The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-30
MOBILIZE FLEET N NEW YORK HARbOR The Largest Display Ever
 Undertaken SEVEN MILES OF SHIPS
  One Hundred and Two Vessels of All Classes With Total Displacement of 577,2S5 Tons Comprises
 Flower of Atlantic Fleet
SEVEN MILES OF SHIPS

has prepared to entertain for three days this week 10000 blue jackets on 102 war vessels of the Atlantic fleet ordered hther for participation in the most ambitious mobilization of fighting craft ever undertaken In this country. In command of Rear Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, all the available ns O. the Atlantic squadron began tx~ ling toward New York harborf ,@ e week.. and 24 vessels 1.-the squad ron are due at Los " 4les for the west coast naval ,oS nstration there. one hundred 2 go 'nty-six in all, they will remain .S.S TOT from to- day until Thursday cF will be two nights of illuminat . . i'd Jack ashore will have perhap- greatest land fete of his career. 1a-e number of men due at New York alone surpasses the strength of Shafter's army in Cuba, but even then it is the opinion in navy cir cles that some of the vessels will Dc short handed. It Is hoped, however, by emergency measure to meet demands
 Early last week the only three bat tleships in the Brooklyn navy yard the dreadnoughts Utah, Delaware and Florida-were groomed for the display, wired for the special illuminations and made ready to swing around the har- bor mouth and up into North river. The presidential yacht Mayflower also at the navy yard, has been prepared for the parade and will bob alongside the great battleships, although President Taft, according to his latest plans, will not return from the west in time to re- view the ships.
 Miles of Ships
 Arrangements here call for five, and perhaps seven, miles of ships, great and small, forming four lines in the Hud- son river from West Fifty-seventh street to Fort Washington, or above. The battleships will be 400 yards apart, destroyers 300, smaller torpedo boats and other craft 200. In order that they may be displayed to the best ad vantage it was arranged to have the submarines anchored nearest the New York shore. Next in line come the bat tleships and, in the third and fourth stroyers and torpedo boats.
 This long line of lo2 vessels, "A of them battleships comprising the flower of the Atlantic fleet, will have an az gregate tonnage of 5T7,2S5; and off Los Angeles 24 warships will have a tonnage of 116,245, making a grand total of 693,53O. Thus, as a national naval display. the mobilization will sur pass the German review at Kiel in September; will outweigh the French display at Toulon last month and will rank second only to the great array o9 fighting ships which assembled in the Solent on June "A during the cerem monies of George V of England. On that oc- casion there was a display of 167 Brit ish warships and IS foreign vessels, and the aggregate tonnage of British vessels alone was more than a mil lion.
 102 Vessels I
 The entire fleet which will swing at anchor in the Hudson river until Thurs day comprises "A battleships, two armored cruisers, two protected cruisers, P de- stroyers, 16 torpedo boats. eight sub-ma- rines, three torpedo fleet tenders, four gunboats, nine miscellaneous vessels, such as hospital, supply and ammunition ships; eight colliers, an oil tanker and three tugs. Never in the history of the Amer ican navy have so many warships been thrown together, and to man them re- quires nearly half the enlisted strength of the entire navy.
 It is a serious problem to anchor such an array of vessels in the Hudson with out inconvenencing passing commercial craft, but with the positions worked out on a diagram, each vessel slips into it's appointed place as quietly as possible.
 The flagship Connecticut, which led the Atlantic fleet on its around-the-wor cruise, will swing at the head of the column not far from the giant Florida, which makes her appearance in public for the first time. She was only recently | put in commission has not yet had her speed trials, and in participating in the display she leaves the Brooklyn navy yard, where she was built, for her first turn around the harbor.
 New Yorl's last great naval demon- stration was during the Hudson-Fulton but the then combined strength of United States and visiting does not equal the array planned for the present mobilization. As an experiment of assembling on short notice a great number of ships in fight ing trim it is being watched with in tercst by naval authorities, and may be compared, from a naval viewpoint, to the mobilization of troops at San An tonic during the Mexican. insurrection The problem of moving 2o,0o0 sailors is vastly easier than moving troops over land. however, for the former requires hut a shifting of a floating structure with crew. arms and provisions complete while an army by train IS prob lem of herculean proportions and per plexities.
 As announced by the navy department the ships to participate in the mopiliza- ton here are:
 Personnel of Fleet
 ships-Connecticut. Florida, Utah, delaware. North Dakota, Michigan, Lou siana. South Carolina. Kansas Vermont, New Hampshire, Minnesota. Mississippi 1 Idaho Missouri, Ohio, Georgia, Nebraska, | New Jerseys, Virginia, Maine, Iowa. ln- l diana and Massachusetts.
 Arrnored Cruisers-Washington ana North Carolina. Moines. .,so,, l
 nestrovers-Reld. Flusser, Lamsoh' Smith. Drayton, Paulding, Mc- Can Poe. Perry, Perkins. Mayrant, Ster- ett walker. Warrington. Patterson Moi- aphan. Amren. Burrows, Trippe, Mac ponough and Worden.
 Torpedo Boats-Porter, Blakeley. Du- nont. Barney. Riddle. Craven, Danlgren' De Long, Shubricll, Stockton. Iinsey. Wilkes, Bagley, Bailey, Styingham anu Norris.
 submarines-Brayin Bonita, Narwha', Salmon Snapper, Stingray. Tarpon ana Octopus.
 Torpedo Boat Tenders-Dixie, Castine and Severn.
 Gunboats- Nashville, Dolphin, Petrel and 
 Auxiliaries-Prairie dransport. San Francisco (mine layer), Lebanon tam-
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