New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-20
SUNDAY ON THE WARSHIPS
A GREAT MANY VISITORS TO TIE CREWS
LIVELY INTEREST IN THE SQUADRON OF EvoLu-

LIVELY INTEREST N THE SQUADRON OF EvoLU-
TIoN SHOWN BY THE PUBLIC.
The white ships of the Squadron of Evolution,
as they lay in shining line at their anchOrages
in the North River yesterday, were a sight to do
good to American hearts, From the ships to the
shore and back again went pullng-boats manned
by sturdy boys in blue, and officers in citizens
dress and in uniform came and went in them from
morning till night Hundreds of guests, people who
had relatives and friends on the ships in the
wardroOm or before the mast, were passengers also
man from the interior of the country, who never
before had seen an American feet, stood with q
Tribune reporter waiting TO be taken out to one
of the vessels, and as he gazed the beauty and
force of the spectacle grew upon him.
This" exclaimed he, makes one realize that
we have country and Nation with capital
NJ"
For some years the Squadron of Evolution has
been coming in and going out of this harbor, and
there has been no general and popular interest in
whence the ships came and where they were
going The fact that the Naval Reserve is TO be
taken on board these ships for practical instruc-
ton has awakened people to the realization that
q new Navy has been built, and all day yesterday,
not from this city only, but from the neiehbOrinS
cities and towns, people came to see the white
wished to visit the ships of the shining white
feet that several small steamboats, made good
days work of it by ferrying people over
On board the ships everything was clean and
bright as it can be nowhere else except on an
American man-ofwar. Beyond the rushing waters
in which the feet lay at anchor rose the green
Jersey hills towns and villages reaching from
their emerald heights down to the rivers edge,
where long, unlovely piers reached out into the
water and ocean steamships lay. When the sun
set behind the Orange Mountains and the mists
stole up from the sea to meet those which rolled
down from where the broad expanse Of river was
guarded by the towering Palisades the bugles
eounded on board the vessels and the ship visiting
for the day was over. Then, as thc night grew
thicker, the riding lights of the feet shone like
fallen constellation, and still through the gloom
could be seen the long white hulls of the war
vessels.
Tomorrow the members of the Naval Reserve
will have a drill in "cutting out" They will
man boats furnished from the ships of the Squad.
ron of Evolution, and the harmless old Minnesota
will probably be the object of their warlike at
tack 1t was in cutting out" expedition that
Decatur won his first laures in the harbor of
Tripoi. and it was at a dinner given to him after
his return TO this country that he responded to
the toast of "Our Country" by saying, Our
country: In her qualres with foreign nations
may she ever be right; but our country, right or
wrong"
On Thursday the Naval Reserve will be drilled
at arming and equippng boats for distant service,
and in the evening in the use of search lights
and night signals. The squadron and the Naval
Reserve will leave the harbOr on Saturday morn
ing at IL o'clock for Fishers Island, where more
extensive and arluOus drills will take place.