The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-03
|;nety-nine Fighting Vessels
h Line, Most Powerful
Fleet Ever Assembled I'm
der American Flag.
.REAT CROWDS OF
PEOPLE ON SHORE
|agnidcent Spectacle Pre-.
sented as Twenty-Five Bat
4 tIeships Stand Out
to Sea.

rEW YORK. Nov. 2,-FTesh from
\ his cross continent tour, during
which he received senatorial
plejecs which seem to Indi'
the carly ratification OF the
Iitration treaties with Great Brit
and France, President TAFT,
n The windswcpt bridge of the his
(, little Yacht Maytlower. re
Fed the mightiest line of fighting
n ever assembled under the Amerl-
Gag. 49,,
he president had indicated in all has
eehes in advocacy OF the treaties OF
re that he entertained no fond de.
on that war, by convention, could
uedisteIy be made a thing OF the
n He declared the treaties we're
|ep in the right direction; that the
led camps OF Europe we're looking TO
United States Ia lead 10 what
N prove to be a great world move
Il toward the goal Of peace, but that
n long time to como. the suggestion
would have no force.
oday Mr.. Taft let IT be known that
KouId continue to urge upon con-
b the necessity of building at least
uper.dreadnanghts n year until
Panama canal is IL actual operation
capaI, he declared, would double
Efficiency Of the navy and from
time on, one battleship Il year
bi suffice tn keep he American navy
Ihe forefront OF tho world s mill
powers.
1untless thousands of people joined
y The president in paying tribute to
I've score vessels which lay at am
\ in the Hudson.
|ety-nine Ships in Line.
Feuty-four frst.class battlcships
\ in the line, grimly gray in their
Isrcdness for war aud with ammun,-
rooms fairly bursting under the
fht of millions Of pounds of powder
Shell. Surrounding this burlY col
Eere hrmored cruisers, Welding but
In power and weight TO their for
able sisters Of the battle class;
cruisers, slender, but fast; me-
tnke destroycrs, green wasps of the
llthe torpedo boats that seemed
'tfilkc in their stealth; submarines,
~ visible above the water line, and
fank and file of auxiliary vessels
served as tenders TO the feet.
"a Tprn all ,hA A.
plan Of hsving l02 ships in liue
|,ng beou curtailed by the absence
|pfee torpedo boats.
. II the exhibition of Preparedness
power, pictured in the anchored ar.
q were not all sufficient, twenty-five
'ne bnttleships toward the close OF
qay picked UP their anchors, turned
se teeth of the gale and swept
qly out 10 sea. The president
+ped Tue passing pageant IN silence.
lhe big fighting steamships
'ped by with foam-crested waves
Jung from their armored bows aud
4 clouds OF smoke swirllng from
iunoels. the sun WAS near its set
Sod they spoke with crashing guns
'sst OF long series Of salutes which
peRun with the early morning aud
day.
'lhant Scene.
" review had been the most bril.
% the history oG the nation, and
W. conclusion the great feet had
fsed, the various ships vending
nay to home stations to await
katers.
;settlng for the review was .
~ natural marine ampitheatcr
se' lhv on the broad bosom of tho
~, walled in on either side By tho
~ onldlugs Of Riverside drlyC
q Palisades.
qaY was Quo nf changing sun
4csaa shadow. Ont Of the north
nen "nere blew a gale which at time.
"A, n!ty'nine miles an hour anc
Huh II the chill Of winter
M ,saing had dawncd humid anC
/|loedt" dt"L When the waiting ships al
vH IN, a mad decked themselves in th,
1" neugs mags OF "fuIl dress = the harle
i.p,;In pi;Innants fluttcred lazily iu al
1;s an hour and Il half q gale ha,
M with all it's force and ha,
da,,,;saao ;saoaas seurrying before il. II
Il Ta,ne aane sunshine that followed th,
'"ss T were whipped into a riotou
ended this time until the da,
<ht iu; IN :, great new cIoud. banks
|rrtlun tue north. were driven inter
to across the skies, adding thei
y The pieturesoueness of tn,
ma ySe ~ OF the cloud banks broueh
u Sut 81 snow, the FIRST Of the seaso,
cons. nshcr neither the chill blasts no
ID da.lv dctaslv recurring threats .
|ehca a'strfed tned the spectators VIII
10 n ana Tor miles along the r;ya -
steaTmse tear crowded the decks of excuI
~ n%ers annhs cirSling about the wa,
rprx suicide at Age Of 80.
<narni,s. .n,o; NOV. 2-plnc,no . suc
berc,,.ss,uu Under hs head md 'e 800 . s,iG
ID. Prs,"n cap wifi :, 'f'.','