Show ADMIRALS BLUE fLAG SALUTED Combined Forces to Enter Virginia Capes Monday Morning Horning for Review Fortress Monroe Va Ya y Feb Fob 20 When the tho t e saluting guns SUns on the forward bridge of the armored cruiser North Carolina boomed thirteen times to ta today tada today day da In honor of the blue flag lIag of Rear Admiral Sperry on the battleship Con Connecticut Connecticut the tho combined forces that are areto areto to enter the tho Virginia capes on Mon Momi Monday lon londa day da morning to be reviewed by Pros Pres President ident Roosevelt Roosevell In celebration of the tho worlds cruise of sixteen American battleships were vero completed signals from Crom the North Carolina and her hOI junior consort the Montana early today toda told of the ap approach approach preach of tho last two ships sent to welcome the tho home homo coming vessels to tho the main bod body of the tho fleet The wire wireless wIreless wireless less station at t the Norfolk navy nav yard rani could not pick up the fleet direct dither last night or today toda on Account of static Interference atmosphere but the messages from the North Caro Carolina Carolina lina hina wore oro sufficient evidence that the tho fleet is near ne lr enough to the Virginia capes tonight to Insure its arrival off the entrance to Hampton Roads some somo time tomorrow The will willa lay a to or maneuver off tho the capes to tomorrow tom tomorrow morrow m afternoon and evening and will get et under way Monday donday morning In time to pass Into home homo waters and be begin begin begin gin filing bv by b the Mayflower exactly exact at atthe atthe atthe the hour Indicated Last nights static with the Uie wireless and antI the inability of o tho apparatus to carry carf over great dis lis distances distances luring during the day have hae r In a congestion of outgoing messages at a the Norfolk station that probably never nevor will be bo fully straightened out until the tIme fleet neet actually Is in port Scores of officers wives arc are al already a ready Teal real at the hotels hero Among them arc ure bout about nineteen who made ney neall all tho the way war around tho the world on merchant mt ships and aud who overtook or waited waite the naval vessels at the vari various various van vanous ous ports tortS visited Some Somo of these in int t women even went to Australia Australla but most of them remained In Sn Japan I I while their husbands were in tho the An Antipodes Antipodes Antipodes There are other wives here hero who went with the Ule fleet neet as far as Cal California The social feature of tho fleets re return return return turn and anti stay sta In the roads is to be beas beI beas as notable as as tho the departure I birthday Is to be eel cel celebrated as a holiday more generally general than ever before beCore In this section and Md andall andall I all the residents of Norfolk Newport News Hampton and other cities clUes who alto can possibly do so gO wilt will either olther be afloat or am gathered along the tho shores of the tho to witness the Impressive ar arrival arrival rival of the tho ships and the ceremonies attending the visit of the president The TIme man nuan of war anchorage stretch stretchIng InS Ing three miles in iii a crescent from rom the tho theOld theOld Old Point P pier was cleared today of or orall all merchant ships After the May lay Mayflower Mayflower flower leaves for Cor Washington lato late Monday afternoon however excursion steamers will be allowed within the we anchorage grounds and anI may mar steam team be between between tween the lie two long lines of twenty battleships and five big cruisers Rear Admiral William H II Emery who commanded one of the divisions of the fleet up to the time of his re reth th ment at nt Manila last la t November ar amS arrived rived today to Witness the homecoming of oC the Uie fleet According to advices received here the Georgia Is not the only anI one of oC the sixteen battleships that Is coming home bome in command of the executive officer Captain Hamilton Hutchins who sailed with the Kearsarge from Crom Hampton Roads all tho the way Wll to Gi Gibraltar GIbraltar Gibraltar because ill III there and asked for relief The Kearsarge Is probably therefore In command of Lieutenant Commander Nathan C Cap Captain tain tam Hutchins returned from Gibraltar on the |