The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1893-04-28
SCENE SHIFTED.
New York IIarbor Now the Theatre of
Action In the Columbian
Ceremonies.
Spanish War Vessels and the Golum.
bus Caravels Anchored In
The Fleet Of warships From the
Rendezvous at Hampton Roads
Also Arrives.

Also Arrives.
NEW YORK, April 28.-Sullen gun
throats of the gathered navies for days
have sounded with deep, staccato notes,
the strain of Columbian glory over the
Virginia waters southward. For days
the metropolis has been stirred by the
jubilation and The fellowship of the
nations down the coast. Throughout
fortnight has she heard along the cleo
trio wires the fanfare and the prelude
eff the fetes with which she should
honor the ancient Latin whose name as
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 csravels of Colum-
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 i'll review on Thurs
day in honor of the great discoverer.
The cruisers and their tows 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 We're towed at the rate of
about eight knots an hour. The proto-
tyres of the craft that came trolling
along behind cruisers, shifted for them
selves in crossing 1900 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 nan-of-war.
Saluted by the Miantonomoh.
There was another craft lying in the
lower bay as the gray light slowly
broadened to day. 1t 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
| linquisitive, 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 detonation, 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-
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the men-of-war for half an hour, the
navy tugs were signalled 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 caravels 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 We're 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 formal
character marking the great celebra-
ton. Away down on the Highlands Of
the .Naveeink, looking out upon the
ocean and up through the Narrows,
people were gathering by train and by
boat, near the twin lighthouse, in full
view of the Spanish men-of-war and
the huge Miantonomoh.