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VOL. XL--.Q. 26. ANACONDA, MONTANA, SATURDAY MONING., SEPTEMBER 30, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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to Shore by craft Decked
in Patriotic colors.
VIEWED BY MILLIONS
Every Inch of Space for Miles Packed With
eheering Humanity-Ten Thousands of
Whistles Added to the Pandemonium.
Dewey Bears It Modestly.
New York, Sept. 29.-The naval pa
rade from the vantage points of the
warships was an immense marine pic
ture, a water pageant with so little of
incident compared with its great sise
that it appeared to the eye as a paint
ing rather than a drama.
The vast gathering of water craft
maintained an average speed of eight
knots, but so magnificent was its area
that the impression was one of exceed
Ingly slow and stately movement. The
picture was continually changing, but
it melted so slowly and in such meas
ured ryhthm from form to form that
the sense of motion was largely lost
It started under a brilliant sky, passed
at the mouth of the Hudson through
the threat of an ugly storm and
emerged through a rainbow arch that
stretched from shore to shore into a
clear and brilliant sunset off the Grant
temb.
The night .had been a busy one in
.the fleet of warships off Tompkinaville.
The last details of the day's ceremony
were hardly, settled before the day It
self broke on a scene of greater cptivity
than the classic anchorage h #, xJL ir
witnessed before.
The great vo g f the white squad
ron swung 5a tt14et anchorage as for
the past two days, but the crowd of
neighboring taft.had been swelled past
douqting. As far as could be seen, the
watbr was a mass of moving steamers.
It was a moving, shifting picture of
tugs, police boats, fire boats, torpedo
boats, yachts,. launches, tramp steam
era and ocean liners and sailing craft
of every kind, with big ferry and ex
cursion boats ploughing their way
through the mysterious paths that
opened before them and closed again
behind them like the ice of an Arctio
floe.
The only stable points in the scene
at the early hour were the warships.
They lay like a great white ground,
about which the pack lee turned-and
swirled, moving them at their moor
Ings. It was a morning of repressed
excitement on board the New York and
other ships behind the Olympia. Every
thing had been cleaned and burnished
from ram to rudder.
Ready to Move.
Noon was ushered in with the scream
of whistles that sounded lice 10,000
craft. The last far-away echo had
hardly drifted back from the Staten
Island hills, when a sudden impulse
seemed to seize the far-reaching mass
of tugs and other craft. Instead of
drifting Idly round and round the war
ships, like chips in an eddy, they be
gan to steam away to the south in a
parallel line as though some current
was bearing them out to sea. But as
the". vanished in scores toward the
Narrows there were hundreds more
that swept down from up the harbor. i
Then there was a scurrying home of
the white-hooded steam cutters of the
ships. The great boat cranes amid
ships reached down their grappling
hooks and whisked the pinnaces aboard.
Megaphone commands flung across the
water brought the torpedo boats to kesI
like the greyhounds they were at the
Olympia's quarter. The brilliant code
flags blossomed like flowers on the
Olympia from bridge to main top. It
was the order to form in column. The
Brooklyn's pennant snapped "Aye, aye"
from the signal yard, and duplicate sets
of flags passed the order to the Indiana,
whence it was flung from ship to ship
down the squadron. The black speed
cones of the Olympia climbed slowly
to her yards as the big cruiser got un
der way The other vessels slowly
turned, like a troop of cavalry, squad
ron front toward the Narrows, and then
fetching a graceful sweep, headed back
up the harbor toward the battery, the
Olympia escorted by the mayor's boat,
the Sandy Hook. in the lead. Back of
her at a 400-yard interval came the New
York, the powerful Indiana and Mas
sachusetts, the fleet-f oted Brooklyn,
the old Texas. the rakish yachtlike Dol
phin, the old Lancaster. a relic of an
other naval age: the powerful Chicago,
and finall- the little Marietta, the rear
guard of the fighting craft. Behind
stretched the transports and further
still, almost last in the distance, the
yachts and miscellaneous craft hull
down the horizon.
Like an Arrow.
The evolutioh began at 1 o'clock and
In 15 minutes the fighting line was
straightened out up the harbor. Ad
miral Dewey was going to his own
place at the head of a squadron that
would have won at least three battle
of Manila bay without stopping for
breakfast.
