The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-08
SEA FIGHTERS TO
STEAM IN TO-DAY
Seventeen Will Pass Up the
Harbor Between Q and
10 O'clock.
.yAvY WEEK" UNDER WAY

Seventeen gray. grim ships Of war will
steam out Of the dawn into Ambrose
channel this morning. and at 2 o'clock
this battleship squadron of the Atlantic
feet will glide M the Hudson River.
each vessel to it's allotted anchorage.
Then will begin the ten days OF holiday
making, of which the climax will he
reached in the Presidents review a week
from Monday.
Admiral Fletcher, commanding the
feet. knows that in the morning IL too
early an hour for formidable super
dreadnoughts. dreadnoughts and pre-
dr.adnoughts to proceed to their assigned
positions in the Hudson, because few
folk would be about the city to witness
their arrival Accordingly the squadron
will wait outside In the harbor until New
Workers have had their eggs and coffee
Then-it will be between and 10
o'clock--the warships will take their
smooth way over the waters OF the Hud-
son, the Wyoming stopping opposite
Eighty-second street, and the Louisiana
going as far as l55th street. to he the
northern outpost OF the squadron.
Entry VIII he without salute.
There will he no sslutes fred as the
feet arrives. The saiutes will he saved
for that minute on the afternoon OF
Monday, May II. when President Wilson
boards the Mayfower to review the fleet
at anchor. And there will he no salutes
Ared when acting Mayor George Nc
Aneny calls on Commander-in-C Chief
Fletcher at IL O'Clock this morning and
says a welcome to him.
Mr.. McAneny will be accompanied on
this visit by members OF the Mayors
Committee for the Entertainment of the
Atlantic Fleet. a committee that has been
working as hard as its title is long. They
will 20 aboard Admiral Fletchers flag
snip, the Wyoming. from the boat land
ing at West Seventy ninth street. and
acting Mayor McAneny will find that a
full marine guard and a band makes up
in a way for the absence OF salutes.
At O'Clock this afternoon Admiral
Fletcher and his aids will land at
Twenty-fourth street to come to the City
Hall 10 return Mr. McAneny's call. The
Commander in Chief will be escorted TO
this exchange OF amenities by two troops
OF mounted police.
BY that time the elastic period Of time
known as navy week" will have begun
lis ten days-ten DAYS OF recreation for
The officers and enlisted men who have
earned IL by strenuous target practice
and manpuvres in Southern waters.
sailors All over Town.
There will he bluetscSe.s swinging
down Broadway. there will be biue-
Jackets parading Fifth avenue. and there
will he hundreds Of persons prone nading
Riverside Drive TO see the fleet, es-
pecially tonight when the ships will be
abiaze with lights.
There will be 5000 enlisted men at
the baseball game between Kansas City
and Brooklyn at Washington Park,
Brooklyn. this afternoon. and President
n. p Ward OF the Brooklyn club OF the
Federal League has offered that many
free tickets 10 the sailors four days
mex week, while the American League
will gave 10000 seats at the Polo
Grounds for Mondays game.
There will be more life and color in
the streets OF the city and the hotels will
Ne gay with decorations. Naval head
quarters will be established at the Aston,
the Belmont knickerbocker. Manhattan.
Plaza, Ritz-Carlton. ST. Regis. Waldorf.
Vanderbilt, Woodward and Bltmore.
forerunner Of what is TO come was
observed along Riverside Drive yester-
day afternoon. on the pier AT the foot
OF West l3+th street hundreds OF men,
women and children crowded all day
!org 20 look at the fifteen vessels already
IN the river, II should be mentioned
nat there were many young women in
the crowd and not few sailors who al
ready had embraced shore leave. Some
TOW these young women and the sailors
found each others company pleasant.
The crowds that poured out onto the
pier spent most of their time gazing at
me nine submarines there. the D-l, DE-,
i'3' Ell. E-2, XII. k-2. KS. KS; the
consort monitor Tonopah. the MacDon-
ough, assigned TO duty there as a tender
ne Worden, torpedo boat destroyer
ne Prairie, the flagship OF Commando
Yates Stirling, Jr,, OF the submarine
hotlla the Tallahassee, which steamed
10 It's anchorage late yesterday after
noon. and further up the river the san
Francisco, a mine ship which WAS once a
cruiser the Nes'al. the flagship Of the
military division, and the Jupiter. a
collier.
The auxiliary division. the torpedo
notilla and the rest OF the submarine
Not'lla are expected to get here to-mor-
,o"' although some OF them may drift In
to-day.
Illumination on Five Nights.
The illumination Of the feet, which be-
gins tonight at 8 o'clock and will last
uhtll j, will take place tomorrow night
700 and on three other evenings.
POINTS indicated yesterday for the
guidance OF visitors 20 the feet included
me limiting of visiting hours u from /
'ob p " There will be no visiting aboard
summarizes. The boat landing for get
ing 70 the Wyoming and the Yankton
VIII he Al Seventy-ninth street. That
10Y the New York. the Texas, the Della
ware North Dakota, Michigan, South
arolina, Kansas, Florida and Utah will
~ A. Ninety-ninth street, and these
SHIPS will ne anchored from Eighty-sixth
sueet northward to Grants Tomb In the
.rder named Then at the foot OF West
!e'th street will be found the boat land
hs for the Virginia. Rhode Island, Ne
"aska and Georgia. lying between 1884
ana listh streets In that order. At l5sth
nsteet will he tho boat landing for the
Hew Hampshire and tho Louisiana, as
meh as for all Of the ships OF the aux
mary division.