Show PACIFIC FLEET BEGINS CRUISE Bound for the Orient on Journey to Test Efficiency of Vessels for Work Designed 1 San Francisco Tlio eight nrmoro0 cruisers of the United States Pacific t Meet weighed anchor at 2 oclock Sunday afternoon and through a heavy tog steamed slowly out of tho olden nato on a long cruise for Asiatic waters The fleet will go direct to Honolulu Hono-lulu and thence to the Orient where It will bo joined by the Asiatic squadron squad-ron under Admiral Harbor The enlarged en-larged fleet will then engage In bat tie practice In Philippine waters Each of the octette Is an armored cruiser and with two exceptions each Is equipped with eighteen guns lathe la-the main battery and Is of 13080 tons burden Two the Tennessee and the Washington have twenty guns In the main battery and aro of 14500 tons burden Each ship has 23000 horsepower The object of the voyage Is to test tho efficiency of the vessels In tho work for which they were constructed construct-ed to make cruises of any Jongth at the highest possible speed white maintaining a maximum of fighting strength |