Show 11 READY TO RECEIVE RECEIVE- A WELCOME WELCOM-E LIE OUTSIDE THE HARBOR The Returning Warships This Morning Early Will Steam Slowly Into Hampton Roads and Salute the President TEN THOUSAND GATHER TO SEE GREAT SIGHT Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars Dollars Dol Dol- lars Are Taken to Norfolk t tReady Ready to Pay the Happy HappyS S Jackies Disembarking CONGRATULATIONS ARE DUE 3 4 M 4 4 M 4 4 4 f 40 4 O Ot t- t I. I 4 tf f I- IB B DY nY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS t t- t 4 tf f 4 Norfolk Va Vo Feb 21 Tills f 4 f- f reporting s and doings f 4 f 4 and generally a life on 44 4 4 tho tIlt Ol nn e ave makes one une feel eel f f p. aquatic Already I 1 4 4 catch m 11 giving hing my trousers 4 4 u ii hitch and CT crying cring HK uel there f my hearty n h I ce see a friend f 4 Also LIO I feel eel a n yearning to lo chew f 4 4 nl and in La spite of or D age f 4 ff f milt e I In nil nib chances f cs essay u n hornpipe before all Is 4 f 4 done Almost hypnotic ore are th the 4 44 f 4 ways of tho who do business on 4 f deep lcd waters vaters and go down u to the sea In ships 4 Hampton Norfolk Old Point f port Newport News nm arid and what others 4 I f 4 fringe the tue shores of or Hampton 44 4 4 Roads are n a flaming forest of or 41 4 nn If all nil the Oa flags were laid 44 4 4 end for end ami b Ulo 0 ea cUy carpel JT a 4 LikewIse the the- end If is I not yet rind 44 t 4 4 new hugs lire are being bent blIt on hal lial- 4 to be run ruin up UJ and huller 4 f 4 from Crom noni new tufTs stuffs liS as this Is written 44 4 4 4 r S 0 Weather breezy sea ea choppy chopp skies d dull but not inhospitable By train and boat thousands have been JourIn pourIng pour pour- ln Ing In Into this corner corner- of ot the earth for tor forthe the past two days They have ha come from every ery nook and angle of tho the country For the greater part sightseers sightseers sightseers sight sight- seers still a warm ardent percent is la lamade made up of the mo mothers hers sisters slaters wl o sweethearts and children o of the salt men aboard the incoming fleet These will offer otter the warmest welcome to the tho wanderers u S S S Speaking of or welcome the YanKton I Just down from Washington Is waitIng waitIng waitIng wait- wait Ing for or th the fleet with all In yellow ellow half eagles eagles and double eagles Ies aboard her These are arc to pay payoff ort oft tho Jackies jackles that they may ha have something to go ashore with as well as something to go for tor Also the dance danco I halls hurdy gurdies and generally all allI houses of or call are In great greal splendor I and preparation In happy anticipatIon anticipation tion of ot those same shore-going shore and their yellow ellow Ten Thou Thousand and Visitors Arrive e Folk with a passion for tor declare that visitors have ha al- al arrived They They the the visitors visitors- continue to pour In by boat and rallI railroad railroad rail rall- roal road and arid the tho rush will In last t through tho the night Those who saw HW the fleet depart I those fourteen months monha ago ogo estimate that roun roundly ly five fold old a n many will bo be here to bid It welcome a as were wore as a assembled a.- a. to say good bye For all the crowd and anti crush everybody every cry body seems to find accommodations not without mone money not without price however I It Is even now a case o 0 cos cots In the corridors at the Chamberlin Cham- Cham berlin ov over r at the Point and the cots are arc H 4 per The ballroom and the re retiring retiring retiring re- re tiring rooms appertaining thereto from their deeply condition look Mk lice wards In a hospital Those PO so fortunate fortunat as 03 to o be assigned d to the ballroom ballroom ball bail room will have the advantage nd ot of of Iho tho ho ov he and the bowling alleys which latter strenuous theat theaters rs rolland roll rolland nn and rumble and thump and clatter Continued on OD Page Inge Three e BATTLESHIPS READY TO RECEIVE A WELCOME j from On One without Intermission from front daylight daUght to Ington Why will wili well people as old 01 1 Mrs PartIngton Part- Part PartIngton wild wh S why will make people a toll toil of pleasure To tho last man roan unless It jt be clerks clerks all the overworked all hands and anI tho the cook mako make a specialty of or being cheerful Thi Is li peculiarly true of or tavern keepers and anti hotel proprietors The hotel proprietors aro are hiving that 54 H 4 per coL cot The poor clerk fairly Jumping to keep up wit with tho the demands him i- i ra m working four Cour times as hard upon usual to flu nil fill them as I cm Waiting Waiting- Our sixteen greatly traveled ships battleships battleships battle battle- eastern castern are lying craftily beyond the tho bulge of or the tho horizon some Home where ot off Cape CarJe Henr Henry of oC HIJ sight night ht of or land lantI and will vilI They rhey bo he careful cardul are ar out to remain so tie until what naval na writers the tho call I psychological moment which glance lance at the a 3 program shows be flower about 9 a a. a m. m tomorrow The one May Ma- will already Washington hurrying hurrIng down from froni with President Roosevelt and hIt ItiS party parly will wiil about o'clock tomorrow morning anchor as nearly over tho the watery spot she the occupied when president said adIeux In to the tho fleet December 1907 as QS you could coull put your OUr finger j It was waa there tho the battle battle- Sill ship left President ent