The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-04
VIEWPOINTS GALA DAY
Society's Summer City Hon
ors the country's Navy
and New York's
Yachtsmen.
THE STREETS GAILY DECORATED
Brilliant Turn Out Of Blue Jacksta
for the Land Parade in
the Afternoon.
he STREETS GAILY DECORATED

NEWPORT, R. L, Aug. 4, 1ST.-This Is
the last day of Newport's great fste in
honor of the New York Yacht Club and
the North Atlantic Squadron, and the
boom of the last gun, tonight, will end
a celebration that will long be notable
in its history. For weeks committees, in
cluding in their membership some of the
most prominent men in the country, have
been planning for the festivities with the
avowed intention of making the OBJ
servance one that would overshadow any
thing ever attempted here and the city's
permanent residents have worked in
hearty cooperation with her summer
guests.
Newport is never awake very early In
the morning, and even today there was
no evidence of unusual activity the first
part of the forenoon. Decorators were
putting the finishing touches on their
work in some sections, and electricians.
whose gorgeous schemes for illumination
were not completed last night, were con-
Meeting their struggling wires and fitting
the last of the multi-colored lamps in
their places. To these workers the skies
did not promise the most auspicious
weather and as the day got older 1t be-
came evident that there was little chance
that it would clear entirely, and there
was every promise of a cloudy, humid
day.
The ODD town has often assumed holi-
day garb and delighted the eye Of visit
ors by honoring the New York yachts
men, but it has never before been dec
GRATED on such an elaborate scale. From
narrow Thames street, the principal
business thoroughfare, to Bellevue ave-
nue., broad and beautiful, the stores and
residences are a mass of bright colors.
Flags, pennants. notices and bunting ara
on every hand, with welcoming words to
the yachtsmen and guests of the squad
ron.
In the harbor the early morning saw
more life than ashore. The yachtsmen
already here were about their prepara-
tions for the day almost as promptly as
the disciplined tars on the warships; ten
ders and launches were busily hurrying
back and forth between the boats and the
shore, and scores of row boats paraded
around the ships of the White Squadron.
curiously watching the sailors at their
work. The feature of the forenoon was
the cutter races in the harbor between
the crews from Fort Adams. the Newport
Naval Reserve Torpedo Company, sea-
men gunners from the Torpedo Station,
apprentices from the Training Station
and the Old Colony repair ship. for prizes
offered by Oliver H. P. Belmont The
race between the cutters of the squad
ron was to follows at IL o'clock.
The land parade this afternoon was, Of
course, the great daylight ATTRACTIONS It
fully equalled expectations, and was
viewed by what was undoubtedly the
largest crowd that ever filled Newpoftss
streets. Admiral Sicard and staff came
ashore for the parade about noon, landing
at the training station, where the party
wee met by o. H. p. Belmont, Chairman
of the Reception Committee. and his
Berwind. The visitors were escorted to
'.Belcourt." where luncheon was served,
reviewing stand. The landing of the
marines and sailors fom the warsh1ps,
100 strong, began shortly after one
O'clock
With clock-like regularity, boat after
boat filled with marines and seamen was
towed up to Briggs Wharf and the Elms
ships, and as promptly lines were formed
and the blue jackets were ready for the
march Col. A. A: Barker. r. !: ~, was
st. J. Greble, U. S. A. Lieut.. Sidney s.
Jordan. U. S. A; Ensign R. r. Belknap.
y: s; N; Liegt: N. j. Shaw, .; 9. NJ; e;
Lieut. S. H. Hazard assisting aides, and
under. their experienced supervision the
partiei5pSa11ts in the processIon, were
Square before two o'clock, and shortly
after the long line moved. 1t was led by
the Chief Marshal and his staff. The
Second Artillery band followed and then
in order came the Foot Battalion, Second
Artillery from Fort Adams, the band
from the Training. Stations, the marines
from all the warships in six companies,
the band from the flagship New York,
battalion of seamen from the Maine.
Iowa, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, New York
and Indiana. in that order; Naval Bat
talon of Artillery Newport Band, New
port Artillery, Company B, Second Regi-
mo Nad0fS TIGHT RaffarW
F, Second Artillery, q. S. a, and thu
Hospital Corps, r. /. M. A.
From the stand in front of the Ocean
House the line was reviewed by Elisha
! Dyer, Governor of the State, and Staff;
Secretary of the Navy Long, accom-
panied by Rear Admiral Montgomery
Sicard and staff; the officers commanding
the several ships of the North Atlantic
| Squadron; Commodore Wallace, Com-
mandant of the Naval Station; Colonel A.
| C. M. Pennington, Commanding Fort
Adams, and staff; Commander G. r.
Goodrich, U. s. N, President of Naval
War College; Commander John Nc;
Training Station; Lieut.. Commander T.
| C. Mclean, U. S. N, commanding Tor
pedo Station; Senators Nelson w. Ald-
rich and George Peabody Wetmore, Com
gressmen Melville Bull and A. B. Capron,
and the Mayors of the several cities OF