Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28

| the fighting tops with batteries of the
highest type, swift torpedo boats and
torpedo boat destroyers, wonderful
! suhmarines--every type of fighting
ship known to the United States and
eight other navies, four of them
world-powers, are in this impressive
assembly.
The United States Fleet.
The United States Atlantic fleet un-
der command of Rear Admiral Seaton
Schroeder, Is represented by the bat
tleships Connecticut $4,000 tons),
flagship; Vermont 100000, Kansas
t16,000). Louisiana $4,000, Minneso.
ia G6,000), New Hampshire (16.00O),
Mississippi (13.O00), Idaho (13,0O0l,
Georgia d4,94S), New Jersey Ga
s4s), Nebraska (14,94S), Rhode Island
(14,94S), Virginia Q4,94S), Missouri
(12,3001, and Ohio (12,440), the ar
incurred cruisers North Carolina (14,.
5000. speed 22.4S knots, New York
(S,200), Montana (l4,500 tons), %
knots; the scout cruisers Chester,
Birmingham and Salem (3,750 tons),
% knots; and fleet of five submar-
ines and "a destroyers, torpedo boats
anu olllCi nuAlhdIlSS.
Some of the Admirals.
Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder is
outranked by both Admiral Won Koes-
ter of the German Imperial navy and
Admiral Edward Seymour of the Brit
ish Royal navy. A movement to petit
ton the president to place Admiral
Dewey in command was promptly halt
ed by Admiral Dewey himself, who
said that his health and age would not
permit him to undertake eight days
of full-dress duty and banquetting.
The appointment of Admiral Seymour
TO these waters Is regarded as another
evidence of King Edwards tact. Adj
mlral 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 Richard
Chichester, to the German command
er, who inquired before Dewey went
into action and while the attitude of
the German feet, then at anchor in
the same waters, was still, 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
nificant ambigui. :, lis matter known
only to Admiral Dewey and myself.
dmira Seymour became still bet
ter and even more favorably known to
Americans during the international
occupation of Peliing at the time of
the Boxer uprising. His feet here con-
sists of the armored cruisers InfleX-
ible t17,500 tons, % llnote), Drake
l4,100 tons, "a llnots), Argyll co.
So tons, % knots), and The Duke Of
Edinburgh G3,550 tons, % knots),
Grand Admiral Won Rooster is also
we'll 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
German-American Sonder-Klasse races
at kie and Marblehead. he recently
retired as communicating chief of the
Imperial Navy, to be succeeded by
Prince Hey Of Prussia. He consent
ed, however, to accept the presidency
of the German Navy League and his
appointment to the Transformation
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
(5,569O, Victoria Louise (5,569) and
Bremen 6 20O.)
France sends three battleships I'M
der Admiral lie Pord-the Verite "a.
635 tons), Justice 14,435) and Liberte
14.635).
italy sends two-the Etruria and
Etna; the Argentine Republic, the
Netherlands, Mexico and Cuba, one
each