New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-18
WILSON SPENDS
NIGHT ON RIVER
After Dinner on Wyoming
He Watches Fleet Races
and Carnival.
GOES TO MAYFLOWER
AND RETIRES EARLY
Women of Official World Have
Party on Dolphin-Shore
Crowded.

Party on DOipnlH-ohoio
Crowded.
The climax Of the entertainment OF
tho Atlantic fleet in the Hudson came
last night. President wilson -, spen'
u,st of the evening aboard the WyCm-
ing. Here he was Admiral Fletcher
guest at dinner. and later ne SAT upon
The Dreadnought's deck and watched'
lust as many thousands of New York
c1s did on Riverside Drive and the
piers, the races and carnival.
The dinner Oh the Wyoming marked
rho first time that Chief Executive
Of the nation has sat down to neal
On A battleship with all Of the add
mirals and captains of the feet now
assembled i'm the river. II was also
notable for the appearance of Rear Ad-
r,iral William s. Benson, recently
named chief Of naval operations, who
came from Washington for the even
ing.
tanning at a dinner party on the DOL
phin. with Miss Margaret Wilson as
me guest of honor. Mrs. Howe, the
Presidents sister, and his niece, Mrs.
Perrin Cothran. the wives of the secre-
taries on the Wyoming, and a number
o. government officials were also pres
ent.
Drink Presidents Health.
On the Wyoming were Secretaries
Lane. Redfeld aud Daniels, Acting
Mayor McAneny and about forty other
guests. All drank the Presidents
health while standing in the wardroon'
They sat down at 1880, and when the
dinner was over there we're no
speeches all watched eagerly the races
and parade Of floats. OIL,
Al s D. m the battleships were H.
Eliminated. and for half an hour signals
we're exchanged between them by sema-
phores. Then the searchlights were
turned on, and later these were thrown
upon the water. while the crews and
brilliantly lighted barges passed be-
tween the Wyoming and the gunboat
Yankton. Captain Fitch, assisted by
Lieutenants Howell and Pickering, had
charge Of the last-named, converted
Yacht, which once belonged to Sarah
Bernhard. It was moored just at the
finish mark of the crew races.
Because of the large number OF en-
trants, the races were run off in two
heats. The twelve men representing the
Texas won the first and the Wyomings
crew captured the second, in close
finish. The fastest time for the one
mile course, from 10th Street TO Sew
entv-ninth Street, was made by the
dozen from Admiral Fletcher's flagship.
The men were in racing boats, 80 feet
long and weighing 1900 pounds.
Texas Victory Unexpected.
The first race was started at 9:20
o'clock. the Utah and Virginia men
gaining the early lead. The Texas sea-
men, however, regarded as the dark
horse in the initial event, passed the
champion ship crew of the Utah abreast
of the New York and won my half
length. The Utah became the possessor
of the Battenburg Cup last March, when
their oarsmen won the three-mile race
at Guantanamo.
AS the men approached the Yankton,
Harry Shoemaker, the stroke, said
that he had broken his oar as soon as
his boat passed the starting mark, and
that he had rowed the entire race with
split handle.
All of the twelve men believed TIT
in a threemile championship race they
would defeat the champions from the
passed each of the ships, and the Wyo-
ming band played as they crossed the
finish line. The winning crew was
composed of Shoemaker, stroke; Arms,
.; Campbell, 3; Solger, 4; Roach, 8;
Lew, 6; Freer, 7; Dixon, 8; Sibrava,
9; Holman, 10; Taubitz, IL, and Money,
bow. Scherer was the winning cox
swain.
The Texas was followed by the crews
from the Virginia, the Michigan and
the Utah in the order named.
Il was in the second race that the
excitement prevailed, for the Wyom-
ing dozen in winning passed their own
ship at the finish line.
Following the Wyoming there came
the Georgia. The others were hope
lessly in the rear The members of the
winning crew were: Call, stroke;
Posey, 2; Cease, 3; Sears, 4; Dalzin,
8; Cutrer, 8; Braugh, Z; Thompson, s;
Steiner, 9; Cramer, 10; Rumsport, II,
and Bell, bow. Beach was the cox
swain.
Destroyer Trippe Leads Carnival.
In a few minutes there appeared, COM
ing down the river, the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Trppe, sending forth streams of
Roman candles and firing rockets and
bearing four illuminated signs. These,
probably the best known sayings of
famous leaders Of the fleet, were:
Don't give up the ship; 81 have not
vet begun TO fight; Damn the tor
pedoes, 90 ahead" and "You may fire
when ready, Gridley.,
The Trippe was the leader OF the
huge water carnival, which consisted
of a boat from each of the battleships
living in the river, gayly decorated.
On several were sailors presenting
tableaux, while on one, representing a
future time when suffrage is universal
ly excepted in the country, the men
were made up as women voters, while
their husbands were pictured as tend
ing 20 domestic duties.
First in the line was boat from the
Wyoming, decorated as John Paul
Jones's Bon Homme Richard, from
which twenty-one guns we're fired as
the craft passed the Wyoming, where
the President and his party sat The