The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-08-05
ton relating to the coal endurance of

ton relating to the coal endurance of
the vessels; the navy DEPARTMENT
must be advised of the maximum dis
lance which each ship can make with
full bunkers of coal in order to plan
for fresh supplies at the proper point.
1t Is believed that If the navies repre-
sented comprise only modern large
sized ships, it will be possible to make
the run of 1900 miles from Hampton
Roads to Colon without STOP. In the
canal fresh supplies of coal will be
taken but even then it may impose a
severe strain upon the small vessels
to make the run from Balboa to San
Francisco, 2,1S9 miles. Inc some Of
them may be obliged to put in for coal
at PichilinQue, the American coaling
station in Lower California, or to take
fuel from Golfers in Magdalena bay on
the west coast Of Mexico. some Of
the naval vessels of even the larger
Eurpean powers are very deficient, &C
cording to American standards, in this
matter of coal endurance, principally
because they were designed for home
defense and short cruises.
Because floating ice in Chesapeake
bay sometimes makes it impossible for
days at a time to take on coal and
other supplies, and in order to guard
against delay in the execution of the
short and crowded program, the for
clSu naval NSSSSlS nave DS6u tSquSSLSu
to assemble several days at least in
advance Of the date Of Feb. 10 men
toned in the memorandum. Their
commanding officers with their STATS
will be the guests of the United States
government as will be the special naval
representatives invited to attend. The
presence of the latter will relieve the
diplomatic body In Washington from
the obligation to be present at Hamp-
ton Roads, which is fortunate in view
Of the fact that they are expected to
attend the opening ceremonies of the
Panama Pacific exposition in San
Francisco, now fixed for Feb. 20 with
out possibility of r~ostponemcnt. The
foreign naval contingent will be
brought to Washington on a passen-
ger steamer especially chartered for
the purpose and their stay in the "a
tional capital will necessarily be very
, short as they must be in Hampton
Roads again on the anniversary OF
+ Washington's birthday when Presl-
dent Wilson will review the feet as It
passes through the Chesapeake capes
bound for Colon. The day after ON
gress adjourns the president will fol-
dreadnaughts now under construction
and expected to be completed about
that time. ".~; :. ...'
1t is planned to divide the interna-
tional fleet into four sections for the
passage through the Panama canal
and as at least two Of the average
sized warships can be accommodated
in the 1,000-foot locks at one time, the
entire fleet could be locked through in
about two days. The features OF the
parade through the canal will be the
old battleship Oregon on the bridge of
which will stand Admiral Clark who
commanded the ship in her famous
run around South America during the
Standardization war, also Secretary
Daniels and many other notables and
the tiny launch Louise, one Of the first
boats to be employed by the French
canal builders and which has been by
act OF congress made a gift to the
French. government to commemorate
the completion Of the canal.
Very soon the officials here will take
UP the arrangement OF a program for
the exercises which are to take place
at Balboa to commemorate the formal
opening OF the waterway but so far no
attempt has been made to outline
them beyond the delivery OF an apI,ro-
pirate address by President Wilson.