Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-10-17

running strong and several members
of the party had nearly succumbed
before the sailors reached them. The
rescued were taken aboard the Maine
first and after being treated by the
ships physicians they were landed
and returned to their homes.
Aside from the excitement caused by
the lays accidents and the presence
of SO many thousands Of visitors, the
bluejackets were occupied with pre-
parations for the offfciai visit by the
secretary Of the navy and the Presi-
dent of the United States and the,'
guests tomorrow.
The only event on the days program
was the arrival of Secretary Meyer
and his aides. but as this arrival was
scheduled as "unofiici no salutes Or
other demonstrations were made wacn
the secretary boarded the despatch
boat Dolphin. When he breaks out
his flag at nine o'clock tomorrow 1t
will be greeted by 10 guns. signal'S-
Ing the start of the great review.
President Taft is expected to make
port on board the Mayflower just about
the time that the secretary finishes his
review, and when the President breaks
his flag every ship with guns will boom
"a salute.
NEVER SUCH A ROAR BEFORE.
The presidential review will follow.
There was never so large a feet of
warships assembled in American wat
ers, therefore never such roar OF
salutes as will mark the Presi 1ents
arrival In the evening the President.
! of ct bn
dred naval officers will be entertained
by the city at an official dinner at the
Hotel Aston. The President viii also
review the ships Tuesday as they pass
out to sea.
The crowd of visitors which sailors and
bumboat proprietors carried to the var
ious ships to-day was probably the
largest ever handled on the river. Every
one of the 81 battleships and % vessels
of other classes were open to inspection
and all of them were over run. The
strongest magnets were the Arkansas and
wyoming, the largest commissioned bat
tleships in the world over whose great
fighting strength the visitors all were
enthusiastic. The roofs of freight trains
moving up the New York Central tracks
along the river front were used as OBJ
boys, with whom neither the police nor
railroad authorities interfered One
large party was thrown in heap from
the top Of freight car but none of It's
members was seriously hurt
Many OF the churches arranged special
services for the sailors to-day. reserving
large sections of their auditorium for the
bluejackets.
The amateur tars of the South Carolina
naval militia, who won over New York
naval militiamen and crews from several
other States in all three of the inter
state boat races held yesterday were
presented to-day with the trophies. The
presentation cermony took place on board
} the old training ship Granite State
where the South Carolina militiamer
) were warmly congratulated by a large
/ crowd Of visitors.
, The yacht Vixen which ran down TIT
! launch Is said to be the Vixen which Il
} 'owned by John d. Archbold, the presi
dent of the Standard OIL company Of New
Jersey. The launch which she strucl
, was the 4O-foot Madvic owned by Der
, nard Bauer Of the Hudson River zach
club
Mr.. Bauer was not sure whether Mr.
Archbold was on board at the time o.
not. but he believed that a man wht
directed the rescue of some of the mel
was Mr.. Archbold After the Vixen ha,
taken the rescue parties to the shore !
disappeared and up to late hour to
night there had been no commune tiol
with those on board. Mr.. Bauer sait
there were 10 in his party, and all wer
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