Show CRUISER GIVEN A NOISY WELCOME seattle april S tho the armored cruiser washington the namesake ot the state of washington was given a noisy welcome when she steamed into day bay and dropped anchor among a swarm of excursion steamers and hundreds of launches and tugs the welcoming flet headed by the steamship city of seattle upon which wag wad mayor john ohn F sillier miller and a committee from the seattle Coni commercial mercial club met the cruiser in the sound off west point lighthouse the chinese residents of seattle chartered a tug carrying the yellow banner upon which wasi was emblazoned blazoned em the chinese dragon and met the cruiser with a wonderful display ot 0 fire anre works the japanese chartered a float from which they sent up a large number of aerial bombs the climax of the dis play was an american flag which floated high above the cruiser |