Arizona republican., 1896-10-25
A MONSTER M'KINLEY FLEET.
New York the Scene of G eat
 Demonstration.
Hundreds of Vessels Move Up tn I Hudson from the Battery Ami- Showers oi FireworkS-Tribut to Sound Money.

NEW YORK, Odt. 24.-INhe monster marine demonstration made tonight in honor of Mckinley and Hobart and the cause of sound money was the finest of the kind ever witnessed in this country. It was an event abso- lutely unique in political history. The North River was blaze of light from the battery to One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. Rockets, Roman candles, fire balloons, red, white and green fire added their beauties to the dazzling scene. The entire expanse of the river was lighted up for more than two hours. One could see to read newspaper from the middle of the Hud- son. It was a night never to be for gotten.
 All along the river today prepara- tions were going on for the great water parade. The shipping and industrial sound money associations of New York were behind the affair and their energies were devoted to making it a success. A code of signals had been agreed upon and the masters of the vessels selected to take part were thor oughly instructed as to their responsi- blities. Captain J. w. Miller of the Stonington line was appointed admiral of the fleet some time ago and for the last week he has been engaged in per fecting the details of the parade. At 4 o'clock this afternoon he announced that 230 vessels of all classes would form the procession.
 Business generally in the shipping district was suspended at noon today and every thought was cenltered upon the forthcoming demonstration. At ' o'clock this evening one hundred aerial guns were fired from Governor s Island as the signal for the great fleet to start One by one the ships, large and small, came up the bay and round ed the batterys5 The feet was divided into four divisions, and so far as the enormous crowd on bolh shores could see there was not the slightest hitch in the arrangements.
 AS the first vessel, one of the big steamers of the Stonington line, poked her nose around the battery, she was greeted with a shower of fireworks Each boat of the better class displayed electric lights in profusion, while the decks of each vessel were gaily dec orated and brilliantly illuminated Some of the devices were magnificent in their ingenuity and completeness.
 From the time the battery was passed until the first steamer reached the end of the route, ten miles up the Hudson, the outpouring of fireworks was incessant. The ships literally passed through shower of fire. Old travellers say they never saw at any foreign fete such wOndrous display of gems of the pyrotechnic art. Wher the ships were massed at the upper enc of the course thousands of Roman can dies were fired at once, while rocket. and red fire burned. It was almos possible for one Ito walk from shore to shore so closely were the vessslt packed.
 There have been great political dem onstrations in this country, but noth ing before that approached this in per fectfon of detail. It Nypifed the feel ing of enthusiasm for the Republican ticket that prevails in New York Thou sands of strangers were in the city and for ten miles up and down the rive the banks were crowded.