| Show WARSHIPS WILt WILL WILLBE 8 BE READY OC DEC 16 Provisions and arid Coal Being Stored for Trip of the Fleet 6 to the Pacific Coast Washington Nov 10 l Every detail cf of the tho preparations for the sailing of the battleship fleet to the Pacific ocean is now well wen in hand and by Dec Dee 16 the date dale on which the vessels will pass out of Hampton Roads in review revie before President Roosevelt members of the cabinet and high officials officials of the navy arrangements for the comfort of the men en route will have been at nt attended tended to At all aU of the navy yards the work worle of ot making necessary repairs is being pushed and these will be completed by Dec 1 Provisions are being stored aboard the vessels and their coal bunk bunkers bunkers bunkers ers are being filled fined to their capacity Upon the arrival of Rear Admiral Ev Evans Evans Evans ans four anchors will IU be carried by each vessel so as Jo to o be ready for any an emergency V The cost of provisioning the fleet is la s estimated at about contemplating con ing lag the t e feeding of a force of or men for one hundred days Only this week contracts were awarded for head headcheese headcheese headcheese cheese sausages and veal Advantage will be taken of the two ocean cruises to make several tests with the provisions aboard their pres preservation preservation packing and handling It Is 18 desired to find some suitable form of ot in which to carry carry dried provi provisions Provisions as it Is believed bags will vill afford the advantage of compactness and greater facility facUlty in handling in different places than if their contents were car carried carrIed ried ned in hoses box s or barrels Incidental to the visit of the fleet to the Pacific coast the navy department Is il making arrangements to obtain a place for small arms firing tiring there th re t so o oas as to give the men an all opportunity for Cor experience in that capacity V It J may be that improved targets will willbe willbe willbe be established at 1 bay where there is to be considerable tar target target target get practice S V VS I t S S S W e 1 V VV |
