Battleship Fleet Coming.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 23, 1913:
It Will Again Be Lined Up in Hudson a Week Before Decoration Day.
    President John Purroy Mitchel of the Board of Aldermen was notified by Gen. James Grant Wilson, President of the National Maine Monument Association, last night that the Navy Department had ordered the entire Atlantic Fleet, with the exception of two battleships, to New York to take part in the dedication of the Maine monument on Decoration Day. The fleet will come to New York with a new commander-in-chief, a new fleet flagship, and a new fourth division commander.
    The number of vessels that will steam into the Hudson several days in advance of Decoration Day will be about nineteen battleships, twenty destroyers, and a dozen naval auxiliaries. The flag of Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, the new commander-in-chief, will fly from the superdreadnought Wyoming, and the Connecticut, the famous around-the-world flagship, will be seen as the second vessel of the Fourth Division under command of Rear Admiral Frank E. Beatty, another newcomer among the Atlantic Fleet flag officers.
    The coming battleships also include the Arkansas, Florida, Utah, North Dakota, and Delaware, the dreadnoughts South Carolina and Michigan, and the first line battleships Vermont, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Virginia, Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Kansas, and Ohio. The Minnesota and Idaho will be missing, being on duty in Mexican waters.