Show WARSHIPS AND SAILORS READY Signals Flashed From Every Vessel in the Fleet Soon to Start for the Pacific PLANS FOR REVIEW MADE ROOSEVELT L T TO ARRIVE ABOUT 8 A M MONDAY Old Va Dee Dec 12 The final word of Ready neady was flashed from every eer vessel essel In tho the battleship fleet to today today today day This signal meant that the tho six sixteen sixteen sixteen teen most powerful of or tho American navy were ready not only to start nest n t Monday morning on their projected cruise to the western seas sea but are just jut as ready roady to go anywhere In the of the lie world and md do any work It meant that hulls are swe sweet t and clean cloon that giant com coin compound compound pound engines are aro restless to be ut at task that officers and men are trained to Ie c the hour that th t bunkers are overflowing with the tIme best hest steam coal coul the mines of tho the country can produce that larders aro are choked with ships chips pro provisions provisions provisions visions and that magazine doors are arc closed upon the greatest stores of ot am ammunition ammunition ammunitIon ever eer placed on board Amen Ameri American can vessels of ot war Work Well Done The Tho care caro with which the time ships have been groomed for their forthcoming voyage vo age and the tho completeness with which they the have been stored with all the necessities of a battleships useful usefulness usefulness ness In peace or war leave no doubt of or the mobility and of the great armed force foree Even the officers themselves th are aro ar just a little bit sur cur surprised surprised priced at tho tim amount of ot work that has haa been accomplished and the quiet contI confidence dence that has marked every step of preparation If It the ships were destined for immediate conflict little more could be done to make mako them ready for the fray The distinctive white and alid buff burt paint which has brought so much ad admiration on to time the American ships when pitted on parade larade against the grimy hulled navies of other nations would of ot course have to give way In favor of time the safer tone of leaden gray but that is a matter of only ani a few low hours work Devotion to Duty There Is an entire absence of enthusiasm but a manifest atmosphere of serious devotion to duty surrounding the time departure of tho fleet The orders end and tho the published hed itinerary offer little prospect of entertainment or amuse amusement ment meat on the route Sea duty drills and target practice are arc the outstanding fea features features feature tures ture of the trip through Magellan Straits to the t e fiand and dunes and Indian huts of or Magdalena bay bayOne Ono One ot or the points of or complete readi readiness readiness readiness ness marking the present status of or the time fleet Is to tJ t be found In the of at the navigating officers When the fleet was first ordered to prepare for the Pacific voyage tho the navigators of ot each ship were supplied with specially pre prepared prepared prepared pared charts leading down the South Atlantic coast leading through the tho treacherous water of at Magellan Straits and along the Pacific coast to San Francisco Several weeks ago these charts were supplemented by others II showing the way to Manila Then more recently have hae come lately revised charts capable of or guiding the fleet all the way to Gibraltar The furnishing of ot those charts has given shen rise to gossip that the fleet is destined eventually to circle time the globe and that there may be some something something thing thins more beyond Magdalena bay than San Francisco Review Plans Completed Plans for tor the review of the fleet and its subsequent departure on Monday morning have hae been completed The Mayflower will arrive soon after 8 a m mand mand mand and after being saluted with twenty one ono guns will anchor near the center of at the fleet Flag and commanding of officers officers officers will repair on board and be re received received received by the president The fleet will wll sail at about 10 a m being preceded to the Horseshoe in Chesapeake Chesapeake Chesapeake peake bay by the Mayflower which will anchor The fleet then will pass in re review revl I view vl w at ten knots an hour and in single column Saluting again as they pass the ships will proceed to sea A search searchlight searchlight searchlight light drill tonight by all aU the vessels was a brilliant spectacle |