The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-30

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Of sky scrapers must have impressed
the admiral greatly, but his modesty
would not permit him to view 1t al
as personal ovation. Astonishing
astonishing" he repeated ssvera
times to Colonel Bartlett, but he sale
nothing Of himself.
The waving of the hundreds of thou.
sands along the shore could be dis.
tinctly seen from the deck of the Olym.
pia, but only occasionally were thu
sounds of cheers waited from the
crowds ashore. As rule perhaps
they were too much interested in the
spectacle to venture vocifereus ap-
plauss, besides they were too far away
to be heard by the admiral or the men
on the cruisers. even II the terrific din
of the craft In the river had not been
kept up almost without intermission.
The Crush at the stakeboat.
When the parade reached the stake
boat above Grants tomb it became dis
organised, many pleasure craft leav-
ing the line and crowding so nercely
about the Olympia that she was ma
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cursion boats. loaded to the guards
with people, were almost criminally
reckless as they passed along, many Of
them listed SO far that one wheel was
buried deep, while the other scarcely
touched the water. The admiral was
sometimes annoyed by the crowding
of these craft, but he retained his
equanimity through it all, bowling and
removing his cap to the exulting and
cheering crowds.
1t WAS not until all the warships had
passed in review before the Olym-
pia, at anchor below the beautiful
floats representing Peace and Victory,
that the one incident of the day &C.
Cured which showed that, with all
his geniality, the hero of Manila could
also be very stern sailor. IN less
than minute after the Chicago had
passed the Olympia, by the admiral's
order, stream of signal flags ordered
the vessels Of the feet to dress ship
and the crews Of the men-of-war ran
up rainbows Of signal flags from stem
to stern over their topmasts.
The order was beautifully executed,
except aboard the flagship, whore the
fouling Of the line in the top Of one
Of the stacks caused delay. Ad-
miral Dewey instantly roared = out
command for some one to ease the
line. 1t fouled again, and niMble
sailor was sent aloft to clear 1t. 1t
was perhaps two minutes before the
flags were in their proper place. The
admiral was plainly displeased. He
sent for the officer under whose d.
rection the order was executed and
called him upon the bridge. II am
ashamed of this" he said, in the tone
of sailor giving command In a roar
ing gale, land am ashamed of you"
Several times when the excursion
boats cheered as they passed close to
the Olympia the admiral called upon
the crew to stand by and cheer. Each
time the sailors leaped upon the steel
bulwarks, and with swinging caps re-
spOnded to the command with throat |
splitting roars. When the crowd of
vessels about the flagship became 80
dense that the progress of the rest of
the parade was impeded, the admiral
ordered the police patrol boats to clear
the way of the ships that had left
the line and had spread themselves
about the Olympia like flock OF wild
fowl. He did not leave the bridge un-
til the approaching darkness turned
the ships in the demoralizsd tall end
Of the procession back to their piers.
The steap yacht Erin, with Sir
Thomas Lipon aboard, attract al
most as much attention as did the
Olympia and Admiral Dewey. The
Erin was continually saluted on the
way up, and the man on the after deck |
beside the flagstaff which carried the
big yachts pennant was continually
dipping it in return