The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-29

teen torpedo boats and one training
ship
Last night nine Submarines sneaked
up the harbor and hid themselves 10 the
gray shadows Of the battleshIps.
Some Famous Vessels.
The vessels Of the mighty feet are
cut has been the Atlantic flagship since
1906. The Michigan. with j record OF
90 bits in possible 100, bears the
world s most accurate gunners; the
Delaware was our representative at
King George S coronation, the Missouri
has as chief gunner Moussen, who a
year or two ago, after powder had ex-
pIoded prematurely IN mis- vessels for
ward turret, crawlcd in. shut the maya
zine doors and covered up the powder
tanks. He saved the ship through his
pluck
The Idaho went last year on that
famous Mississippi trip to Nachez, the
farthest inland point a warship ever
visited, the Massachusetts is the only
warshlp which ever made the passage
through He'll Gate and. with the Indiana
and Iowa. was in service in the Spanish
war. The ships are practice vessels
nov for the naval academy
The Washington. with % knots 10 her
credit, is the fastest armored cruiser
in the navy, while the Salem. slim
scout cruiser. is one of the fastest war-
ships in the world and possibly the fast
est.
VERY little. very cocky. a favorlte
with visitors, is the gunboat Nashville,
with Spain; while near her lies the
tiny guDboat Petrel. the only vessel
here that was in Dewey's fleet. The
famous Oregon is missing. but the gun
boat Marietta. which is here. accom-
panied her upon her epoch-mal<ing voy-
age from Puget sound to the Atlantic
and participated in tho war.
The town is full of iackies. No New
York girl has any reason TO claim that
she is lonely and; Furthermore, as to-
day is pardav on the fleet, no thug with
an appetite for combat need 90 without
hearty fight tonight, to make him
happy.
Window Panes in Danger,
The milIionaires on Riverside drive
are worried, as the sad narvcd rich in
Newport werc not long ago, because
their window panes are threatened by
conclusions of salutes. The guards
upon the subway and the elevated roads
speak very loudly, remembering bruised
Jaws not long ago when jack tars were
carried past their proper destinations.
The laps in town, beset by fear of heart
failure, kept eyes averted from the
river wher they 60 near the water
front The streets are full of blue jack
cts and song.
The displacement Of this fleet in tons,
amounts to 577 .2s5: the capacity of its
blue jackets is rated, by the hopeful
ones along the Great White Way and
elsewhere at 100000 gallons. but so far
they have taken no advantage of it.
For tho most part they arc marvellous
IL we'll behaved aud there are more
clean-cut American faces under the blue
caps than ever was the case before.
Enlistments have been heavy, | am told,
from the middlewest and northwest
lately and the high character of the new
members Of our fighting family is plain
enough to see on New York s streets
today.
Striking proof of the exceeding mod
crnness Of this immense. flotilla lies in
the decision of the secretary of the navy
to leave the battleshin veterans Of the
Spanish war out Of the great pageant
which the president will review.
Osterhaus in Command.
Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus is in
command upon the flagship Connecti-
cut The entire fleet will be assembled
MOnuaS hIteTHpOH at idlcSL ana StCTe'
tary Meyer will review if Wednesday
accompanied on the official boat by the
members of the congressional naval
committees. 1t was planned TO use the
presidents Yacht Mayflowcr and the
Dolphin for that purpose, but Mr.,
Taft IS determination to come cast TO
see his big warships in line may alter
this arrangement.
4 football game for the fleet cham
pionship is scheduled for Monday after
noon and, some time during the fleet S
stay, a three mile cutter race is to be
rowed from Fort Lee Ferry TO the foot
of FIfiy.scventb street, a distance of
three miles and a half
Wednesday s review will cost much
powder. Two thousand detonations
from the fleet s guns will roar over
Manhattan.