Show 3 W G H NOR NORD D Din n Given 1 at L lub lubNew New eW York fork in p t tEY EVANS EY s RESPONDS R TOAST VA FLEET READY RDV R tD f FEAST ST FROLIC O B F FIG i New York Y rk Nay Na 2 j ey D DEvans DEvans DEvans Evans whorls de d p of ot tho battleship fai fo the Pa Pacific Pacific wu wa th lh g tuest st in i z t ta notable dinner given t d at t e Lotus club clubA A large lar e number nt distinguished quests guests ues participated in the greeting gree ng to the admiral and the speakers s eak rs included besides the guest euest of ot honor Bishop Potter Senator Chaunce Chauncey Depew of ot the tho Treasury Shaw Seth eth Low Admiral Cou hlIn and a d Nicholas Murray Butler president of ot Columbia university In responding to a toast jn his health Admiral Evans said Feast Frolic or Fight This fleet of ot sixteen battleships and other vessels will sail from Hampton Roads on December 16 I do not think anybody dy wants to stop I do not no think anybody will wili stop It for tor I know the men I and I know the ships You Tou Yo r wont be dis disappointed disappointed appointed d In the fleet whether it proves to be a feast east a frolic or a n fight It would please me rue very much to take the fleet to Yokohama I know the Jap Japanese Japanese anese and I know that we would get a n welcome elcome there I I know It would not be the welcome we would get from a certain gang in San Francisco I 1 do not fear tear the flower flow r shows and the dog shows but I do fear the hospitality of those western people veol When hen I took charge of ot the fleet tw and a n half haIt years ago we bad Imd some soma target practice out ut there which I thought was good and an it was as good but during our last target practice e in Massa Massachusetts bay ba we r s iUd 1 J better than was wits ever done llone in the Hie worM world before Some Fancy Shooting The admiral then described the target practice when a target was shot at at a range of ot five fhe and a half miles Just as ns would be done in battle He said proudly that the target was practically practically practically destroyed In two minutes and fit fifteen teen seconds When it was examined there were four shells nine ei shells sheIls and seventeen seven Inch shells sheIls In the target In the practice to repel a night attack by three torpedo boats boath each ship firing tiring at all three at once approaching from different directions directions directions In the first fir t minute te all a I three torpedo boats were destroyed The ad admiral admiral miral mimi In concluding spoke e good wishes for forthe forthe forthe the men of his fleet Former Secretary Shaw said that It was wasa a good have a navy especially one that hits which was after all the only real navy na naVe We Ve have the navy nav but we may never have any an need for It unless the world learns that we have no colliers or trans transports transports transports ports I regret that we have to have foreign ships accompanying our fleet and It Is humiliating that we should have to pay par half a million dollars to foreign ships to carry earn our coal If It this were a war cruise Instead of ot one of ot peace who would haul our coal Dont deceive your yourselves selves into believing that we are pre prepared prepared prepared pared for war We need colliers as much muchas muchas as ns we need guns A man may not say before the press what we think in our hearts It costs us 14 per capita to keep up our nay navy It Is worth Jo hear the admiral IP Ir advance tell about target practice Mr Ir Shaw In tn concluding referred briefly to finances expressing the tha hope hopa that there would be e currency legislation soon Resurrection of Depew Senator Chauncy Y M Depew D pew spoke poke In part as us follows The commotion which this expedition has Ims created and the discussion Jt it has aroused sll au over the tho world la I 1 one of ot the thee eccentricities e of ot the times Aw e have i Ui Sot coast coaston on the arid Its harbor are famIlIar to Our t We equivalent number of miles on the Pacific and most of its harbors have seen sten an American battleship The Orient which believes only what it sees must be reminded of ot the fact that the United d States Is ts s second among the naval powers of ot the world orld Why why can our f feH Jeet sail aIl on tile Atlantic lantic and must nor sail on the Pacific ocean The answer er Is It t would Youl offend the tha susceptibilities of ot the new n ns W power in inthe inthe inthe the east Japan P n In the I be believe belleve lieve that th t t statesmen are too sensible lind nd too well informed to tp t have nr such feeling or to desire trouble with the United Unit d States S tes In the nex MX place where any fleet of pf t I ri nation goes ours can c cm n KO lo o if It likes and t tb Is no opas business j Settled Set led by Former F rm r rH Heroes tt ro s Senator Depew said the right of ot the American Amerl an navy to sail over the Mediterranean Mediterranean Mediterranean on the Atlantic and on the great eat lakes was settled forever years ago by Decatur null Hull Rogers and Perry Pem He continued And now after a century of preparation preparation tion of production of oC progress and of ot power it is proposed to close the Pacific In which we have havo as great eat Interests as any other nation Gentlemen there will willbe wIllbe willbe be no war Referring to the men who do things Senator Denew alluded to the financial crisis as follows The day was saved by the pluck cour courage courage courage age and genius for f r affairs ot of the men who dp things |