Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-21
STILL THE CANNON BOOM
Italy Adds Another to the
 Columbian Fleet.
EUROPEAN POLITICS IN THE ROADS

Description of the Latest Arrival--suoh
 Scenes Getting to be Common Now
 Those Who Participate in the Naval
 Parade.
 FoRr MONROE, Va April 21.-The town and harbor are gradually recovering from the storm of yesterday. The decks of the great ships are fairly alive with the sailors clearing and frightening up, and sooh things will be as gay as before.
 Although the arrival of fo reign ships has become thing of common occurrences. there was nasty exodus from the hotel lobby when the booming of cannon an nounced that new vessel was in the harbor
 She flew the familiar dag of Italy from the stern and was speedily Identified as the Etna, c protected s:raiser, not as large as the Chicago or the Philadelphia, but inter- esting from the fact that her 10-inch guns are larger even than the great weapous which the Blake carries.
 Thera was mora than the usual commo- tion as she came to anchor. At her main small blue flag stood out stiff1y in the gale, the silent signal that rear Admiral was on board. Everybody had to salute him. The guns beloved with more noise than usual, for the long, low black cloud that acted as Q background to the ships, echoed and re-cchoed the thunderous sound like great sounding board.
 It was noticeable to observers that the German man-Of-war, the Kaiserin Au- gusta, began to salute when the Etna was still within mile of her anchorage. This little incident has caused as much gossip here as did the o6tentatiousness with which the Russians boarded the Jean Bart. It seems strange to see European politics playing a part in the peaceful waters of the United States, but 1t was quite evil dent that the shrewd Germans did not intend to lose even this opportunity of testifying their regard for the Italian na- tion. &
 It was with many apologies that Capt. Sartoris and Commander Aubry welcomed visitors. "We are deerty" said the com mander, struggling with his English s'we have had so-what you call it-so rough voyage" She came here from Spezia, Italy's naval port, and travelling by the northern passage ran into a cyclone On the after deck the band was playing with all the ardor of their music loving souls. They were practicing. l
 Every ship that comes into the harbor from foreign country has some inter esting peculiarity. The Italian was nc 6ACepIIOu CO Cuo Eu1c A1 WaS COnSoENd- lory aft. r-.
 The hatchways that led down to the Admiral's quarters were hedged by a miniature garden, in which was an attract i've array offoliage plants, and which seemed to have survived the heavy seas. ~@ The Admirals cabin was fragrant with the perfume of enormous punches Of Der muda lilies, tall and white as on the day when they were gathered.
 Another characteristic of the Italian fl it's lack of marines. There are no marines in the Italian navy. When occasion ar rives to honor a visiting officer the boat swain with his shrill but not unmusical whistle pipes to his side dozen seamen, who carry carbines which are very unique. The men were bundled up in their brown canvass coats and trousers, and if they had only been little more genteel iu their looks, might have been taken for a com pany of brownies drifted in from the sea.
 The Etna, flagship, is a steel protected
 cruiser, and was completed in 1883, and i' a good deal like our Boston. She has two
 military masts, is 2S3 feet long, 19 1-6 feet drawn, 3,530 tons displacement, 7,50( horse power, and has a speed of 17 l.: knots. She has IS officers and 296 men Her armament consists of two 10-inch anG six 6-inch breech-loading rifles. five
 pounder rapid firing guns. and three tor pedo tubes.
 The Russian Admiral's flagship, tho | Dimitri Donskoi, left St. Thomas yester- day, and cannot reach here until Monday. | If she misses the feet here she will catcl up to it before it reaches New York In the land parade on the 18th 1,600 ot our jack tars and possibly $500 foreigr sailors will march on Broadway, New
 York city.