The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-04-27
SCENE SHIFTED.
New York Harbor Now the Theatre Of
Action In the Columbian
Ceremonies.
Spanish War Vessels and the Column
bus Carayels Anchored In
the Bay.
xhe Fleet Of Warships From the
Rendezvous at Hampton Roads
Also Arrives.

Rendezvous at Hampton K0ads
Also Arrives.
NEW York, April 28.-Sullen gun
Threats of the gathered nayies for days
have sounded with deep, staccato notes,
the strain of Columbian glory over the
Virginia waters southwark. For days
the metropolis has been stirred by the
jubilation and the Fellowship. ,uf> tAe
nations down the coast. Throughout q
fortnight has she heard along the cleo.
trio wires the fanfare and the prelude
of the fetes with which she should
honor the ancient Latin whose name as
q nation we bear.
But the waiting is now ended. On
this day doth the Empire city and the
Empire state take up the Columbian
strain. Now hath the flourish of the
trumpets died out and the great city by
the sea enter upon its
Season Of Pomp and Pageant.
The hour of tasting is here. The hol-
iday is at hand. With the going down
of the days sun the people of the city
and of the state shall work no more
until the fetes be ended.
The vanguard of the nations noble
visitors is here. The caravels of Column
bus ride at anchor in the lower bay.
Towering beside them, grim with pom
derous barbettes and frowing cannon,
are three Spanish-American men-of-
war, as if they had come to advance the
prior claim of the adventurous admiral
to the laurels so long worn for finding
these waters by one Hendrix Hudson.
They are the Santa Maria, the Pinta
and the Nina, the Infanta Isabel, the
Reina Regente and the Neuva Espana,
Side by side in the broad harbor of the
metropolis of the world which Christie
pher Columbus discovered are the ma
vies of old Spain and the navies of new
Spain.
They came came in under cloudless,
moonlit sky,
The Advance Squadron
of the great fleet of modern men-of-war
which are to gather in review on Thurs
day in honor of the great discoverer.
The cruisers and their lows left Fort
ress Monroe on Sunday morning. They
started day earlier than the fleet, SO
that there would be no delay in form
ing the lines of the naval pageant. The
caravels were towed at the rate of
about eight knots an hour. The proto-
types of the craft that came trolling
along behind cruisers, shifted for them
selves in crossing 1000 miles of unex-
plored ocean. The modern caravels
were cared for so tenderly that they
were not permitted to take trip along
the coast without going under the lee
of a man-of-war.
Saluted by the Miantonomoh.
There was another craft lying in the
lower bay as the gray light slowly
broadened to day. It was the low
lying and vicious Miantonomoh. She
was there to bark forth a salute FROM
her monster cannon.
The bells Of the Spanish warships
sounded heavily over the still waters Of
the lower bay as the day grew onward
and there was life evident aboard. The
navy tugs cut loose and, pugnosed and
inquisitiye, circled about as though
anxious to take hold of the strange
craft they were to pull up to the city.
Suddenly the atmosphere shook with
a mighty defamation, and belching,
booming peal of thunder awoke the
Jerseymen ashore and startled the shad
fishermen on the Staten Island shores.
The Miantonomoh had bade the
Spaniards good morning, and the greet
| ing was hearty to the measure of about
200 Pounds Of Powder.
When the official niceties had been
complied with, and when an impu-
| IDENTIFY putting launch had shot about
| the men-of-war for half an hour, the
, navy tugs were signallsd to bear down
upon the caravels, which, as the light
grew stronger, appeared each like a
country barn, with its roof blown out
and its middle blown away, The lines
were taken up, the caraEels tripped
| anchor, and as the white steam shot up
from the tugs pipes, the start was made
citywards.
] Passing up the Narrows, Fort Wads-
/ worth on the port and Fort Hamilton
on the starboard side gave noisy, pom
derous greetings to the clumsy hulls,
/ which by their presence means 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.
Meanwhile the time was approaching
for the first ceremonies of a formal
character marking the great celebra,
ton. Away down on the Highlands o.
the Navesink, looking out upon thu
ocean and up through the Narrows
people were gathering by train and by
4 boat, near the twin lighthouse, in full
view of the Spanish men-of-war ant
the huge Miantonomoh.
Warships Come Into Port.
/ Along the Jersey coast, at Poin
Pleasant, Spring Lake, Belmar, Sci
Bright, Asbury Park, Elberon and Lon.
Branch, hundreds of people were gath
cred on the shores watching to catcl
glimpse of the naval review feet o.
their way to New York from Hampton
Roads. The warships, were from fiji
teen to twenty miles out and could onl.
be seen from the shores with powerful
glasses. The crowds awaiting the al
rival of the feet were greatly disaI
pointed. At 2:SO the squadron slowl
passed Sandy Hook and loud-nouthe
cannon doomed noisy welcome to To
crack fighting ships Of the world
they steamed slowly up the lower ba
and swung into the anchorage, just b.
low the Narrows, near Eost Hamilton
: Fort Lafayette and Fort Wadsworth.
Over the city came the dull echo
cannonading. giving warning that ii
. long expected naval review was now 9
i in earnest; that the ships Of our natio
q and of our guests had safely made e
trip from Hampton Roads and wel
now mere, ready Tor their part r q
! greatest naval 5a San I Of MOI egn time