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Show FLEET ANCHORS SAFE AT HiALElH BAY Long Voyage Around the Horn Has Been Completed in Record Time. SAN DIEGO. Cal.. March 12. When tho American battleship tlcet under command of Rear Admiral Roblev D. Evans steamed today into Magddlena bay, passing through "the rockv gatewav marked by Sail rock on tho lorth and Redondo point on tho south, and dropped anchors behind the high peninsula's promontory, which stretches a protecting protect-ing arm down from tho mainland and makes Man-o '-War cove th emost sheltered shel-tered harbor of tho lower Pacific coast, the history-making naval cruise of more than 13.000 miles, hegun at Hampton Roads le6S than three months ago, practically prac-tically came to an end. Magdalena is tho present, naval base of the Pacific for .American tniget work an.-; b.il.Ut p-a.-t.M.e drills, and by right of temporary tempo-rary ownership through Government ase, the vessels, if not tho men of the fleet, may feel that they are again in homo waters. Holiday Trip Next. There yet remains to be made tho trip from Mngdalena bay to San Francisco, tho destination originally announced, and a matter of some 1100 miles, but it will not bo begun until after target practiQo is concluded and fleet, drills are done. This last stage of the journev ! will bo a tour of holiday malting, with. ' stops nt San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa ! Barbara and Santa Cruz, where reception recep-tion committees are planning all manner man-ner of entertainments for officers and men, the latter especially coming in for tho greatest amount of attention. Th onilors will find themselves heroes every one, in tho eyes of their Wcateru admirers, ad-mirers, and are promised a .series of fetes which include features ranging lrom gala balls under the patronage of exclusive social sots to prize fights ref-ereed ref-ereed by Champion James J. Jeffries himself. .,T.ne California committoes announce that tho uniform of the enlisted man. far from being a bar to nnv pluco of amusement, as has sometimes been the case in other places, will be a mark of hospitable welcomo all along the Pacific coast. Work at Magdalona, There is serious work to bo done at Magdalona, bowover, before tho sailors' thoughts can turn to the happy days of homecoming. Target ranges are to bc established off tho coast of Lower California Cali-fornia at once, according to the wiro-less wiro-less dispatches from Admiral Evans, and the divisions of the fleet will bo sent out with big guns booming as soon as they aro ready. Long boforo the flcot passed through the Straits of Magellan Ma-gellan the ordnance officers of the sixteen six-teen ships, tho turret captains and heads of the various gun crews were busy w'ith the details of the coming practice, and in tho run from Callao to Magdalena they completed the final arrangements. |