| Show CONES GONES S fLOTillA IN MAGDALENA BAY Following Example of the Fleet Arrived Day Ahead of Schedule Time ADMIRALS FIRST QUESTION Asked Why He Had Not Appeared in Proper Uniform NO X Incident Marred Trip 11 of Tram Prom Hampton Bay Mexico A 3 S via tin 11 San ln DIego Ca Cal Col April Apri 11 The flotilla of ot six destroyers destroyer destro ct commanded by b Hutch I Cone arrived In Magdalena bay from Acapulco Saturday evening at lt S Thin The flotilla following the thue example of tho thin fleet lect was one ono day ahead of oC Its I it schedule here It I ro re 10 throe three days dau to make malre the run from Acapulco at an ni average sp e of ot 15 1 knots knot The Thie destroyers tlc appeared In the en entrance entrance trance to the bay shortly shorty otter after 7 In a I dense donse cloud cold of black binck smoke In tho the gathering darkness the tho black hulls huls were not visible from where the lay In at nt anchor Hut But as M they the thue came on Into the tho bay bay steam steaming ing Ilg directly for the tho fleet at a rapid speed their Identity was wu soon dis ails disclosed closed cosed Immediately two two bright sig signal nal imal al lights on en the lie mainmast of 0 each battleship betokened the tho approach of ot lly By l 8 S el they the were nt at anchor lying lucre hero Ind mu there thero under the lee of oC tho the big battleships battleship Commander Cone Cono wont went aboard tho the flagship Minnesota ut at lt oneo nce to make his report to Admiral Thomas Tall fall and mid thin and bronzed with wih the heat beat of at tho the tropical sun tun ho hue looked d fully tuly the part of ot the daring destroyer fighter thor Admiral Thomas greeted him himIn himIn In Iii his cabin Young man why arc are you iou ou not In proper uniform 1 was ono cue of at the first questions the lie admiral propounded as ashe ashe he good the lie tall tal of oC officer hoer as us the lie latter stood cap In II hand Cone was vina dressed in the service uni uniform form farm torl of ot a n lieutenant Ilu Ut had luaU been promoted to the rank oS o commander since leaT olda I 1 had hail a ma 1 calico CICO to r put on thin the theother other oIlier stripes admiral he lie aId ald ia in re ic reply ply lily 1 I congratulate you ou upon your pro plO promotion promotIon motion concluded tho lie admiral ns n ho lie grasped tho thin officers bend hond and shook hool it warmly warm I j FEATURES S OF OP VOYAGE Commander Cone Cono Co no then thel began lie tho recounting of somo soma of ot the tIte tl features ot of 0 ills his voyage rho The destroyers hud hind laud hud no glimpse OISe of the battleships since shortly short after ael leaving Punta Arenas when they separated tho thin destroyers taking tho the lamer Inner course through tho tIm narrow Island channels thin the battleships sweeping far out to sea TIm Tho trip of the six sha sl small smal craft crat through tho thin Jat passages was wu filled with ad nd adventure adventure venture Wo We 0 steamed for or days through thin tho narrow a n thousand mites miles long bug Ion said sold Commander Cone Cono tho lie pas pa passages passages sages being barely wide enough to let letus letus letus us through The waters were cold from tho tIme jutting glaciers and und filled vili wl h broken cakes cak of Ice lee Tho Thin boats toot on oh all al the tw Ice Ie we wo needed for days dus over the tho lie lieThe The precipitous cliffs of ot tho Ito snow covered mountains rose rosa beside us to o a u height of ot of at feet teet seeming to almost close over oer us Wo We nose threaded our ou way wui wa through these Is Islands Islands islands lands the tho other cthel destroyers following tho ho lead lent of ot the tho ho as ns wo we came caine along In single Jc column Wo We 10 lund had hll ii a I pilot piot a mander mandel of ot the thu til Chilean navy Ho lie Itow cd ell us through brought thin the narrow defiles defile de 1 c aid over oer perilous places without thin the slight eat cst mishap Frequently at night we would come ome to anchorage on a I narrow harrow shelf elicIt of ot Jock where there thoro would be bo barely room enough for all ni tho lie boats boata bo to tm t barl crowd together on It This Thil shelf shelt would bo be but a I slender ledge outside of 0 thin the shiner sheer hundreds of ot fathoms alt all nl possible anchor anchorage use age COSTUMES SCANT SCAN I 1 We Wo ent crit ashore In various pluses places mingled with the tho natives Although thai Ilm weather seemed cool to us thin tho co thames of ot the natives were scant ough Sometimes Som they were at lt nil all ni Now then wo we hind had good hunting on chore where wh re hundreds of ot wild wid tucks clucks collected WP WI e finally ahot away awny aWI lilt ul 0 of f four our ammunition but until that Hip 11 wo we luaU had all nl of the thin fresh moat meat we wo Nut Not ot lit Ait untoward Incident marred tho the loin Ion til up of or the lie from froni fron lull Ion ii Their heir I heh supply ship thi tt tim Are iio AIO ur or 1 Mother Ither of oC thin the as us she sho hmo was ns culled eulet wit was not able uble to tokia klip kia the thin fuLl fail pace set Bet by b the lie block black crt and this thin hold held tell them luck back The Iho des lIes destroyers myers aro ara built bui to a 0 a speed 81 oell of at 28 8 kli mi icil II hour and easily to o 0 I ram lioma lom 22 to iS 2 5 Jh carry only about t twin tt t joil uI ui mid anil nn require rl 10 fa thin the collier coler |
