Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-30
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. IA GRAND MARINE DISPLAY, The Centennial Ball A Pic- ture Of SpIendor. IA FIERCE SUBTERRANEAN FIRE. A Broken Axle Causes The
 Grand Trunk Disaster. X BREAD FAMINE AT NEW YORK. Two Boats Suspended Over
 The Nantucket Dam.
A BREAD FAMINE AT NEW YORK

Two Boats Suspended Over The Nantucket Dam.
 THE GREAT CELEBRATIOn.
 A Superb Marine DIsplay-Throngs
 View the spectacle From Brooklyn
 Bridge EvoIutions Of the Maya Squadron, Merchant Vessels, Tugs ! and Picturesque Yachts-The Cen.
 tennIaI Ball The MetrOpOlitan opera House MagnifieentIy DecOrat.
 ed-Twenty Thousand Dollars " orth ofFIoraI BecoratIOns-Arr1val of the | President Distinguished Persons ! Who Took Part I'm the Opening l Quadrille.
 NEW YORK, April 29.-At an early hou1 this morning thousands of people thrust
 their heads anxiously out of windows and
 gazed heavenward. Looks of disappoint-
 ment invariably crossed the features of the
 expectant observer, for instead of seeing g
 bright sun dawning upon the first days cele-
 brnsion of the one hundredth anniversary of
 the inauguration of George Washington, the first president of the United States, gray
 mist enveloped the city. The outlook for the success of the first day of the great cele-
 bration was not promising. But happily as
 the day grew older the clouds scattered and ! the sun shone forth.
 CROWDS ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
 Thousands of people took advantage of the view of the harbor offered from the Brook lyn bridge to witness the naval parade. AL
 most before daybreak people began to arrive
 and from that time on the crowd on the big span high up above the East river steadily l increased. The police arrangements were ! admirable, but even with an officer stationed at a distance of every twenty feet the crowd | refused to move faster than slow meander- | ing walk. When the Despatch came into view the crowd occupied every available ! space and refvsed to move at all The sight | was grand from all sides, and from every building and vessel foated out and futtered ! the colors of all nations. Far below the | crowd the surface of tho river seouvd to be l covered with craft of all descriptions gaily I bedecked with flying colors. Until the last l craft in the parade disappeared up the North l river the crowd fingered and began to slowly ! move away.
 THE MARINE PARADE.
 To days water parade was the finest ever ! witnessed in this harbor. The war vessels | were grand and imposing, the rather scanty group of yachts lay light on the water with 8 high bred grace, and in their wake came the 1 bone and sinew of the city's merchant marine, every class of harbor craft being represented.
 The line of ships, 1t is estimated, was nearly twenty miles long. The column con- ! sisting of the naval division, the revenue di- vision and the yacht division Gin the order named) anchored little to the west of the main channel, with head 200 yards south off the white buoy, northeast of -F in | Telo 1iuios f0rk and single column, 200 yardsIcago, Boston, l in the following order: :-tooklyn, Juniata, Kearsarge, Yantic, Essey The revenue and ! Yorktown and Attn double column, one yacht division Kit, and two hundred yards hundred yards. The eastern column formed | between Of the naval column, two hun- directly. s in the rear of the naval division dred 5 A1hundred yards between the revenue and sacht divisions. The compass direction ar this column was N. by E. The yachts were grouped by clubs in the following order: The New York Yacht club, the Atlantic Yacht club, the Corinthian Yacht club, the Seawanhaka Yacht club, the American Yacht club, the Larchmons Yacht clnb. No small boats were admitted into the column. The length of the column with nine ships of war, six revenue cutters and twenty yachts was:about two and one-half miles, of which one and half miles was occupied by the naval division. A signal from the gun of the tug Nina, when the Dispatch passed Port Richmond, s. l., which signal was repeated from the Chicago the naval feet hove short Gas nearly up and down as possible) and prepared to get under way
 When the Dispatch was abreast the rear of the yacht division the revenue cutters and such of the yachts as carry guns commenced a salute of twent-one gnns, and as the De- spatch passed'the officers and crew of each vessel (paraded on deck) saluted by uncover ing When the Despatch reached the rear -H. sls lsr;of Hh zrxsxya f<N man the yards, laying out with the rear ves sel facing aft, with caps o4. Each naval vessel fired salute of twenty-one guns, be- ginning at the Despatch passed her line of fire. As the Despatch passed each vessels the officers and crew uncovered, marine guards and seutries presented arms, drums beat four rufaes and bands played the national air. At the last gun of the Chicago's salute orders were given to lay in and down from aIoft, of life lines and get under way. The navy, revenue and yacht colum then steamed up the North river preserving the same for nation and distsnce as when at anchor.
 When about half mile from her anchor age the Chicago fired a gun as a sig nal to the yacht division to disperse and to the revenue and naval vessels to slow down. The column then anchored together by signal and gun-fre in mid river. with head just below 8 stakeboat off Fifty-6rst street. The yachts on quitting
  of Staten Island and Bay Ridge The ves- sels composing the merchant marine division, as the naval vessels steamed up the North river, formed in line and steamed up the East river, thus making two displays at one time, one in the North river and one in the East river. The first division of the mer- chant marine naval parade was formed in the upper bay with it's right resting at point opposite Burtis' dry dock Red Hook, Brooklyn, eastward of the center ot the channel. The second division of the merchant marine formed on the westward Of the chan- | nel, the right resting abreast of oyster | Island and close to buoy No. and the lee of the line near Bell buoy at Robbins Reef. The two divisions were formed iu double \ column the smaller boats towards the chan ! nel, and in some places tugs were placed ! three or four abreast in order to shorten the | line while lying at rest in the upper bay. After the Despatch had passed the south of the lines of the merchantmen the signal for starting the column was given. Considerable ! confusion was caused at the start by the crowding up of vessels in an attempt to get a | view of the President. After he had been land
 ed at Wall street, however, the merchant ma rine skirted to the eastward about northern
 shore of Governors Island, turned north at | the Brooklyn shore, passed under the sus-
 pension bridge, past the navy yard and New Town creek, to Long Island City, where they turned to the left around stake-boat anchored there, returneu to tno battery DY way of the New York shore. They then
 passed up the North river, saluting with
 colors and whistles the war vessels anchored
 abreast at Thirtieth street. At Fiftieth
 street they turned another stake-boat and
 returned to Governors lsiand, where sa-
 lutes were repeated, and as they were re-
 viewed by Vice Admiral Woolsey. were dis.
 missed.
 THE CENTENNIAL BALL.
 The Metropolitan Opera House was throwr
 open tonight at o'clock for the centennia
 ball. Long before that hour, however
 Broadway and Seventh avenue in the vicinit, of the opera house were literally packed witl |