Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-26
MARINE PARADE
At New York, Saturday Night,
Was a Grand Success.
Over 200 Vessels Steam About 10
Miles in Blaze Of Fireworks,
Splendid llIuminaiions Along Water Front
Thousands View Spectacle.

New York. Oct 25.-The marine
parade of the Shipping and Industrial
Sound Money Association, crept up the
river by sections, last evening, a pro-
cession of dark hulled steamers and
craft of every rig and came down again
in blaze Of fireworks and illumina-
tons.
The flag ship,the stout tug Baltimore,
on which were j. W. Miller, the ad-
miral in command, left Pier SO North
River at $50 o'clock last evening and
accompanied by a flying squadron of
tugs went up stream, saluting as she
went the fiotillas of shipping which
lined the shore.
From nearly every pier along the
New York water front some craft re-
sponded to the signal and beacons of
colored fire answered from the New
Yor-. and Jersey shores. At sight of
the Baltimore. the vessels which were
waiting her appearance whistled in
recognition and formed in line. Is
lands of colored fire appeared in the
North river as though they had come
out of the water. A thousand signals
burned into the night Piers along the
hued lights.
The flagship sent up few rockets
and triansles. squares and ellipses of
electric fire cleaned along the banks of
the Hudson. From half dozen towers
searchlights sent shafts of light flash
ing across the river and the water front
seemed to burst into flame
The Baltimore hurried UP to Clare
mont. where jumbled caravan of tugs
and steamers were waiting her ap-
proach. The assemblage, at the com
mand of her fleet captains, was divided
INTO divisions. and with a screaming
OF whistles, a straining of hawsers and
by nashiight signals and the hoarse
cries OF commands, order came out of
the chaos of smokeStacks, and a flying
squadron of tugs and four divisions of
river craft took their places in the line.
The start was made from 10th street
at s.l5 The Baltimore blew her whistle
and sped rapidly down stream. at
tended by the fiagboats Olympic, Little.
Fortuna and Chapman. She led the
column and left behind her a trail of
crimson fire to point the way.
So we'll planned and carefully exc
cuted We're the manoeuvers of this
squadron of peace that not a boat of
the 200 in the fleet. was out of her ap
pointed place and not a light blazed
except at the appointed time.
The fleet paused moment at Grants
tomb. Shafts of light quivered across
the river and rested upon the columns
and the rounded dome of the tomb. The
white marble stood out against the
background of the night A crimson
glow from thousand sources made
the waters stream of fire and tinted
the shafts of the mausoleum upon the
heights. The Baltimore's improvised
cannon fired salute of p guns in re-
spect to the memory of the man who
lay at rest in the marble pile
The rays of the searchiights swupy
from shore to shore. They showed a
tram numbering along under the lee of
lne mausoieum on the heights above The
warn W. I'm yellow lights from the windows
eiectric nre. and the passengers who
stood gesticulating and waving their
ma ndkerchIefs at the windows looked like
again and again.
The fleet, moving in divisions, swept
into the stream. From every rail sprang
b tral1s Of i eoiored FIRE Letters of flame
from deck houses, Lights in patriotic tri-
color set the sky 'aglow
me Lying squadron. equipped with cleo
tricai appliances spelled out the words
which are the keynote of this campaign.
Letter by letter the phrases Sound
Money, Protection" AN Honest Dol
lar, We're spelled against the back
ground of the night
The procession swept down the river |
The piers along the water front. which |
had been darkened, became squares and
triangles of light. Derricks and lighters |
became things of fire. Lights of every
hue came out of the darkness.
The flying squadron formed into phal- |
anx and behind came vessels more bril- |
liant than Cleopatra's galley Devices of |
ingenious make proclaimed the political |
sentiments of the owners of every tug
Gigantic gold dollars appeared above |
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