Evening journal., 1892-10-11
MANY SHIPS IN LINE.
Boats of All Kinds and Condi-
tions Honor Columbus.
A PRETENTIOUs WATER PARADE.


The Third Day of New York's Columbus
Celebration Exercises witnesses an
Auspicious Naval DispIay-Three Hun
dred Vessels in Line Distinguished
Guests Present Foreign warships as
Guests.
GBy Telegraph to the Evening JournaLl
New YORK, Oct. 1t.-New York com
merce today paid tribute to the memory
Of Columbus The vast business of the |
second seaport of the world was prac.
tically suspended aud more than three |
hundred steamers aud tugboats, the |
smallest OF them larger than the 70 ton |
Santa Maria the 80 ton Pinta or the 40 |
ton Nina in which the great discoverer
and his companions made their adven-
turous voyage, dropped their ordinary
avocations, and formed in majestic holi-
day parade to do him honor.
If New York has registered a silent
vow to show the world what il could
have done if the Worlds Columbi an
Fair had been permitted TO be held here
!
energy which all classes Of the commu-
nifty have thrown into this wee S Col
umbian celebration suggests-New York
has thoroughly succeeded in carrying
out its purpose
With every favoring condition Of skies
aud weather, with the crisp clear air of
! the early fall bringing out in sharp out
/ line every object on the dancing waters
? and along the shores of New York's
matchless bay and harbor, the naval
pageant of today was spectacle to be
once seen and always remembered. Not
even the famous roadstead Of Spithead-
2 England's great naval reviewing ground
t with all its surrounding panorama OF
. beautiful scenery, could surpass it.
From the green heights of Fort Wads-
worth on the western shore at the en-
trance to the Narrows, eastward to the
shoals Of Rockaway and the sandy reaches
of the Hook, southwark to the highlands
of the Navesink, and northward to the
dim blue outlines of the Palisades and
grassy slopes Of Riverside afar up the
Hudson, the scene was one Of marvellous
life and beauty.
And all New York was there to see t.
Every one of the $50 steamers and yachts
forming the escorting fleet, as we'll as
each of the vessels composing the naval
r militia, was crowded with guests. New
p York became for the nonce a city on the
sea. All the points of view in the har-
Dor and along the bay, Liberty Island,
Staten Island, Governors Island, the
C upper stories and roofs of all the great
% buildings in the city and both shores Of
the Hudson were thronged with specta-
tors.
n Dignitaries Present.
N Shortly after 10 o'clock the steam tug
'r Howard Carroll left the barge office, hav
ing on board the committee on naval
n parade and their distinguished guests.
II The committee consisted OF Howard Car.
d roll, chairman; William c. Whitney,
( Henry S. Cram, j. Schuyler Crosby, L.
S f. Fechtman, J. w. j. Hurst, S Nichol
II son Kane, General Martin T. Mcmahon
IS Charles H. Raymond, Edward " skinner
d John II. Starin, William H. Wickham
al James w. Tappin, Thomas J. Brown
a and ex-officio, Mayor Hugh J. Grant
General Horace Porter, William Sulzer
10 J. II. V. Arnold, Charles g. f. Wahle. Jr
d Their invited guests included Vice
a President Morton, Secretaries Charle
l. Foster of the treasury, Tracey and As
sistant Secretary Soley Of the navy
Governor Flower and his personal stat
Il and other dignitaries. The steamers San
Sloan, Mattawan and Mohawk, having
o. on board the committee Of one hundred
st and its numerous guests, left the foot o
Leroy street about the same time AM
steamed down the bay.
ID Foreign warships as Guests.
ry The parade centred and revolve
Is round the foreign naval visitors, tn
st warships of France, Italy and Spain
| rrl,.r 1,,I Laa 1rstpfr aurhnraa fnr
All eral DAYS in the Hudson river in tn
al neighborhosd Of Twenty street
'al Some time in the early morning they go
lal up steam, weighed anchor and droppe
to down the river TO the point of receptio
in Gravesend bay, and there anchored q
+. await events The vessels were tn
l.. Arethusa, the flagship Of the French AT
lal lautic squadron; the Hussard, anothe
re- French gunboat; the Italian cruiser
OF Giovanni Bausan and the Spanish man
ell, of-war, Iufanta Isabel None Of them
a specimen of the improved warship.
n Wa ting in attendance on the foreig
u, visitors at the reception point, prepare
to escort them up the river, was Oh
ne United States squadron, commanded b
rs Commodore Erbe, u. s. N, cOnsistin
of the flagship Philadelphia, the armore
cruiser MiantonOmah, the despatc
Dndlo ANAduld anu AtuAlAlhf bh' ieHit'
nd gunboat Vesuvius the coast surve
.he steamer Blake, tho revenue cutter
on Grant asd Dexter, and the light hous
nst steamer Armenia, together with the to-
m pedo boat Cushing, assigned for II
ed use Of the director Of the parade
Nicholson Kane.
rm Down in the upper bay, just north
tbe the Narrows lay two long lines Of al
of chored vessels, $50 or more of the pic
of New Yorks merchant marines, whiC
were to compose the escorting fleet.
>S An AuspiciOus Start.
Ills At 1890 the signal to start was give
and the column formed. First came Il
naval militia OF the state Of New YOr
under the command Of J. Miller, co
~ sisting of the tugs of the Pennsylvan
- and Erie railroads. OF the Bee Transpo
uu- tation line and Of the New York Ligh
'ns erage company. These divided into fo
- squadrons formed the patrol line Of &
dut paroda Evprv fur as IL fell into li