Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-10-12
GRAND NAVAL REVIEW
The Second Days Feature
in New York.
DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS.
Beautiful Scenes Along the Route ol
the Parade of Catholics.

| stration was one Of the features Of the
celebration yesterday. The start was
made AT 1880 from the lower bay. The
| Philadelphia was the flagship, and headed
! the column rs the fleet advanced up the
! bay on the starboard side. There were
three columns in the line as they came up
the bay and North river. and the distance
between the columns was 800 yards In
the center column the foreign ships Of war
! came under escort
| The Narro VS. were entered about half an
hour later. aud a salute Of twenty-one guns
WAS fired from the ships and the forts on
the S tsten island and Long sland shores.
The torpedo boat Gushing foated
blue pennaut with white star. This
showed that Naval Director Nicholson
was on IT,
The Philadelphia led the ships OF war.
| Then cam the following: United
States steamship Mantonomoh, Captain
Montgomery Sicard; United States steam
| ship Atlanta, Captain +. ). Higgnson;
| United States steamship Dolphin, Com
mander w. s. Brownson; United States
steamship Vesuvius, Lieutenant Seaton
Schroeder: French flagship Arethuse;
Italian cruiser Rausna; Spanish cruiser
Infanta Yzabel; United States steam
| ship Cushing, Lieutenant Cameron Wins
| low; naval militia state OF New York,
Commander Miller; municipal vessels,
city of New York: steam yachts; eight
| divisions of merchant vessels; escorting
feet Of eight cruisers.
The feet OF the naval reserve consisted
Of sixteen tugs, divided into four squad.
| rons.
On passing Battery park second salute
was fired by the vessels in the squadron,
! which then proceeded up the North river
TO One HUNDRED and Twenty-first street
where the ships anchored. When the
mayor and his guests passed the men-of-
war in their boat, a national salute Of
twenty-one guns WAS fired
A Fitting Climax
to this most successful pageant was the
scene at the turning point at Riverside.
| This was natures own amphitheatre. The
| sloping hillsdes gave everyone an unin
terrupted view of the display. The veal
thy, whose costly equipages blocked the
carriage way, had no advantage over the
| poorest citizen who could Chamber up n
| hill or scramble down the rocks to the
waters edge, and many thousands Of them
did 40. 1t was 3 p. IN. when the Philsdel-
| pha, preceded by cloud of tugs and
| pleasure boats, slowed down In front OF
Riverside with the foreign warshlps and
the rest of the naval escort well In line.
The tide was beginning to turn and the
gaily bedecked s,els swung around at
will and engaged in all kinds of naval
''horse play" while waiting the signal
for the parting salute. The three fire
patrol boats spouted geysers In the air
and treated passengers on the upper
decks of the crowded excursion boats with
impromptu shower baths with the utmost
impartality. One OF the railroad ferry
| boats, its decks and sides 40 blackened
with passengers that it looked like the
| Merrimac reconstructed. gravely took ad-
vantage OF this resemblance and usurped
the place of the Santa Isabel amid de-
risive toots.
At $3.50 p. M the naval committee's boat,
with the vice president, Governor Flower
and its other distinguished guests aboard,
turned the buoy and passed the warships
on its homeward trip, Then the signal To
salute WAS given, and the Columbian
naval pageant closed with tho echoes OF
the great guns reveberating round the
tomb of the silent Grant.
A sight fully as interesting rs that OF
the vessels in line was presented by the
|
On the shore.
Every point Of vantage from the waters
edge to the top OF the tallest buildings
was occupied by people who had waited
for hours for the head of the column of
boats to appear. When the procession
moved up the river there were ten miles
OF humanity on the shore. Our foreign
visitors on the men D-of-war saw more peo-
pie at one time than they credited this
country with possessing. From the Bat
! tery To Harlem was one mass OF human
| Ity The Battery itself was a sea OF heads,
those ia the rear trying In vain TO peer
over the thousands in front Every pier
along the North river was black with peo-
pie, and the windows, balconies and roofs
OF all buildings that commanded y view Of
/ the river were crowded.
! Improvised seats were arranged on
roofs, and people climbed TO the tops OF
chimneys to get better view. West street
was blocked with the crowds all the af-
ternoon. and very little shipping was done
from the piers on that side OF the town.
| The Jersey City and Hoboken ferryboats
carried all they could hold, and the bulk
Of the passengers merely rode back and
forth to see the show. At the uptown
piers, scows and unused vessels were taken
possession OF by the crowd, and boys
climbed into the rigging OF vessels
The Display Of Fireworks
from the Brooklyn bridge last evening
] b. gan nj half past eight o'clock The big
span was one immense arch OF fire. The
| East river front and the streets from
! Broadway TO the river were crowded with
men, women and children, all looking
! toward the bridge and all seeking some
! point of vantage from which to view the
! pyrotechnic display.
Exactly at s:3O the bridge having been
closed to traffic, small Niagara Of fire,
accompanied by the explosion of innumer-
able bombs, was let loose from the bridge
and fell in sheet Of liquid ire l40 feet TO
the river below Then, with another roar
| Of bombs, each tower becams ~ mass Of
| light. surrounded by immense suns Of
rainbow colors. which shed a radiance over
the river aud far below the sister cities
! A moment of darkness, and then far up
In the air ssprsl of flame seemed TO be
mounting toward the stars IL burst, and
there hung q lantern of many colors, wav-
ing lszily in the still atmosphere, hut
moving not from its position directly over
the bridge Again and Again were small