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Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs Isaac E. Emerson that the Michigan personnel are coming to talk to him about sending the USS Yantic through the canal locks. He assures Emerson that he will not forget the Maryland militia and their work. Roosevelt wishes other states were as good to their naval militia as Maryland.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-09-25
Assistant Secretary of the Navy informs Louis F. Middlebrook he will do what he can to help his naval militia, however, the USS Yantic is being sent to the Michigan naval militia. Roosevelt is waiting on a report to know which of the other requests Middlebrook made can be granted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-06-08
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt received Cyrus Edwin Lothrop’s letter from H. C. Taylor. He has been considering the matter and brought it to the attention of Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long. Roosevelt believes he can get the USS Yantic for the Naval Militia of the Lakes if the Department of State agrees it does not violate the treaty. He strongly believes in the naval militia. Roosevelt asked the Office of Naval Intelligence for information on the Canadian fish cruisers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-04
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs H. C. Taylor that he will write to Cyrus Edwin Lothrop. He thinks the USS Yantic can be promised to the Naval Militia of the Lakes if the treaty does not prohibit it. Roosevelt will take the matter to the United States Department of State. He is glad that Taylor shares his views of the naval militia, which should be built up. Roosevelt talked to Secretary of the Navy John Davis Long about having Taylor and William Thomas Sampson test the USS Indiana and Iowa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-05-04
Photograph showing a side view of the steamship Tashmoo during President Roosevelt’s Detroit River cruise.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-10-18