Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1909 — HUDSON WORLD'S NAVY YARD [ARTICLE]

HUDSON WORLD'S NAVY YARD

Men-o'-War Of All Nations Anchored In New York Harbor. New York, Sept.. 24. —Three British warships, the Drake, the Argyll and the Duke of Edinburgh, which with the big armored cruiser Inflexible, will represent Great Britain at the HudsonFulton celebration, pushed through a gray haze into New York harbor and anchored in the Hudson, below Grant’s tomb, after cannonading compliments with the earlier arrivals, the warships of Mexico, Italy, France, Holland, Argentina and the United States. The British bagship, the $8,500,000 Inflexible, with Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour on board, reported by wireless that she would join her sister ships today. The British flagship, the $8,500,000 German squadron, whose coming will complete the list of foreign ships which are to take part in tomorrow’s naval pageant. The Kaiser’s four cruis ers, the Victoria Luise, the Bremen, the Hertha and the Dresden,- reported that they had sailed from Newport and asked that pilots be in readiness to guide them into New York today. The British cruisers made no attempt to repeat the feat of the last previous English fleet to visit New York—the one commanded by Prince Louis of Battenberg. On that occasion the British squadron piloted itself un aided up the bav.