Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-26
PHILADELPHIA TURN.
That City's Big Peace Jubilee Now
Fairly Under Way.
SUCCESSFUL NAVAL PARADE
Thousands View the Wnrshfps In
Line-Private and Public Build
ings Splendidly Decorated.
City Full of Visitors.

Philadelphia, Oct. 26. - The great
peace jubilee Is now fairly on. the day
for the first of the three monster pa
geants, the naval review on the Dela-
! ware river, was ushered in with ravor-
able weather, though the sky rema n
overcast with clouds. From early morn
ing the movement of crowds of citizens
| and visitors was in the direction OF the
river front to take. passage on the
| steamers which were to be in the line
of procession around the great war
| ships or to view the scene from the
| shore. The street cars from all sec
| lions of the city dropped their loads OF
humanity at the wharfs, and by noon
hundreds of thousands Of people lined
the docks and streets along the river
| The nine navy fighters were anchored
in the middle of the stream equidistant
apart, and in all stretching out for
about two miles on the city front.
The war vessels remained at anchor
during the demonstration, every one or
them gayly trimmed with bunting from
stem to stern. On the arrival of the
guest of the day, the honorable Secre-
| tary of the Navy John D. Long, with
his party from Washington, they were
| driven to Pine street wharf, where the
Rensselaer, yacht May was in waiting.
The party safely aboard, the May
steamed down the river to point be-
| low the League Island navy yard
where the 200 other steam vessels had
rendezvous, and awaited the arrival of
| the secretary to lead the procession
| past the anchored fleet of men, war.
| The vessels then faced north. and
| with the tug James McCauley, the flag
| ship of the fleet, in the lead the parade
| started, each of the steamers falling in
| the position assigned it in the process
| sion.
| On board the McCauley was Commo-
| dore Josiah R. Adams of the Philadel-
| phia Yacht club, who was the officer OF
| the day, in full charge of the fleet. Fol-
| lowing the McCauley came the yacht
| May, with the secretary Of the navy
and party. Then in order came steam
ers with invited guests, members OF the
| jubilee committee, city counclmen, the
| mayor and other city officials the local
! and visiting newspaper men, and fol-
| lowing these came the long line Of ex-
| cursion steamers.
The imposing pageant passed the
warshps on the New Jersey side Of the
| river, and each man-of-war as the
yacht May came abreast beched forth
a salute of II guns in honor of the sec
\ rotary of the navy. The moving fleet
proceeded past the anchored war fleet
and around the new Japanese cruiser
Kasagi, which was lying at anchor just
beyond the last of the naval vessels.
Turning the Kasagi, the steamers fac
ed south and again passed the warships
on the Philadelphia side of the river.
The spectacle was a grand one, and the
arrangement of the procession was such
that all on board the various vessels as
we'll as the many thousands lining both
the New Jersey and Philadelphia sides
Of the river had a splendid opportunity
OF viewing the inspiring scene.
| The City Crowded.
| All the railroads had offered special
| inducements for spectators to attend
the celebration, and the early morning
trains were crowded with excursionists
| from nearby Pennsylvania towns as
we'll as from south Jersey They found
the city arrayed in the brightest deco
| rations in welcome to the visitors as
we'll as to the warshps. Parties Of Wis
itors came also from Washington. Balti-
more, Richmond, Harrisburg and Pitts
burg but they were for the most part
invited guests. Among them were the
governors Of Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Maryland and New Jersey, with their
staffs.
The hotels were filled to their utmost
capacity, and even the servants quar-
tiers in some of the hotels were used to
| accommodate the rush of guests. At
several hotels all the rooms were en-
gagged weeks in advance, and cots were
| set up in the coil idors for the less for
| tunate visitors.
The Worl.men engaged in erecting the
arch at the end of the court of honor on
| South Broad street worked all night and
| have almost finished their task Some
| little work remains to be done to the
group of statuary on top of the struc-
| ture. The decorations will be finished
| in ample time for the land parade, how
ever.
| The decorations on the public and pri-
| vate buildings are very elaborate, as no
| expense has hean spared to make the
| celebration a su.ce IS from spectacular
| standpoint. Naval men who have seen
other similar celebrations, both in this
country anu III lIuIOpe, Say lnaI ii
point Of decoration the streets Of Phila
| delphia surpass anything they hav
| ever seen. Many of the buildings are
literally covered with bunting. One
building on Market street is entirely
screened from view with red. white and
blue bunting, forming a high American
flag.
The court of honor will be very beau
| tiful when completed. Eight columns,
fully 40 feet in height. are placed at
regular intervals along the sides of
Broad street on each side of the review
ing stand. The triumphal arch is placed
at the head of the line, and under it the
soldiers and sailors will march in pass
ing to the stand, where they are to be
reviewed by President Mckinley.
Atlanta Wants the Preaident