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Show mm FLEET GREETED """ 81 CHEERING IHSE Great Welcome Extended by Thou-sands Thou-sands of Enthusiastic Drown Men When Battleships Arrive at Yokohama. Yokohama. Tho American battle-chip battle-chip fleet dropped anchor In the harbor har-bor at 9:30 o'clock Sunday morning. As tho sixteenth battleship rounded round-ed Honmou point nnd camo through tho entrnnco to tho bay, they wero accompanied by tho Japaneso cruls-ra cruls-ra Soya, Mngaml and Tntsuta, commanded com-manded by Hear Admiral Murakami. Passing up tho coast off Yokohama, tho first note of real welcome wus i-ounded whon a fireworks saluto was fired by tho "America's Friends ns-loclntlon," ns-loclntlon," comprised entirely of Japaneso, Jap-aneso, who hnd assomblcd at Kurl-bama Kurl-bama on tho stto ot Perry's monu-mont. monu-mont. Tho fleet responded by gracefully grace-fully dipping colors. When It camo closer In tho floot was met by soven big ocean liners chartered by tho prefecture of Kan a-gnvn, a-gnvn, carrying 7,000 persons, Including Includ-ing many foreigners. Tho air was filled with bursting bombs sent up from various points, nnd tho roar of oiccs was honrd oven in tho city of Yokohama. Whon tho fleet rounded Honmou point nnd camo into full vlow of tho tlty of Yokohama, tho slxtcon as-tcmbled as-tcmbled Japaneso warships began firing tho saluto to tho rear admiral In command of tho American licet. Tho ronr of tho guns, tho bursting fireworks bombs, tho shriek of tho steam sirens with tho accompaniment accompani-ment of tho drono of tho deep notes of the liners filled tho air with overwhelming over-whelming sound. Ashoro bedlam Iroko loose and words fall to do-icrlbo do-icrlbo tho enthusiasm ot the assembled assem-bled thousands. When tho Amnrlrnn ttpot flnnllv enmo to anchor It presented an Imposing Im-posing spcctnclo. Thirty-two great T.arshlps occupied four long columns of eight each, tho Americans taking tho placo of honor In tho torcrront, tho Japanese Immediately behind them heading duo north. As soon as tho fleet camo to anchor an-chor n reception commlttco from tho Japaneso government, representing every department, nnd attaches ot tho various foreign embassies and locations, lo-cations, and tho mayor of Yokohamn put off from shoro for the flagshfp Connecticut. From thousands of flagstaffs and buildings and evorr nolnt In the bis city floated tho stars and stripes and tho entlro lengths of miles or streets wero almost walled with Intertwined American and Japaneso emblems. Tho bay HboU was ralrly aflame with bunting where tugs and steamers, rally decorated with streamers and pennants, lined tho wharves awaiting thousands of excursionists who were colng out to meet the fleet. Foreigners wero In the minority In (he crowds, but wherever they appeared ap-peared they were treated with even exceptional courtesy, because on this occasion to tho Japanese nil foreigners foreign-ers must bo Americans, many of tho Japaneso being unable to dlsrAlml-nato dlsrAlml-nato between Americans and thoso from other lnnds. |