The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-10-12
Will Extend Freedom of City to
Admiral Plunkett and His
Men When Squadron Com
mander Arrives i'm Port
MERCHANTS WILL
DECORATE STORES
Festivities Will Culminate With
Celebration in Evening With
Famous Naval Leader as
Guest of City.

Mayor Frank d. Sanders will offer
the freedom of the city to Admlrat
Plunkett. commander of the destroyer
squadron, who is due in Pensacola bay
Monday on board the cruiser Roches-
ter Mayor Sanders, the other city
commissioners and a delegation OF
prominent citizens on board the Mer-
cathedes, with Captain Paul +. Stew
art of the Pensacola Shipbuidling
Company, will make the admiraPs
gangway and bring Admiral Plunkett
to the city.
The official welcome will be made
either at city hall or at Mallory Court,
the evening of the admiraPs arrival
A mass meeting will be held in his
honor and everything will be done to
make the visit OF the destroyer men
pleasant.
Pensacola merchants win decorate
their places of business Monday, in
honor of the admiraPs coming. The
various clubs will hold open house.
the knights of Columbus giving
dance Monday night, and tho War
Camp Community Service has extended
a welcome to the officers and men to
make themselves at home at the
Army Navy Club.
Full details for the admirals well
come will be arranged today and an
announcement will. be made as soon
as the date of his arrival is definitely
known.
Eleven destroyers are in the harbor
this morning. Eight more vessels ar
rived during yesterday and from now
on for several days they will rTrive at
the rate of three or four a lay until
the total of fifty-four vessels have
dropped anchor in Pensacola bay. In
formally, Mayor Sanders has already
extended the welcome of the city to
the officers and crews of the destroy
ers and the Maxent Park baseball
commission has offered the use of
Maxent park for the use of athletics.
Many people crowded the wharves yes
terday afternoon to get view of the
vessels and beginning today visitors
will be allowed aboard, during the
hours from one to four thirty in the
afternoon.
The vessels to arrive yesterday and
their commanding officers were: the
McCalla, Lieut.. Commdr. G. B. Ashe;
Fairfax, Lieut.. Commdr. w. w. Smith;
Taylor. Lieut.. Commdr. F. G.. Rein
icke; Calhoun Commdr. Farwell
Harding, Commdr. H. d. Cooke; Nc
L X
Ingram. Lieut.. Commdr. NJ. B. De-
Mott; Bancroft, Lieut.. Commdr. II. 8.
Haislip.
The Maxent Park Baseball commits
sion composed of Edward Fox, Fred
erick Gilmore and Charles w. Fo-
rum have rendered the use of Max
ent Park. free of charge, to the Off
GERS and members of the crews for ath-
letic purposes during their stay in this
city.
Officers Of the squadron informed
The Journal last night that visitors
will be welcomed aboard the ships
any afternoons from one to four thirty
O'Clock.
Many naval officers who made his
tory in the world war are in Pensa-
cola with the torpedo destroyers and
others will join the fleet in a few days
Admiral Plunkett, who is in command
of the squadron, has as his flagship.
the Rochester, which was Admiral
SIMPSONS flagship at Santiago, later
christened the Saratoga. Later with
new and modern armament il took the
name of the Rochester. A
! Admiral Plunkett saw some stirring
times during the world war, command
ing the only large guns with the Am
erican forces at the front, the only
heavy American artillery that smash
ed the German lines and drove the
Huns back to Berlin.
Captain Buchanan, in command of
the flotilla, commanded the destroyer
Downee. at Queenstown. He returned
to the states in 1918. and was sent
back to Queenstown. where he was at
tne time OF the signing of the armis-
IT,. "a
tice- commander II. T.. Cook was also
with the destroyers at Queenstown.
Commander Cook took a yacht 10
France. at the opening of hostilities