Show V MILLIORS OF PEOPL PEP Continued from page It I flags wind > and streamers dancing fn tlie i The sky was blue the water rippled under the fresh wind that held out flags straight and jaunty and thE i wharves and piers and rocky heishts and grassy knolls were black with 1 frantic enthusiastic people who strivedj veaklv V to make their shouts heard above the perfect bedlam of tooting whistles that accompanied the admiral ashore and afloat As the tomb of General Grant on Riverside drive was reached the fleet paid its tribute to the memory of the great warrior with a national salute f twentyone roaring guns Almost Endless Procession 1 The fleet then anchored and reviewed the almost endless procession of craft that steamed past so burdened with I humanity that they looked as if they wouldturn turtle before they got back j + + + could clear l a passage for the admirals f launch when he went f to return the officialvisit of the mayor at noon and when he did step into his launch the patriotic skippers afloat grabbed their I whistling cords and made the hills echo with such a blast as can only be heard l when a Yankee yacht crosses the finish r first In a race with foreign mughunt r I tn And that was simply the prelude to what continued throughout the day almost of steam an amost continuous roar I i V Meantime the vessels to take part in i the parade were massing over near the f Long Island shoreS unt l that side of the untI harbor became a tangle of stacks and flags and framework as far a the eye could reach The grassy slopes of Wads worth and Fort Hamilton and the wharves and shores of Staten Island were covered with sightseers watching the fleet below The warships lay spick and span ready for the start their bur mshQd metal flaming in the sun their sides white as virgin snow Between r i them and the shore lay the low long lean wIcked looking torpedo boats and still inside of them the graceful flotilla I 1 of revenue cutters l A ard Olympia the marines and 444 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + t I r + + V I V + + z 1 + i + 5 1 J + i kjb2 j + I V + 7 < I d + f + + i H A + + + + + t + + + + + 1 + + + + + + 1 + + + + + + + + + + 1 + + j L V + + J + t i + I + I V + + > + I + Commander George Dewey Secretary of tfie Lighthouse Board 1877 4 9 + + + + + 1 + + + 1 + + + + + + + + + + + t + + + + + + to their piers Toward the end the parade ther Tward rade became disorganized and it took hours for the heterogeneous flotilla to j get by Darkness at last brought relief i re-lief to the tired admiral who had stood on the bridge for six hours bowing his i acknowledgements to the stentdrianr expression II ex-pression of homage V j j New York has never witnessed befor 1 anything approaching this wonderful remarkable demonstration The Columbian Colum-bian naval parade the dedication otl Grants tomb and the reception of the North Atlantic squadron last fall all pale before this gigantic ovation to the sailor who in a single morning deI strayed an enemys fleet without the II less of a man or ship I is not beyond the mark to say that 3000 00 peoule viewed the pageant front ashore and that a quarter of a million were afloat i Was a Bright Day When New York turned out to the celebration this morning a light haze I hung over the harbor but this was I soon burned up by the bright sun which i bathed sea and city in its brilliant radiance The wind was strong and I gusty and kept the flags snapping I People who went down the bay were I lost in admiration of the display of i bunting along the water front On the I East riyer from the bridge to the battery bat-tery where the sailing craft lie fin droves the spars were covered with I such a mass of color as might be compared I com-pared to a mapl grown hillside in the i deep autumn The tall spars of the i clippeprs were conspicuous for their ensigns i en-signs and signals Every craft in the i sigs sigas harbor was decked out from stem to stern with till the grace and attractiveness attractive-ness known to shippers But the display in the East river w snot s-not to be compared with that of the North river up which the procession was to pass From the peaks of > ever pier long ropes strung with flags of every hue were stretched to the snubbing snub-bing post at the corner and theif l ont = 5 were decorated with a multitude of gay devices There were flags on the staff3 and lines O flags above the rppes Ships In Gay Attire The ships at their sides were dressed from stem td taffrail and same carried flags on their yards and had their deck hoUBeS covered The wind shook the banners from millions o qjin flows porticos and even steeples and never perhaps in this generation did peraps hearts that love it bound so quickly to the sight of the flag Up the river far off on the Jersey shore and high on the misty palisades it gleamed The beat place from which to view j the great marine panorama was natur tl sailors had been seriously inspected fromj the toe of the first marine to the jaunty ca of the last sailor All seemed a little dazed at the prospect before them and no doubt many would