St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-28

NEW YORK, April 27.-AIl New York
Awoke this morning to find a steady
dOwnpOur of rain ushering in the day
Of the great naval pageant. A chilly
northeast wind added to the discomfort.
md some hundred thousand people who
had arranged to view the grandest
marine spectacle ever presented in
American waters, if not in the world,
were disappointed. Although it was a
legal holiday, in town the early MORN
ing crowds on the elevated trains and
surface cars, with the crowds that
poured into the city from the ferries
and across the bridge. did not look like
them all at home, however. There was
4 steady stream toward the North river
all the morning, and the hundreds of
excursion boats, steam yachts, tugs and
Dther craft which had been pressed
INTO service were filled up with sight
Jeers, who were not kept at home by
Farmer Dunn's diSgraceful weather.
Their patriotism and enthusiasm car
ried them through the wet. Other
crowds, who sought places along the
docks. on tops of buildings and at RiY-
erside park.
PlOdded Through Mud
and stood in pools of water, with UNI
brellas and macintOshes keeping out a
portion of the wet The weather bureau
got many imprecations from the shore
and the water.
There was great disappointment on
the squadrons anchored below the Pali-
sades. The crack ships of ten nations,
drawn together at the invitation of the
United States to commemorate the four
hundredth anniversary OF the discov-
cry Of America, had been put in readi-
ness for their part of the celebration.
Their hulls had been painted, their
decks hOlystOned, their brass work pol
Ished until it shone, and their guns had
been cleared for far different work than
their makers intended-the cementing
of peaceful relations instead of the
havoc Of war. The rain drenched the
decks and rigging and hung in pearly
drops from the brass work. Dress uni
forms were abandoned for storm coats,
and the jack tars, instead of being in
holiday rig, were in everyday attire.
AS the growing day advanced, how
ever. stTaying breeze felt its way over
the banks and across the waters where
the fleets were. 1t broke its way
through the mist, and, before the tat
tered fogs closed in again, the gh0stly
outlines of maStS and the lines of dark
hulls appeared and half-faded again.
Then. other
VeDturinS Gusts of Air
wandered through the fog bank, and
gradually the little gusts were rein
forced. until a stream of them flowed
over the high river banks, and blew
away the mlsts. First, the masts and
fighting tops of the war vessels were re-
vealed, appearing to be suspended in
air, the lower cloud conceallng all else
afloat. Watching from the New York
shore, the black hullS of the foreigners
were first brought back from cloudland
to the ken of man. That was first, be-
cause they were black-painted; and,
second, because the line of black-hulled
foreigners lay closest to the New York
shore.
More time was required to bring out
the United States ships,and for obvious
reasons. because of their whiteness and
their distance under the Jersey heights.
The night owls and the early dock
birds along the docks down about
Thirty and Fiftieth streets first
got glimpSes, however. of the white
ships OF Spain and Argentina. The
great shark-pr0wed Jean Bart. from
France, lay only stones throw from
the end of dock at Sixtieth street, and
early down on the wharf the denizens
Of 'Hel's Kitchen" saw her black sides
break out of the shredded mists. Under
the walls Of Riverside drive the star
board squadron grew slowly out OF the