Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-30
WATERBURY, CONN.,. TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1889
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NtteHgQn exploded, a white veil of smoke AnvelOped the war ships, through the lifts of which were seen glimpses of the bright bunting which covered the rigging. The booming of the cannon caused 6 rush of sighseers from all directions. From Broadway, South street and West street they came like rush of infantry. The police arrangements were ample. Sergeant Flock, of the Park police, with seventy-five men under his charge, kept the crowd under control. He stationed 6 line of men on the edge of the sea wall. outside the chains, at distance of ten feet apart, so as to prevent those in front from being pushed over into the water. A number of policemen were also stationed in the rear with instructions not to let the pre- ssure get too great.
 Captain Gastlin, of the River squad, had eighty men looking after the piers along the river front. Special precau- tions were taken at the piers, where va rious excursion boats took on their pas sengers. The patrol boats were also doubled and kept special watch along the Battery wall. The landing stage near Pier 1 was thronged with officers of the naval vessels, whose steam launches were kept busy plying to and fro.
 The naval parade was a stupendous affair. Fully 300 craft of various kinds
 
 this line of vessels the Dispatch steamed carrying the president on his way to this city. Big ships-of-war, saucy yachts, handsome steamboats and little tugs joined in the grand presidential salute of twenty-one guns. There were in the parade:
 The Dispatch. the steel cruiser Boston, the steel orusier Atlanta, the armored cruiser Chicago. the gunboat Yorktown. the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, the corvette Kearsage. seventy-hve steam yachts. yachts from every club in this vicinity, steam boats. tugs, in all 800 vessels.
 The war ships were dressed as If for a fancy ball. Their yard arms were squared, their brass work glistened in the sunlight, long flag halyards were bedecked with gay colored ensigns, all the stays were adorned with fluttering colors and the American flag ,,foated in the breeze from every truck. The noble looking vessels formed.in line just of Robbins reef extending toward Castle Garden. Just opposite to them, off St. George, nearly two hundred steam conceivable color of the rainbow was floating from their masts and stays, and
 hundreds of gayly.. uniformed men fitted over the decks and through the rigging. The largest fleet of yachts that has ever come together, extended toward Governors leland. The yachts and war ships formed an avenue through which the president passed. Every available excursion boat, tug, steamer and sail- boat had been chartered for the occasion These boats formed below an imaginary line off Tompkinsville, Staten Island, and under no circumstance were they allowed to cross over until the president had gone through the avenue of bright colors. All these boats were almost carried away by thousands of gay flags, long, colore6 streamers and bunting.
 When the President and his party land ed they took carriages to the Equitable building reception, in this order:
 First Carriage-The Committee on Plan ant
 Scope (having the general supervision of the cele bration). viz; Messrs James M. varnum. Cornelu N. Bliss, Frederick 8. Tallmadge and Samuel Babcock.