The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-11-02
Twenty Thousand Blue Jack
cts Will Be Entertained
by New York.


days this week 10000 blue jackets on
lO2 war vessels of the Atlantic fleet
ordered hither for participation in
the most ambitious mobilization Of
fighting craft ever undertaken in this
country. In command of Real Ad-
miral Hugo osterhaus, all the avail
ahle ships Of the Atlantic squadron
began steamiag toward New York
harbor last week, and twenty-four
vessels Of the Pacific squadron are
due at Los Angeles for the west coast
naval demonstration there. One hun
dred and twenty-six in all, they viii
remain at anchor from today until
Thursday; there VIII be two nights
.of illumination, and Jack ashore will
have perhaps the greatest land fete
of his career. The number OF men
due at New York alone surpasscs
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, by emergency meas
Iure to meet demands,
Early last week the only three
battleships in the Brooklyn navy
yard-the dreadnoughts Utah, Della
ware and Florida-were groomed for
the display, wired for the special IL
Nominations and made ready to swing
around the harbor mouth and up into
North river. The Presidential yacht
Mayfower, also at the navy yard, has
been prepared for the parade and will
bob alongside the great battleships,
although President Taft, according to
his latest plans. will not return from
the West in time to review the ships.
Arrangements here call for five,
and perhaps seven miles of ships,
81 eat and smPll, forming four lines
/ in the Hudson river from West Fifty
] seventh street to Fort Washington.
or above. The batt.eships will be
400 yards apart, destroyers 300.
smaller torpedo boats ana other craft
200. In order that they mag be dis
played to the best advantage it was
arranged to have the submarines an
chored nearest the New York shore.
Next in line come the battleships
and, in the third and fourth columns.
nearest New Jersey, the destroyers
and torpedo beats.
This long line CT 1o2 vessels,
twenty-four of them battleships com
prising the flower of the Atlantic
/ fleet, will have an average tonnage
of 577,2S5; and off Los Angeles the
twenty-four warships will have a ton
mage of 1926, making grand
total of G93,53O. Thus, as a national
na;al display, the mobilization will
surpass the German review at Kiel
IT,. September; will outweigh the
French display at Toulon 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 V
of England. On that occasion there
was a display of 167 British warships
and eighteen foreign vessels, and the
aggregate tonnage of British vessels
alone was more than a million.
The entire fleet which will swing
at anchor in the Hudson river until
Thursday comprises twenty-four bat
tleships, two armored cruisers, two
protected cruisers, twenty-five de.
stroyers, sixteen torpedo boats, eight
submarines, three torpedo fleet ten
ders, four gunboats, nine miscellan-
eous vessels. such as hospital, sup
ply and ammunition ships; eight
Golfers, an oil tanker and three tugs.
Never in the history of the American
navy have SO many warships been
thrown together, and TO man them
requires nearly half the enlisted
strength of the entire navy.
1t is u serious problem to anchor
such an array of vessels in the Hud-
son without inconyeniencing passing
commercial craft, but with the po-
sltions worked out carefully on p,
diagram, each vessel slips into its
appointed place as quickly as poss.-
BILE. (
The flagship Connecticut, which lei
the Atlantic fleet in its around-the,
world cruise, will swing at the head
of the column not far from the giant
which makes her appearance
in public for the first time. She was
only recently put in commission, has
not yet had her speed trials, ana
in participating in the display she
leaves the Brooklyn navy yard
where she was built. for her FIRST
turn around the harbor.
~ x,.,,,, Iaet ,,ra,t 1910,