The head of the column was a broad
arrow. Six torpedo boats spread out
at the bar, three on a side, from the
Olympia's quarter. Outside of them a
flying wedge of pollee patrol boats
formed a great V. whose ape,: was the
Olympia. Flanking them, ahead and
astern, were the harbor fireboats, spout
Ing columns of w4ter that turned
threateningly toward the excursion
boats on either side, when they at
tempted to crowd the line of march.
But the peagant back of this "ower
ful vanguard was not limited to a sin
gle nor a sextuple line of ships. It
was a sinuous marine monster half a
mile wide, whose vertebrae were the
ships of the white squadron and whose
ribs were rows upon rows of every
sort of floating thing that had ever
run by steam in New York harbor.
Thousands viewed this procession as
it moved up past Staten Island, thou
sands more watched it from the an
chored craft that crowded the Erie
basin and whose spars rose in a for
eat about the foot of Liberty street.
but they were forgotten in the mass of
humanity that crowded the water
front of Manhattan Island and filled
every point of vantage along the Jer
sey shore.
This feature of the scene first broke
on the view as Castle William roared
an admiral's salute to the Olympia
off the battery. By the time the an
swer and smoke had died away from
the wake of the flagship. the inimens
Ity of the watching crowd dawned on
the crews of the squadron. Every foot
of the oily water front was a mass of
humalilty. The wharves, the ferry
slips, the roofs of ferry and ware
house rose one above another in solid
blocks of people. Above the tower
structure of the water front every roof
re its living freight. Stores, old of
fice buildings and modern scrapers
were crowded with stands, tiers upon
tiers of seats like an immense theater
whose roof was *the sky, whose walls
were the surrounding hills and whose
back drop was the horizon of lower
bay.
As the pageant moved majestically
into the Hudson it was seen that the
crowd still lined the water front and
house tops, thicker, if possible, than
ever, and stretching up the river along
the whole line of the parade. The
heights of the Jersey side werb also
crowded with parti-colored masses of
people. They were not such an un
broken rank is along the wharves. of
the New York side, but wherever the
wooded eslpes broke into a clearing
the spot was blackened with people
from the crest to water line. There
was no possible way of estimating the
crowd. The morning papers declared
tit there were 1,500,000 visitors in the
city. The impression conveyed by the
crowded shores was that it would have
taken that many in addition to the
total population to form the concourse
that watched the water pageant. The
spectators might have been computed
in army corps, certainly not by indi
viduals.
Pandemonium Relgned.
Up the Hudson pandemonium reigned
supreme. Aerial bombs broke at inter
vals overhead In puffs of white smoke,
and a feathery canopy of steam hung
over the advancing fleet as hundreds of
steam whistles screamed continually.
The narrowing throat of the river
crowded -the advancing vessels together
in an almost compa'ct.maas The btoad
arrow formation still drove the head of
the column forwardunmolested through
the ranks of the waiting vessels.
An Arch of Triumph.
Storm clouds that had gathered down
the bay followed close in the pageant' a
wake. A sharp wind bred whitecaps
even in the narrow river, and a few
rain drops pattered on the decks. The
glare of an angry sky turned the har
borbehlnd the warships to molten lead,
upon which the gigantic figure of Lib
erty seemed to stand for a time, and
was soon swallowed in a bank of gray
haze. Then the threatening sky relent
ed. The sun broke out ahead and
painted across the sullen clouds a rain
bow arch that stretched from the
mountain to the Jersey shore. It seem
ed a bit of nature'd art work, spread
by a kingly miracle at the opportune
moment, beggaring man's more humble
efforts on shore, but forming a fitting
arch of triumph, beneath which the vic
torious admiral sailed to his triumphal
anchorage.
The old Portsmouth crew manned the
rigging as the Olympia passed, and off
Grant's tomb the naval reserve on the
St. Marys did the same. Roundl the
stake boat the Olympia turned smart
ly, her guns throbbing a deep-throated
salute to the resting place of aniotherl
national hero.
