Show GREAT CHEAT FLEET HAS HASTO GO COME ME TO ITS OW OV S. S Battleships Now Lie in Beautiful ful Blue Waters of California California Cali Call fornia Coast 1 ARRIVAL IS PICTURESQUE PICTURES uE Thousands Imbibe Enthusiasm At Approach of Wonderful I Modern Armada BY ny GEORGE EDWARD nD GRAHAM IL r. r X San Diego Cal Gal April 1 The H.-The The I Great white fleet has como come to Its o own n. n t Sixteen battleships are ale ln 1 lying In the thc r. r I I beautiful buo waters of or tho Call fer- fer t nia coast and home And what a wonderfully wonderfully won- won picturesque sight it was to t 4 see see o No won wonder vonder er th thousands usan s enthused enthuse No ro o wonder the sailors themselves e In telepathic sympathy imbibed the enthusiasm en en- m of the occasion One hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred and two twenty-two days daya the they had looked In fn the depths of or the seas seas that r Were era not their own owns of or seas that re reflected reo re- re o not nol the blue Lluc of th the Union Jack and then as they passed the thc Coronados Y i islands the green turned to blue the I stars shimmered red In the cerulean it t was home water home land washing t. t tho the bottoms of our ships taking oft off tho foreign barnacles singing under tho the keel leel Welcome Welcome p Welcome Singing the home songs song's I and m saying In undulating rhythm i. i Home Holne Home Home In Military Formation 1 First they came caine up tho the horizon line mere t streaks of ot smoke one then another an- an uther other then another as ship after ship raised Itself to look for tor home After tho the smoke came the topmast after the topmast t the fighting tops threatening with their small guns bUns An And then thy thu superstructure bristling with defiance hut but back of or It upon tho the quarterdeck the red white and blue and forward I the Held field Jel of or blue with tho the white stars i of ot th the states that mal mak mak-i thc the wonderful nation Then n n a mass of foam behind It the tho huge hUbe white hulls huBs of if the greatest armada a of the tho ages up they came camu from froni the tho green seas of or Mexico le first a all four flying tho the r rear ar admirals admiral's hag flag next in rank then their sister ships bf Of tho the tour four divisions In such military formation formation for for- mation as would put to haino mall many marching battalions on shore On they thoy tho camel came Would they never ne toji I Were re they going to run their theft Tho The noses upon the Coronado beach great crow crowd watched breathlessly I. I Suddenly iu the black cones of at the tile Conr Connecticut Con Con- v S ne t at cit her forward tor mat mart dropped 1 r d I down doii to 10 h rf d. d Then Thea the they p 1 tt a ai ue 11 men rhen they tUey the went up Ul reversed reverse 1 Jr us each ship churned Its prope l astern the anchors went v over o all an to to- to gether l SU Sa Old Admiral 4 t Admiral Jewell ol old sei dog fight fight- fighting tug ing man Spanish war hero aero saw It from the long new pier Bully he said ant bully It was Altogether A th they stopped as t I by sig sig- sig- sig nal nat Thomas a admiral miral of the fleet and comman commander er of the thc Hoot fleet on the tho I Ia a e of the tho Connecticut sl saw it IL No o fault to find no std said laconically ly to his flag captain I didn't see a 0 single slow one An And so th they y swung s to their anchors safe at last In native wat waters surround suri ud d d by friendly ly w neither veather thel lC L by bythe bythe the Stars tars and antl Stripes home at last minue or two elapsed elapse An And mere merely a d. lowered and activity Uy before boats were j marked their arrival al The Yankton 1 which has Im ben here hero since Admiral Dv- Dv nun inu went out mit to tA meet tho the cl ll ll w w great fleet i t I and d as s- s they dropped their anchors she raised th blue bue and white 4 1 I I checkerboard which denoted that she ha had mall mail aboard Did 11 It tal take e them long to get et mall mail boats down with marine marine ma ma- rine sergeants aboard with the mall malt In an Instant i 16 bags Not ot very launches were at al her sides side end and clamoring clamoring clamor clamor- and when ing for or their mail mati sacks they returned aboard almost every ery duty was for forgotten otten a as ab they sorted It became absorbed absorbed absorbed ab ab- ab- ab and officers an and men mell alike e either In letters or 01 as ns in somo some little local paper merely a 3 cases casis OX ON O BOARD HD TIIU KANSAS S. Tells of Last Writer With tho Fleet Sea Evolution E BY fly RICHARD BARRY DARRY 1 The Tho 1 Tho fleet U. U S. S S S. S Kansas April performed Its lal last t evolution c has just 15 o'clock w we w sheered at sea At S 3 degrees to the cast east to avoid the tho Coronados Coronados Coro