The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-04-23
SALUTE ON SALUTE FIRED.
n GREAT DAT OF NOISE AND 6rTBU-
sI<sM IN HAMPTON ROADS.

An the Vessels uoscred the italian FIsr
Because OF the Royal Silver wedsi.e u
Rome, and Fired Their Guns nforuirG
Noon. and Nisht-secretsry Herbert Also
Arrived and Got n Reception Of Thsndes
and Lieht.ise fron the Vessels Hi
Dis.er % the Omeers-Ths Social Swirl
and the Great Success OF . Coterae Of
Virrinis Girls The Spanish Fleet "a
Leave for New York Ahead OF the Others.
FORTRESS MoSnoE. April 22.-It Is q good
thing that there Is only one moro day OF this
naval rendezvous There would be trouble IL
It lasted longer. It would be serious. and It
would all be the unconscious work oil hall n
dozen young women from Richmond. Ofali
the dazzling, soul-charminR. heart-smashing
girls now In America. 1t does not seem possible
that there can DO any that excel these Rich
mond misses. The sun does not set until they
leave the HyGeia Hotel ct midnight to go to
their private car. and then Il Is as II . pail had
been thrown between Old Point Comfort and
the lights Of heaven. These enhancing young
American princesses have no rivals here.
All the other women admit that they
are the most beautiful creatures who
have yet been here. The other women
do not admit this In so many words.
but they show their own inferiority by pics-
luz tn0 ItiChinOnu D6loB 70 pieces. Ihcy %
that this ones nose is 30 large and the other
ones ears are qussrly shaped and . third ones
dress docs not At in the back. All the men in
all the naval vessels and at the hotel are OF
one mind. They stand around the fair Viz
ginians six rows deep. drinking In their beauty.
hopelessly enslavsd.
The mischief these peerless creatures arc
doing 10 really serious. Even Mr.. Langhorne.
who has the young ladies under his wing. has
been reproved by his wife for talking idiot
ically about beaming eyes and silken tresses.
subjects which Mra LanRhorne says are silly
for q man OF his age to discuss. But that Is
not the trouble that these girls have uncon-
sciously set afoot. The chaperon OF the
party is Mrs Chiswell D. Langhorne. q brill
liant society leader in Richmond. Tho young
ladies are Miss Daisy Rives. a sister Of the
novelist, Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler; Miss
Irene and Miss Martha Langhorne. Miss Bessie
Martin. Miss Parke BaRley. Mrs. Harry Frazier.
Mrs. Moncure Perkins. and Miss Annise How
ard. The trouble is the dispute that is going on
over the question which is the p~rettiest OF
these girls. The Vlrginians. who are as cal
lous rs II there could DO a surfeit OF pretty
women and they had them all. are unquali-
fedly in favor OF Miss Daisy Rives as the
queen beauty. Miss Hives is very young. She
does not appear to be above 16 She is as fair
d6 U lily Will Nv COioE vi y Nhph =
at harvest time when the tassels seem to have
enmeshed the whole summers sunshine. She
has large. dreamy blue eyes that are the
veritable windows Of q gladstone SOUL
Her mouth has a poutinR pair Of full red lips
that guard regular teeth Of immaculate pearl.
She is short and slender. but very buxom. She
is O perfect Marguerite. But sevsn.tenths OF
the naval gallants and OF the citizens who are
not virginians strongly insist that Miss Rives
is not in the competition. They declare that
Miss Bessie Martin ought to ~ crSwned
Is Of regal stature, She is a brunette.
tall. pr9nd. rounded a. every w0msniE
RH,1 4 hl' gave e"G bis n nsnse' s she's is 70 Derhaps
IS or 1911 1t to fair to guess her aee-a
T W9S%snar sh full Il e sf0r her IN sd Is1 ds4t s sTa a IL I ahoss
the men surround her and challenge her
Handrsds and HUNDREDS Q, men declare her
th Ss mo ior 0eaTI I'll s T.Sl WHO Il hs' not Ssen aSfs' to
t flost iP Psavt the s.t hys SIsr. Ds sIoat: a .n50w stand oI
ascoIlete irosks Il sEaaisltsIy delicate light
al ,.ni he5a shs.F s Hssn sp snd not eni iii , thsn. a sssn shs
Four hours later the six graces depart. o..
corted to the door by nearly all OF the men in
led p fail ., that h.ppines Which, Hes since sst"XiSin am's
fall. has ever been tinged with the pain OF
envy and discomfort
GREAT DAY FOR sALuTEs.
Tens OF thousands Of dollars have been
burned up in cu%npowder here to-day; A day-
break every ship was dressed in rainbow fash:
Ion. with all the colors and computations of
twenty NTH anniversary Of the wedding OF tho
King and Queen OF Italy. The coiors were
remnants that all the ships. have to carry. The
-FOUR british war vessels simply swung aloft a
longitudinal line 81 these flags from Their bow.
their stern rails. The American cruisers that
have no bowsprits dressed thomselyeslwith
tho masts down to the yardarms and so on to
the decks. In these two ways. or In both ways.
ARMAMENT was. gaudy with finttering bright.
Italy upon her mainmast and kept 4 there al
Three times durins tho day at = O'Clock n
s .ss ~S ons e. t sRs tSir 9SGR, snd sS Fl sp IN the
ESsds bred 1 q royal salute Of tTenty.9ns GSns
= an back iae 81 COLOSSAL WaS nsfe irecra AXE rne ssS.Sf meant oa Ss
They came nowhere near STOPPING At the same
il@s' os iH@s d h. =tSR sirki heaHs b sasdi:
;tde cannon that are slower to handle:
that started with a crash. ,ioi.
owed by a hating, hesitating rattle that
grew, lntO u 8ranu, SOLID Dan&! .pnnR!
Of simultaneous discharges. and then
petered, or trickled of into incohsrent s%tutter-
ng and sputtering OF single cannon. Every.
body thought tho grand salute was over at
east ak separate times before 1t finally ended
the firing q the last great broadslde gun
the Van Speljk., always the most prompt TO
legin a salute and slowest to get through with
T. In al. oe3 guns composed each salute; and
a the three salnies the total number OF deto-
After NIL. that was only q piece Of the general
along like a beautiful white bird of
pc sea. she, had to salute 50 many vessels.
hat she made no. pauses In her %salutes. but
BANGED away steadily for ut least half an hour.
IN top OF that. all the nationalities and ad.
nirals saluted MI, Herbert, and there was An.
'tler addition to the grand maritime Fourth
nandant Of the fort &c this place, saluted tue
could get a Chance to pay
lin their respeets.' This was in conformity
The custom that has prevailed wherever
little hftee1th century miniature ships
lave been. At Gibraltar. Porto Rico. and Ha:
ana, the forts broke tho cast iron rule OF
;svai and military etia9stte and Salnte s fret.
lown, was something which no one who J