Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-12
NAVAL PARADE.
Third Day Of New YOrk's Co.
lumbian Celebration.
Business Practically Suspended
For a Day.

pate In the Parade-France, Italy and
Spain Take Part-The Day All That
Could BE Wished For-Greatest Naval
Procession Ever Seen There.
NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-Eew York COM
menced Tuesday to pay tribute 30 the
memory of Columbus The vast bust
ness of the second seaport of the world
was practically suspended, and more
than three hundred steamers and tug
boats, the small set Of them larger than
the seventy five ton SantaI Maria, the fifty
ton Pinta or the forty-ton Nina in which
the great discoverer and his companions
made their adventurous voyage, dropped
their ordinary avocations, and formed in
majestic holiday parade to do him honor.
If New York has registered silent vow
to show the world what it could have
done if the worlds Columbian fair had
been permitted to be held here-as the
extraordinary enthusiasm and energy
which all classes of the community have
thrown into this weeks Columbian cele-
bration suggests-New York has thor
oughly succeeded in carrying out its
purpose.
With every favoring condition of skies
and weather, with the crisp, clear air of
the early fall bringing out in sharp out
line every object on dancing waters and
along the shores OF New York's match
less bay and harbor, the naval pageant
was a spectacle to be once seen and al
ways remembered. Not even the ia
nous roadstead of acknowledgements
great naval reviewing ground-with all
its surrounding panorama of beautiful
scenery, could surpass it. From the
green heights of Fort Wadsworth, on
the western shore Mt the entrance 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 the
grassy slopes of Riverside, afar up the
Hudson, the scene was one of marvel
GUS life and beauty.
And all New York was there to see it.
Every one of the go steamers, tugs and
yachts forming the escorting fleet, as
well as each of the vessels composing
the naval militia, was crowded with
guests. All the pointsrof view in the
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the upper stories and roofs of ah the
great buildings in the city, and both
shores of the Hudson were thronged
with spectators.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the steam tug
Howard Carroll left the barge office
having on board the committee on naval
parade, and there distinguished guests
The parade conferred and reviewed
about the foreign and naval visitors, the
warships Of France, Italy and Spain.
These vessels were the Arethusa, the
flagship of the French Atlantic squad
ron, which by virtue of its rank led the
way; the Hussard, another French gun
boat; the Italian cruiser Giovanni Bau-
san, and the Spanish man-6f war Infaita
Isabella. None of them is especially q
| specimen of the modern improved war
ship. Their presence was a matter of
sentiment, not display of moral force.
The Arethusa is a fullrigged iron frig-
ate, unarinored, of about 3.400 tons,
carrying twenty-four guns. She has one
smokestack, has black hull standing
high out of the water, and somewhat
resembles the old United States steamer
Minnesota. The Arethusa bears the
flag of Rear Admiral Delebrune.
The Hussard is a smaller boat, bark
|'rigged, and of the class known as a de-
spatch boat. She has white hull and
four large guns and six revolving guns.
The Bausan in twin-screw armored
steam steel cruiser, with gun turrets
fore and aft, lying low in the water,
and bearing some resemblance to the
Boston, only that her hall is painted a
| bark rugged steel vessel, painted white
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thing like the Chicago.
Waiting in attendance on the foreign
visitors at the reception point, prepared to
escort them up the river, were the
United States squadron, commanded by
Commodore Erben, y. S. N, consisting
of the flagship Philadelphia. the armored
cruiser Miantonomah, the dispatch boats
Atlanta and Dolphin. the dynamite gun
boat Vesuvius, the coast survey steamer
Blake, the revenue cutters Grant and
Dexter, and the lighthouse steamer Ar
menia, together with the torpedo boat
Cushing, assigned for the use of the di-
rector of the parade S. Nicholson Kane.
Thus they lay waiting for the start:
French flagship LArethuse, fanked by
the United States steamer Miantono-
mob. Captain Montgomery Sincard, u.
s. N, and the United States flagship
Philadelphia, Captain Albert S. Barker,
u. S. N.
Foreign gunboat Huzzard. fianked by
the coast survey steamer Blake, Lieu
tenant C. S. Vreeland, U. S. N, and the
United States steamer Vesuvius, Lieu
tenant Seaton Shredder, y. S. N.
Italian cruiser Bausan, tlanked by
revenue steamer Grant, Captain Thomas
Smith, u. S. n.
Spanish cruiser Infanta Isabella,
flanked by the lighthouse steamer Ar
menia and revenue steamer Dexter.
Captain ]. A Slam, q. S. X. NJ, and
the United States steamer Cushing,
Lieutenant c. MGR. Winslow, q. S. n.
Down in the upper bay. just north of
the narrows, lay two long lines OF
anchored vessels $50 or more of the
pick of New York's merchant marines,
, which were TO compose the escorting
feet.
il The esrQrtiug feet was cSplpCsed Ct
two Aluadrons, each of ten divisions. In