Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-30
MAYFLowER TO HEAD PARADE
Fleet Will Make Greatest Naval
Pageant in This Country.
TAKES PLACE NOVEMBER SECOND
Air Will Be Filled with Smoke of
Saluting Guns.
LINE SEVERAL MILES LONG
After Watching ships Pass President
Taft VIII GO to virginia and
Then Continue His
Journey.

CHICAGO, Oct. 2s.-Secretary of the
Navy Meyer, who came TO Chicago 20 as
sist in the dedication of the new naval
training station here and to arrange for
the review Of the great fleet OF battle
ships and other vessels Of war now as
sembled In New York by President Taft,
left for the cast tonight
The main features of the review have
been agreed upon and only the smaller
details remain TO be worked out by the
naval authorities.
In other respects than mere number of
ships and power of armament, the re-
view promises TO eclipse any naval
pageant ever seen in this country Presl-
dent Taft not only will sail through the
four lines Of ships at anchor in the
Hudson river, but will watch the vast
armada pick up its anchors and get under
way. He then will lead the long column
Of fighting ships down the way and off
staten island will stand aside on the May
flower and again review the fleet rs It
passes out to sen.
The presidential review will take place
on Thursday. November ?. Wednesday
the secretary OF the navy will inspect
the fleet from his dispatch boat. the
really will mark the beginning Of the
pageant for Secretary Meyer will be
received with all the honors due his of
flee and tho river will reverberate with
the roar of salutlng cannons.
President Taft will reach New York on
Thursday morning and will be in and
about the battleships all day long. He
will board the Mayflower at $3.50 a. M.
and will n /
when he will depart for Hot Springs. Va.
to rest three or four days before filling
the supplementary engagements he
recently made in Cincinnati Kentucky
and Tennessee.
MayfIOwer VIII Lead.
The MnyfioYer. dressed IN the sayest
of bunting and flying the presidents flag.
VIII roach The head of the rour battlealalp
Tines at 10 io'eiocss. 1t win anchor for a
brief time there to permit the commander
in-chief OF the fleet Rear Admiral Hugo
Osterhaus, and possibly the division COM
manders to so on board and pay their
respects to the oommander-in-chlefo Of the
army and navy. President Taft will re-
turn Admiral Osterhaus' visit on board
the historic old flagship, the Connecticut.
When he is again n board tho Mayflower
the yacht will get under way and steam
up the river through the water lane
formed by the fleet and second columns
OF the anchored fleet This lane is seven
miles long. After the last little torpedo
boat at the end Of the column has paid
its tribute of twenty-one guns 10 the
president. the Mayflower Will turn and,
heading for the south, will steam back
through tho third and fourth columns.
From the time the Mayflower first hoves
IN sight at the beginning OF the review,
until the fleet has picked its way through
the narrows and is headed out past Sandy
Hook, the saluting win be almost centinu-
Gus and New York harbor and the city
itself, promises to be wrapped for hours
in the pungent white smoke poured from
the muzzles OF several hundred guns.
Spectacle Great One.
The spectacle OF the vast fleet getting
under way in the narrow confines of New
York harbor will be one worth remem-
bering. and undoubtedly will be Witnessed
from shore and shipboard by countless
thousands Of people. President Roosevelt
in 1907. watched the Atlantic fleet get
under way for its trip around the world
The picture then presented was one that
has lived long in naval annals. But there
were only sixteen ships in the line and
they had the broad bosom OF Hampton
roads TO maneuver in with miles of green
water on every side. When the big fleet
now assembled in the Hudson river begins
TO move II win require wonderful skill
in navigation to get II Strengthened out
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