The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-03

where young Dewey had been a stu
dent, and the admiral went to the plat
form for minute, merely saying to the
boys that he was pleased with the re-
ception they had given him, every stu
dent of the college town being in evil
of the place, while college yels rose
above the departing train.
Admiral Dewey was particularly
touched all along the line by the num-
ber of children who turned out to see
him. They formed very large part of
the crowd in every town and wherever
there was a school house the children
had evidently been given special re-
cess to come out and cheer the train.
There was another large crowd of chill
dren at Baltimore and Admiral Dewey,
who had come to the rear platform,
lifted his hat.
A Roar of Steam.
All along the line every train, freight
and passenger. that passed the special
saluted it with long drawn blast of
the whistle. and in all the larger towns
where the flyer slowed down within the
city limits, there was continual roar
Of steam from factories, machine shops
and the shifting engines and trains on
the sidings.
Every engineer seemed to have been
bottling up steam for an hour in ad
vance and hung out of his cab win
dow with his hand on the whistle cord.
while the fireman on the running board
swung the bell as though ringing for
a crossing.
Chester and Wilmington seemed to
have come down to the depots en- masse
and the train ran slowly between wide
lanes of people from one end of the
towns to the other while every lamp
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crop of young Americans and the
roofs and freight cars on the sidings
were converted into grand stands for
the brief instant that the train swept
by. The admiral responded good-na-
turedly to all the calls on his stock of
strength that he had been reserving
for the trying ordeal in Washington
and came time and again to the plat
form to bow as the train went by.
The train, as it reached the line of the
District of Columbia, stopped for few
minutes at the little station of Dean
wood while the reception committee
went through the formality of present
ing the nations guest the freedom OF
the District. The ceremony was per-
formed by District Commissioner
Wight in the presence of the admirars
fleet captains, the military and naval
members of the party and as many OF
the reception committee as could be
crowded into the admiraPs car.
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the president, first extended President
McKinley's greetings, to which the ad-
miral returned his thanks very briefly.
Commissioner Wight then said:
Freedom of tho Capital.
Admiral Dewey, you are now in the
District of Columbia, and, represent
ing the commissioners of the district.
/ have the honor of rendering you the
freedom of the nations capital. ana
in behalf of the people of the district,
from the most exalted to the humblest
citizen, l give you a sincere and cor,
dial welcome home. We feel grained
to know that Washington is to be
your future hime. It is the best place
in the world to have a home, and II
is fitting that you who have done SO
much for the nation and have done
such an important part for the nation
should make your future home in the
nations capital. The people of Wash
ington will esteem it not only a pleas
ure, but an honor to do all in their
power to make your stay with US as
pleasant as your services have been
successful at Manila.