The evening world., 1912-10-10
|CRU|SER MONTANA
I'm COLLISION WITH
LUMBER FRE|GHTER
|Big Warship Backs Into YES
sci of Quarantine, but
/ Escapes Damage.
ILLUMINATION TONIGHT
tTn Thousand Electric Lights
\ Will Display Fleet Along
! Riverside Drive.

Tue United States cruiser Montana.
poring IN to take her pace with
ssbs other ships OF tho Atlantic Squad
non In the North River. was in collision
WITH the ossabaw. . lumber steamship.
toff Quarantine early to-day.
z fNe Montana was al anchor when tn
ECssabaw came In and was going astsrn
bdoway 20 take . yank at ber anchor
SchAin. The ossabaw was making a
JsWlst out Of her course 90 SET out OF
fthe way of the steamship ST. Laurent.
which was Just leaving Quarantine.
1 The broadside OF tho lumber ship
aYiftsd Aowiy against the stern OF the
eryussg. There was no sound OF a crash
!and bu, little scraping. Tho cruiser
lotarted ahead at once. After she had
yEons on up the river It was found there
iWaS on opening between che plates OF
'ths ossabaw forward. which wa lot
'ong IN water fast. Because she was
Headed with lumber there was no dan
ger of her sinking and she went on 70
Der berth with q decided list forward.
Ten thousand golden nreiies will seem
% have been liberated tonight along
Riverside Drive. when from tho boule-
~aro above and from the river below
Nights OF many colors will wink and
klesm on gray battieships and in green
krses.
svE NIGHTS OF ILLUMINATION
! ARE NOW ON.
Tonight will be the nrst of the f,ve
1umination nights. The local commit
p hes twined bulbs by the hundred
> the trees and shubbery Of the Drive
md Park. residents have agreed to
ecerats and illuminate their houses.
md the hatueships are setting ready
outline themselves in nre.
River craft are advised to be very
Dspectfui to the San Francisco, which
es on Eighteenth street near the
sw Jersey shore. She Ia q mine.
lying ship and has on board 10000
punds Of celluloss soaked in q high
plosive. About her masts. far W
pt OF arms reach. Arc hundreds OF
etonators. They are hung on the
>asts because. on her recent Southern
ruise. = sailor kicked one OF then
Wing on deck. lie was blown e
isces and three other men were killed
Moving picture men boarded tn,
Wyoming this morning and the captain
"a his men do various drills for them
vo,uding 'dress ship" when the mel
(smsd . pyramid with the forward gui
tDsrsts a. q base. rising row On row
osAr to the top Of tho upper end o
- bridge supports.
1.-TWO tiny submarines CAUSED . grea
pal Of excitement to-day. creeping 4
(Aeir placer with their gray back
Arsiy out OF water They hurrie
Sienuy TO their anchoragcs and no at
IGNITION was paid TO them on the bi
monsters as they passed, OF the typ
bey are supposed to sting from below
WAITING ALLOWED ON CHIP,
N MORNING NOW.
Several moro big ships and q host {
sstroyses ars coming In to-day I
twiaS VIII the mighty Wyoming an
49kaaseA the flagship Connecticut n
ostn UtAA and Florida. and the rest
- Great neet that almost hourly
Se0ing nearer 70 the tonnage that vi
break ~ American records for an Q,
sembasd native fisst.
The wicked Wyoming. which HI
,o.nsd the Arkansas. and 10 anchor,
on Dlghty-sixth street. was followed
BY tie North Dakota. tho. Vermont. q
golfers Brutus and Culgoa. the gunbo.
Nashville and tho Dolphin. II
Arnored cruisers come IN to-day, q,
h few hours with tho torpedo boat
eubmarines and special craft, the gre
Aotilla viii b oompiete-lS, vessels
IN.
The vessels were again crowded wi,
visitors and Rsar-Admiral Osterha,
announced that henceforth the shii
~ Be open to visitors from . to II
The forenoon. a. we'll a. from ! 10
b the afternoon. From the Uti
the rsd nag noated yesterday. . siEn
that the big fighter was taking
shen and powder The many vislto
who thronged her wide spar deck "a
tons OF long cylinders heaped abo
and cases containing smokeleAs powd
for the l1-inch guns