Show FLEET TO THE PACIfiC Sixteen of Most Powerful Battle Battleships Battleships Battleships ships of the Navy Will Change Stations MERELY A PRACTISE CRUISE Admiral Hob Ernnt Em Will Command Jiny III O Gr Around llio Horn or Through The ollIn a 0 Problem I July 5 of or the vast at movement of or he the I Atlantic fleet neot to toj toVA j VA Itc waters have huc has e boon been theoretically out woks weeks In advance by the naval general board But Dul these thc o details are aro necessarily to constant constont change chanso reselling from Iho the withdrawal of or battleships s from active commission on en account of ot having been declared an un antiquated antiquated tI or In need Med of or repairs and th the substitution of lit other othel ships Just going Into commission cud fresh from rom the builders hands h There Is In III the navy department today scarcely any 1111 one au to offend afford any all Information ag ns asto to 10 the contemplated fleet movement BeC it Is III In California Secy Newberry Is at al Watch W ch Hill U it I 1 L Admiral n chief of or the tho navi navigation gation gatlon bureau who ho Is next In line lino has hilS gone gO to 10 New York and tha the acting sec secretary secretary of or the navy Is Rear fear Admiral ta on chief of or the tho bureau of or ordnance ROUTES The opinion of or the officers on duty duly today Is that the t e route toute most feasible for tor the tM big biff bl ships is 15 by hy way wn of ot the thc Straits of ot Magellan The across the Atlantic and through the Mediterranean anti and Suez canal canul Is open o en to the tho objection that It would bring the big ships almost t Into Japanese water waler and th lh might consequently be regarded as ts u a L menace which Secy See t has lak stated slat d was wan never nevel content contemplated plated The fhe Suez SUel canal route too loo Is longer by 1000 mlles miles than Ihan tho the Magellan route This according to 10 the best oil cal and allowing for tOI short abort visits to ports porta not upon the nearest sailing nailing route IH is about miles In length The fhe battleship Oregon covered tho the distance front from Him Ban Francisco to Jupiter t l Florida In In In 63 days day But Dut she hc was naH handicapped by liy the tho Ih company of ut the little Marietta which was wis scarcely able to 10 make moie than thang g it knots knot an en hour and also ol o by J th tha the tart fact a t that us as II ti a 1 precautionary measure the th Oregon was sent around the West Vest ladles Indies sensibly her route mute i Po So e the thc opinion now non Is that unde undo or cruising speed which for tor the tho big III battleships means about aboul 10 0 or 12 knIS un tin hour and und allowing a reason reasonable reasonable able abl time for tor coaling en route the tho At Atlantic ante lantic heel can make the passage from New cw York to San Francisco In Ir less thin CO GO days 1 ANS TO COMMAND D Dl Ji l 1 is 18 conceded t that Rear neal Admiral K Ens rm will havu hau the tho honor of o con como the tho UI fleet neet It ii Is believed now that the tho route will bo be about as 38 fol folio 01 io th Inu Leasing New tie York or Hamp Hampton ton toads Hoods Hoa ll In 10 the tho early fall toll the battle would probably steam straight to 10 where coal cool would l be taken loken Ie t L The next stop top will 1111 be bo Rio Do De Ja Ta and 1 from Crom that point t tho vessels would not halt until they reached Sand SandPoint Point in to the StraUs of ot Magellan Here Hero Herou u the coal coni supply would be bo re rc for Cor the run rum to Callao Peru Tb next stage staga would be bo from Callao to 10 Panama old from that point tho the ships hips would proceed without a n stop to San SlUt Fill It Is I believed that niter after reaching le Pe ruvian vessels waters the movements of oC the vessels will be much mere marc deliberate then than up to that point lilt Although the tho reason for tor this statement sUt Is III not om nm d ally obtainable It Ills Is apparent that lint ha the explanation IN is to ba 1111 found In III the tho fact that lint the battleships will bo be