Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-05-05
I'm COLUMBUS HONOR.
THE NAVIES OF MANY NATIONS
REPRESENTED
In the Big Naval Review I'm New York
Harbor-President Cleveland Re-
celves Foreign AdmiraIs.


Harbor-President Cleveland Re-
celves Foreign Admirals.
The morning for the great naval
spectacular in Hudson river was cold
and rainy. The decorations through
out New York City hung limp and wet
and cold wind drove the rain in hori-
zontal sheets into the faces of the
thousands of people who congregated
in the many points of vantage. At
a. IN. the men-of-war hoisted their
colors and bunting, at the same time
firing salute. Nothing of importance
occurred until 1:15 in the afternoon.
At that time President Cleveland, Mrs.
Cleveland, Secretary Gresham, Secre.
! tary Lamont and wife, Secretary Smith,
Secretary Morton, Postmaster-Gener
Bissell and wife, Acknowledgement
Olney, Thomas L. Bayard and wife,
Private Secretary Thurber and Lieut..
Wood stepped on a small launch bear
ing the Presidents flag and was soon
speeding away to the u. 5. cruiser
Dolphin, and the party climbed up the
stairway, Mrs. Cleveland in advance.
As soon as the President touched the
deck bang went one of the Dolphin's
guns and the Presidents flag pulled
out from its ball at the masthead.
Then began screeching of whistles
from all sorts of crafts, while the
Dolphin, Concord and Miantonomoh
| fired in turn the presidential salute.
The Dolphin forged slowly ahead, sur
rounded and followed by big and little
steamers, and the great naval review
had begun.
The Dolphin was followed by the
British cruiser Blake and the Milan
tonomoh and as they started between
the two lines of vessels the signal
salute was fired by the Miantonomoh.
The vessels had been arranged in two
lines-4OO yards between the yes
sells and 500 yards between the lines,
which were over three miles long. As
the Dolphin steamed past the vessels
saluted the President, the first being
the Brazilian ships Republica, Tira-
denies and Aquidaban. Then followed
the guns of the Spaniard, Neuva
Espana and Infanta Isabel; the Ger
man, Seeadler; the Spaniard, Reina
| Regente the German, Kaiserin Au-
gusta; Dutch, Van SpeyS; Argentine,
Nueve de Julio; Italian, Giovanni Bau-
san; and on the New Jersey side salutes
were belched forth by the u. 5. war
ships in the order named: The Con-
cord, Vesuvius, Yorktown, Chicago,
Baltimore, San Francisco, Atlanta and
the Philadelphia. On the New York
side the salutes were the Italian, Etna;
French, Jean Bart and Arethuse; Rus
sian Rynda and Dmitri Donskoi; Brit
| ish, Tartar, Bancroft, Magicienne and
the Blake The queer Columbus cara
walls Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria were
anchored at the head of the line and
here the presidential procession ended,
but the thousands of pleasure and mer-
chant vessels took up the salute and
the screeching of whistles was as deaf
ening as the boom of the 1000 cannon.
When the Dolphin reached the end
of the line she dropped anchor and
made preparations to receive the com
handing officers of the foreign squad
rons, who were presented to the Presi-
dent by their respective ministers.
| Duly attired in full ceremonial uniform
with cooked hats and swords, the dis
tinguished officers entered their barges
| and pulled off for the presidential yacht.
Sir John o. Hopkins, the British adj
miral, was first received. He was pre-
scented by Sir Julian Pauncefote, the
British ambassador Next came Vice
Admiral Koznakoff, the Russian adj
miral, who was introduced by Prince
| Contacuzene, the Russian minister.
Rear Admiral de Libran, of France,
was presented by Mr.. Patenotre,
the French ambassador. Then fol-
lowed Rear Admiral Magnagni, of
Italy, for whom Baron Fava did the
| honors. The Spanish admiral, Senior V
Lono, though an invalid, did not fail
to pay this ceremonial mark of respect
to the chief executive and was followed
| by Rear Admiral Howard, of Argen-
tine, Rear-Admiral No~hona of the
| Brazilian fleet and the blonde-haired
and blue-eyed captains of the German
and Dutch steamers. These visits
formed one of the most interesting
! features of the day.
When the President was preparing
| to land, an admonitory signal was
given som the Dolphin, and as he left
/ the vessel every vessel in the feet again
manned yards and rails, and once more
| fired salute of Fl guns. Then
the Presidents flag was lowered from
the Dolphin and the public ceremonies
of the day were considered over.
After the presidential review was
over thousands of excursion steamers
and private tugs and yachts broke
through the Gordon that had been eX-
tended around the big fleet during the
formal ceremonies. When the smoke
cleared away they were amply re-
warded for their long wait by the mag
nifcent spectacle. The hagships of
the squadrons courteously returned the
| innumerable salutes rendered by the
private steamers and their officers
seemed to heartily appreciate the in
terest their appearance created.