Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1911-10-31
PLANNING A
GREAT REVIEW
President Taft Will See the Allan.
tic Fleet on Thurs
day.
AN IMPRESSIVE PAGEANT
IMPRESSIVE PAGEANT
The Mayfower Will Sail Through
Line for Seven
Miles.

Chicago, Oct. 30.-Secretary Of
the Navy Meyer, who came to Chi
cago to assist in the dedication OF
the new naval training station here
and to arrange for the review Of the
4 great fleet Of battleships and other
vessels Of war now assembled In
New York by President Taft, left
for the east last night.
The main features Of the review
have been agreed upon and only the
smaller details to be worked out By
the naval authorities.
In other respects than mere num-
Der of ships and power OF arma-
ment, the review promises to eclipse
any naval pageant ever seen in this
country. President Taft not only
will sail through the four lines of
ships at anchor in the Hudson river,
but will watch the vast army pick
up its anchors and get under way.
He then will lead the long column
of fighting ships down the bay and
at Staten Island will stand aside on
the Mayfower and again review the
feet as it passes out to sea.
The presidential review will take
place on Thursday, Nov. 2. We'd
nesday the secretary of the navy
will inspect the feet from his dis
patch boat, the Dolphin. In sense
this inspection really will mark the
beginning of the pageant, for Sec
rotary Meyer will be received with
all the honors due his Office and the
river will reyerberate with the roar.
Of saluting cannons.
President Taft will reach New
York early on Thursday morning
and will be in and about the bat
tleships all day long. He will
board the Mayfower at $3.50 a. m.
and will not leave the yacht until
s p. M, when he will depart for
Hot Springs, Va, to rest three or
four days before filing the supple
mentary engagements he recently
made In Cincinnati, Kentucky and
Tennessee.
The Mayfiower, dressed in the
gayest of bunting and flying the
presidents flag, will reach the head
of the four battleship lines at 10
o'clock. She will anchor for brief
time there to permit the command
er in chief OF the fleet, Rear Admir-
al Hugo Osterhaus, and possibly the
division commanders to go on board
and pay their respects to the COM
mander in chief OF the army and
navy. President Taft will return
Rear Admiral Osterhaus' visit on
board the historic old flag ship, the
Connecticut. When he Is again
aboard the Mayfower, the yacht
will get under way and steam up
the river through the water lane
formed by the first and second col
umns of the anchored feet. This
lane is seven miles long. After the
last little torpedo boat at the end of
the columns has paid its tribute of
twenty-one guns to the president
the Mayfower will turn and, head
ing for the south, will steam back
through the third and fourth col
umns.
From the time the Mayflower first
heaves in sight at the beginning Of
the review. until the fleet has pick
ed Its way through the narrows and
is headed out past Sandy Hook, the
saluting will be almost continuous
and New York harbor, and the city
itself, promises to be wrapped for
hours in the pungent white smoke
poured from the muzzles OF several
hundred guns.
The review will be an official me
in every sense of the word and the
Presidents party on the MayflowerJ
will be confined to himself, Secre-
tary Meyer, one or two aids, and
Secretary Hilles. The dispatch boat
Dolphin will be taken along beside
the Mayfower and will have party
Of perhaps hundred on board.
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