The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-09-22

Grand Demonstration In H0nor Of His
Arrival.

| MS natlVe landh was Slgnted thirty
miles outside the Heads, at San Fran
cisco. Immediately upon receipt of the
news that the steamer was nearing
port, it was decided by the Executive
Committee, notwithstanding the late
moss of the hour; to proceed with the
demonstration, and the Reception Com
| mittee started at once 10 meet the City
of Toxic. The fiotilla of water craft
which was to escort the steamer to the
land started down the channel. and it
seemed as though
THE WHOLE POPULATION OF THE CITY
Had sought positions from which
view of the naval pageant could
be obtained. Telegraph Hill, the
heights beyond the Preside, Clay street
hill, the sea wall at North Point, and
every pier head were covered with
spectators. From every flagstaff in
the city flags were flying, and the ship
ping along the city trent was brilliantly
decked with ensigns, festooned flags
and streamers. The impatient crowds
that covered the hill-tops stood strain
ing their, eyes to catch the, first glimpse
of the Toxic. A hundred times the
cry was raised: There she comes p"
as chance arrivals came inao view be-
tween the Heads. 1t was $50 o'clock
when the puff of white smoke from
seward, from off the earthworks back
of and above Fort Point, and the boom
ing of heavy gun announced that the
steamer was near at hand Another
and another followed in rapid sue
cession. Fort Point next joined in the
cannonade firing with both Casemate
and Barbette guns, and the battery at
Lime Point added its thunder to
THE VOICE OF WELCOME.
In few moments the, entrance
to the. harbor was yelled in
wreaths Of smoke, and as the batter
les of Angel Island, Black. Point and
j Alcatraz opened fire in succession, the
whole channel was soon shrouded in
clouds from their rapid discharges. For
some time the position of the approach
ing ships could not be discerned, but
shortly before o'clock the outlines of
the hinge hull of the Toxic doomed
through the obscurity of smoke. and
theapproaching shades Of evening lit
ply flashes of guns, and in few mo-
ments, she glided into view, surrounded
by fleet of steamers and tugs gay
with flags and crowded with guests,
while the yachts squadron brought up
the rear; festooned from. deck to truck
with brilliant bunting
Cheer after cheer burst from the as
sembled thousands as the vessel slowly
rounded Telegraph Hill, and were taken
up by the crowds on the wharves and
rolled round to the city front. Hats
and handkerchiefs were waived in the
air. The United States steamer Mon
terey, lying in the stream, added the
roar Of her guns to the general well.
come, and the screaming of hundreds
of steam whistles announced that the
TOXIC HAD REACHED HER ANCHORAGE.
The crowds that had assembled on
the hills and along the city front now,
with common impulse, began to pour
along towards the ferry landing, at the
foot of Market street, where General
Grant was to- land. The sidewalks
were blocked with hurrying pedestr-
ans and the streets with carriages car
rying the committees. Steamers and
yachts made haste to land their passen-
gers, and ia few minutes the vicinity
OF the ferry landing was literally
jammed with people, extending for
blocks from Market street and the
water front. just in front OF the land
ing entrances, which were closed and
guarded, a space was cleared by the
police. and marshals, in which hundreds
of carriages for the use of guests were
crowded, and outside of that line after
line OF troops and civic organizations
were ranged, while outside constant
ly increasing crowd surged and pressed,