Show WITH EYES OF FLEET WHAT ADMIRAL evana MEN WILL SEE ON LONG TRIP place where the big fleet will stop on its way to the pacific and people and scenes which will prove of interest at a ten knot an hour speed the big beet of american warships Is stead lly pressing southward towards the magellan straits where the turn will be made into the pacific and aa the thought of the nation follows this splendid aggregation of battleships there Is fresh interest in the route over which they will pass and the scenes which will greet officers and crews as they make their occasional stops along the 14 mile waterway after the first stop in the harbor of port of spain island of trinidad where christmas was passed no stop will be made until rio de janeiro Is reached which according to the sched ule prepared before starting should be january 11 A stop of ten days Is to be made at the brazilian capital and it jack tar writes home as he ought to and probably will the letters which come from there should be well worth reading to other moth era who have no sons with mr evans boats or to other girls who have no sweethearts wearing the navy blue tor they will probably con tain much about the capital of bra all over years old with its beau ticul parks public buildings and vate houses oddly interspersed with structures of great antiquity among ahem the san sebastian church which avas built aa 1667 the next stop will be at punta arenas the most town on this side of the globe where the fleet is due january 31 the letters will then tell of passing from the heat of midsummer to the cold of winter while going south all the time and there will undoubtedly be a complaint or two about theroun try and perhaps a wish that the writer could get a look again at broad way and there may even be unkind remarks in the letter about magellan who nearly years ago discovered the strait through which admiral evans plans to take hla fleet for magellan strait although an ed aid to navigation is not much to look at about allea long the channel through which admiral evans fleet will pass is for the most part only about as wide as the hud son river chill owns the and on either side of the strait what was part of patagonia on one side and terra del fuego on the other the vegetation on both sides of the great waterway la said to be as scanty as the clothing of the natives which would barely permit of their entertain ment at a turkish bath la this country in his letters home jack Is at least not likely to wax highly complimentary concerning the natives for they never bathe smear their bodies with paint and grease spend most of their days on horseback and their nights under huts of aldea built up on poles and deem horse meat and os flesh the finest of foods there is a 3 mile run before the fleet after leaving punta arenas about february 5 until the next atop ping place callao peru Is reached when the vessels cast anchor off that port on february 18 admiral evans ships will have covered a total distance of something like miles native of terra de fuego were the panama canal now built by passing through jt the fleet could have shortened the distance to callao by miles it will probably be with genuine regret that he will turn his back upon the hospitality of the peruvians on or about february 28 tor on march 14 when the ships are duo to drop anchor in magdalena bay on the coast of mexico all thoughts of tha pleasures of the long trip around south america must give place to strict attention to the work of target practice it he would a place in any of the crack gun crews of uncle sam s navy after practice the fleet will probably go to san francas co and orders received there may take it to the philippine islands or bring it homo again |