The San Francisco call., 1899-09-26
DEWEY NAY
FIRST STOP At
A COAST PORT
Belief That He Will Have the
Ship Painted in Della
ware Bay.
DECORATORS STRIKE
Mayor Fears That Governor ROose-
velt Will Be the First to Wei
come the Admiral.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

| NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-There was
much speculation to-day as to the
probable time of Admiral Dewey's ar
rival off Sandy Hook. In the opinion
of many officers the Olympia will not
be sighted first off Sandy Hook. They
think that in all probability the ad-
miral will so time his approach to the
American coast that he will have
leisure to put into some bay. possibly
Delaware, for the purpose of painting
his ship before proceeding to New
York
Aboard the flagship it was said that
the Texas had been selected as the ship
to go out to meet Dewey and escort
him into port. No orders were issued
yesterday. Whatever ship is selected
for the service will remain with the
fleet with steam UP until the Olympia
is sighted from the highlands of Nave
sink, and she will then steam down the
bay and meet Dewey's flagship out
side.
Among the callers at the Dewey
committee headquarters to-day was
George Goodwin Dewey, the boyish-
looking son of the hero of Manila.
to go down the bay to greet his father
as soon as the Olympia was sighted.
1t is the intention of the Choral
Union to go down the bay to greet
Admiral Dewey on Thursday night and
sing him to sleep with patriotic airs.
Governor RooSevelt's intentions re-
gardng Admiral Dewey are annoying
to the Mayor and to the committee,
who fear that the Governor intends to
call on the admiral in advance of the
Mayor. A representative of the Gov
ernor denied that he would make call
before the Mayor had done so. but he
admitted that the Governor intended to
put to sea on Thursday morning on
General Francis V. Greene's yacht,
Wild Duck. in order to welcome the
OLYMPIA. The Mayor and the commit
tee regard this as confirming their
fears.
Fifth avenue to-day looked like
Klondke town in boom time. Hun
dreds of carpenters were hammerlng,
saving and chopping just as though 1t
were a break-neck race to get hotei'
saloon and courthouse done before
some other town across the creek made
arrogant pretentions of being the cap
ital of newly settled country. The
avenue was filled with lumber wagons,
and men in overalls and Jumpers mad
the right of WAY From the Savoy
Hotel to the Fifth Avenue Hotel there
were banks of yellow pine. Every
householder on Fifth avenue seems TO
be building a grandstand, either for his
own use or for the accommodation OF
a paying public. In many stores tiers
of seats rise behind the big windows of
plate glass, and If the shop is on the
second story there are seats on the out
side as we'll. To sit behind plate glass
is accounted to be worth $40, while
closer view, with the risk OF rain, is
valued at half the sum.
Around the Dewey arch thousands of
sightseers fingered to-day watching the
workmen and marveling at the beauty
of the arch, which is being gradually
revealed 1t is announced by the archi-
tect that there is no doubt the arch
will be completed in time for the land
parade The Brooklyn Bridge illumi-
nation is not coming on so well. Owing
to inferior wiring at least 1000 of the
globes have fallen off All the electri-
clans struck tonight The contractor
will have fifty men in their places to-
morrow.
Clad in Greek costumes. 200 members
of the Arion and LiederkranZ societies
will sing patriotic airs in welcome to
Admiral Dewey in the naval parade on
Friday, when the flagship Olympia,
comes to anchor just south of the al
legorical floats, Peace" and Victory"
In all the public schools to-day classes
of girls began sewing on caps and capes
which are to form part of the costumes
of the children who take part in the
display feature of the school -children's S
welcome to Admiral Dewey.
The reception committee has finally
decided on the order to be taken by
the city officials and the guests of the
city in the land parade on next Satur-
day 1t is as follows:
Sousa's band.
Battalion of sailors from the Olympia,
Dewey and the Mayor, Dewey's five cap
tains at Manila. Dewey's personal staff,
Rear Admiral Sampson and Randolph
Guggenheimer Admiral SIMPSONS staff
Admiral Philip, commandant of the New
York station and President T. F. Woods
of the Board of Aldermen; staff of Ad-
miral Philip, junior officers of the Olym-
pia junior officers of the North Atlantic
squadron.
That will complete the naval formation
Then will come. the guests of the city in
this order: Visiting Governors not accom-
panied by troops, Major General Miles and
aids Rear Admiral Schley and Rear Ad-
miral Miller joint committee of the
Municipal Assembly, sailors of the North
Atlantic squadron. Following the sailors
will be the soldiers of the regular and
the other military organizations.