St. Paul daily globe., 1893-04-26
READY FOR THE REVIEW.
The Caravels Taken to the Anchor
age Ground.


NEW YORK, April 24.-The Spanish
caravels ended their long pilgrimage to
New York last night. The Pinta was
the first of the fleet of Columbus to sight
the shores of San Salvador, and from
her deck the coasts of new world were
first seen by the hardy Spanish sailors.
When the three models of the old-time
caravelS Joined the fleet of war vessels
at Hampton Roads it was the new Pinta
which was the first to enter American
waters. The representative of the
Pinta of 1892 was the first of the cara
vels to reach the gates of the metropo-
lis of the new world. She passed Sandy
Hook at 9:45 o'clock last night, in tow
of the white-hulled cruiser Infanta Isa-
bel. The men-of-War towing the Santa
Maria and Nina passed the Hook all
hour or so later. The war vessels
anchored in Gravesend bay, prepar-
atory TO the review. This morn
ing the bells of the Spanish
war ships sounded heavily over the
still waters of the lower bay as the day
grew onward and there was life evident
aboard. Suddenly the atmosphere shook
with mighty detonatiOn. aud belch-
ing, booming peal of thunder awoke the
Jerseymen ashore and startled the shad
fishermen on the Staten island shores.
The Miantonomah had babe the Span
.ards good morning, and the greeting
was hearty to the measure OF about 200
pounds of powder. About 9 o'clock the
lines were taken up, the caravelS
tripped anchor, and the Infanta Isa-
bella, with the caravel Santa Maria in
tow, passed slowly up toward the Mar
rows. Five hundred yards in the rear
was the war ship Reina Regente with
the Nina, which is almost the counter
part of the Santa Maria. The Nueva
Espana, with the Pinta in tow, brought
up the rear.
Passing up the Narrows, Fort Wads-
worth on the port and Fort Hamilton
starboard side gave noisy, ponderous
greeting to the clumsy hulls, which, by
their presence, mean so much. Coming
along the Staten island shores there
were hundreds on the hillsideS with
field glasses and without-all curiously
eager to see the strange craft. Opposite
the quarantine station, whistle blast
rang out in welcome, then another and
a third, from official steam craft an
chored there. Soon ferry boat coming
down from New York caught up the
welcome, and another, pulling out of
her slip, bound to the city with load
of passengers, blew her whistles and
pulled alongside and stayed there
nearly all the way up. The signal had
gone forth over the water and from
over Bay Ridge. and from tugs darting
over the upper bay quick, screeching
whistles were sounded. A little brass
cannon at Ellis island let 90 bang or
two, and on the ramparts Of BedlOe's
island, at the foot of Liberty's goddess.
the dwellers in the barracks there had
come forth to see. The Battery was
black with people as the Pinta,
with her slant lateen sail, and the
Santa Maria and Nina, with their
square rigging, moved up the waters Of
the bay without effort or vOIition. Like
stage ships they seemed. The progress
of the half-dead, half-alive little fleet
could be marked all tle way up the
river to the anchorage. Booming whis-
ties, screaming whistles. hoarse and
throaty-voiced whistles, ferry bells. the
faint sounds of fshouting-these told from
block to block how the caravels pro-
gressed to their anchorage, which will