Roosevelt when fourteen It i Is months ago they sailed away there they will find him whon when I lying flying those long pennants that tell hopefully of homeward bound come sailing In In they There Wl will b bo but one Otto change chango In tho the welcoming group on the tho afterdeck of ot the Mayflower When the tho ships said bye byo it was Secretary Metcalf who representing tho the nav navy department stood by the side of oC President Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt elt to wave them a a. farewell Now when they come steaming home thc they will find Secretary again Newberry In place ice of oC Mr Ir Metcalf Quick as aa a swordfish the little will Worden oden flagship of ot the police boats preserve marino marine order and keep the course for fol the battleships Tho The Worden with busy helpers has hag alread already moved d everybody o off that stretch of water In which starting from the Old Point pier the ships In a three-mile three crescent are to come to an anchor after the Presidential review While there are sixteen battleships In the tho far traveled fleet neet off final Cape Henr Henry when they maneuvering lot let go JO their anchors In that three-mile three halfmoon halfmoon half half- moon tho the fleet will have been strength strength- coed ened b by tho the addition of oC tour four battleshIps battleships battle battle- ships and five lYe huge cruisers Twenty- Twenty five ships shIps shIps-as as stubborn a 25 5 as ever answered signals Its It's worth sending them around the world Just to see seo them come back baek homo home again The twenty battleships low and sullen In the thc water the the five l tall cruisers with their wealth of or free rree board not hoard not a a. navy y owns a flag that could count down 25 S to best them At the risk of ot being char charged ed with bragging let us expand our chests As guns As-guns guns cracking bands the they playing playing- one ono by one go surging b by the Mayflower the flight of a 0 happy happ homecomIng homecoming home home- coming will shine In the brave brown faces races which beam beat back at the Presidential l party over o tho the bulwarks And wherefore no Has their voyage voa c not been victorious Have Haye they not conquered conquered con con- In peace pence had as as had they been called upon upon they they would have conquered con con- In war Does Docs not the applaudIng applaud applaud- ing shore await them with spread arms Is there not In the background round the generous Yankton with that golden gold gold- en Of Ot a truth there thore lives cause caUsa for JO Joy afloat as well vell as ns ashore and antl no one ono need apologize for looking proud Mn Mayflower nt ot Her station Matlon I Anchored bow anI and stern the tho Mayflower May slay flower President Pre Roosevelt aboard will vilI bo at her station at the toe of or tho the Horseshoe at 9 o'clock a a. a. a m. m At that hour tho the ships should be forging Into view over tho the curve of ot the waters The Tho ships will tilt come on at quarter speed In lr two columns tho the Connecticut flagship In the van an Admiral Sperry on th the tho bridge A A. salute bi will-be bo Tired Tired- b by the ships as aM tHe they pass tho Pr President In rc review Jaw The first shot 01 ot of that 1000 will unlock a 0 a harbor response re- re of steam whistles that should set every wery ear to ringing Ever livery Every local craft everything craft everything afloat or ashore that owns a 0 boiler and antI a 3 whistle hl will be or organized with every possible ounce of steam to make that welcoming screech a 30 memorable onel one l' l Norfolk and the tho towns about expect to grave themselves upon the membry of ot ofa ota a listening world b by sheerest stress of ot that welcoming screech In the years to come the folk of or Norfolk Old Point Hampton and Newport News will date time from Crom that screech When the ships have o passed In re review review review re- re view and anchored A Admiral Sperry an and his fellow tellow admirals and officers are to togo togo togo go aboard th the Ma Mayflower flower There will willbe willbe be he formal bowing and scraping Everybody Everybody Every cry body will be freighted of bullion and gold braid In case anybody falls overboard overboard over over- board tho the one will go to the bottom like an an anvil When hen Admiral Sperry and his officers officers cers have paid pal their respects to the President thc they will go JO aboard their ships aJ again aln President ent Rosevelt will then take lake his turn at th the vIsiting Also admirable thou though h ho he be as a host Mr lr Roosevelt elt Is IB still more admirable as a visitor The President President- will wUl work off his aquatic calls per schedule At 3 aboard the Connecticut p p. p m m. he lie will go cut and then with an open fifteen mInutes minutes min mm- utes between he ho will visit the Louisiana Louis Louis- lana iana the Geor Georgia la and the Wisconsin At t i 30 p. p m. m he Is to be aboard the Mayflower a again aln which at 5 ri sharp will wUl of flirt her anchors out of or the tha mud the Roads an and turn her sharp nose for About thIs time too tho the Worden fellow police boats will cease and Its Us protecting order-keeping order assIduities assiduities their and ind coldly abandon tho the battleships ties what to and crula cruisers ers a helpless prey excursion steamers an anther and fiends other ther kodak kollak and amid beach combers already al- al ready eady lie llo In wait to leap upon them |