The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-28
OUT AMONG THE SHIPS
Naval Contingent Lends splcndor to the
Days Spectacular Wonders.

OUT AMONG THE SHIPS
Naval Contingent Lends spicndor to the
bays Spectacular Wonders.
The warships which lay at anchor IN
the river in sight OF the tomb claimed the
attention OF the crowd before the arrival
! of the dignitaries and the commencement
| OF the services OF dedication. The river
was dotted with small boats. which were
! tossed about OF. the roughened waters
and ,coked from the bluff like so many
! oobbing corks. All was life and hustle
aboard the men-of-war. The merchant
| marine division was located in the lower
bay.
At 6 o'clock orders flashed from the
flasshps for the fleets 10 dress for the
days festivities. A few minutes later a
rainbow 0. coiors began going up from
the bow OF the New York. Immediately
eve.y vessel IL the flee; followed suit. The
big ships made magnificent showing IT,
their gala attire, with Ta:nbows OF bunt-
ing from bow 70 stern.
THE NAY AL GRAND DIVISION.
The naval grsnd Division was under
Re command Ss Rear Admiral Frarc.s
| FL. Bunce. United States navy. The an
ch0rsd vsSses were. New York (fagshlp)
Captain Si.as Casey: Massachusetts. Cap
tain Frederick II gers. indiana. Captain
| II. :. Taylor; Columbia Captain James
y. Jones; Maine. Captain c. D. Slgsbee:
Texas. Captain Wise: Raleigh. Captain
j. 3. Coghlan: Puritan. Cap;ainJ. Z.
Bartlett; Amphritite. Captain c. l. Bar
clay; Terror. Captain T. II. Harrington.
The revenue marine contingent was as
follows: Porter, Captain Abbey; Wood
bury, Captain Hart; Dallas. Captain Rod
gers; Hamilton. Captain Mitchell. Wiz
dom, Captain Mcguire.
The following lighthouse tenders: Ma
Pc. A. d. French. master; Citania. c. W.
Atkins; Cactus. G. II. Goddard; John
Rogers, E. C. Bu.and; Mistletoe. S. d.
Weber; Verbon. 6. j. Howes; Axales.
c. E. Gibbs; Lilac. G. W. Johnson; Myr-
tie. Theodore Nickerson: Garaenia, c. Z.
Matthews; Armoria, William Wright
The foreign men-of-war: II. VI. s. Tai
bot; II. S. VI. S. Infanta Isabella; II. :.
". S. Maria Teresa; French corvette
Fulton: II. /. VI. :. poga P
uled TO ga e the iowsr La al . o',i, x.
was divided into fou- divisions, each
commanded by a commodore.
The rear adnira. in command OF the
entire division was F. G. Osborn. with the
America for a flagship. The commodore
in command Of the First division was T.
b. DalZsil. with the Fred 3. Dalzell az
flagship. the commodore N command of
the second division was A. b. Valentine.
with the George B. Washburn as fiagshlp,
The commodore in command OF the Third
division was NJ ". Moran. with the p.
II. Wise as flagship: the commodore in
command OF the Fourth division was F.
II. Boyer, with the Fortuna as flagship.
DRESS SHIP"
The signal dress ship was the first
maneuver ot the day. and the nimble
tars were upon every yard and TOP OF
rigging in a trice. AL the available flags
and bunting aboard the warsaips seemed
10 have been hauled out OF lockers for
the occasion. Strings ~ flags were ruH
up from The s.srns 20 the mass and down
again to the bow. The UniteG States en-
sign flew az the stern of a. Of our Wiz
ships and al the fore Of all the foreign
vessels
The American warsaips headed the lire
which was made ~ wita re flagship
New York a. TIE head. Bshird the New
York ard IN the order NAMED lay the n
diana. Columbia. Maine. Texas. Raleigh.
Amphi,riis and Terror. o. me foreign
wsrShlps II. VI. s. Talbot vas given tas
position q honor. her commander. Cap
tain Z. II Gamble. beirg the senior =
fcer. The ether foreign warxaips IN rne
weTe ;he Freach corvette Futon. II 2
" 5 Infs1;s Isaoslla. II. :. II : Maria
Teresa and ne Italian cruiser DogsI. +
Commander R!ggstt. which arrived at
algh;.
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