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, University of Chicago, on "Pitts- burgh--Key of the Revolutionary War in the West". Honorable Albert Bet- tinger, of Cincinnati, read a paper on "The Ohio River and the Future of American Inland Navigation". . The Atlantic ROM every standard of compari- son the most notable fleet ever assembled by the United States was that reviewed by President Taft and Secretary of the Navy Meyer, at New York, Nov. 2. It involved the greatest number of American vessels ever mobilized, with the greatest total displacement and _ represented the maximum in _ fighting effectiveness probably ever gathered at one point by any nation. As indicating something of the in- creased strength of our navy it is interesting to contrast the number of vessels and their total displace- THE MarINE REVIEW Professor H. H. Hulbert delivered a paper on "America and the Problems 'of the Pacific". On Thursday, the replica of the steamer New Orleans left on its jour- ney to the gulf. leet in Review ment, which took part in the other important naval reviews of recent years. In the international naval re- view at New York in March, 1893, there were fourteen American naval vessels of all classes with an aggre- gate displacement of 39,436 'tons. President Roosevelt, in September, 1906, reviewed, at Oyster Bay, the Atlantic fleet then comprising forty- five vessels displacing 279,612 tons. During the Jamestown exposition there was mobilized at Hampton Roads in June, 1907, a fleet of thirty- three vessels displacing 285,251 tons. When the Atlantic and Pacific fleets November, 1911 met at San Francisco in May, 1908, they combined a total of forty-six vessels displacing 407,927 tons and in 'September, 1909, at the Hudson-Ful- ton celebration forty-three vessels were assembled with a total dis- placement of 316,762 tons. This latest review at New York included 102 ves- sels of all classes displacing about 577,285 tons, which does not include the eight submarines of which no figures were available. Concurrently at Los Angeles a review was taking place of twenty-four vessels of 116,000 tons displacement, giving a grand total of 126 vessels displacing 694,000 tons. Perhaps the most. striking evidence of our progress is that of all the vessels in the New York 're- view the only ones that were a part of our navy at the time of the Span- ish war were the battleships Iowa, Indiana and Massachusetts, the gun boats Castine, Nashville, Marietta and Petrel, a few of the small torpedo boats and some of the fleet auxiliar- ies. The following table shows the Tue Batrtesnip FLEET on THE Hupson RIverR Photo by Underwood and Underwood i a