Coro- islands islam and in the th distance saw baw headland of Point Loma Lorna the purple settled settle down in its squadron The first halt half speed and let the squadron squad squad- trades tracks beam Leam starboard over O on Its ron turn and returned again Then all righted order ordel cruising formation forma- forma to the easy casy open around Uon tion that ha has brought us safely half the world avoid old avoid the Coronados islands t miles to toI when we wo had come como Is a matter of ot teai teaten tea sea That find them m little con con- which I have I with I sailors have taken good tood These cern them finish finish fin fin- let 1301 ot of us so h care enough still excellent job Yo Wo are ish their i and the lines from the islan islands s miles ten 17 miles from Corona Coronado o islan islands s are steaming at eight beach and we are till Ull 1 o'clock S- S SWe not due ue arc are hnot We Vo I or of about need but there thele f Is nu flO nee o'clock One either getting there earlY S nH I 1 o'clock nek and not one hour Lc- Lc L S minutes after acter five fore or S Land Comes With I D came this n morning with the theS Lan Land lon vit-lon haze like n a S 'S t spring a a. daylight land S But It was the come the kind the they have ha Is that S wanted we Islands Coronados the tho 1 7 miles beyond America blo blown blon n In InS'S land that has home or of sand and i grain every cnn blade blado S'S spelled out distinctlY un 5 of o llin wo we weighed Satur saturdaY ay J Last largo large tract act of left a very and S anchor la daleno baY barren land for keeping people land well adapted can o and andI away asay 10 O warships the tho o water tor with'S with with- acroSS heavY steel fire I anyone it hitting out fear car of The men incident without I S S 'S We Vc left IcU and they the were work orK done good 00 1 v last lugt ba had spent t the It was lon lone lone- burS bur- bur glad la dp S gS tour four aS days painting S and revamping smart et noW I 1 with wish wisht It is quite luit tulto a Tout and mal make e no n It u t about S be Le modest handS handt hand hand- f S to been have ave avei t boasts There may I never saw th ln S. S n but i fleete S soter oner lt ec t H t c ca I 4 ft GREAT FLEET HAS COME TO ITS OWN Continued from remit c One Ome behaved be- be better hetter There ma may o liao been fleets laved bayed but no one ono ever er heard anything about them Wo We 0 are arc almost ladylike putting dabs of powder on our noses the he the last minute carrying the time stuff in concealed pouches to spring sprin unawares just before facing the time adoring Money Burns urns Their I Pockets I Inee Yesterday was payday With no nee iced for fOI money in themen themen the this willing to postpone men nen ha had been in inn sight event until they were vera great 1700 17 port On this ship was of of-ft of n home out and antI each e. of theother theothor the theother 00 in gol gold pal paid other othor ships gave out a amount total of 00 This mis to o the men a quarter of a million dollars is burning this his minute In about 1 pockets pocket to They riley will not have much mu chance cnance It in San Diego T Today da there spend is the time Tomorrow will be no liberty arade and the men menvill will vill o no chance nonce ot get out o or of the tIme lIne lino of dul duty Thursday a and ld Friday Frida will be the tile only men ha c ml and amid only they will days das ays ashore admore will wilt be allowed each ship flom rom of that ten hours only each ach da day for da tE Hj day ay III Jim Prime Condition 4 senti- senti the time voiced Admiral Thomas of the time an and amid men mell of the fleet neet when ho said I tell you ou ret more than can Wo c Yo re regret he time loss of Admiral Evans but he lie has fitted us for anything Wo We are arc in primo condition for frolic or fight I 1 dont don't like hIke to talk tall of the time cruise It is Admiral Evans Evanss Evans's s Ime he ic said later glory glor not mine I am ama acting as his understudy But nut I can camm point to lo one timing thing the c of or the time ships An Any Ammy Anyone the was prove proved by one of DC them as extra trip of time the Connecticut the other othel day ay is in condition to do cre credit it to time the country in n light or frolic as A Admiral Evans says And AntI Admiral Emery puts it more tersely Show us the time fellows who want to toIght tIght light us and we will make mako o them a sunken unken opportunity Tonight the time ships lie Ue off Coronado brilliant with lights while the time commander commander com corn mander In chief chic and antI his staff taft dine ino sumptuously at nt tho the bi big hotel The rime city glows In Incandescent scent color like meo a huge Jewel in a a. dark setting and the searchlights from rom the time ships at Intervals intervals inter Inter- vals vais show the green of the time hills lulls |