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Show oo WILL REVIEW NAVAL FLEETi i Sea Fighters Gather In Hudson River For Taf t's Inspection New York, Oct. 14. American's greatest fighting fleet lay spick and span, with shining rails nnd spotless decks on the Hudson today, for review by President Taft and Secretary of the Navy Meyer. This, with the formal for-mal review of the president tomorrow, as the fleet steams out of the harbor, will end the official three-day program of mobilization Tonight, on the eve of tho fleet's departure, tho program will end with an official dinner at one of New York's famous hotels in honor of the president, the cabinet and 600 officers offi-cers of the fleet. The first act of the offlcal program wa3 staged when the gungoat Nashville, Nash-ville, given, over to the press, today anchored near the flagship Connecticut Connecti-cut off Seventy-ninth street. She convoyed the Dolphin, which had aboard Secrotary Meyer and his aides. The usual salutes were exchanged between be-tween tho Dolphin and the Connecticut. Connecti-cut. Rear Admiral Osterhaus, commander command-er of the fleet, with Captain Hull, his chief of staff, and Rear Admirals Fiske, Usher, Winslow and Fletcher, boarded the Dolphin soon after she came to anchor. Then came craft carrying members of the senate and house naval committees. Secretary Meyer returned Immediately the visit of Rear Admiral Osterhaus, and with him left tho Connecticut to Inspect tho Biiper-dreadnaughts Wyoming and Arkansas, Ar-kansas, anchored just above the flng-shlp. flng-shlp. Tho division commanders returned re-turned to their fla-gshlpa. In the roviow of the fleet by Secretary Secre-tary Meyer, which followed the Inspection In-spection of the super-drcadnaughts, tho Dolphin avss followed by the steamor Henrlk Hudson, with the mayor's committee aboard. An anchorage for the presidential yacht Mayflower had been selected off Thirty-first street. It was planned to havo Secretary Meyer and Rear Admiral Osterhaus visit the President on the Mayflower about mid-day. After that tho program called for a review by both President Taft and Secretary Meyer aboard the Mayflower May-flower rm. |