Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-25
RepIicas In Collision.

patrol.
Repiicas in Collision.
AS the Clermont was rounding st.
George point she stopped and the Half
Moon, which was coming close behind
under her own sails, bumped broad
side into the steamers paddle wheel.
The damage was slight.
THE VISITING FLEETS.
Noted German and British AdmiraIs
Bring Vessels to Celebration.
New York, Sept. 25.-With more
than three score of the picked fighting
ships of eight nations, swinging at
anchor in the Hudson river, awaiting
the coming of the Clermont and the
Half Moon, sightseers at the Hudson
Fulton celebrated looked upon the most
impressive assembly of foreign war;
ships that has probably ever been seen
in American waters. Riding in the riv-
er between Forty-fourth street and
Spuyten Duyvil, besides the fifty ves-
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 llulls 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 fleet of Italy,
are most impressive emissaries from
the old world to the new.
Swift cruisers with triple expansion
engines and long rakish lines like
greyhounds Of the ocean; massive bat
tleships mounted from turrets to the
fighting tops with batteries of the
highest type. swift torpedo boats and
torpedo boat destroyers, wonderful
submarines-euery type Of fighting
ship known to the United States and
eirht other navies four Of them world
powers, are In this impressive ASSEM-
bly,.
Ships Of the Fleets.
The United States Atlantic fleet mn-
der command of Rear Admiral Seaton
Schroeder, is represented by the bat
tleships Connecticut 10000 tons), flag
ship: Vermont $4,000 tons). Kansas
(16.oo0). Louisiana (1eo00). Mimi sofa
G6,000), New Hampshire (16000) Mis-
sissippi (13,O00), Idaho (130O0),
Georgia (14,94s). New Jersey, 14.s4S),
Nebraska (14,948). Rhode Island (14,-
94s), Virginia (14s4S), Missouri (12,-
soo), and Ohio (12,44o), the armoured
cruisers North Carolina (14.5O0 tons).
Montana G4,500 tons). % knots, the
scout cruisers Chester, Birmingham
and Salem (3,75o tons. 25 knots), and
a fleet of five submarines and twenty
four destroyers, tropedo boats and 9TH
er auxiliar1es.
Rear Admiral Seaton Schroeder Is
outranked by both Admiral Won Koes-
ter, Of the German imperial navy ani
Admiral Edward Seymour, of the Brit
ish royal navy. A movement to petit
ton the president to place Admlra
Dewey in command was promptly halt
ed by Admiral Dewey himself who saie
his health and age would not perlni
him to undertake eight days of full.
dress duty and banquetting. The ap.
,pointment Of Admiral Seymour to these
waters is regarded as another evidenc;
of King Edwards tact. Admiral Sey
mour was in command of the Britis!
fleet in Manila Bay on the day whe,
Commodore George Dewey annihilate'
the Spanish fleet, and the rejoinder 0
his captain, Sir Edward Chichester. t,
the German commander who inquired
before Dewey went into action an:
while the attitude of the German
fleet. then at anchor in the sam,
waters, was still a matter of anxiety
what action the English proposed t.
take, won him instant popularity il
this country and passed into history
srystallized in the aphorisms OF Nj
Dooley:-
THAT said Sir Edward, with sig
riicant ambiguity. is matter know,
only to Admiral Dewey and myself"
Seymour is Well Known.
Admiral Seymour became still bette
Americans during the International oc
cupation of Pekin at the time Of III
/ Boxer uprising. His fleet mere con
sists of the armored cruisers Infiex
ible, 1850 tons, 25 knots, Drake. IA,
100 tons. "a knots, Argull, 10,s50 tons
25 knots, and The Duke Of Edinburgh
1880 tons. % knots.
Grand Admiral Won Rooster is ais
well known to Americans. An init
mate friend of the kaiser. fifty year
an officer, and one of the commitre
which drew up the plants resulting i
the German American Sonder-Klass
races at Kiel and Marblehead, he re
Gently retired as commander-in-c chic
j Of the imperial navy to be succeede
by Prince Henry OF Prussia. He con
sented, however, to accept the presi
dency of the German Navy League an
his appointment to the Hudson-Fulto
command is both a compliment to hi
own honorable career and to this coun
try. His heet consists Of the cruiser
Dresden, 3,544 tons. Herthar, 5.56S tons
Victoria Luise. $3.50 tons and Dreme
$500 tons.
France sends three baAtleships unde
Admiral 10 Pord, the yertte.. 1855 tom
, Justice, l4.436 tens and Liberte. l4.6s
tons. Italy sends two; the Dtruria an
Etna; the Argentine Republic. tn
J, Netherlands. Mexico and Cuba, on
= each.