The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-21
PASSING THE BATTERY.
Inspiring Scene, with Cheers and
Songs from Thousands of Threats.

Songs from Thousands of Threats.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2O-Amid a disccrd
which has never been equaled here, and
with the great acclamations of the multi
tudes along the Battery wall, the flagship
New York passed the Battery at 1916
o'clock. 1t seemed as if every possible con-
trivance for making noise had started up at
once with one tremendous sound Whistles
footed men howled themselves hCarse, fog
horns, bells and every conceivable kind of
ear-splitting instruments started off. There
was no salute by the forts, but when the
New York passed Governors island the
same guns that belched forth at Santiago
sounded again. Then the Brooklyn, the
flagship of Rear Admiral Schley, saluted.
The multitudes cheered and cheered. Each
war ship, as she passed Governors island,
gave the salute, but in the din that ensued
it was almost impossible to distinguish the
salutes from the Battery. The Texas got an
ovation as she passed the Battery. The
crowd surged around tov ards the north
side of the park as the ships passed. but, al
though there was tremendous crush, no
one was injured. The citizens committee
ship, Glen Island, was abreast the New
York as the Battery was passed. From the
war ships officers and sailors waved their
hands to the enthusiastic spectators.
Over eight thousand men, women and
children shouted, cheered and then sang
THE Star-spangled Banner in one mighty
chorus as the fleet passed the Christopher
street recreation pier at II o'clock 1t was
an inspiring scene, with all the whistles
footing, the bands on the boats playing and
the thousands of people singing on the pier.
There was an internal din from beth the
Nau cir nd fha md
Shadyside banks of the river when the New
York passed Forty-second street at HIS
o'clock. The piers along the New York side
were literally packed with people, who
cheered Justify. The lofty cliffs of Wee
hawken seemed to act as mighty sound
ing board, and sent back, in vibrations and
revibrations, the din and clatter and shouts
of the people. 1t was a picturesque sight to
see the crest of the Weehswken heights
fringed with people, who stood out in sharp
outline against the sky. And when they
shouted and cavorted they looked like a lot
of marionetts. When the fleet passed this
point the long row of factories from Forty
second street up the river let out the pent-
up steam for this purpose. The whistles of
the factories drowned everything else. The
windows of the factories were filled with
people, who added to the din Howard
Gould's yacht Niagara was off the shore at
this point, and there was a tremendous
cheer from this and other yachts.
The noise from the acclamations down
stream notified the people at the lower end
of Riverside Park that the fleet was COM
ing. The New York was abreast of the
sloping, grassy banks of the park at 11:25
o'clock. Then Lieutenant Kohler, of the
second battery, gave the signal, and two
field guns doomed. They kept up booming
until the feet had passed.
A large number of people thought the pa
rade would be delayed and the side streets
leading to the southern end of the park
from Eighty-eighth street down. were
crowded with people leisurely walking
along. When they heard the guns boom
there was a mad stampede Of men, women
and children toward the river front. II
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