The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-05-04
THETIs HEADING NoRTHWARD.
Departure or the Second Of the Greedy Re.
lief ships.
New York Times lst.I


lief ships.
New York Times, 1stl
Inc Arctic steamship Tbetis, the Gag.
snip OF the Greedy relief expedition, sailed
from the Brooklyn navy-yard yesterday
AFTERNOON. She will coal at st. Johns,
Newfoundland, End then proceed to the
Arctic seas. Secretary Chandler. Secretary
OF War Lincoln, and Constructor Wilson
arrived from Washington In the morning,
ana were taken to the navy-yard In the tug
Catalpa, which had been sent by Com
modore Fillebrown 10 meet them.
When they landed at Cob Dock nine
teen guns were fred in honor OF
Secretary Chandler and seventeen In honor
OF Secretary Lincoln. A little later Gen.
eral Hancock arrived from Governors
Island IN the Chester A. Arthur, and was
received with salute Of thirteen guns.
The Tallapoosa had been dispatched from
Washington bv Secretary Chandler to
escort the Thetis down the bay. The sec
retaries, General Hancock, Comm odore
Fillebrown, and Commander Schley OF the
Thetis, and Constructor Wilson took
breakfast on board the Talapoosa, after
which the party proceeded to the Thetis,
where photographer got them into po-
sltion and took their picture. Mrs. Chan
dler came to the pavy.yard at noon.
The time set for the departure OF the
ship was . O'Clock. BY 1870 great crowd
was on the dock alongside which the
Thetis was moored. IL was composed
largely OF the friends OF the departing
officers and sailors. The wife and young
daughter OF Commander Schley were pres
ent. Among the others was delicate
looking woman, with pale and sad but
interesting face, dressed in deep mourning.
She was the sister OF Lieutenant Chip,
who persisted on the Jeanette expedition.
Chief Engineer George w. Melville was
also a conspicuous figure on deck. Every
thing was trim and tidy about the ship.
At the mizzen was the pennant OF the
American Yacht Club, which was present.
ed to the ship; at the main the Commo-
dore's pennant, and at the gafT the national
colors.
just before . o'clock the sailors were
drawn up in two lines on the deck. and
Secretary Chandler, followed by Secretary
Lincoln, passed down the line shaking
hands with each. When Secretary Chand-
Ter offered his hand to the first in the line
the man did not know what to make OF 1t.
Seeing that he was making no mistake,
however, he seized the Secretary's hand
and gave it a wrench that nearly dislocated
the wrist. Conterno's band played the
national airs on the dock while the hand
shaking was going on.
At 2:15 O'Clock Commander Schley gave
the word, the lines were cast of, and the
b md began playing "Auld Lang Syne."
AS the Catalpa. which was alongside,
pulled the Thetis out into the stream, the
crowd on the dock cheered and waved
handkerchieis and hats. The sailors on
the Alert, which is to follow the Thetis,
manned the yards, and with the sail
ors on the receiving-ship Colorado, gave
three cheers, while salute OF seven
guns was fired from Cob Dock. The Tai
lapoosa followed the Thetis with Secretaries
Chandler and Lincoln and General Han
cock on board. The tug Commodore
Duryea, with the friends Of Ensign Har-
Low on board, and a tug bearing another
party, also followed. Flags were flying on
the towers Of the Brooklyn bridge in honor
Of the event. Twenty-one guns were fired
from Governors Island, seven from Fort
Hamilton, and seven from Fort WadS-
worth. All passing ships dipped their
colors. The Tallapoosa escorted the Thetis
as far as Sandy Hook, the other boats going
to the Narrows.