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Show L0S ANGELES KEEPS UP i RECOlOFiSPm I 1 Nothing Is Too Good for Officers and Men of Our Great Battleship Fleet. LOS ANGELES, Gal... April 21. Los Angeles continued today its long programme pro-gramme of entertainment for the sailors sail-ors and officers of the American battleship battle-ship fleet. Thirty-five hundred bluejackets blue-jackets were in the landing parties which came ashore at the various ports where the four divisions of the tlcet are anchored, and they pitched right into the fun provided for them with tho enthusiasm en-thusiasm of boys out of schools. The sailors were again tho guests of the city and the features of the day's entertainment entertain-ment were the same as on yesterday boxing bouts, barbecues, Yilel West shows, dnnc.ing, shooting the chutes and other forms of amusement occupying t the time from early morning until late at night. The sailors' frolics nre really the most interesting features of the fleet's stay. Thousands of people go each day to Chutes' park and Agricul- I tural park to see the men at. play. For the officers thore were a number of social events, including a luncheon lo the higher officers by Gen. Adna Tt. Ghaffce at. the California club. Tonight the chamber of commerce at, Keelondo, where tho ships of the fourth division the Alabama. Illinois. Ivearsargo and Kentucky are anchored, gave a banquet ban-quet at the Hotel Hedondo in honor of Wear-Admiral Charles K. Sperrv and other officers in the division. The entire en-tire city, overlooking the sen, wns illuminated. il-luminated. All of the port cities where the ships nro stopping are carrying out elaborate entertainment plans each da' for the men and officers. The day was a legal holiday and thousands thou-sands of persons visited tlio beaches and the warships. |