The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-30
THE ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK.

+ Tie Trip Of the Dispatch and the Review 0
Ships.
NEW YoEz, April 29.-The clocks in tn,
city church steeples had not finished tn,
stroke Of -, midnight, when the carpen
ters were at work on the uncompletet
Stands, and along the avenues and street.
there was . beginning of the adornment o.
Buildings for the day.
IT, arrangements for the naval parad,
I7erSAto-day carried out to the letter. Al
o'clock the steamer Dispatch, having OF
Board Admiral Porter, General Schotielj
: and representative of the cer tennial com
4 nittee, left the foot of East Twenty-sixtt
5treGt and,
4aAY WITH FLUTTERING flags,
teamed down the East river on her trip tc
;Ilizabethport, where she was to meet
President Harrison and party. BY this
ime the harbOr was literally alive with
bailing craft Of every description, and e. G
whistles sounded and the guns doomed ST.
utes as the Dispatch picked her way Gu
Ter course. The genera formation of the
line was a column consisting OF the naval
ivision, revenue division and yacht diviss
on lin the order named), anchored little
loo yards south Of the white buoy north
hast of Ellis island.
The naval division was in single columns
BIO Yards apart, and in the following order
The Chicago, Kearsage, Yantic, Esse' ,
brooklyn, jamestown, Juniata, Yorktoy q
nd Boston.
The revenue yacht division was in double
olumns 100 yards apart and 200 yards be-
Ween the columns, the eastern column
z of q,
NE yacht division included the vessels of
he New York Yacht club, the Atlantic
: ,orinthian, SeaWanhanaka, American and
.archmont clubs. The length of the first
= olumn was about one and half miles. In
Me rear of the first column was the mer-
liant marine division, ten squadrons, in
Ouble columns on opposite sides Of the
7hanneL
THE NAVAL PARADE.
Fas in command OF Admiral Porter. Rear
dmiral Jouett was chief of the stan and
larshal of the day. In the merchant
olarine column were over four hundred yes
els, varying in size from tugs and lighters
the large passenger and freight steamers
& t 8 h., the ships Of the naval division
Tere dressed in rainbow fashion, with the
ag of the secretary of the navy at the
aintop of the Chicago, and the flag of the
imiral OF the navy at the maintop of the
oston. National ensigns wero run to the
BIZ of all the other mastheads
IL was about ll:l5 am. when the start
the Dispatch on her trip up the Kills
as announced by the guns from Fort
Richmond, and it was after 12o'clock when
le came in sight of the upper bay. For
. ,verIa z1inutes the roar of cannon, as she
hsseH the several men-of- war, was almost
safening. Each of these, together with
e forts in the harbor firing a national sa-
te The bay was crowded with small
pats, vessels of every description being
zen. From the distance glimpse of clear
I alter was practically impossible. AS the
I tile war ship emerged FROM the Kill-von.
ILL, the yacht cannon began to boom
nick success iol, the national salute Of
sventy one guns being fired. Soon there
as perfect
ROAR OF CANNON AND CLOUDS or SMOKE
ing over the bay like bank of sea foam.
slches Of fire flashed through the smoke
Re streaks of lightning, giving the scene
7..rid glare. The scene was a stirring one
aintlE saboVe the roar of cannons could
heard the shrill pipe of the boatswain,
q whistles on revenue cutters, yachts
d mee1of-war. In trice the sturdy tars