The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-05-04

continued from Wednesday morning.
My prime purpose was To impress
the American people. and this pur-
pose was fully achieved. The cruise
did make a very deep impression
abroad Boosting about what We have
done does not impress foreign nations
at all except unfaVorably. but positive
achievement does. and the two Amer
lean achievements that really i'm.
pressed foreign peoples during the
nrst dozen years OF this century were
the digging OF the Panama canal and
the cruise OF the battle ieet around
the world. But the impression made
on our own people was OF lar greater
consequence. No single thing IN the
history OF the United states navy has
done as much To stimulate popular
interest and belief in II a. the world
cruise. This eject vas forecast In a
well informed and friendly English
periodical. the London Spectator. %
Writing IN October, 1897. "A month BE-.
fore the feet sailed from Hampton
Roads. the Spectator" said
An over America the people will
follow the movements Of the fleet.
they will learn something of the in
tricate details of the coaling and com
missauat work under warlike Condt
tons. and In a word their attention
will b. aroused. Next time Mr.. kOosc-
welt or his representatives appeal to
the country for new battlcships they
will do 50 TO people whose minds
have been influenced n way or the
other. The naval program will not
have stood stiii. We are sure hat.
apart from increasing the efficiency
Of the existing fleet. this Is the aim
which Mr.. Roosevelt has in mind. lie
has a policy which projects itself far
into the future. but % is an entire
misreading of DO 20 suppose that ~ is
mHrH4H nnWrnuuNN aud AaHHHFnnn at any
single power
FIRST directed the feet. Of sixteen
battleships. 10 20 round through the
straits Of Magellan 90 san Francisco.
From thence I ordered them TO New
Zealand and Australia. then 10 the
Philippine. China. and japan. and
home through Suez-they stopped ~
tho Mediterranean 90 help b suffer
crs from tho earthquake a. Messina.
hy the way. and ga this work a. ct
fectivcly as they had done all their
other work Admiral Evans com
handed the fleet Co San Francisco.
there Admiral Sperry took o. Ad-
mirals Thomas. wainwright. and
Schroeder rendered DISTINGUISHED serv
ice under Evans and Sperry The
coaling and other preparations we're
made in such excellent shape by the
Department that there was never n
hitch. not 30 much as the delay of an
hour. In keeping every appointment
made. Al the repairs we're made
without difficulty. the ship concerned
merely falling out ~ column for a
few hours and when the job was
dorr straminr M speed until she re-
rained her position Not q ship was
left in any port and there was hardly
n desertion A. soon a. 20 was
known that the voyage was fo be un-
dortaken men crowded 90 enlist. Just
o. freely from the Mississippi Valley
He from tho soahoard. and for the
fret time since the Spanish War the
ships PVT fO sog ONcrmauuod and hy
men a. M looked through = port.
hole. same for n nFht or a ffoilc. but
withal ao self respecting and with
such n sense 81 responsibility that in
OH tho ports In which they landed
their conduct was exemplary. The.