within easy reach of ot Ran Francisco In other oller words word II they could In III an nil emergency reney nr or rIve nt at II l that point before any other fleet could QUESTION STION OK Oh COALING Naturally the tho of ot the Is a 11 v very ery y serious one line Two methods nf ot doing this have been provided for tor In the thu plans pia liS of ot the general board boord Tho The first r W is to fd send with the battleships a n sufficient number of ot colliers to enable them to replenish their coal cOllI supplies without any 1111 dependence upon foreign coaling cooling stations in this tits case a I Heel ol olno ot of no I lass sa than limn 20 o colliers will be ace necessary essary because something like tons ton of or coal will be burned burne 1 on In this tills cruise In the tho second case the plans provide le for tOI tho thu free use of oC merchantable coal caul along the route roule which of or course would diminish Ii the need Med of liC Under tinder the taller latter plan It I is II probable that the five colliers collier already attached to tomo mo the Atlantic fleet neet will be he sent pent to Sandy Sand Point Pol lit Coal at that thaI point Is III scarce and extremely extreme bad Admiral Evans 1 it is III expected will start with whir 1 It battleships besides ns as many n y colliers collier The Tho armored cruisers and Tennessee see which are lire arenow arenow now in 1 Trench waters Inters are arc under orders to Immediately Imm refit and proceed to tho the Pacific const coast to form torm pm part t of ot an nn ur sr mored moved cruller cruiser squadron to 10 be ho assembled their it is IN possible that they will be bo detained and nn accompany the battleships battle hattle battleships ships on the cruise When Admiral arrives oft the coast his fleet leet will tell bo be I Increased In Increased creased by the addition of or the tho buttle battle battleship ship shiv Nebraska newly completed and simply simp waiting the rounding out of or her hel skeleton frame The Tho battleships Win VIR and Oregon Ore oll now at al Breiner lun navy yard Puget sound will probably have completed IOd their extensive repairs by hy next March h so that they too loo may Inny bo bl added to the fleet Oel which will then th n comprise 10 ID battleships besides the tho ar nr armored mored morell and protected cruisers cr ot or the tho Pa Pit Pacific cine chic fleet neet COMPOSITION CO OF 01 FLEET The of tho the fleet today Is Isas ison as on follows Battleships Connecticut Capt lingo Hugo commanding tonnage guns 21 speed IS 15 knots Mains Capt Nathan Niles ton Ion tonnage tonnage nage guns 20 29 speed 18 IS knots Louisiana Capt Richard Waln Wain Wainwright wright tonnage guts grunn 24 speed IS 18 knots Missouri Capt A Mer ber berrias rias tonnage guns 20 LO speed IS 18 knots Virginia Capt Schroeder tonnage e guns gun 24 speed IS IV knots knols I Georgia Capt Henry JI nr McCrea ton tonnage I Cage nage 1 HOO lf 00 guns 24 speed 19 13 I loots knots Now Capt t William AV SY Yo Kimball J tonnage guns 24 speed 19 13 knots l not Rhode Copt yet et to be bo ns as assigned signed tonnage guns 24 speed 1 19 knots Alabama Capt Samuel P Comly Canty COin tonnage 1155 5 guns 18 speed 17 L knots Gottfried tonnage guns 18 speed peed 17 knots knols Kearsarge Copt Colt Herbert Winslow tonnage 1155 guns 22 speed 16 knots Kentucky Edward B ll Barry Darr tonnage guns 22 speed 16 18 knots Ohio Capt pt Lewis C Hollner ton tonnage tonnage nage nuge 1600 guns 20 speed 1 18 IS knots Minnesota ota Capt John Hubbard ton tonnage tonnage nage nags guns 24 speed 18 16 knots Vermont Capt John Hubbard Hu bard ton tonnage tonnage tonnage nage guns 24 speed 18 IS knots Kansas Charles K g Vreeland tonnage 50 guns Suns 24 speed 18 knots Protected Cruisers Charleston Commander Frank E B Batty tonnage guns 14 speed 22 I knots Chicago Commander Robert M II Dayle tonnage lonn o guns suns 18 speed 18 IS knots Milwaukee Commander Charles A It Goc tonnage guns 16 36 speed 22 knots knols St 51 Louis L Commander Nathaniel R n BUsher Usher tonnage guns guna U 14 speed 22 knots Gunboat Yorktown Commander Richard T