Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-10-05
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boonis rugged An old quartermaster
hurried dark. small roll Of bunting to |
the main. hand over fist. II hung |
there while the bugle sounded the call |
To quarters, and the marines were mus
tered aft. Then. just as the signal 10
weight was given, pull on the hal
yards opened the roll aud spread the
four-Starred nag which farragut flew
as he ran the Fort in New Orleans II
was the flag which was presented to
ADMIRAL Dewey
As it broke, sailors at their stations
and the marines on the quarterback
greeted it with the hip, hip hooray we
got from our ancestors The flag hoated
proudly all through the pageant, tits
the most precious possession OF farra-
CUTS pupil, and when it is struck on
Monday, it will probably be forever,
as il is altogether unlikely that Ad-
miral Dewey viii ever command an
other heet
At o'clock sharp the squadron got
under way, 1t was an inspiring mo-
ment, as the column started up the
harhor aud the great naval parade be-
gan to be IA reality.
The brilliant code flags blossomed
like flowers on the Olympia from bridge
to maintop. 1t was the order to form
in column. The Brooklyns pennant
snapped Aye, aye" from the signal.
yard, AID duplicate set OF flags passed
the order to the Indiana, whence it was
flung from ship to ship down the squad
ron. The black speed cones of the
Olympia climbed slowly to her yards
AS the big cruiser got under way.
The other vessels slowly turned like
troop of cavalry, squadron front to-
ward the Narrows and then fetching u
graceful sweep, headed back up the
harbor toward the battery, the Olym-
pia, escorted by the mayors boat. the
Sandy Hook in the lead. Back of her,
at a 400-yard interval, came the New
York, then the powerful Indiana and
Massachusetts, the feet footed Brook
lyn, the sturdy old Texas, the rakish,
yacht-like Dolphin. the old Lancaster,
a relic of another naval age, the pow
erful Chicago, aud finally the little
Marietta. the rear guard of the fighting
craft Behind stretched the transports
and further still. almost lost in the
distance. the yachts and miscellaneous
craft, hull down the horizon.
The evolution began at o'clock and
in Is minutes the lighting line was
Strengthened out up the harbor. Ad-
miral Dewey was going to his own
place ut the head of a squadron that
would have won at need three battles
of Manila hay without stopping 70
breakfast
The head of the column was broad
arrow. Six torpedo-boats spread out
as the boats. three on side from the
Olympia's quarter Outside of them
a nying wedge Of police patrol boats
formed "A great V, whose apex was the
! Olympia. Flanking them. ahead and
astern, were the harbor fire boats,
spouting great columns OF water that
turned threateningly toward the ex'
cursion boats on either side when they
attempted to crowd the line of march.
But the pageant back of this power
full vanguard was not limited TO a
single nor sextuple line of ships. II
was sinuuus marine monster half a
mile wide. whose yertebrae were the
ships of the white squadron, and whose
ribs were rows upon rows Of every sort
of floating thing that had ever run by
steam in New York harbor.
When the fleet reached the turning
point the Olympia dropped out ano
Admiral Dewey reviewed the parade
As the vessels passed the Olympia tht
crews wed in doing honor to her com
mander.
When evening fell Dewey, exhausted
by the strain. retired to the cabin, anC
the Olympia dropped down into thu
harbor 10 witness the pyrotecnic dis
play.
Never before in its history has New
York witnessed SO great a pyrotecni'
display The great hulks OF the bat
tleships of Deweys fleet silhouetteC
against the dark background Of thu
sky shone from stem to stern will
myriads Of incandescent lights, while
all around innumerable brilliantl,
decorated yachts and other river Graf
honored the nations hero.
From the bay the letters on tn
bridge, Welcome, Dewey" wer
plainly discernable and were one o
the features of the celebration. Tn
night was dark and nature lent he
forces to the display of fireworks an
the sky was illuminated frequentl
with flashes of lightning accompanie
by showers which interrupted the SIX
rockets, hut the good nature OF tn
crowds was not dampened.
New Yorl. has never witnessed b,
fore anything approaching this wor
derful. remarkable demonstration. TT
Colun bian naval parade, the dedici
ton OF Grants tomb and the reces-sio
of the North Atlantic squadron la