Deseret Evening News | 1908-02-29 | Page 2 | Ships Weigh Anchor

WEIGH ANCHOR Admiral duMal Evans ElIn Fleet St pt to lo tho Northward righting Craft by b Pardo Cailao Callao Feb 29 1045 a m Tho fleet t of American battleships under Rear Admiral Evans weighed anchor this morning and nt th time timo of o filing this dispatch the tho vessels vess ls are steaming ma majestically mB out of the th harbor In Iii column formation and heading to tho ho north The Tho departing visitors were given a arousing arousing rousing by bythie the people Several large steamers had lied been brett chartered ch to take out spectators to witness the de do departure The Tho fleet neet was reviewed 1 out outside tide side the harbor by President P Pardo The next stopping place paco of the tho fleet If I bay where according to this the schedule J tho the vessels will arrive March I reh U 11 Tho The distance from to bay ba Is nautical miles The dates for the from Mag dalena bay btty and the arrival at San Ban Francisco has not been definitely de do determined as tho e depend upon the tIO completion of ot the Iho target practise at Magd Itna bay which will probably oc occupy occupy cupy 30 O days There are arc no wireless telegraph sta eta stations stations on the Iho coast of ot South and Con Cen Central tra America between Callao and the tho axt stopping place and the tho fleet there therefore therefore therefore fore win will not bo able abla to communicate by this thit means This is ta the longest lap lapof lapof of or tho tha long Jong voyage anti and unless news of th Ui passage of the tha warships Is brought by some Home steamer the thes V s sj 13 probably will not be heard from again until they approach hay bay ba Tho The fleet left heft Hampton Honda Doc Dec Do c cIG IG 16 end and made matlo Its first stop In South America ut itt Trinidad Dec 23 Five days sailing from Callao will bring Panama abeam and the tha vessels will the be practically clear eltar of South Counting tho long lone stops mails mada at nt Trinidad run RIo Punta Punts Arenas antI and andi i they thoy hav have made the circuit of or South Sou 11 America In III approximately 73 days dOH