Mulligan tonnage 1700 guns uns C S speed 16 knots The armored cruiser squadron of ot the tho Pacific fleet neet which will have hae headquarters In California waters will be he com coin composed composed posed of or tho the Washington Capt Theo Tho Theodora dora Porter and Tennessee Copt Cupl Al AI Albert Albert bert G Derry Derr sister ships tons guns 24 speed 22 2 knots and I nd the Call Cali California fornia and South Dakota tons lOlls each knots 18 16 guns almost com eom complete co with officers yet et to be assigned Rear Hear Admiral Charles II H Stockton is will 1111 III command the armored cruiser squadron the Tennessee being his ling fing ship BROWNSON KNOWS NOTHING Oyster Bay N Y July Ad d aural W II 11 Brown on who today lunched with President Roosevelt stated stat stal stated staled ed on alt retching reaching Oyster O ster Bay Da that he ho did not know what ships shills would compose composo the tho fleet to lo go to the Pacific and that t tall all ail he lie knew of or tho lie Intended cruise was what he liC had soon seen in hi the tho newspapers neS The rhe statement of ot Secy and Ind that of o Secy See Loeb he ho continued In III that a cruise may mn be he made ma le somewhere at Ot seine pome time throe but that Is all nil allI nilI I know linoW of or the mutter mutt l Should the th cour COllIS course a abe be taken to 10 the tho Pacific I 1 think Its UH only object cl would woul l bo he to demonstrate how quickly qu ohl object the tho voyage OU can COli he made and for Cor no other purpose On leaving Sagamore Hill tho th admiral sold said the cruising elul ing plans of ot the tho Ih battleship fleet tl 1 were barely mentioned II oiled at al the tho urea pies ident luncheon oll The admiral s Bald ld he would like tn to the point that them therm was no time cadre propitious to 10 ascertain Just what a battleship fleet do elo do In pinking making nn an extensive than a n I lime date of lIt profound pi peace cc such as an prevailed now 1101 when he said ald the Unit United ed cd States State lu has haH not nn tin enemy In hr the world ADMIRAL EVANS TALKS TALIS Now New York July Jul 6 Rear Admiral Robley D Evans chief of o tho the Atlantic lice fleet I nand mid 1 who sho will it II h Is expected be In command cOmmAn when tho tin great lIT nt array urrA of oC battleships rounds Cap Horn for tor an nn excursion Into tho the avatars of oC the spilt spent time Iliac at III the Brooklyn navy yard ard today To Tn a n lepro of the Associated Press Pies whom wham he received aboard his Is flagship the Ibe Connecticut Admiral Hv lw v Him tills explained that no nn rush ordure had bad been received and only routine repairs were under WilY way There have hc been beAn n no na orders to lo rush repairs nt ut tho the Brooklyn or niter navy yards said tho the admiral The ain ulo of ot repairs r which I t laid Inid out several H month months ago In Is l still being followed I There Is III such n shortage or of docks dock II that t tee 0 am urn always pushed to in accomplish our mfr work but hut there ther Is n no 1101 especial rush rURh at It this thin time oncoming the trip to the thc Pacific he heI heIs Is I lava hAve received no la orders for far n II cruise What be he In ont I nf ot course do 10 not kt nw U it 1 Is ntY only on to do da whatever the government gay gov eminent mar army require 1 attaches no n more fn tg to 10 the thC plans for tor a practise e cruise Q that will take tako hl his il relIt great fleet around th thin torn Horn and over or n II cruise nf or miles n than have other who Iho viewed It liB ns B a I part pert of the tho Ih routine nutal or operation ri It was suu 1111 lie he to th of I UH his hI formidable fighting In Iho territorial waters of at our owr west weRt coast ni as nin n na n a to Impress thin the th friend l I nt of japan It In iii III to tel talk of at war with Japan 1111 in ln said n some om wrecked a n restaurant In hl Pan J rI n there thAre In lit no Ino e reason for war with Japan Tap II 11 titan than there would bo III for tar one with If It a 1 nv hoodlum on the en t atone I Ito should ItoM n 1 Chin r laundry |