The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-05-11
THE REVIEW OF SHIPS.
EVENTS OF THE GREAT NAVAL
TOURNAMENT.
President Cleveland Received with Due
Honors-The Fleet in Column
Search Light Drill.

New YORK, April ALTO day &C.
cured the great naval review. The
President was escorted to the Dolphin
by naval aids, accompanied by Mrs.
Cleveland and members of the Cabinet
and their wives. The Duke of Veragua,
the nations specially invited guest, the
lineal descendant of Columbus, followed
the Dolphin in the army boat General
Meigs, and the members of the Diplo-
matte Corps occupied the Coast Survey
steamer Blake.
As soon as the President touched
the deck bang went one of the Dol
phines guns, and the Presidents flag
puffed out from its ball at the mast
head. Then followed one of the most
remarkable sights ever before seen on
the waters of the river or in the harbor.
Each and every one of the many kinds
of the vessels seemed to have gone
wild. They We'd with one another in
trying to make the most noise. From
the big ocean steamer to the smallest
of yachts it was all the same. The
whistles of all continued shrieking and
footing sautes to the foreign ships.
The Dolphin, Concord and Mianto-
nomoh in turn fired the Presidential
salute. The Dolphin forged slowly
ahead, surrounded and followed by big
and little steamers, crowded with men
and women, famous and unknown to
fame, and the great naval review had
begun.
Almost instantly the crews Of the
men of-war all along the line went to
their positions facing the rail and at
the mastheads and tops. The rain
ceased and there were indications that
led the anxious spectators to hope for
the appearance of the sun.
At 1880 the first "boom" of the ten
inch gun on the Miantonomoh an
nounced that the Dolphin, with the
President on board, was passing up be-
tween the two columns of war vessels.
The roar of the Miantonomoh's
twenty-one guns, followed by a salute
from the Brazilian ships Republic and
Tiradentes. Then the Dolphin's reply
to the Brazilians was heard and cloud
of smoke arse over the lower end OF
the line of warships. The Brazilians
manned the yards just before firing ard
long lines of bluejackets stood out
against the white background of smoke.
The Dolphin moved at a slow and
stately gait and the salute Of each ship
was distinct and sharp. The Aqulda.
ban, the flagship Of the Brazilian fleet,
finished saluting at I:4o and the Nueva
Espana took its turn.
At I:44 the Seeadler, of the German
fleet, fired its first gun. She was fol.
lowed a moment later by the Reina
Regente of the starboard column, and
the two ships, one on each side of the
Dolphin, made things hum. The
Kaiserin Augusta joined the chorus,
land echoes rolled up the palisades and
down again until one seemed to hear
a long line of artillery reaching for miles
on the Jersey shore.
The bands Of the ships played
national airs, but it was only at inter
walls between the roar of the guns that
the music could be heard.
The SaluteS of the Van Speyk and
Infanta Isabel ran into each other
Then there was pause for minute
and the Argentine cruiser belched forth
flash that was responded to by the
big guns on the Giovanni Bausan.
1t was 1853 when the Concord spoke
and she spoke 50 rapidly that the salute
was done in two minutes. The 4Htna
paid her respects next. Then after a
short pause, light blue puff arose
above the dynamite tubes on the Vesu.
viuS, and few seconds later there was
a din overhead, as though the sky was
made Of sheet iron and bomb hac
struck it. People along the river from
had not recovered firm their astonish
ment when a sharp tongue of fire sho
out from the side Of the Jean Bart, anC
there was a report that made women
scream and windows rattle along the
river front
At 2 o'clock the Yorktown anC
, Arethusa saluted together, gun for gun
Then there was an interval during
which the bands could be heard play
ing and the cheers of the sailors reached
| shore The Chicago then opened fire
. and a moment latter the Russian Rynd;
/ added her guns to the chorus. The
B ltimore and General Admiral fol
lowed.
At 2:oS the Tartar, the first of the
British ships, saluted, the guns of the
Bancroft and San Francisco going a
the same time. The British Magicien
ne and the Atlanta fired almost stimuli
taneously.
The Dolphin lessened speed as she
= approached the head of the line and
there was an interval between the
firing from the ships. Each vessel be
, gan saluting as the Dolphin's bow came
abreast Ten minutes after she passed
, the jack tars came down from thei
positions on the Crosstrees.
, J 1t was just 2:I2 O'Clock as England,
crack cruiser, the Blake, fired hel
heaviest gun. There was big puff Of
smoke and deep boom, entirely diff
ferent from the sharp sounds of the
guns of the smaller vessels The
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