Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-27
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
BIuejackets Of Atlantic.
SurpasseS Great Array al Time
OF HudsOn-FultOn Fete.
Pacific Coast Naval Demonstration
Takes Place al Los Angeles.

ordered hither FOL participation ~ tbe
most ambitious ,noblization Of fight
ing craft ever undertaken i'll this ceaa-
try In command Of Rear Admiral
Hugo Osterhaus, all the available
ships of the Atlantic Squadron began
steaming toward New York harbar
last week. and twenty-four vessels OF
the Pacific Squadron are due at Los
Angeles for the west coast naval Genl-
onstration there. one hundred aud
twenty-six in all they will remain at
anchor from today until THURSDAY;
there will be two nights of illumina-
ton. and Jack ashore will have per
haps the greatest land fete OF his ca
reer. The number Of men due at New
York alone surpass the strength OF
Skaters army in cuba, but even
then it is the opinion in navy circles
that some of the vessels will be short
handed. 1t IS hoped. however, hy en-
Urgency measure to meet demands.
Early last week the only three bat
tieships in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
the dreadnoughts Utah, Delaware and
Florida--were groomed for tie display
wired for the special illuminations and
made ready to swing around the har-
Dor mouth and UP into North f{iVer,
The Presidential yacht MaNhower, also
at the Navy Yard, has been prepared
for the parade and viii bob alongside
the great battleships. although Presi-
dent Taft. according to his latest
plans viii not return from the West
in time to review the SHIPS
Arrangements here call for i've, and
perhaps seven, miles Of ships great
ia 10.
Hudson River from West Fiftx-sev
enth street to Fort Washington. or
Above. The battieships will be 100
yards apart. destroyers 300. smaller
torpedo boats and other craft poe In
order that they may be displayed TO
the best advantage 1t vas arranged to
have the submarines anchored nearest
the New York shore. Next ia line
comes the battleships and. in the third
and fourth columns, nearest New Jer-
scY. the destroyers and torpedo boats.
This long line Of fo2 zessels, twenty
four of them battleships comprising
the flower of the Atlantic Fleet. viii
| have an aggregate tonnage of 5I7.2sa.
| and off Los Angeles to twenty four
iWarshirs will have a tonnage Of lie,
| 2i5, making a grand total of 695, aae
THUS. as a national naval display, the
| mobilization viii surpass the German
review at Kiel I'M September: will out
weigh the French display at 1oaioa
| last month and will rank second only
to the great array Of fighting ships
which assembled in the Solent on June
"a during the ceremonies of George y.
of England ON that occasion there
was a display of 167 British warships
and eighteen foreign vessels and the
aggregate tonnage Of British vessels
acme was more than a million.
The entire fleet which will swing at
anchor in the Hudson River until
Thursday comprises tWenty-four bat
tleslfips, two armored cruisers tW9
protected cruisers. twenty-five de-
stroyers. sixteen torpedo boats, eight
submarines. three torpedo fleet tend
eis. four sunboats, nine miscellaneous
vessels, such as hospital, supply and
ammunition ships eight golfers, an
oil tanker and three tugs. Never in
tbs. history Of the American nav have
So MANY warships been thrown toSeth
er. and 10 man them requires nearly
half the enlisted strength of the entire
navy.
1t is a serious problem To anchor
such an array of vessels in the Had-
son without mountaineering passing
commercial craft, but with the posi-
lions worked out carefully ON a dia-
gram. each vessel slips into its APP
pointed place as quietly as possible
The flagship Connecticut. which led
the Atlantic Fleet on it's around-the-
world cruise, will swing at the head Of
fro Ia. ole. ~
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, sil'd III
participating in the display she leaves
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where she
was built, for her first turn around the
harbor.
New York's last great naval demon
stration was during the Hudson-Futon
celebration, but the then combined
strength of United states and visiting
avarships does not equal the array
planned for the present mobilization As
az experiment of assembling ON short
notice a great number of ships in fight
ing Trim, ii is being watched with inter-
est h;- naval authorities, and may be
compared. from a naval viewpoint, to the
mobilization of troops at San Antonio
during the Mexican insurreetion, The
problem of moving 29Oo0 sailors is vastl+,
easier tl-an moving troops over land.
however. for the former requires but %
shifting of n floating structure with crew,
arms and provisions complete, white
transporting an army by train is pro-
blem of herculean proportions and per.
plexities.
AS announced i.!' the Navy Department,
the ships to participate in the mobiliza-
ton here are;
BATTLEiSHIPS.
Connecticut. Florida, Utah, Delaware
North Dakota Michigan, louisiana
South Carolina. Kansas, Vermont New
Hampshire, Minnesota, mississippi, Ida
no, Missouri, Ohio Georgia, Nebraska.
New Jersey, Virginia, Maine, Iowa, In
diana and Massachusetts.
ARMoRED CRUISERS.
Washington and North Carolina. =
PROTECTED CRUISERS
Salem and Des Moines.
DESTROYERS.
Paid IrInssar ! atns0n Preston. Smith,