The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1892-10-14

Thomas j. Brown and ex-Oficio Mayor
Hugh j. Grant, General Horace Porter,
William Sulzer, j. II. v. Arnold,
Charles q. f. Wahle, Jr. 6..,
Their invited guests included Vice
President Morton, Secretary Charles
Foster, Of the treasury; Secretary Tracy
and Assistant Secretary Soley, of the
navy; Governor Flower and his personal
staff, and other dignitaries.
The steamers Sam Sloan, Mattawan
and Mohawk, having on board the COM
mittee of one hundred and its numerous
guests, left the foot of Leroy street
about the same time and steamed down
the day.
Revolved Around Foreigners.
The parade centered and revolved
around the foreign naval visitors, the
warships of France, Italy and Spain.
They had been lying anchored for sew
eral days in the Hudson river, in the
neighborhood of Twenty-third street.
Some time in the early morning they
got up steam, weighed anchor, and
dropped down the river to the point of
reception in Gravesend bay, and there
anchored to await events. These vessels
were the Arthusa, the flagship of the
French Atlantic squadron, which, by
virtue of its rank, led the way; the
Hussard, another French gunboat, the
Italian cruiser, Giovanni Bausan, and
the Spanish man-of-war Infanta Isabel.
None of them is especially specimen of
the model improved warsliip. Their
presence was matter of sentiment. not
display of moral force.
Escort for the Visitors.
Waiting in attendance on the foreign
visitors at the reception point. prepared
to escort them up the river, was the
United States squadron, commanded by
Commodore Erben, U. s. NJ, consisting
of the flagship Philadelphia, the ar
mored cruiser Miantonomah, the dis
patch boats Atlanta and Dolphin, the
dynamite gunboat Vesuvius, the coast
survey steamer Bleke. the revenue cut
ters Grant and Dexter, and the light
house steamer Armenia, together with
the torhedo boat Gushing, assigned for
the use of the director of the parade,
S. Nicholson Kane.
Down in the lower 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.
The escorting feet was composed of two
squadrons, each of ten divisions, in
charge of senior officers and numbering
over one hundred vessels in each squad
ron. The starboard column formed to
the eastward of the center of the chan
mel with its right resting at point op-
posite the dry dock, Brooklyn. The
port column formed to the westward of
the center of the channsl, its light rest
ing at point abreast of Oyster island,
The signal to Start.
At 1890 the signal to stalt'was given
and the column formed. First came the
naval militia of the state of New York,
under the command Of j. w. Miller,
consisting of tugs of the Pennsylvania
and Erie railroad, of the Bee Line and
the New York Lighterage company.
These, divided into four squadrons,
formed the patrol line of the parade.
Every tug as it fell into line sounded its
shrill whistle, and the deep voiced fog
signals of the larger steamers beloved
responses. These were but the police
to clear the way. The swiftly darting
through the water came torpedo boat
Gushing, the flagship of the parade.
Commodore S. N. Kane on board, and
its three attendant vidette bouts, the
steam yachts Aid, Allrgra and Halvetia.
Next in order was the steamer Howard
Carroll with the distinguished guests of
the naval committee. Then the visiting
warships and the United States naval
squadron escorting them at the rate OF
about seven knots, with the visitors in