Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-10-20
COMMERCE'S TRIBUTE.
Grand Maritime Pageant in Honor
of Columbus.
View York Harbor Presents q Sight Rival
Hing the Most Brilliant Ever Seen
at Spithead-Four Hundred
Vessels in Line,

NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-New York com
'1nerce paid its tribute to the memory
OF Columbus. The vast business of the
second seaport of the world was prac.
ficaiiy suspended, and more than SOC
steamers and tug boats, the smalles.
OF them larger than the seventy five.
Hou Santa 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 avoca-
rtiens and formed in majestic holiday
parade to do him honor
With every favoring condition OF
skies and weather, with the crisp, clear
;air of the early fall bringing out in
sharp outline every object of the dane
ing waters, and along the shores OF
New Works matchless bay and harbor,
the naval pageant was spectacle to
be once seen and always remembered.
Not even the famous roadstead of Spit
head. England's great naval reviewing
ground, with all the surrounding
panorama of beautiful scenery,
could surpass it. From the green
heights of Fort Wentworth on the
western shore at the entrance to the
Narrows, eastward to the shores 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
marvellous life and beauty.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the steam tug
Howard Carroll left the barge office.
having on board the committee on naval
parade and their distinguished guests
The committee consists of Edward Car
roil, chairman; VIM. C. Whitney, Ed
ward Schram, Schuyler Crossman, II.
s. Nicholson. Gen. Martin T. Mcmahon
Charles H. Raymond, Edward V. Skin
rer. John Fl. Starrin. VIM. C. Wickham
James w. Tappin, Thos. j. Brown and.
ex-officio Mayor Hugh ]. Grant. Gen
Horace Porter. VIM. Sulzer. J. Ii. V
Arnold. Charles c. T. Wahle. Jr
Their invited guests included Vice
President Morton, Secretaries Charles
Foster of the treasury. Secretary Tracy
and Assistant Secretary Solely of the
navy. Gov. Flower and his personal
staff and other dignitaries.
The steamers Sam Sloan. Matawan
and Mohawk, having on board the COM
mltfee of one hundred and its numer-
Gus guests. left the foot of LEROY
street about the same time and steamed
down the bay. The parade conferred
and revolved around the foreign naval
visitors, the war ships of France, Italy
and Spain. They had been anchored
for several days in the Hudson river in
the neighborhood of Twenty-third
street Sometime 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 Arethusa,
tt,e flagship of the French At
iantic squadron, which by virtue
Of its rank led the way; the
Husssard, another French gunboat; the
Italian cruiser Giovanni Bausan, and
the Spanish man-of-war Infanta Isabel
None of them is especially specimen
of the modern-improved war-ship.
Their presence was matter of
sentiment; not display of moral
force The Arethusa is fu1l-rigged
iron frigate, unarmored. of about ], 400
tons carrying twenty-four guns. She
has no smokestack. has a black
hull, standing high out of the water.
and somewhat resembles the old United
States steamer Minnesota. The Are
thusa bears the flag of Rear-Admiral
de la Brun. The Hussard is a smaller
BOAT, bark rugged, and of the class
INnervn as dispatch boat. She has
white hull and graceful lines, and car
rrles four large guns and six revolving
gums The Bausan is a twin-screw
arrnored steam steel cruiser, with gun
turrets fore and aft, lying low in the
water and bearing some resemblance
to the Boston, only that her hull is
painted a dark color and not white
The Spanish man. of-war Infanta Isabel
rs bark-rigged steel vessel, painted
white, and carries her four heavy
guns something like the Chi
czg0- Waiting in attendance on
the foreign visitors at the re-
E.ytion point, prepared to escort
them IN the river, were the United
States squadron. commanded by Com
rnodore Erben. U. S. N, consisting of
the flagship Philadelphia, the armored
boats Atlanta and Dolphin, the dynam-
ste gun-boat Vesuvius. the coast sur
zey steamer Blake, the revenue cutters
Grant and Dexter and the lighthouse
steamer Armenia, together with the
torpedo boat Cushing, assigned
flor the use of the director of
tho parade, S. Nicholson Kane.
Thus they lay waiting for the start:
French flagship rArethune, thanked by
the United States steamer Miantono-
NAH, Montgomery Sickard, U. S. N,
=xnd the United States flagship Phila-
.dclphia, Capt. Albert A. S. Barker, U.
s N. French gunboat IIussard, flanked
by the coast survey steamer Blake,
Lieut.. c. s. Veceland, U. S. N, and
the United States steamer Vesuvius,
Lieut. Seaton Shredder, e. s.
N. Italian cruiser Bausan, flanked
by revenue steamer Grant, Capt
Thomas Smith. U. s. N; Spanish
cruiser Infanta Isabel, thanked by the
lighthouse steamer Armenia and rev.
cuue steamer Dexter, Capt. j. A. Siam,
u. S. R. NJ, and the United States
: steamer Cushing, Lieut. G. MGR. Win
. slow, U. S. N.
Down the upper bay, just north of
the Narrows, lay two long lines of an
+, chored vessels, $50 or more, of the pick
of New York's merchant marine, which
were to compose the escorting fleet.
The escorting feet was composed
of two squadrons, each of ten
divisions, in charge of senior