Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-30

FLOATING FOR1RESSbo ~
TINY RowBOATS, JOINED IN
HONoRING THE PEERLESS
DEWEY. WHISTLES SCREAMED.
CANNONs ROARED. AND THE
MULTITUDE SPLIT THEIR
THRoATS TO MAKE THE VEL
COME NOISY. THE GRAND RE-
VIEW AS SEEN FROM THE
OLYAPIA'S DECK.
NEW YORK, September 29.-No Ro-
man c%onqueror returning to his tri-
umph of barbaric splendor; no victo-
rious king or prince coming home from
4 successful war ever received such
4 magnificent ovation as overwhelmed
Admiral Dewey to-day as he stood on
the bridge OF the Olympia at the head
of a magnificent fleet Of steel thun-
derers of the deep, followed by a thous-
and vessels OF peace, each TERED and
coated black with people, and sailed
over the bright water of the upper bay
and up the broad pathway of the sun
lie river. whose banks were gay with
millions of flags and streamers dancing
in the wind.
The sky was blue, the water rippled
under the fresh wind that held out
flags straight and jaunty and the
wharyes and piers and rocky heights
and grassy knobs were black with
frantic, enthusiastic people, who striv-
ed weakly to make their shouts heard
above the perfect bedlam of footing
whistles that accompanied the adml-
raj ashore and afoat.
AS the tomb of General Grant. on
Riverside Drive, was reached, the
fleet paid it's tribute to the memory
Of the great warrior with a national
salute of q roaring guns. The feet
then anchored and reviewed the almost
endless procession of craft that steam
that they looked as if they would turn
turtle before they got back to their
piers.
Toward the end the parade became
disorganized and it took hours for
the heterogeneous flotilla to get by.
Darkness at last brought relief to the
tired Admiral, who had stood on the
bridge for six hours bowling his ac-
acknowledgements to the stentorian ex-
pressions of homage.
New York has never witnessed be-
fore anything approaching this Won
derful, remarkable demonstration. The
Columbian naval parade, the dedica-
ton of Grants tomb and the reception
Of the North Atlantic squadron last
fail, all pale before
THIS GIGANTIC OVATION
to the sailor, who, in a single morning
destroyed an enemy's feet without the
loss of a man or a ship. 1t is not be-
yond the mark to say that three million
people viewed the pageant from the
shore and that quarter OF a million
were afoat.
When New York turned u to the
celebration this morning. a light haze
hung over the harbor, but this was
soon burned up by the bright sun
which bathed sea and city in its brill
liant radiance. The wind was strong
and gusty and kept the flags swapping.
The water rippled under the fresh
hpnaua ond +ha Annainn 1i4rIn r-orAo
seemed to raise their crusty heads in
anticipation of a sight of the CON
queror.
People who went down the bay were
lost in admiration of the display of
bunting along the water front. On
the East river, from the bridge to the
Battery, where the sailing craft lie i n
droves, the spars were covered with
such a mass of color as might be COM
pared to a maple grown hillside in
the deep autumn. The tall spars and
clippers were conspicuous for their en-
signs and signals. Every craft in the
harbor was decked out from stem to
stern with all the grace and attract
n known to shippers. But the
display in the East river was not to
be compared with that of the North
river, up which the procession was to
pass. From the peaks of every pier
long ropes strung with flags of every
hue were stretched to the snubbing
post at the corner. There were flags
on the STATS and lines of flags above the
ropes.
The vessels at their sides were
dressed from stem to taft rail and some
carried flags on their yards and had
their deck houses covered. The wind
shook the banners from
MILLIONS OF WINDOWS,
p~orticos and even steeples, and never
perhaps in this generation did hearts
that love it bound so quickly to the
sight of the flag. Up the river far off
on the Jersey shore and high on the
misty palisades it cleaned.
The best place from which to view
the great marine panorama was natur-
ally from the deck of the Olympia, and
by the courtesy of Admiral Dewey an
Associated Press representative was