend of the kaiser, so years an Off
Ger, and one of the committee which
drew up the plans resulting in the
Gcrman-American Sonder-Klasse races
at Kiel and Marblehead, 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, and his appoint
ment to the Hudson-Fulton command
is both a compliment to his own hon
orable career n to this country. His
feet consists OF h cruisers Dresden
(3,544 tons). Herthar 6,569), Victoria
Luise $3.50 and Bremen $4,000.
France sends three pattleships under
Admiral lie Pord-the Verite (14,635
tons), Justice Q4,435) and Liberte d.
635). Italy sends two-the Etruria and
Etna; the Argentine Republic, IN
Netherlands. Mexico and Cuba, one