The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-11-10
PRESIDENT REVIEWS
FIGHTING | I'M Of
POWERFUL VESSEL
EXECUTIVE AND POPULACE rn
TRIBUTE TO NAVAL EX.
HIBITlON.
RAW DAY AM ROUGH YATFu

RAW DAf an RUUbH HAIfI
Impressive Arrangement Prepared
For War.-Longest Line of Graft
Ever Reviewed All in Full Dress -
Magnificent Display of seamansh0a
NEW YORK, Nov. Fresh from
miles, during which he received s.u.
atorial pledges which seem to lua.
cate the early ratification of Tie
treaties of peace and arbitration VITA
Great Britain and France, President
Taft today, from the wind-5Ve.t
bridge of the hitsoric little cruiser
yacht May1ower, reviewed the might.
lest line of fighting craft ever asscMb.
led under the American flag.
The President had indicated in all
his speeches in advocacy of the
treaties of peace that he entertained
no fond delusion that war, by CON
vention, could Immediately by made
a thing of the past. He declared
that the treaties were a step in the
right direction; that the armed camps
of Europe were looking to the United
States to lead in what might prove
to be great world movement toward
the goal of peace, but that for a long
time to come the suggestion of dis
armament would have no force.
Today Mr.. Taft let it be known that
he would continue to urge upon Con
gress the necessity of building at
least two great super-dreadnoughts
year until the Panama Canal is In
actual operation. The canal, he de-
clared, would double the efficiency OF
the navy, and from that time on one
battleship year might suffice to
keep the American navy in the fore
front of the worlds military Powers.
Countless thousands of people join
ed with the President in paying tri-
butte to the five score vessels which
lay at anchor in the Hudson. Tween
ty-four first-class battleships were In
the lines, grimly gray in their pre-
paredness for war and with ammuni-
ton rooms fairly bursting under the
weight of millions of pounds of DOW
der and shell. Surrounding this bur-
ly column-sullen in it's self-reliance
were armored cruisers, yielding but
little in power and weight to heir
more formidable sisters of the battle
class; scout cruisers, slender but
fast; meteor-like destroyers, green
wasps of the seao 1.-THE torpedobcats,
that seemed spider-like in their
stealth; submarines, barely v;sible
above the water line, and the rank
and file of auxiliary vessels that
serve as tenders to the fleet. There
were ninety-nine in all, the original
plan of having 102 ships in line hav-
ing been curtailed by the absence OF
three torpedoboats.
As if the exhibition of prepared
ness and power, pictured in the an
chored armada were not all guffi-
cient, twenty-five of the battleships
toward the close of the day picked
up their anchors, turned in the teeth
Of the gale and swept proudly out to
sea. The President watched the
passing pageant in impressed silence
AS the big fighting ships steamed by,
with foam-crested waves spreading
from their armored bows and with
clouds of black smoke swirling from
their tunnels, the sun was near its
setting, and they spoke with crash.
ing guns the last of long series OF
5alutes, which had begun with the
early morning and had been all but
ncessant throughout the day.
The review had been the most bril-
liant In the history Of the country,
md with its conclusion the great
deet had dispersed, the various 81 Ups
vending their way to home stations
to await the call to winter maneuvers
n southern waters.
The setting for the review Was a
splendid marine ampitheater. "he
1eet lay on the broad bosom of the
walled in on either side by
owering buildings of Riverside Drive
md the PERCEPTIONS cliffs of the New
Torcnv po1igoao.