The other vessels of the white squad
run swung around the St. Marys. il
turn, each saluting the tomb, though I
at the head of the line the pound of fulr
ther guns was lost in the foar of steam
whistles. The turn of the parade broake
the formation of the police boats beyond
repair. The warships. doubling back
into the mass of advancing boats,
threatened, foP a time. serious conse
quences, but the Olympia and her coln
sorts safely dropped anchor at last in
reversed column,and the water pageant
passed the admiral in review. The po
lice boats reapppeared as individuals
and unceremoniously shouldered In
truding vessels out of the line of march.
The official pro',,ession and its varied
following of tugs, launches, steam
dredges and ex: ursion liouts rounded
about and came down the rive-r in all
aquatic mob that was still passilng long
after the night illumination began.
From the tine the Itritish yacht Erin
started she certainly was the chief at
traction along the river front after the
Olympia had gone by. and Sir Thomas
Lipton was accorded an ovation all
along the line.
A Tribute to Lipton.
To those on board the Erln, decked
out as she was with flags of all nations,
it looked as If the American people
were greatly pleased with Sir Thomas
and were delighted with an opportunity
to give him a hearty welcome. They
ran alongside in tugs, barges, launches
and big excursion steameirs and shouted
all sorts of complimentary things to
him, while the tall yachtsman on th.e
upper bridge of the Erln wore a smile
and not infrequently called back his
thanks for the kind wishes.
Sir Thomas had on board some of
his friends from this side of the water
and from England and the company
during the early part of the afternoon
were kept busy returning the cheering
which was hlurled at the Erln from all
aides. Among those who watched the
parade from the deck of the Erin were
Prince Reginald de Croy of Belgium
and lion. Charles Russell of London.
Even before the Erin had weighed
anchor half a dozn tugs had come
alongside and the cheering and whist
ling continued until the end of the day
began.
After the signal for the start was
given the Corster led. followed by a
magnificent string of steam yachts
smothered in flags in two long lines.
The Erin headed the starboard column,
with Col. John Jacob Astor's Nour
mahal right astlerl, while the Niagara,
with Howard Gotld on hoard, headed
the port column; with the new Jose
phine of Joseph N. Weidener right be
hind her. The lWin was continuously
saluted on the way up and the man on
th" after deck beside the flag staff
which carried the big yacht pennant
was continuously dipping it in return.
"Everything seemn tio be going first
class," Bald Sir Th.mnas. as the yacht
neared the battery, "and the parade is
certainly a great asucres."
Looking over through the tremendous
crowd that covered the wharves and
battery. he shouted to those on deck:
_g::r, "; .::.` ýý ,y "f'
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S"Just see them over there; did you ever
see so many people? It's wonderful!
Marvelous! I could not believe that at
many people could be gotten together,"
When off Twenty-third street Sir
Thomas became exercised at the col
gestlon of boats ahead and shook hi'4
head as he thought of the chances ft
getting the Erin through the mass. In
going by the training ship Portsmouth
the jackies lined the rail and gave the
Erin a tremendotus cheer which was
answered from the crew or the Erin tn
the far deck. Then came more heecr
ing, yells and whistles from those on
shore until Sir Thomas' sides fairly
shook with Inug:h.rl as he said: "They
mue.t all have mloney on the Shatn
rock.'
It took nearly an hour for the head
of the yacht fleet to reach the turning
point off Fort Lee. but the Corsair
finally swung around and headed down
toward the Olympia. At the same tine,
half a hundred excursion boats, tugs
and launches which had been waiting
up the river for the yatchts to appear
Joined in, so that a solid column came
sweeping down on Adm:ra.l Dewey. The
Erin was in the center of this great
mass of boats and the formation of the
yacht club fleet was immediately lost.
The great mase swept by the Olympia
five and six abreast, but fortunately
the course was comparatively clear
when she went by and Admiral Dewey
was easily recognized, waving his hat
frantically at Sir Thomas as he stood
on the after bridge. The crew of the
Olympia also recognized the Erin and
gave her a tremendous cheer, which
was returned by the entire comp.ny on
board the Irish yacht, while the big
fleet of excursion steamers and the two
or three hundred thousand people on
shore cheered.
