Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-04-28
Fleets Guns Roar
Salute to Harding

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first opportunity 10 salute him. From
the proud flagship Pennsylvania down
TO the humble beef boats and from
admiral down TO bluejackets, ships and
men were sleek and alert for the oc.
casion.
Before the feet entered the Virginia
capes tbe, Mayfower. which came down
from Washington last night with Presi
dent and Mrs. Harding nnd their party
was at anchor off Thimble Light, Near.
by was the naval yacht Sylph. on which
Secretary DENLY and members of the
House naval committee came to Hamp-
ton Roads, while private yachts, ey I.
cursion boats and terries clustered
around the reviewing party.
Young r. II. on Flagship
With Admiral Wilson. fleet com
mander. on the Pennsylvania was
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, who
made the cruise from Guantanamo with
the feet and was on the 8agship's
bridge when she passed the Mayfower.
The blue and white flag OF the nssista Mt
secretary Huttercd from a topmast.
Following the Pennsylvania came the
zona. Utah, Florida, Delaware, North
Dakota, Michigan, south Carolina and
Connecticut, the Utah flying the flag
of Vice Admiral II. z. Jones, com.
manding the battleship force.
Close behind the battleships was the
tender Black Hawk. leading three diyi-
sions OF six destroycrs each and thir-
teen submarines of the o and X
classes. They were followed by mine
force vessels and ships Of the supply
train, headed by the cruiser Columbia,
flagship OF the train.
The destroyers, as they slipped quietly
along astern Of the battleships, were
forced to content themselves with less
elaborate honors than those paid by
the larger vessels. The greater part Of
their crews were below decks In the
heat Of engine and boiler rooms or busy
on the bridge, and lacking the luxury
Of a band, they manned the rail- at
attention and let it 60 at that.
On submarines n little group of men
on the decks almost awash stood rigidly
at attention as the submcrsibles slipped
by the reviewing party.
Throughout the review the seaplanes
from the naval base and army aircraft
from Langley Field buzsed and hummed
overhead, while three dirigibles droned
lazily over the pageant.
Aboard Presidential Yacht Mayfiower
on Hampton Roads, April % (by
Wirclcss) The day was cold and
gray. with an overcast sky and low
hanging clouds. as the hour approached
today for the presidential review of the
Atlantic division Of the American fleet
shortly before . o'clock Secretary of
the Navy DENLY boarded tho Mayhower
md greeted President and Mrs. Hard
ing, who then took the bridge.
At o'clock the great battleship
Pennsylvania appeared out Of the haze.
She was followed at 500.yard intervals
by the other members of the armada.
She approached the Mayf1ower aud
about n mile away wheeled smsrtly and
passed in review off the port side Her
opening gun doomed in salute at 40.
In a little more than an hour after
the flagship had steamed past the presi-
Dental yacht, the last submarine in the
line slipped by and the feet anchored
in the Roads. The Mayfower lifted
anchor and Joined the armada, Presi.
dent and Mrs. Harding going aboard
the faship Pennsylvania, where they
held reception for the officers of the
feet.