The state capital., 1892-10-15
COMMERCE'S TRIBUTE.
Grand Maritime Pageant in Honor
Of Columbus.
New York Harbor Presents Sight Rival
ling the Most Brilliant Ever Seen
at Spithead--Four Hundred
Vessels I'm Line.


New YoRts, Oct f2:-New forff cairi-
fiietce paid its tribute to the memory
of Columbus. Tie. vast business of the
second seaport of the world was prae-
tically suspended, and more than 500
steamers and tug boats, the smallest
of them larger than the seventy-fve-
ton Santa Maria," the fifty-ton
'Pinta," or tne forty-ton Nina" in
which the great discoverer and his
companions made their adventurous
voyage, dropped their ordinary avoca-
tions 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 cFerv object of the dane
ing waters, aud along the shores of
New York's matchless bag and harbor,
the laval pageant was Il 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
Il e 40 e., 1,a
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
roll, chairman; VIM. c. Whitney, Ed
ward Schram. Schuyler Crossman, ii.
S. Nicholson Gen. Martin r. Mcmahon,
Charles II. Raymond, Edward V. Skin
ner, John II. Starrin, VIM. c. Wickham.
James w. Tappin, Thos. J. Brown and,
ex-officio Mayor Hugh j. Grant, Gen.
Horace Porter, VIM. Sulzer, j. Ii. Y.
Arnold, Charles C. L. Wahle. Jr.
Their invited guests included Vice
President Morton, Secretaries Charles
Foster of the treasury. Secretary Tracy
navy, Gov. Flower and his personal
staff and other dignitaries.
The steamers Sam Sloan, Matawan
| and Mohawk, having on board the com
mittee of one hundred and its nrfncr-
Gus guests. left the foot of Leroy
! street about he same time and steamed
| down the bay. The parade centered
and revolved around the foreign naval
visitors, the war ships of France, Italy
and Spain. They had been anchored
for several days in the Huds IN 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
the flagship of the French At,
Iantic squadron. which by virtue
of its rank led the way; tho
I x 80 a lassss 4l,s
Italian cruiser Giovanni Bausan, ant
the Spanish man-of-war Infanta Isabel
None of them is especially specimen
of the modern-improved war-ship
Their presence was matter o
sentiment; not display of mora
force The Arethusa is full-rigget
iron frigate, unarmored. of about 3 ,40l
tons, carrying twenty-four guns. She
has no smokestack, has a blacl
hull, standing high out of the water
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States steamer Minnesota. The Are
thusa bears the flag of Rear-Admira
de la Brun. The Hussard is smaller
boat, bark rugged, and of the clas
known as dispatch boat. She has
white hull and graceful lines, and ear
ries four large guns and six revolving
guns. The Bausan is twin-screv
armored steam steel cruiser, with gu1
turrets fore and aft, lying low in tn,
water and bearing some rescmblanc,
to the Boston, only that her hull il
painted a dark color and not white
The Spanish man. of-war Infanta Isabe
is a barls-rigged steel vessel, painted
white, and carries her four heav,
guns something like the Chi
cago. Waiting in attendance OF
the foreign visitors at the re
ception point, prepared to escor
them in the river, were the United
States squadron. commanded by Com
modore Erben, L. S. N. consisting o
the flagship Philadelphia, the armoret
cruiser Miantonomah, the dispatcl
boats Atlanta and Dolphin, the dypam
ite gun-boat Vesuvius the coast sur
yey steamer Blake, the revenue cutter:
Grant and Dexter and the Lighthouse
steamer Armenia, together with tht
torpedo boat Gushing, assigned
for the use of the director 0
the parade, S. Nicholson Kane
Thus they lay waiting for the start
French flagship fArethune, flanked b,
the United States steamer Miantono
nah, Montgomery Sickard, L. S. n.
and the United States flagship Phila
delphia, Capt. Albert A. S. Barker, Z
S. N. French gunboat IIussard, fanlze'
by the coast survey steamer Blake
Lieut.. c. S. Vecelan1. L. S. N, an,
the United States steamer Vesuvius
Lieut.. Seaton Shredder, Z.
n. Italian cruiser Bausan. hanke'
by revenue steamer Grant, Capt
Thomas Smith, L. S. N: Spanisl
cruiser Infanta Isabel, f1anked by tn
lighthouse steamer Armenia and rev
enue steamer Dexter, Capt. J. A. STAN
L. S. r. NJ, and the United State
steamer Cushing, Lieut. c. McR. Win
slow. L. S. n.
Down the upper bay. just north o
the Narrows, lay two long lines of an
chored vessels, $50 or more, of the picl
of New York's merchant marine, which
were to compose the escorting fleet
The escorting feet was composed
i of two squadrons, each of ter
divisions, in charge of senio
officers, ard numbering over 10