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Show SAN FRANCISCO I WILL BE UNDER I NAVAL UW WEEK; SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 1 San Francisco is under naval law tonight and will remain so for a wek. The new Pacific fleet entered San Francisco Fran-cisco bay today, pased in review be fore Secretary of the Navy Daniels and took possession of the city San Francisco hoisted every available flag and said, "The city is yours." That made the capture unanimous The arrival of the fleet was greeted by hundreds of thousands or San Fancisoans and visitors. Early in the day they sought the vantage points of beech and hill and waited with pa trlotic patience for the armada. When the New Mexico, flagship of Admiral Hugh Rodman. passed through the Golden Gate at the head of forty-two fighting ships of various j types, it found a bay dotted w ith small ! craft a shore line black with specta-tore specta-tore and the sky blurred with airplanes. air-planes. The old battleship Oregon, small in comparison to Admiral Rodmans) dreadnaughts, but once probably the most famous battleship in the world, had the place of honor in the naval pageant Form the Oregon, Secretary Daniels reviewed the fleet as it pass ed on the port beam of the old battle-hip As each of the forty-two ships reviewed re-viewed passed the bulldog' Oregon and saluted the secretary with nine teen guns the Oregon's band played a bar of the natlonl anthem in return After the review Admiral Rodman ;and other officers of tb Meet board ' ed the Oregon to pay their respects to Secretary Danii la While only fortytwo ships were re-viewed, re-viewed, ten more took part in ihe day's events. One was the Oregon, another the Prairie utilized as an aux-iliarv aux-iliarv reviewing ship: and the other eight were the train" of supply and fuel ships, which entered the harbor two hours after the review of the oters. A fog hung over the harbor for a few hours, but the sun hurst through just as the last ship passed the Ore 1 gon About one hour and a half pass ed from the time the New Mexico nosed along Bonlta channel ihrough the Golden Gate to the pasage of the last destroyer by the Oregon, which was anchored for ihe review between' the Marina and Alcatraz. Nothing marred the occasion except accidents In which 1hree SYiatOrS were slightly injured. oo Clare Bramwell. former star A A U. track man in Utah, and one of the best bet! that ever donned the spikes on the Pacific coast during the mis aeason is expected to enter the track meet of' stars in Salt Lake. Bramwell was a mtlmber of the Cnlted States naval , team and won several race? In compe- j tition at San Diego. He is no in Og j den |