Show FIGHTING t Jj IS AMONG HIS i BEST fRIENDS li Salt Lake Welcomes Her Own Naval Hero With Wide m Open Arms t tir f HE TELLS OF NEEDS ir OF AMERICAN N NAVY NAV PACIFIC COAST PROTECTION IM IMPORTANT PRAISE FOR OUR OURi i SHIPS AND GUNNERS ADMIRAL EVANS PROGRAM O A TODAY T I Admiral Adm ol Evans E will be enter entertained tamed at a luncheon at the Com Corn Commercial mercial club at 1230 1 today teda i At 3 this afternoon he be i will review the High H h school cadets on the parade grounds arounds At that t t tI I Urn Unit time he be will be accompanied by Governor Spry and staff starr the com corn commanding mending manding officer of Fort Douglas and staff Mayor Bransford and majors of three battalions of oC the national guard He will wiD be greeted by the ad admirals admirals salute lute upon his arrival and the battalion will execute the re to review review view and retreat parade Admiral Evans will be given liven a reception re Sunday and will win depart from the city Sunday J I i NAVAL AVAL r EXPERT L LIS IS INTERVIEWED Admiral Evans Evos consented to u as user ser some special questions question for The I Herald touching on matter of 01 j jI f I worlds Interest What in your opinion will be bethe beUte bethe the Ute result of or the naval excitement f f apparent in both and Oar Ger Germany many as 6 shown in their efforts effort to tosu surpass su each other in naval equip equipment equipment equipment ment 7 There has been a great t deal of f snarling snapping snaP and showing of rI rII teeth but I do not look for Ie i iI a alee I I between these two countries at lee for a long lone time yet A As Aa I have often staffed a sufficient ade t naval mural i force feree te fa the th ML of or kes tn 4 ea t r ii future so j if If it there theM one time be trou teu trouble ble bie dont d t aay eny I said mid Id these there would ji always be De peace How about wout the criticisms of ot the vf present battleship construction asto as asto to faulty fault features tes tu res ammunition s hoists armament and armoring of i 1 the fighting machines machin of ol which the msg have litre made mad so much ii All Ail bosh boelt Our Out battleships are arc re th the thA thAI best in the world ship for ship and date for date dale and we can show em ft I any time they the want to start some something something thing Dont you worry about Uncle Sam All he needs s is more battle battleships t f ships on the Pacific coast and they t will all keep off the grass t rv r Hear near Admiral Robley D Evan Bvans though on oil crutches temporarily as s the result of physicians clan orders stepped from the Ore Oregon on Short ort Line train tram last evening shortly before 9 S and re rr received the welcome of the representatives pre enta tives of or Salt Lakes civic elvic and military departments More lore than person pentOn were present An affecting greeting took place between Admiral Evans anil anI James Jame Forsythe a Salt S lt Lake pioneer who lived In hi this city at the time tho the admiral then a mere more boy was appoint appointed ed ad to Annapolis The welcoming committee was Wall com corn composed posed of o Governor William Spry Pre Pres ident W V J T Halloran and Secretary Fisher Harris of the Commercial club Mayor John S Bransford Adjutant General E A Wedgwood Captain F FM FM l lM M Savage of the Fifteenth infantry Infant Principal George Eaton of the High i school Joseph E caine fame Dr E B Pfoutz B Ii F Redman D A Callahan CallahanS i S C Park G Df D Burton and G H i 1 i r i When the admirals admiral party including t tIn Mrs In Evans Evan and Jams Jam A bad had met the reception committee they thee f were escorted to waiting automobiles 1 and aud taken to tf the hot hoti hotel I J i where after resting for a time Ad Admiral AdmIral t 1 miral mira Evans to see the press pres f I 1 I j representative representatives I Our Navy I As one of the integral int al tarts lart t arts of 4 j American navy nary admiral would you teil tei us uti your candid opinion of that portion of or the nations nation defences as compared J ft if I with Ida that of or other nations in the event een t i i of war he was asked Baked il Snip for ship was th tb the reply repty our OUI battleships battleship are just as good lood and to mv mY mind a little better than those of or any n Y other country countr Of course the older elder be bat battleships t I t do not compare favorably with if rj the tile ones of either our oar Ur navy or tI i navy envy of or the foreign powers but thy v Continued on 2 p I I I FIGHTING BOBIS BOB BOBIS IS AMONG HIS BEST FRIENDS Continued From Pane Page 1 are a