Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-09
SHIPS TO MOBILIZE
n, Greatest Naval Review OF
New York Port On November /.
pRESDT. TAFT EXPECTED.
,Lsd To Finish His Trip There On
That Dste-AII The Available Ships
On The Atlantic Coast To Take Part
f., The Coming Demonstration.

pr.s.8ent Taft has been asked to
- the most imposing naval dem
-,.t-.t.aB ever held in American
- II will take place at New
- carly in November. Secretary
IN NAVY Meyer has written a let
Ito Mr. Taft asking him to termi-
nate his present trip at New York
.,,v nm November l instead of at
Washington. as is contemplated.
WEe,ber Mr.. Taft will be able to
.ts,ce his itinerary and attend the
..,'.a,y or not. Secretary Meyer will
be- m hand To inspect the assembled
vessels. -,
The mobilization Of all the available
,s.saIs ON the Atlantic coast at New
yorE has been decided on in place of
% fail cruise. Recently there have
goor MANY protests from officers of
tbs Atlantic fleet that they have been
,gorlej too hard by protracted for
.i,, cruises. This sentiment led to
,be abandonment Of tentative plans for
y, rinse 10 the West Indies and the
panama Canal which had been sched-
MED for October 10.
Mr. Meyer thinks that the efficiency
of the navy would be promoted quite
O.. much by an unexpected mobiliZa-
tior Of a large feet as by cruises.
For this reason and in view of the op
position among officers and men of
tha navy to a cruise he decided upon
the mobilization
While the list of ships to partici-
nate i'm the demonstration has not
been selected, it will be the aim of
Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright
10 have as many vessels as possible
present. There will be about twenty
fgc battleships. sixteen belonging to
the Atlantic fleet and nine or ten
battleships of the reserve feet. Ar
mored cruisers. gunboats, destroyers
and submarines will also take part.
Both in size and in naval strength
DE aggregation Of war vessels will
he far superior to that at Oyster
Bay on Labor Day, 1906, when the
last naval review was held. At that
time total Of about forty-fve fighting
vessels were arrayed in command of
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans for
review by President Roosevelt. There
were then only eighteen battleships
in the fleet formation.
Next month the new Dreadnaughts
Florida and Utah, recently placed in
commission, which have a displace-
ment Of $4,000 tons, will lead in size.
The fleet will be in command of Rear
Admiral Hugo Osterhaus. The spec
tace will last only about three days.
There will be short divisional cruises.
but the fleet will remain in home
waters until early in January. when it
will proceed to Guantanamo for a per-
iod Of extensive battle exercises with
the torpedo fleet, which will last
until the middle or end of February,
1912.
A similar mobilization will take
place on the Pacific coast, where they
will be assembled near Los Angeles.
This gathering of war vessel, how
ever, will be much smaller than on
the Atlantic coast because compare
lively few Of the naval vessels are
stationed on the Pacific.
The officers on duty in the Navy De-
partmeut have already begun arrange
mentS for the forthcoming mobiliza-
ton. While it was intended to keep
the matter secret as long as possible
SO that IT would be in the nature Of
surprise test. Secretary Meyers
plans leaked ont. All the orders nee
eSSary for the carrying out of the
plans Of the Department have not
0etn sent out, although the move
ment is Well on its way. The Off
GERS Of the Department originally
intended to spring the mobilization
without much notice in order that
me administrative machinery of the
department and the navy yards would
ne tested to ascertain their state of
preparedness for emergency. This
ocean. impossible when Mr.. Meyers
pan was made public. As it is the
navy Wal. have only about four weeks
I" Prepare for the test.