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Show WARSHIPS DEPARTING First Division to Sail for Europe Leaves Philadelphia Philadelphia, Nov. 1. Sent away with hearty cheers and good wUhes. the battleships Minnesota, Vermont, j Idaho and MlKslsf-lpni left the l'hlla- delphia navy tar.l at o'clock this I ruorn.n to Join the other twelve ships ir.f the fleet that Is to make a European tour. The four ships form one of the , four divisions that will make the cruise. Re.ir Admiral Murdock Is tho divisional commander. There are approximately ?.(M men In the division. Many invitations have been receted by the officers of the battleships to dinners and other entertainments enter-tainments In England. The divisions will inert several hundred hun-dred mllM at sea. probably In the latitude of Sandy Hook. Al-out three weeks will he Fpent at tlravet-end. England, and three more nt Cherbourc, alter which the fleet will crows the rw-can to (Juantanamo for the winter maneuvers In West In- j dlan waters. i |