Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1893-05-06
ALL is OVER.

witnessed by Hundreds or Thousands.
NEW York, April 2s.-The interna-
tional rendezvous and review in honor
of Columbus, which has been in active
progress for nearly two weeks, culmi-
mated in demonstration more spectac-
ular, more noisy and more remarkable
in many other respects than anything
of the kind recorded in modern history.
There have been naval reviews of inter-
national character, but none so strils-
ing as this.
The Gnaintest part of the days pro-
ceedings was that the post of honor at
the head of the reviewed columns was
given to apparently unseaworthy re-
productions of the Columbus caravels,
the Santa Maria Pinta and Nina which
with infinite care had been towed over
from Cadiz to Cuba by our own
Admiral Barker and from Cuba es-
corted to Hampton Roads and New
York by the Spanish warships.
The line of vessels reviewed was over
miles in length, stretching in two
columns from the foot of Twenty-third
street to about Ninety-ffth street,
where the reviewing ship, the Dolphin,
anchored.
At a. IN. the vessels of Spain,
France, Brazil and Argentina dressed
| ship. All of the other foreign vessels
hoisted colors, with the stars and
stripes at the main. The American
ships hoisted colors, but did not dress
the yards until 10 o'clock, at which
hour the british, Russian and Italian
ships also dressed yards.
The embarkation of the presidential
party on board of the reviewing boat
Dolphin was gorgeous affair. A hand
some special landing place had been
erected for the purpose at the foot of
Twenty-third street, the approach to
which was carpeted and draped in bunt-
ing.
1t was after o'clock when the sig
nal was given for the start. AS soon
as the president stepped on board the
Dolphin the vessel tripped her anchor
and fired one gun as a sig
nal. This was responded to by a
boom which seemed to shake the
whole city. The double turreted
monitor Miantouomoh, lying at the
rear of the port column, fired for
the first time in port one of her huge
10-inch guns, charged with nearly $50
pounds of powder Almost before the
reverberations of this twenty-fve-ton
gun had died away in the distant
echoes the whole fleet was called to
quarters yards were manned and every
preparation made to receive the presi-
dent of the United States with becom-
ing respect. Seen at this moment, and
before the enveloping clouds of gum
powder smoke from the subsequent
salutes had obscured the air the scene
| tt,-o lNA;
AS the Dolphin's bow came in line
with each man-of-war present arms
was sounded on the bugle, officers and
crew saluted, the bands struck up the
national air, and national salute
of twenty-one guns was fired
by each ship. During the
half hour or more that the
presidential progress lasted this cannon
aiding never ceased, until in all more
than 1000 guns had been fired
Fifteen minutes before the reception
ended and when the president was
preparing to land an admonitory signal
was given from the Dolphin, and as he
left the vessel and entered his barge
at the foot of Ninety-siXth street
every vessel in the fleet again manned
yards and rails and once more fired a
salute of twenty-one guns, following
the Dolphin's lead. Then the presi-
dents flag was lowered by the Dolphin
and the public ceremonies of the day
were considered over.
+ It was fitting and dramatic close to
, the proceedings when, at the close of
the review, the flagship Philadelphia
T slowly steamed up to Riverside oppo-
site the tomb of Grant and on this day,
the anniversary of his birth, fired a
: salute to his memory.
, When the Dolphin reached the end of
2 the line, in the neighborhood of Nine
: ty-fifth street, she dropped anchor and
s made preparations to receive the com
= manding officers of the foreign squad
D rons, who were presented to the presi-
3 dent by their respective ministers.
New YORK, April 2S.-The Columbian
ball Thursday night at the Madison
Square garden was, in respect to mag
niticence of decoration and arrangement
end of the large number of world
famous guests present. the most splen
did ever given in the new world. Be
sides the president and his advisers, the
chief Legislative body of the United
States and Spanish grandee who il
the namesake and lineal descendant o
Christopher Columbus, there were the
diplomatic corps, the admirals and sub
ordinate officers of every great nava
power in the world, governors of neigh
| boring states and famous army officers
| Mayor GIlroy, as head of the munici
pality, and Mrs. GIlroy officially re
] ceived the guests of the evening. They
stood upon the reception dais and JUS
, behind them were stationed the com
c mittee of one hundred and the honorary
d committees, who escorted the more dis
= tinguished of the guests from the en-
q trance to their boxes.
The president, however, was not es
corted to the mayors reception dai
.e when he arrived half-hour before mid
A night, but was met at the entrance b.
e his ESCORT of honor The hands at hi