just a as good Od aa as the hI Of af t ir and all allcan allen I Ic date elate belonging to other powers can en c n lie fee depended on to give gift a good ac of themselves t ye It U things as tl break loose The latest ships abt we have hav built are areto in to a class claR by themselves and are far I superior to anything any tiling In la their dare daM at atthe atthe i ithe the time of their construction The Th Utah and Florida the new battleships now bOW under UP construction eon will wiD be when completed the masters of anything de do designed signed up us to the tile present time Urns Can the present eDt of the American navy naY be he raised in kt view of its present toe he was asked No Mo H air r thundered the admiral in his best beat quarterdeck tones our oar gun gm gunners gunners ners nen are the best In hi the world today Fur For myself Id vastly prefer Inferior ships with superior crews such as we have to superior with inferior mews crews As A long ions as our nUl gunnery remains what hat It Jt now no Is I consider the question of the size stee of the snipe to be far less lew Important than tEn at any 07 time in the past put Speed ia Is I a far greater essential e than size and gun service tops tope them both No War With With Japan In In your our opinion Is Ie 1 there any AD likeD likelihood hood of war between this country and lid Japan In the mar nr 1 future There is Js not was the reply But that it ti i 11 r reason re why w we should not take ev evry r step tep to have un the tile Pacific PacIe ade adequate ad I quate defended We must BlU t have a 8 Pa Pai i cHile fleet as well as an Atlantic heeL fleet I Almost an any enemy JH I bent on mischief i could uld attack us on p the Pacific side aide and raise the Hie very tery ry deuce before protection I could ho be had front from the Atlantic What hat in your opinion to Is necessary i tn tI t pros pro id for the proper protection of the western c ast I We WI must have bave a fleet maintained there of t f not less lew than Ulan bat battleship battleship with an tUI e tta I number in the Atlantic Six could conid co ld be used uNd for dr drill I purposes with a reserve of 01 eight When bell we have haVO ft that OUlI And nobody will want to play horse horH with us u Will WiD not the tile Panama canal change condition It U fe It completed With no Pacific fleet to protect them the heaviest armored and aDd most moat deadly fleet thet in existence e could rould net n t be brought out ont of the canal and formed into battle baUh line without being cut to piece nieces as they would have ba to steam out one at a time Ume It Jt would be another CBS ene of or squadron Corning coming out ont of Santiago Not 00 only that but suppose depend dependence ence were placed on the canal ean l and some seine foreigner with his wel wet welfare welfare fare at heart should take his hie life in one hand and lid a stick of dynamite in the theother theother lother other and an blow one of the locks loco to king kingdom kingdom dom come where would our protection come from then We e have hare battleships and two more being haUL built making thirty three in all only nl are necessary necessary necessary essary and we e maid could have ha e them all an in ina Ina a few years if the people would reali realise e their necessity eity nece The fact set that we were io so strong tron on water ter that no other coun country try would dare to tackle us would have havea a tendency to stop panics and stock fluctuations at the time of war scares scare Figure FI re it out for fix yourself It would only need the amount lost lest t In shrinkage of stock values 40 during one e panic panie to build a fleet of or in 1 11 battleships Improving Fast at battleships battleship e would make the United States practically Invincible w when hen you consider that American merican gunners gun gunners gunners ners would be the guns Uhl Our efficiency fmC Y has increased Pf to such sueh an ex ox extent extent tent that if we had Santiago to do over again gain it tt would not take us UR hive minutes Where v e we used to shoot a gun once in three minutes tes we now fire two to shots in one minute The guns gun were formerly tired at the rate of one shot per minute we e now lIre fire twelve tw lve shots hota in the Ule same ame length of time As a arule arule arule rule we mute miss the he target now boUs boa as we used to bit hit it before If Ae we m the target tar et now once on e in tn shots we think were doing bad hooting shooting exploded the old warrior v hen asked what was wa the average per perc c of misses during target practice tice tic tir e |