New-York tribune., 1911-10-30
THRONG VIEWS EIGHT
MILES Of WARSH|PS
Crowds Line Riverside Drive All
Day Watching Greatest
American Armada.
BIG REVIEW ON THURSDAY
President Taft 10 Inspect 1O2
Vessels at Anchor in Hudson
from Deck of the
Mayhower.

Mayfiower
| Manhattan must have had a slight list
TO port Yesterday afternoon, since almost
half her varied and motley crew crowded
the rail at Riverside Drive to watch the
warships And as if a few hundred thou
sand more or less could hardly matter.
there slipped aboard her from the other
municipal units dotting the bay horde OF
provincials which almost rocked the little
old craft I'm their rush across her narrow
decks 20 swell the mass Of sightseers.
The North River crawled with countless
( tiny bolts. propelled by petrol. steam or
perspiration. which crept about the grim
fighters ike water beetles about the stones
in a brook. 4 large delegation of customs
officers helped the small corps Of steam
boat inspectors in their effort 10 enforce
. the rules regulating the number Of passen-
gers 10 a boat But there were so many
/ passengers and so many boats that a few
topheavy deck loads eluded them ami
squirmed about in the choppy stream with
. =cupuers awash Even canoes containing
men and women danced about precariously
on the steamer waves hut up 10 q late
hour the police had reported no capsizings
or drownings
-Four lines Of ships stretching eight miles,
from 57th street 10 Spuyten Duyvil, formed
the attraction. Il is New Yorks greatest
naval show and the probability tnat moth
ing like it will be seen in these ports for
another decade helpea 20 drive the populace
to the river front. BY early afternoon
vast crowds had gathered on Riverside
| Drive from 72d street 10 the end Of the
extension near Dykeman street, and had
overrun Riverside and Fort Washington
parks.
AT every pier and landing place along
/ this stretch launch. steamboat, rowboat and
canoe owners bargaIned and made change
furiously all day. although for some time
after their customers began swamping the
. accommodation no visitors were allowed
aboard the warships. Not until a quarter
/ Of the twents thousand sailors which the
f. fleet carries had obtained shore leave and
come ashore in countless boauoads were
. the "cits' allowed 10 approach the war
. ships nearer than a hundred yards. and in
the mean time many controversy arose
between irate ticket holder and sullen boat
. owner over the latters inability % nut his
passenger aboard some fighting craft.
Click Of Cameras Often Heard.
Every tenth sightseer had a camera. IL
seemed. and it seemed also as II he snapped
il every tenth minute, so that the amount
NJ snapshots Of everything connected with
yesterdays pageant when printed, would
probably come near papering the Drive
from end 20 end. The sailors, when they
. stepped ashore. We're snapped. The vessels
were snapped from shore and from boat
and from every conceivable angle once
the visitors We're allowed 10 swarm aboard
I the mase0ts the guns the crews the Off
Gers. everything and everybody on deck
posed. consciously or unconsciously, before
the camera.
Tn, battleships Maine and Titan. the
a~mor-d cruiser North Carolina. the Presi-
dents yacht. the Mayhower; the five de-
stroyers. Reid Flusser Preston, LamsoH
and Smith the colliers Cyclops and Ster-
ling the supply ship CuigOa and the tug
Potomac joined the ranks yesterday The
mighty Florida will proceed around the
Battery from the navy yard tomorrow in
the wake of the Utah and by the time she
picks UP her mooring of 10th street It is
expected that the entire lo2 vessels 20 be
reviewed will De in line. complete list
follows.
BATTLE~HII-.
Connecticut Florida. UtaH Deiavare. North
Dakota Michigan. Louisiana, south 'aroiira'
/ Kansas. Vermont New Hampshire, Minnesota
/ Mississippi Idaho Missouri. Ohio. Georgia,
Nebraska. NnW Jersey Virginia, Maine, Iowa.
Indiana ami Massachusetts.
ARMGREr CRUISERS
Washington and North carolina.
PROTECTED CRUISERS.
salem ana Des Monee
DESTRpYERs
Reid. F1u-ssr. Iamson Preston, smith,
ura-for PauduE Mccall Roe. Perry. Per
kns Nar-ant. srere't Na'kGr Warflneton' rl.l.a.
Patterson. Monaghan, Awmon, Burrows lrippe'
Na,fouourh and Warden.
TORPEDO BOATS
Porter. pak4I. Dupont. Barney. Biddle,
I Craven. par.1rou. no Long, Shuhrira. stockton,
. Trge. WILKES. EaeIe- BAILEY. -ts mgham and
| Morris.
SUBMARINES
Brs,lir-. Bonita. NarvhaI. salmon. snapper,
Stin-rar. TarTon and octopus.
TORPEDO BOAT TENDERS.
Dixie Castiue and severn.
GU%BOATs
Nashville Dolphin. Petrol and Marietta.
ArNILIAFIEs
Prairie TRANSPORT san Francisco 'mIrr iarer'.
LEBANON ammunition -nIp' I1n'htr repair
srIpI MAJ fover converted Ee'hr, 'aAHiol
rardeu. .oe.fi. and Cl'roa suppl srp1 AMI
'SoIa.r hospital ship.
GOLFERS
Neptune D.rIops. Hector. Mars Vulcan.
.a,. uru'1- and sterling
oIL rhN-ER.
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