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Show fleet. It cann.it ao so now. Your ! I present dockage would not aecommo- I dale not more than half the smaller I l .-.hips of the navy. Ye cannot, there- I lore, uivlde our Atlantic ilect at thin time. Your new Jock will not be I completed until 1!M2. but even then I we could not very well fend a fleet here. "At San Francisco we have a different differ-ent condition. There we have an engineering en-gineering problem because of the larjte deposit of silt. No one of our large ships could dock iher,. now.- Secretary Meyer inspected the i Fuget Sound navy yard yesterdai mi 1 J last, nlcht he was tendered a ban- I quct by the chamber of commerce. NO DOCKS LARGE ENOUGH FOR SHIPS Seattle. .Wab.. Oct. 11. That the government ao.l naval department are well dUpored toward the movement move-ment fur the adequate protection of the Pacific coaH. was the assertion made lc;.t night by Secretary of the Navy G-orge von K Meyer. "That explains my vKlt among you. ' be said. "I have come hero to look imo conditions and make prepnra-tlt'P prepnra-tlt'P 5 for a proper defer)-"1 of the Pa-rifle Pa-rifle coio-t. .Before that can be done, however, care roust be taken thay this const run imnutain a battle &bip |