New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-12
CHINA SEA FIGHTER HERE
Hal Chi GIides Out of the Foo to
Noisy Welcome.
FIRST TO VISIT NEW YORK
Ecstatic Countrymen from Mott
and Doyers Streets Greet Ship
at Governors Island.

A blue dragon. eneryeticallv rappinr its
extended tail on a yellow background. ap-
pesred in the Narrows yesterday before
noon. The dragon was broken out from, the
jackstaff Of the Hal Chi. the first Chinese
wsrship that ever entered this port and
the strange beast received a noisy welcome
from forts and ships as the cruiser. with
Rear Admiral Chine PHI Kwong on her
deck. glided out of the mist up past Quar-
antine 20 Governors Island. An excursion
boat crammed TO the gunwales with ecstatic
Chinese residents of New York met her
under the frowning ports OF Castle Will
Jams. and cheers WED with the boom Of the
guns.
The Hal Chi. ship, gray. brstling with
guns. not unlike the Baltimore and the Chi
cago type OF American cruisers did not
make her expected appearance until about
10 o'clock in the morning. OF Sandy Hook
az midnight on Sunday she ran into a
clammy fog and threw out her mud hooks
Under way yesterday morning she saluted
Fort Wadsworth with twentY-one guns, ie-
ceved her complimentary answer Of smoke
and din and passed on 10 Quarantine.
While the mist was breaking. Health Officer
Doty visited her and two Of Collector Loeb s
tesies OF the Treasury Department. There
was more gun shooting again in short
time for the Hal Chi passed the Utah, :he
mode in bsttleships. just off Tompkinsville,
and the Chinese and American fighters We're
wreathed in blue smoke Not two hundred
wards separated the two vessels. and the
seamen OF the two countries. manning the
rails OF their ships, exchanged cheers.
- r
hor we're footing their steam plumed
whistles. and the guns at Castle Williams
said 'Howdy do" The Hal Chi. under halt
speed. nosed her way up the Hudson be-
tween j. Pierpont Morgan's Corsair. Colonel
John Jacob Astor's Mona. Colonel Payne $
Aphrodite and other yachts. and went up
the Rig river conveyed by the Observation
on which members OF the Chinese Mer-
chants Association lunged frantically halt
yrav over the guard rails. waving flags and
yelling AZ high &C" Another escort was
8 navy yard tug with Commander Cooper
IN hoard. When the Hal Chi anchored OF
Goth street Commander Cooper went up the
starboard gangway 20 express the compN-
nents % Admiral Leutze. Adjutant Gen
eral Verbeck called 20 pay the respects OF
Governor DIX.
More shooting. This time the North
Carolina, The warship was near by, and
she and the Hat Chi unloosed forty-two
more guns all told. The Hal Chi ran up
the Stars and Stripes Some Of the officers
OF the North Carolina went on board 10
be greeted by a group of sober looking
blueia ckets. lined up in best naval fashion,
and a sturdy bOs'un piping them over the
side. a band Of twenty-seven pieces. under
the leadership of Liu Wan Ling, was
smashing out ragtime in great shape.
"Hiawatha" greeted the North Carolina 5
officers.
Most OF the delegation from the Ooser-
vation then swarmed aboard the Hal
Chi. Leading them were Yong Kwai, first
secretary OF the Chinese Legation at
Washington. and Kue-Chi lie, vice-consul
at New York. Mixed in the crowd OF
Oriental enthusiasts were six Boy Scouts
and J. Y Dang and H. Y. LANG, both
students OF mechanical engineering at the
University of Illinois. who came all the
way from Champaign 10 meet the war
ship. The admiral was very much pleased
10 see the khaki clad Boy Scouts and took
them personally all over the Hal Chi.
When he came back he willingly stood
VI in his well fitting. not over gold laced
blue blouse and allowed himself 70 he
photograp hed He stood with telescope
under mis- arm under the imperial blue
dragon. and with the yellow folds OF the
flag swung over his shoulders.
Be sure and get the flag in he said,
with almost no foreign accent
Admiral Kwoug IS firty-three years old
and the ranking officer IN the Chinese navy
on the active list He Is a small man, with
a heavy gray mustacne. and looks more
Ike an Englishnan than Chinaman.
Forty years ago ne visited San Francisco.
The Sea Safe" as she would be called
IN English, will be here tan days. and will
then 20 70 Havana and 70 Colon where the
officers will see the canal. After visit TO
England she will 60 70 Shanghai by way
Of the Suez Canal. The admiral will call
on Mayor Gaynor at the City Hall and
General Grant az Governors Island to-day.
ard President Taft al Beverly on Thursday.
The Hal chi If commanded by Captain
Tang Ting Kwang She is 40 feet over all.
with 4s-foot beam, and draws q feet Her
tonnage is 400. and her armament two s
inch guns. ten 47-inch guns and five tor
pedo tubes. as well as 2 full complement
OF rapid fire machine guns. She was built
a. Elswick. England, in 1895.
The Chinese Merchants Association had
bad few minutes Gown at the Battery
Even while the Hal chi was poking her
nose ID the river past Governors Island
The welcoming committee was anxiously
pacing the tagging Of the Battery and
waiting for the chartered boat, the Apollo
% slow up. Minutes passed, and nnally
one anxious Oriental. who said ne was e.
" Jett rushed 10 the captain oil the
sightseeing Yacht Observ alton. then lyinC
a. the Battery. and explained the situa-
ton Presto, All was smiles in a moment
and the Observation picked up the Hal chi
a. Governor Island and accompanied neT
un the Hudsnn 10 her anchorage.