Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-05-25
THE NAVAL REVIEW IN N. Y.
Hon. r. c.. Cousins Gives Some OF His
Impressions of that Event.

Impressions of that Event.
Upton Advertiser.
! Hon. X. G.. Cousins returned from New York
| and tue Worlds Fair on Thursday morning
last, and went ut once into the trial OF cases in
/ the District court. In cOnYerSing on the sub
! ject of the great Naval Review at New York, he
said;
/ expression Of Ex-senator Ingalls,, Il am here to
I affirm that the Weather was unsatisfactory.
| 1t did not, however, seem to hinder in any way
! the execution Of the naval program, except TO
: delay II a couple OF hours. Countless thousands
OF people stood from II O'Clock to p. IN. In the
rain, until the salute from the Dolphin announc-
ed the Presidents arrival from his hotel and
/ then the friendly war upon the water was begun
| Everything that would float was upon the water
and laden with people TO the utmost capacity
/ And every craft that had whistle blew 1t when
the procession started. Then began the can
| nOnading and not until each Of the u armed
vessels had fired its salute to the Dolphin as she
passed up the line i'm review, followed by the
Monmouth, did the firing cease A mighty
sight Of ammunition was burned without killing
anything although some windows III our vessel
were broken by the lannon's crash.
The fastest vessel in the line was the "Nueye
dc juiiO,' which alone represented the Argcn-
tine Republic. Her speed is p. knots per hour
| (abOut % miles per hour The greatest and the
largest cruiser was English BLAKE" manned
by 80 men with speed Of ~ knots per hour,
and carry NJ 10 guns. Our New York" when
completed will surpaSS the "Blakc" In speed
and batteries, and equal her In every other
quality.
In all that fleet of more than 40 vessels (which,
If on the great lakes, in 80 minutes could shoot
hole in Chiclgo big enough to put New York
I'M the one object that fingers longest in the
memory is the Jean Bart'-the great, black
monster, representing France. AS one ap-
proaches her, sitting there in suIen silence On
the water, he inStinctiYely would turn aside and
steer around hrr-aS Josh Billings used to say
OF snakes: When see a snake hole. / go
around, and say 10 myself: that hole belongs
to that snake, The very appearance of the
sable terror, Jean Bart" is declaration OF
war. Not so with the light cOIored "Kaiserin
Augusta" Germany's great cruiser, the long
est vessel in the fieet--SS feet. Her appear
ancc was welcome, which spoke between the |
cann0n'5 crash with the stirring melody Of our |
own columbia" played by one of the greatest |
military bands on earth, and made ones heart
respond It's own salute OF thaukfulncSs and pat |
riUtc jey.
first 81 RuSsia'S six great water hounds, with |
mouths OF steel wide OIcn for a fray, barking a |
friendly greeting to our President, as Russia
always did, the Tears came into the eyes OF an
old veteran on our vessel, as he said
There WAS time when that flag chccred our |
hearts, and al on board remembered it; and
on we went between the lines of that great feet
OF uatCDa-perhapS the greatest that was ever
in the world.
M nations carried Odd Glory that day, along
Win tlyr own colorS, and seemed to rejoice
that We too ha3 Il ;I&YE-a navy Of protection
rather tilan pTcOruuest. There WAS our "Phila-
drlphiG," our "NeWarN' "San Francisco" and
''CLirayG." The "Char!cStOn" and the "Balti-
mulc, al Gr>tc!aS2, projected cruisers, besides
halt dozen others Of lower grade. Then
there were one or two torpedo bOatS-the yves
Iyus' and the "Cushing,' looking like two
whales th"t can spout destruction into or under
The great cruiser and blow Ter out OF history
and recognition.
There was also cur "NlianouOmOh, )" the only
mOrit0r in the review, apparently laying on the
water like a pancake, but really hiding under
water to fool the <, cat2St and str"ngct and the
tCct, st Of them ala monument, submarine
DUt everlasting to the memory OF Ericsson.