The Erin ran down the river until she
reached Hoboken, where she took up
her position to see the illumination in
the river this evening.
A Magniflcent Display.
Never before in the history of New
York has this city witnessed a greater
pyrotechnic and electrical display than
that with which the return of Admiral
George Dewey was celebrated in the
harbor and waters surrounding the
Island of Manhattan to-night.
The great hulks of the battleships of
Dewey's fleet, silhouetted against the
dark background of the sky, shone
from stem to stern with myriads of in
candescent lights, while all around in
numerable brilliantly decorated yachts
and other river craft honored the na
tion's hero.
Crowds occupied every point of vant
age along the New York shore from
Grant's tomb to Fifty-ninth street. One
hundred thousand men, women and
children, at a conservative estimate,
saw the illumination from Riverside
drive.
Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Erin wat
brilliantly lighted with streamers of
lights and the name Erin in green be
tween the masts. From the bay the
letters on the Brooklyn bridge. "Wel-j
come Dewey " were plaint-- disternible
and wnere one of the features ,f the
celebration. As if to join in the popul tr
acclair to the great :sirniral na'ur,
, itt herfrire-s to the display of the fire
works, for the sky was thtminated fte
t-uently during the evening with flashes
of lightning, showers at tim. s inter
rupticg sky rocket proceldings, though
but slightly dampening the good na
ture of -olne of tLle crowds. There was
seemingly no end t, the display of fite
works. Every wharf landing and ii pr
had its quota. of sightscrs and the eln
thuslasmn was abundant. Froln the
Ii ns.. tips as from tbh i:dewaika p nw
der by the barrel was burnt d anld rock
ets sentt aloft in honor of the hero of
Manila.
Over .an the Jorscy shoret th" display,
was just as generous and the sky was
(t 'ontinued on Page Seven.)
History Affords No Parallel
to Magnificent Ovation
Tendered Dewey.
A THRILLING TRIBUTE
The Events of the Great Day as Seen From
the Bridge of the Olympia-A Marvelous
Fleet of Steel Thunderers Followed
in the Wake of the Flagship.
New York. Sept. 29.-No Roman co.n
queror returned to his triumph of bar
baric splendor; no victorious king t r
prince coming home from successful war
ever received such a magnificent ova
tion as overwhelmed Admiral Dewey
to-day as he stood on the bridge of the
Olympia at the head of a magnificent
fleet of steel thunderers of the deep, fol
lowed by a thousand vessels of peace,
each tiered and coated black with peo
ple and sailed over the bright waters
of the upper bay and up the broad path
way of the sunlit river, whose banks
were gay with millions of flags and
streamers dancing in the wind.
The sky was blue, the water rippled
Iunder the fresh wind that held ut flagei
straight and jaunty and the a hr\.es
and piers and rocky heights and grassy
knolls were black with frantic, enthu
sinatic people, who strved with e 1 h
other to make their shouts heard a.,l\
the perfect Bedlam of tooting whistl.
that accompanied the admliral t...hr
and afloat.
As the tomb of Genlleral IGr:lt o
Riverside drive w;as rradoled. tlile i, o,
paid its tribute to the tI.enwOny if thit
great warrior with a nattional s.tl :
oIf 21 roaring guna. TIte tle"t til tn1
hored and r'ev' it tle ;lnl:;t e i
less prloc.siotl iof cr,;ftithilat a to l
palst, so hturdened with hullnality lh ,t
they looked :ts if thet \\tIoul turnll tull"l
before they got hbak to~ , ir pii, s. T
ward th, end the 1, -r 1,o bei .trlll , l.
organizd aind it took i cure fýi, th., !
tilla t~ l i t by. rttrkne. : ;t
INlought 1-1lilt, t 'o fit- tireld i,lll "a.l v.!l,,
had stood on the bridge for six hourss
bowing his acknowledgments to the sten
torian expression of homage.
.A Wonderful Demonstration.
New York has never witnessed before
anything approaching this wonderful.
remarkable demonstration. The Co
lulrvian naval parade, the dedication
of Grant's 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, de
stroyed an enemy's fleet without the
loss of a man or a ship. It is not be
yond the mark to ear that 3.000.000 pe.t
pie viewed the pageant from ashore,
and that a quarter of a million were
afloat.
