The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-09
| NEW YORK'S GREAT WELCOME
TO DEWEY.
Naval Parade Up the Hudson TO
Grants Tomb to Washington Arch.

NEW YORK, September 30.-Ideal
weather marked the second day of New
York's welcome to Admiral Dewey
Many people were out at sunrise to se-
cure desirable points from which to
view the parade. The first ceremony
today was the presentation at the City
Hall of a gold loving cup to the Ad-
miral by Mayor Van Wyck on behalf
| of the city of New York
Eleven o'clock was the time set for
the parade to get under way, and, con-
sidering the formalities crowded into
the preceding hours, the start was
made with remarkable promptness
What with the gay uniforms of the
waiting soldiery, the excitement and
ceremony incident to landing the sail
ors from the war ships strung out in
the river below, the crowd had plenty
to occupy it.
Major-General Roe, with his glitter
ing gold-laced staff followed immedi-
ately on the heels of the police, and
Sousa's Band, breaking into one of the
airs that men have been marching to
and dying to during the last year or
more, took up their place at the head
of the men who had made this superb
! demonstration possible. There had
been few little tentative attempts at
| cheers before, but as the battalion of
sailors from the Olympia swung into
| place the crowds struck the note that
was to echo down all the miles of
streets over which the parade was to
pass.
! A moment afterward the carriage
containing Dewey and the Mayor ap-
! peared in the wake of the Olympia's S
men. The people saw then-most of
| them for the first tme-a rather under
sized man with bronzed, kindly face,
! that even all the bravery of the gilt of
| an Admiral's full-dress uniform cannot
! obscure caf ha eft
er Mayor of New York. plain, formal,
| in his conventional frock coat and silk
! hat, and trying to look as though rid
| ing beside returning cOnquerors was
| part of his daily duties. The cheering
| that hailed the Olympia's men was a
commonplace vocal demonstration in
| comparison to that which greeted their
honored chief.
The line of march was from Grants
tomb and ended at the Washington
arch at Washington Square.
In the line of march were the West
Point cadets, the regulars, all the New
! York National Guard, the 10th Penn
! sylvania, and the Pennsylvania Ma
! tional Guard, and National Guard re-
giments from New Jersey, Connecti-
cut, Georgia, Maryland. South Caro-
| lima and a number of other states in
nearly every case headed by the COVER
nor of the state from which they came.
| cession marched We're lined on either
side of hundreds of thousands enthusi-
! astic spectators.
NEW YORK, September 29.-New
| York has just witnessed one of the
greatest naval pageants ever seen, and
has expressed the sentiment of the
American people for Dewey Yester-
day was the day of the naval parade
from Tompkinsville up the Hudson
past Grants tomb and back again. 1t
was exactly 10 o'clock when the fleet
with anchors short hove began to
move. Just as the anchors were weigh
ed the four starred flag which Farra-
gut flew as he ran the forts at New
| Orleans, broke from the main peak of
the Olympia, The flag foated proudly
all through the pageant today. 1t is
| the most precious possession of Far
raguts pupil, and when it is struck
on Monday, it will probably be for ever
as it is altogether unlikely that Ad-
miral Dewey will ever command an
other fleet
When the ships had Strengthened out
for their journey across the upper bay
the spectacle they made will ever be
treasured in the memory of those who
saw it. In advance of the Olympia
was a double line of patrol and fire
boats, a Lilliputian fleet to clear the
way of unofficial trespassers 1t did
the shippers had a wholesome respect
for the steel ram of the mighty sea
monsters.
On the port beam of the Olympia wa!
the escorting ship Sandy Hook, with
the Mayor and other dignitaries
aboard, and in her wake at intervals
of 400 yards, stretched out a mile long
were the great towering warships, tn,
armored cruiser New York, the battle
ships Indiana and Massachusetts, tn,
cruiser Brooklyn, second-class battle
ship Texas, the old wooden frgat,
Lancaster, the gunboat Marietta ant
the Chicago, the flagship of the Soutf
Atlantic squadron. Old Glory huttereC
from each masthead and taffrail. Or
each quarter of the New York were
the black, tOw-lined torpedo boats
three on each flank. The rest of tn,
procession tailed out for miles. Slowl!
and majestically the procession moved
across the shiny waters.
Admiral Dewey went up on the afte
bridge as soon as the start was mad
and remained there throughout tn,
parade, a heroic figure outlined agains
the skies for the thousands afloat anC
ashore.
Passing Grants tomb at Riversid,
the war vessels each fired a nationa
salute of q guns. Dewey stood on tn,
bridge of the Olympia, his head barred