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Show BATTLESHIPS FOR THE PACIFIC. Admiral Evans Is Busy With Details of the Trip. Washington. Details for tho government govern-ment of tho grcnt battleship fleet around tho South American contlnont are being systematically developed aboard Admiral Evans' flagship, tho Connecticut, nnd nt tho navy department, depart-ment, whoro, by tho president's order, the vnrlotiB bureaus aro now authorized to oxecuto plans for tho fleet's movements. move-ments. It Is sottled thnt tho battlo-ships, battlo-ships, or nt lonBt a number of them, will go to Pugct sound. Tho number will bo determined by tho capacity of tho Round to nccommodato them. Tho battleships carry only 120 fathoms of anchor chnln and most of tho water thoro Is nioro than sixty fathoms deep, so as safo practlco requires that tho chains bo not loss than thrco times thu depth of tho water only a fow vo sols can ho accommodated near Uretn-crton Uretn-crton at onco. |