When New York turned out to the
celebration tbis morning a light haze
hung over the harbor, but this waee soon
burned up by the bright sun which
bathed sla and city in its brilliant
radiance. The wind was strong and
gusty and kept the flags snapping.
People who went down the bay were
loot in admiration of the display of
bunting along the water front. The
East river, from the bridge to the Bat
tery, where the sailing craft lie in
droves, the spars were covered with
such a mare of color as might be comr-,
pared to a maple grown hillside in the
deep autumn. The tall spats .a. the
clippers were conspicuous for thefr en
signs and signals. Every oraft in the
harbor was decked out from stem to
stern with all the grace and atttaetive
ness known to shippers. But the dis
play in the East river was not'to be
compared with that of the North river,
up which the procession was to pass.
From the peaks of every pier long
ropes strung with flags of every hue
was stretched to the snubbing post at
the corner, and the fronts were deco
rated with a multitude of gay 4glicea
There were flags on the staffs andl lines
of flags shbove the ropes. The vessels
at their sides were dressed from stem
to taffrail and some carried flags on
their yards and had their deck houses
covered. The wind shook the banners
from millions of windows, porticas and
even steeples. and never, perhaps, ip
this generation did hearts that love it
bound so quickly to the sight of the
flag. Up the river, far off on the 1sr
sey shore and high on the misty Pall
sades, it gleamed.
On the Olympia'. Dbs~.
The best place from which to view
the great marine panorama was natu
rally from the deck of the Olympia, and
by the courtesy of Admiral Dewey an
associated press representative wae
permitted aboard. Very early the fleet
of steamships, yachts and tugs which
were to have a place in the line began
moving down the bay to the allotted
points where the several divisiona were
to form, but many of them could not
resist the temptation to first visit tho
anchorage of the men-of-war off
Tomkinsville and before 11 o'clock the
Olympia was surrounded by a petfect
mob of every known kind of craft, all
swarming with people, circling around
or pushing their noses close up under
the ship to get a glimpse of the ad
miral pacing the quarterdeck. The
bands aboard the excursion boats
played and the whistles and sirens of
the order craft made the air hideous
by their shrieks. They kept coming,
coming In pairs and half dozens, until
they lay a dozen deep, resisting the
charges of the patrol boats In their de
termination to get up within shouting
distance. Their recklessness was amazs
ing. They ran across each other's bows,
they rubbed against one another, they
pushed on astern until further move
ment seemed paralyzed by the Inex
tricable confusion. It was with great
difficulty that the police boats could
clear a passage for the admiral's launch
when he went off to return the official
visit of the mayor at noon, and when
he did step into his launch the patriotlo
skippers afloat grabbed their whistling
cords and made the hills echo with such
a blast as can only be heard when a
Yankee yacht crosses the finish first
in a race with foreign mug hunters.
And lihat was simply the prelude to
what continued throughout the day--an
almost continuous rear of steam whis
Ml*eantime the vessels to take part in
the parade were marsing over near the
Long Island shorc, until that side of
the h:,rbh.r Iht came .1 tangle of stacks
anti flags and frame work as far as
the ev.e could r.at h. The grassy slopes
of \V. l-worthl anl FI'telt Hamilton and
the wnar;tVe anlld shores of Staton
i-tlen e wer t e.\.redl with sightseers
\itlthling tiht. specl' tal, Ihtlow. The war
'i, ere spcc epk la,! span ready for
tlt sta'rt. their burnishebe metal flam
in in Ihe sun, t itir s4.les white as
vircil snow.. llt'tl,'ttn them and the
slihe l h..l o the hl .. :,ng. lean, wicked
lttkino, iit,'." iota atnd still inside
,i tem. the gracefuli fll:ila of revenue
I, e..".;+ n the Oly-utplu.
i l ti .ll[ta the marines aind
. i' , !1, ,. . i "] rt.::1}'ly inspectod
first marinte to th"
i tui tAl' ~i t it'. lastt sailor. All see-lll
.t t a !z" ": i the pr.' spect beforU
tr.. tl i . : ; u;, 1 !otull : tImanly w,)U:l have
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