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Show WARSHIP FLEET NOW ALMOST COMPLETE NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Tho great fleet of American battleships which President Taft and Secretary Meyer will review next week In this harbor is now practically prac-tically complete. The mobilization was accomplished today with the arrival of tho last of the battleships, the South Carolina, nineteen torpedo boat destroyers and a number of submarine craft. There aro now 125 naval craft here. They stretch In the Hudson river from Twenty-third street to Spuyten Duyvil. Tonight tho ships will be outlined in incandescent in-candescent lights, and Grant's tomb, tho soldiers' and sailors' monument and Riverside Riv-erside drive, all overlooking tho Hudson, Will bo similarly Illuminated. Some 5500 bluejackets and marines will parade today alonjc upper Broadway and lower Fifth avenue. In the evening 600 officers will bo guests at a ball at tho Hotel Astor. |