Coalville Times | 1908-01-17 | Page 6 | Fleet Reaches Rio Janeiro

FLEET REACHES RIO JANEIRO American Oattleshlpa Come to Anchor In Drailllan Waters. Illo do Janeiro The American fleet of sixteen battleship entered tho port ot Illo de Janeiro nt 3 o clock Sun day nfternoon after n passago trots Port ot Spain, Trinidad more than it 000 miles, uninarred by serious accl dent replete with Interesting Inci dents an 1 ending with n royal wel coma from tha thousands that bid gathered to greet tho visitors Tha Host weighed anchor at 4 o'clock In tho afternoon of December 30 at Port of Spain, and exactly at 1 o'clock, January 12, tho vessels were swinging nt their nnchora In this beau tlful harbor Tho fleet haa now covered cov-ered about 4 GOO miles, about n third of the dlttnnco ot tho voyage to San Krsnclvo