Show CON CONVENTION VENT ON AI NORfOLK President Taft Attends and MaKes HaRes Address of the Day NORFOLK Ya Va Nov O 19 The 19 second sec see lond ond annual convention of the Atlantic deeper waterways s s 's association now assembled assembled as as- in this cit city took on its most important feature today with ith the arrival arrival ar nr- ar- ar rival rhal of President Taft for an all day stay as ns the guest est of the association and tho the municipality of Norfolk Tho The president camo in on tho tIme May May- lower flower at a o'clock clock his arrival being being be be- ing hug announced by a u dou double le of one twenty guns l tho the first fired by the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues the tho oldest old old- ost est artillery or organization in Vir Virginia and the second by tho the guns tuns from theoM theold the tho old oM receiving ship Franklin at the Norfolk Norfolk Nor Nor- folk na navy yard President Met Mot by Admiral President Taft came ashore from rom the Mayflower on the naval tug tul Mohawk upon which he was met mot by y Rear Ad Ad- miral E. E D. D Taussig commanding this naval na station and amid t the o joint reception committee from the tho city of Norfolk and aud the tho waterways waterway's convention Proceeding from the landing landin to tho the hotel the president re rc re- re members and ana delegates of tho waterways waterway's convention con after which ho went to tho ho grand stand erected at tho the confederate monument where be before oro delivering n his address s of the day ay ho he reviewed ro a military an and c civic parade th tho chief marshal of which winch was tS Colonel Colonel Colo nel net L L. L T. T Wailer Waller U U. U S. S marino marine corps famous during the tho Philippine campaign l for his heroic march across Samar and later prominent with the tho American Amelian forces in the Boxer uprising in China |