Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-11-03
WILL URGE TWO
VESSELS A YEAR.
PRESIDENT TAFT DOES NOT LOOK
OUT FOR DISARMAMENT
FOR MANY YEARS.
reviews ATLANTIC FLEET
Is STRONGLY IMPRESSED WITH
GATHERING THAT SHOWS
SUCH PREPAREDNESS.
PICTURE A pretty ONE
Ninety-Ninc Boats Lie Gracefully in
Hudson, While Great ThrOngs
Look On-Onc Fatality.
reviews ATLANTIC FLEET
PICTURE A PRETTY one
Ninety-Ninc Boats Lie Gracefully in
Hudson, WhiloN Great Throngs
Look On-Onc Fatality.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Fresh from
his cross continent tour during which
he received senatorial pledges which
seem to indicate the early ratification
Of the treaties of peace and arbitra-
ton with Great Britain and France,
President Taft today from the wind
swept bridge of the historic fttle
cruiser-yacht Mayflower reviewing
the biggest line Of fighting craft ever
assembled under the American flag.
The president had indicated in all
his speeches In advocacy of the trea-
ties of peace that he entertained no
fond delusion that war by convention
could Immediately he made a thing of
the past. He declared that the trea-
ties were a step in the right direction;
that the armed camps of Europe We're
looking to the United States to lead
in what might prove to be a great
world movement to peace, but that
for a long time TO come the sugges-
ion of disarmament would have ne
FORCE.
Two Drcadnau2hts q Year.
Today Mr.. Taft let 1t be known that
he will continue to urge upon con-
gress the necessity of building at least
two great superior dreadnaughts
year until the Panama canal Is in
operation. This, he declared, would
double the efficiency of the navy, and
from that time on one ship = year
might suffice to keep the American
navy In the forefront of the worlds
maritime powers.
Thousands of people joined with
the president in paying tribute to the
vessels which anchored in the harbor.
Twenty-four first clase battleships
were In line, grimly gray in their pre-
paredness for war, and with ammuni-
ton rooms brimming with powder and
shell. Surrounding this burly column
--Sullen in It's self reliance-were
armored cruisers yielding but little in
power and weight to their more form
liable sisters of the battle class; scout
cruisers, sended, but fast; meteor-like
destroyers, green warships of the sea;
1.-THE torpedo boats that seemed cat
like in their stealth; submarines and
the rank and file Of auxiliary vessels
that serve as tenders to the fleet
There were ninety-nine in ALL the or
lginal plan Of having 1O2 ships in
line having been curtailed by the alb
sence OF three torpedo boats.
Steam out to Sea.
As If the exhibition of prepared
ness for war; and power, pictured in
the anchored armament were all-suf-
ficient, twenty-five of the battleships
towards the close of the day picked
up their anchors 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 swirlng from
their tunnels, the sun WIS near its
setting and they spoke with crash
ing guns the last of a long series Of
salutes which had begun with the
early morning and had been all but
incessant throughout the day.
The review was the most brilliant
in the history of the country, and the
warships wended their way to home
stations to await the call to winter
naneuvers in southern waters.
Looked Like u Blossom.
The setting at review was a splen-
did marine amphitheater. The fleet
leid In broad blossom against the
tower buildings of Riverside drive and
the precipitous cliffs of the New Jer-
sey palisades.
Out of the northwest there blew a
gale which at times attained a maxi
mum of fifty-nine miles an hour and
brought with 1t the chill of winter.
The morning had dawned humid and
cloudy, and when the waiting ships
AT s o'clock had decked themselves In
the rainbow flags of "full-dress" the
harlequin flags fluttered lazily in the
eight mile breeze. Within an hour
and an half the gale had swept In
with all It's force. and had sent the
clouds scurrying away before It.
DO Not Mind Snow.
In the dazzling sunshine that fol-
lowed. the fleet flags were whipped |
into "A riotous fury. From this time
OH until the day was ended great
cloud banks from the north were |
driven intermttently across the skies.
adding their share of the kaledlosco-
pic picturesqueness Of the scene. One
OF the banks brought furry of snow |
with 1T the first Of the season here,
but neither the chill blasts nor tho
recurring threat Of storm |
deferred the spectators, who stretched
for miles along the river banks and