The sun., 1918-12-27
DREADNOUGHTS PASS
BEFORE DANIELS
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ing which the almost silent process
sion passed the Secretary of the Navy
| in n snowstorm, to hear in the dis
lance the sudden scream OF n big ships
siren 1t was more than relief. ii was
| hugely enjoyable when the fiotilla dis
covered that this rash dlsturber OF the
harbor'a peace was none other than
! tho transport Saxonla, bearing 400
| men who were classed as wounded or
I sick but belled the classification as
they waved their hats from the rail- at
everything In sight and set UP roar
OF young voices that put the siren to
| shame.
Yes, there wasn't much noise in this
reception Of Admiral Mayo's ten
/ dreadnoughts, but infinitely sweet
were the notes Of THE Star Spangled
Banner" that fioated across the water
to the official and unofficial review
ers as the band of each battleship, APP
preaching the Statue and the May
flower, sent forth the national anthem.
The air never sounds better than when
played by ships band on shipboard.
"Jnckics" Are "Gobs" Now.
Yesterday variable wird played
with the notes, driving them this way
and that, modulating them II seemed
. TO the listeners, as ii an organist were
trying one stop then another.
The crews OF the dreadnoughts
stood at attention along the rails
When they left US. a year or so ago,
they were tackles" nickname they
! never liked. They have come back
to US "gobs," OF which word nobody
knows the meaning, and they love it..
The snow iurries family whitened
their blue peajackets; also wetted
them, for 1t was quickly melting snow.
But what did they care?
! For them the German surrender on
November 81 may have been Der Tag.
with neat English reverse twist;
this Thursday. yesterday, was surely
The Day. And the chances are that
the import OF The Day for them lay
not in the traditional fornallties pre-
ceding ancho-e9' nor yet in their
march later down Fifth avenue, but
in the shore leave-American shore
leave-that half OF them got when
all the splendid spectacle was over,
and the other half will get to-day, and
In the seven days Burroughs that are
coming to those who have kept their
states clean in the months Of tire
some waiting in the North Sea, off
ireland, or along the French coast.
A little boat that bobbe6 around at
will in the bay and North River yes
40 hn.l nc 10 IIaV ,TN.
Reuterdahl. high priest OF painters Of
warships. He Is now Lieut.. Reuter-
Gahl. and is about to cap his wartime
efforts to make the navy visible in
color and black and white by painting
tor tho Naval Academy picture per
petuRting Yesterdays review of the
coming OF the Victory Fleet.
No Escort I'm the Air.
None OF the twenty-oue seaplanes
that were to escort the battleships up
the harhor vas visible from the press
boat Earifa though some observers
swear they saw one or two further
down the bay. The two dirigibles that
were to have participated were kept
NJ home by the fog ana wind. So the
only aerial convoy. so far as was OBJ
servable from the press boats station
near the Mayflowcr, consisted Of two
gray kite balloons. which have fins
and look like huge sky torpedoes.
From each was swung Il basket con-
tanning two navy men.
These balloons were hauled sedately
along by the guUboRt Gloucester and
the destroyer Shuhrick. The Gloucester
and It's tow led the procession from the
lower bay, but halted before tho May
flower was reached and thereafter the
gas bag hohOed about like a child's
balloon straining at the leRsh--if any
one ever saw a childs balloon shaped
Ike very fat cigar The Shubrlck
veered or past Governors Island and
swung around 70 return its prisoner to
the bal!oonery at RCCkaway Point.
The MAyfowe-. with Secretary Dan
'e,s and Ms guests including Secretary
OF War Baker and Mayor Hylan. and
not forgetting Mrs. George Dewey
widow Of the Admiral, OF whose birth
= yesterday was an anniversary. felt It's
way down the North River and anchored
near the Statue OF Liberty at 3 O'Clock.
How the Dreadnoughts Entered.
!. Up the ha-bo. CrcnI tho entrance O.
Ambrose Channel gateway to the sea
we're moving the ten dreaduoughts
First came the Arizona, Oklahoma and
\evadR; then the three hagsh!ps. TIL,
first OF these three was the Utah. with
Rear Admiral Thomas .S.del Rodgers
commander OF Division Six Of the At.
lanuc fleet. Next the Pennsylvania
with Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo, com,
mander in chief OF tho Atlantic fleet
returning from France. whittier the Ienr
escorted President Wilson. Then the
New York, with Rear Admiral Hug,
Rodman, commanding Division Nine. bat
tleship force. Atlantic feet.
Everybody has seen Admiral Rodman
a kcntuCklan, beloved OF all fleets, II
recent moving pictures making KinI
George laugh while the King was visit
ing the New York Gable messages
have been printed over hero confirmiul
tho notion that the Adlr' raj. who is tn,
, hest story teller In the navy, made tn,
King laugh. Rut ~ u.ual, the pesky
chroniclers have "a ola us what story
the Admiral told zig George. Anyway
Rear Admiral Rouman was up on tn,
bridge OF the New York, YESTERDAY
After these three fagships OF which
, the Pennsylvania was chief came tn,
Texas, the Arkansas. the Wyoming ant
the Florida The Gloucester was 1906
yards head OF the Arizona, the ShuOricl
/ 1000 yards astern of the last dread
, nought. the Florida, and the old revenu,
! cutter MOhican was guard ship.
The telephone was working. Secretary
/ Daniels on the Mayfiower speaking; Ad
miral MAYO on the pennsylVania listen