have preferred a programme involving duplication of the Manila light to the ordeal they were togo through How Sailors Were The officers of the fleet did not wear their > showy uniforms but were attired inj special undress At ° a it is technically I nically known in the navy There were n gold epaulettes goldbounfi beavers knd clattering swords aboard This b Was > the admirals order and added bu another to the many evidences of his unique modesty > A brother and the widow of Captain Griflley > who fought the Olympia In Mania bay Colonel Franklin Bartlett i former representative l in congress from g Nsw York and 1 intimate personal friend of the admiral together with frenq newspaper men were the only civilians aboard One of the naval guests was the engineer the Olympia Wizen it i led the way past Corrigedor island He hiS given three rousing cheers as he went forward to see theme the-me Prepare to Get Away Immediately after Admiral Dewey returned re-turned from theSandy Hook the wIg wagr er on the bridge signaled the fleet to prepare to get Under way The gangways gang-ways px were hauled up and the booms rigged An old quartermaster hurried a small dark roll of bunting to the main hand over fist I hung there while i the bugle sounded the call to quarters and the marines were mustered mus-tered aft Then just as the signal t weigh was given a pull on the halyards yards opened the roll and spread the fourstarred flag which Farrasut flew as he ran tIe fort in New Orleans A it broke the sailors 3t their stations aId the marines on the quarterdeck greeted ll i < with the hip hip hooray we got from our ancestors The flag floated proudly all through the pasent today prQudIYhaU I most precious possession oc Farraguts pupil and when it is struck on Monday it will probably forever as itt is altogether unlikely that Ad mlral Dewey will ever command anoth tei fleet 1 f e Begins to Move It was exactly 1 oclock the hour fixed for the start when the fleet with anchors shortJiove began to move V The shjps had swung to the food tide and were pointing down stream but with their twin screws they faced about aa cm pJxots and headed for the Hud I i eon < followed by the long line of vessels I 4 + + + + + + + 4 4 rtr V I H t ILLUMINATION OP BROOKLYN BRIDGE ally from the deck O the Olympia andy and-y the courtesy of Admiral Dewev an Associated Press representative waa permitted aboard Very early the fleet permite of steamships jjachts and tugs which were to have a place in the line began moving downthe bay to the allotted points where the several divisions were to form but many of them could not resist the temptation to first visit the anchorage of the men of war oft Tomp kinsville and before 1 oclock the Olympia was surrounded by l perfect V mob of every known kind of craft all V swarming with people circling around or pushing their noses close up under the ship to get glimpse of the admiral pacing the quarter deck ads Whistles Sirens The bands aboard the excursion boats played and the whistles and sirens of the other craft made the air hideous crat by their shrieks They kept coming coming In par and half dozens until they lay a dozen deep resisting the charges of the patrol boats in their determination de-termination to get within shouting distance terminaton ge tance Their recklessness was amazing lag They ran across each others bows they rubbed against one another they pushed bow on stern until further movement seemed paralyzed bynhe Inextricable confusion Its waS with great difficulty that the poHee bbata D I in civic parade When the hiPS had 1 straightened out for their journey 1 across the upper bay the spectacle they I made H ever be treasured In the memory of those who saw i I I Iri advance of the Olympia was al double line of patrol and fire boats a Ij Lilliputian fleet to clear the way of unofficial un-official trespassers 1 did not require much persuasion either as the skippers I skip-pers had 3 vholesome respect for the steel ram of the mighty sea monsters I On the port beam tif the Olymph was the escorting ship Sandy Hook with the the mayor and other disna tarles aboard and in her wake at Intervals In-tervals of 400 yards stretched out a mile long l were the great towering warships war-ships the armbred cruiser New York the battleships Indiana and Massachusetts Massachu-setts the cruisers Brooklyn second class battleship Texas the old wooden frigate Lancaster the gunboat Marietta Mariet-ta and the Chicago the flagship of the South Atlantic squadron Old Glory Fluttered Old glory fluttered from each masthead mast-head and taffrail On each quarter Qf the Nev York were the black tow linedtorpedo boats threeon each Hank The rest of the procession tailed out I for miles Slowly and majestically the procession moved across dhe shiny waters l wat-ers I > e i l JLdmiral l Dewcy wentup l bn the after i bridge as soon as the start was made and remained there throughout the parade pa-rade a prominent figure outlined against the skies for fgre thousands afloat and ashore With him on the bridge most of the time was Colonel Bartlett to