St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-27
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Staten Island shore white as snow, and
the big black hull Of the Blake
looked like the tower of Strengt h
that she was. The American adj
miral, Gherardi, and the British
! Admiral Hopkins stood on their respect
i've bridges. proudly leading the greatest
fleet of war ships ever gathered together
in this country. Next i'll order came the
! British Australia in the starboard col
umn and the Newark, flying Rear Adj
miral Benham's pennant, as flagship
| lean squadron. The English ship
was even more dangerous-look-
ing than the Blake. and the New
ark's white sides glistened in the
! bright sunlight, picture of grace. In
| fact, the paint had much to do with the
| apparent strength of the ships, tor,
while the white hulls looked very grace
! full, they seemed to lose in strength
| because of it.
Following came the Atlanta and the
Magicienne. There was apparently
much more power in the American boat
than in the trim English gunbOat, and
! her low freeboard made her more war
like in appearance than her companion.
Then came the San Francisco from the
Pacific coast, and the last of the British
boats, the Tartar. the former looming
up like a house against the small gum
boat. The gunboat Bancroft, with her
three maStS fore and aft rugged, came
next, while abreast of her was the
Russian flagship Dimitri DonSkOi,
with Vice Admiral Koznakotf in
command. The latter was powerful
ship, and lowered over the practice
cruiser of the naval academy like
giant beside dwarf. The Bennington,
which came next, was beside the Cen
eral Admiral. the foreigner being the
more powerful-looking. Everybody
was anxious to see the Baltimore, the
crack cruiser of the Pacific, which made
a name for herself in Gillian waters,
and she steamed along beside the last
OF the Russian fleet, which are all full
rugged ships, the Rynda, amid cheering
and the waving of hats and handker-
chiefs.
Rear Admiral Walkers flag was float
ing from the Chicago, which came next,
as leader of the second American
squadron, and beside her was the Are
theuse. flying the pennant of the French
Rear Admiral de Libran. Next came
the Yorktown, beside the trim HusSard,
with her ram-like PROV; and then came
the shapely Charleston with her brass
cannon shining in the fOretOp, and be-
liable sea monster. as black as night.
and with guns bristling all over her
from fOretOpmaSt almost to water line,
and closing up the French squadron.
The pennant of Rear Admiral Mag
nangni tloated from the main
of the Italian flagship Ht tina
as she steamed up in company
with the dynamite boat Vesuvius
and the sunlight flashed from the three
long guns in the bow of the latter as she
lazily rose and fell in the wake of the
Charleston. The last of the American
ships, the Concord, came next, and be-
side her was the other Italian, the Clio
vanni Bausan. Then in the starboard
column the flag of Rear Admiral Gomez
Lono floated from the Spanish cruiser
lnfanta Isabel, while i'll the port column
the pennant of Rear Admiral Howard
was flung to the breeze from the Neuve
de Julio. Beside the Spanish Reina
Regente was the antiQue-lOOking Dutch
man, Van Speyk, appearing much like
the old MinneS0taue, and the other Span
lard. the Nueva Espana. followed in
company with the shapely German, the
KaiSerin Augusta. The Augusta was
the only ship i'll the fleet having
three SmokeStacks, and she was note
worthy vessel. Her size seemed i'm
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tered about her. From her three smoke
stacks smoke was pouring in clouds.
Momehtarily she was almost obscured
by this smoke. which the wind allowed
to settle over her decks. An eighth of
mile aStern came the Seeadler, an
other German vessel.
Five minutes after the rest of the
fleet had gone up the river the Brazilian
AQuIdaban came along at slow rate of
speed. little late, as she was in arriv-
ing at Hampton Roads, while behind
her were the others of her squadron, the
Tiradentes and the Republica. They
arrived late last night. The Miantono-
nah was anchored off the Battery to fire
a salute at the unwilling of the statue to
Ericsson.