The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-05-18
.U.S.S. TENNESSEE.
ANCHORS AFTER
LONGEST CRUISE.
Travels 1927 Miles and Re-
turns to Port In Excellent
Condition.

| New York, May 1S-After a voyage
of 14,227 nautical miles, characteriz-
1 ed by officers of the vessel as zone of
the most successful ever made by an
American war ship the armored
| cruiser Tennessee, Capt. Edward L.
/ Beach commanding, anchored in the
Hudson river, off Ninety-sixth street,
yesterday afternoon. The Tennessee
has come here to allow her officers
and men shore liberty. The length
of her stay at this port has not been
determined.
After her long voyage to South
America and return, with the Amer1-
can section of the International High
Commission on board. the Tennessee
| is ''it to turn and make the same
voyage over again." officers of the
vessel said yesterday. There is not
thing out of place on board her,. it
| was said. No accident happened to
her during the long trip.
One of the features of the voyage
was that the Tennessee was the largest
vessel to navigate the Panama Canal.
Major-GeneraI George w. GoethaIs,
builder of the canal, and Capt H. I.
Cone, marine superintendent, Joined
the party of William G. McAdoo, Sec
rotary OF the Treasury, on board the
vessel at Balboa and passed through
the canal with them.
s.It was a most delightful trip from
Hampton Roads to South America
and return Captain Beach said yes
terday. Nothing occurred during
the entire voyage to mar the pleasure
of it,
With the Tennessee there came first
hand reports of the Trinidad and
Callao incidents. 1t was authorita
lively. said that in neither case was
Mr.. McAdoo at fault. He, acted, it
Il
judgment.
His first act when he reached Trim
idad was to call on Sir John Chan
cellor, Governor of the island. When
Sir John failed to return the official
call, Mr.. McAdoo acted automatically
in refusing to receive a lesser officer
of the colony.
The American section of the In
ternationaI High Commission was
prepared. to land at Ca1Iao and go to
Lima, when Peruvian health authori-
ties went aboard the Tennessee when
she reached Callao and informed
Captain Beach and Mr.. McAdoo that
there was bubonic plague in the city.
Captain Beach, without offering any
suggestion to Mr.. McAdoo, issued or
ders that none of his officers or men
might go ashore. Mr.. McAdoo dis
cussed the situation with the Peru
Wan officials and decided that it
would be unwise and in violation of
the United States Health regulations
for the commission. to land.
Before leaving Ca1lao the Tenness-
see fred a salute. If the salute was
answered by the Peruvian shore bat
teries. it was not heard on board the
Tennessee.
Since March the officers and men
of the Tennessee have had only two
short shore Hberties-one at Rio de
Janeiro and one at Valparaiso. Dur
ing the voyage the usual drills were
omitted on only two days-when the
vessel passed through the Straits OF
Magellan and when she passed
through the Panama Canal. both OF
which days were declared holidays.
Officers and men or the Tennessee
yesterday expressed highest praise OF
Mr.. McAdoo and other members of
the American section of the Interna-
ttonal High Commission. They de-
cIared that it was one of the most
agreeable voyages they ever made.
Mr.. McAdoo and his party, when
they left the vessel at Hampton
Roads, presented a motion picture
camera to the men.
Among the officers on board the |
Tennessee other than Captain Beach |
are Lieutenant-Comm Yancey |
S. williams, Lieutenant Thomas |
Withers and Lieutenant C1aud A. |
Jones. Assigned to temporary duty !
on board the vessel with the Inter 4
High Commission were Sur /
geon D. Thompson and Lieutenant E. |
C. s. Parker, naval aid to Mr. HMc-
Adoo.