Evening star., 1927-10-23
NAVAL ACTIVITIES
TO Be DISPLAYED
Air Station, Yard and 0bser-
vatory to Be Open to
Public on Thursday.

Every naval activity in and around
the National Capital will be placed
on display next Thursday, the birth
day anniversary of the late President
Theodore Roosevelt, which has been
designated as Navy day. The Navy
Yard, the Naval Hospital, the Naval
Observatory. the Navy Department.
the Naval Air Station, all in this city,
and the Navy's torpedo manufactur'
ing plant at Alexandria, Will be
thrown wide open to visitors.
4 general assembly of patriotic and
civic organizations will meet at 1Z:3O
o'clock at the east end of the Navy
Building. The Marine Band from
Ouantico, Va, will give a concert be.
ginning at noon. These exercises Will
be presided over by Walter Bruce
Howe, chairman of the national COM
mittee of the Navy League. and sec
retary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur
will deliver an address. The usual
honors will be rendered Mr.. wilbur as
he steps aboard the piatform-tne
same that he gets whenever ne visits
a shin or naval station. The drummers
will give four ruff1es and the buglers
will sound four fiourishes. A company
of Marines from Quantico Will pre-
sent arms" and the band will play the
"Sec.etary's March.
Navy Yard to Be Open.
The Washington Navy Yard WIN De
thrown open to visitors from cIoSA
in the morning until O'CLOCK IN 'ne
evening. Guides Will be a"aiauie y.
conduct visitors through the yaro anu
the many shops. The pubic Is esps's
heat of iron at the foundry at lo:SO
O'clock in the morning and a pouring
of a heat of steel at 2:S0 O'Clock IN
the afternoon. Band concerts VIII oe
held during the day. and guaro inounl
will be conducted at 9:l5 am.
The model basin in the construc'
4;on and repair building will pe on
eyhibition and the public VIII pe
shown the many experiments wnlch
ore made with ship models 10 oe'
termine the type of machinery re-
ouired. water resistance, etc.
The President yacht. the MaynoW'
e,.. the Secretary of the Navy's yacnt,
the Sylph; the destroyer Alien, naval
reserve training ship, and the oe-
stroyer Reid from the Atlantic Scout
ing fleet will be open for Inspection
ali day. The Reid will take the piacs
of the crack destroyer Gon, whicn nau
been originally ordered here Ior tne
occasion. The latter vessel was an
collision Friday, it was said at the
Navv Deuartment, with the destroyer
Rainbridge at the Charleston, 5. T.,
navv ward. There will be gun driil
aboard the Allen at II o'clock in Inc
morning and on the Reid at O'Clock
in the afternoon. All of the SHIPS
will he in full dress" in the vari-col'
ored signal flags.
Air Station to Be Inspected.
The Naval Air Station will be open
from o'clock in the morning untlI
o'clock in the afternoon. visitors
will be given an opportunity 70 IN.
snect the station and the planes there
and various types of land and sea
planes will make flights during the
day. SO that visitors may observe
them taking off and landing.
The Naval Hospital at Twenty
third and e streets will be open tc
visitors from ] to o'clock pm
Members Of medical societies, medlca
students and others of the medical
profession are especially invited tc
visit the hospital.
The Naval Observatory will be opeT
to the public from am. to pm
and to visitors with tickets from f:o'
p.m. to 1870 am. Tickets may be Cd
| tanned by application to the superln
| tendent of the Naval Observatory anc
| will be issued in the order or the fe
ceipt of the application to the extern
| of the capacity of the observatory.
During the day there will be ad
dresses to the student bodies OF col
leges and universities by officers or
duty in the Navy Department here.