whom he talked when he was not acknowledgelng the salutes or personally directing the movements of his immediate fleet and the admiral gave close attention throughout the journey to everything Which transpired on board the vessel By his direction the ensign was cour tesied to vessels which saluted Several times he ordered the crew to stand bv to cheer In some extraordinary demonstration demon-stration t The Olympiads Guns Speak The guns of the Olympia spoke but once until Grants tomb was reached This was when they barked in answer to the deep baying of the guns of old For William on Governors island Before Be-fore the battery was reached hundreds of tugs and excursion boats had crowded crowd-ed in behind the patrol boats and stretched awn rank upon rank to either shore from the quarter of the Olympia Their whistles were soinc continuously throughout the jo rney The untold thousands who thronged the wharves and piers who leaned from the windows and balconies and looked down from the dizzy heights of skI sk-I scrapers must have Impressed the admiral ad-miral greatly but his modesty would not permit him to view it as a personal ovation < I I vaton I V I V Dewey I Pleased i I Astonishing astonishing he repeated I re-peated several times to Colonel Bartlett V Bart-lett but he said nothing of himself As he looked behind him the steam of I whistles and the smoke from the stacks blowing across the river blending blend-ing with the gray asmosphere softened I soften-ed the scene and made the dim vistas through which the oncoming ships lay seem as if they stretched i out forever The waving of the hundreds of thousands thou-sands along the shore could be distinct I ly I seen from thc deck of the Olympia but only occasionally were the sounds of cheers wafted from the crowds I ashore As a rule > perhaps they were I too much Interested in the spectacle > to venture vociferous applause besides be-sides they were too far away to be heard by the admiral or the men on the cruisers even if the terrific i din of I the craft in the river had not been kept up almost without intermission The i shrieking whistles were forever I going I and when the fleet swept around the stake boat above Grants tomb on Riverside I GrntfE erside drive and each ship had let go I its booming salute the concert that I followed was soulmaddeninga mad fantastic nervedestroying roar that continued for almost ten minutes So much steam was wasted that the boats I themselves were lost In their own va I I por I Begins to Disorganize II I The parade at this point began to I become disorganized many pleasure I craft leaving the line below n crowding I crowd-ing so fiercely about the Olympia that I I she was maneuvered with great difficulty diffi-culty The excursion boats loaded to th guards with > people were almost I criminally reckless as they passed I along many of them listed so far that one wheel was buried deep while the I other scarcely touched the water I toucled The admiral was some times annoyed i by the crowding of these craft but he retained his equanimitY through it all bowing and removing his cap to the exulting and cheering crowds I was not until all the warships had passed m review before the Olympia at anchor an-chor below the beautiful floats representing repre-senting peace and victory that the one incident of the day occurred which showed that nth all his geniality the hero of Manila could also be a very stern sailor I In less than a minUt after the Chicago Chi-cago had passed the Olympia by the admirals order a streaM of signal flags i ordered the vessels of thE fleetto dress ship and the crews of the menofwai I j ran up rainbows of signal flags from j stem to stern over their topmasts The order was beautifully i executed except aboard the flagship where the fouling I of th line in the top of one the stacks caused a delay Reprimands a Sailor I Admiral Dewey Instantly roared out a command for some one to ease the line I fouled again and a nimble sailor was sent aloft to clear It I was perhaps two minutes before the flags were In their proper pla e The admiral admi-ral waspiainly displeased He sent for the officer under whose direction the I order was executed and called him upon the bridge I I am ashamed of this he said in the tons of a sailor giving command of in a you roaring gale nnd 1 am ashamed Several times when the excursion boats cheered as 1 they passed close tc the Olympia the admiral called upon the crew to stand bi and cheer Each I time the sailors leaped uporf the steel bulwarks and with swinging wih caps responded re-sponded to the command with throat splitting roars When the crowd of vessels about the flagship became so dense that progress prog-ress of the rest of th tle tl parade was impeded im-peded the admiral ordered the police I patrol boats td clear the way of the I i ships that had left the line and had spread themselves about the Olympia I I i like a flock ot wildfowl He did aol leave the bridge until the approaching I darkness turned the ships in the demoralized de-moralized tail of th profession back I to their piers I |