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stretched away from the shore on either
side OF the Olympia. Tens of thousands
thronged the swarves and piers and lean
ed from windows and balconies that
locked down from the skyscrapers must
have impressed the admiral greatly, but
his mcdesty would not permit him to
view it as a personal ovation.
astonishing, astonishing" he repeated
several times to Col. Bartlett, but he
said nothing of himself. AS he looked
behind the. steam from the whistles and
smokestacks blowing across the river,
blending with the grey atmosphere, sort
ened the scenery and made the oncom-
ing vessels seem as if they stretched out
forever.
The people on. shore could be distinctly
seen from the Olympia, but only occa-
sionally was their cheering waited across
the water. Perhaps they were too In
terested with the spectacle to cheer con-
stantly-besides they were too Tar away
to be heard on the Olympia, even If the
terrifying din of the whlstling mad not
been kept up Unfortunately.
When the fleet rounded the stake boat
above Grants tomb, on Riverside avenue,
and each ship had let go its salute, the
sound that arose was inspiring-a mad,
fantastic roar that continued for almost
ten minutes So much steam was wasted
that the boats themselves were lost In
their own vapor.
PARADE DISORGANIzED.
The parade at this point began to be
come disorganized, many pleasure craft
leaving the line below, and croWd1ng SO
fiercely about the Olympia that she was
maneuvered with great difficulty Inc eX-
cursion boats, loaded to the guards with
people, were almost criminally reckless.
AS they passed along many OF them lsl-
ed so far that one wheel was buried deep
While the other scarcely touched the wa
ter. The admiral was sometimes annoy
ed by the crowding of these craft, but he
retained his equanimity through 1t all,
bowling and removing his cap to the eX-
ulting and cheering crowds.
1t was not until all the Warshlps mad
passed in review before the Olympia at
anchor below the beautiful floats repre-
senting peace and victory that the one
incident of the day occurred which
showed that, with all his geniai1ty, the
hero of Manila could also be a very stern
sailor. In less than a minute after the
Chicago had passed, by the admiral s
order. a stream of signal flags ordered
the vessels to dress ship and the crews OF
the men-of-war ran up ralnboWs OF sig
nal flags from stem to stern over thelr
mainmast Everything was beautifully
accomplished except on beard the nag
shin. where the fouling Of the line ON
top of one of the stacks caused a Decay
Admiral Dewey instantly roafea OUT d
command for some one TO raise lhe llIle'
1t fouled again, and nfmbie sailor was
sent aloft to clear it. 1t was perhaps
two minutes before the flags were IN
t1,ai nronar DIace mhe admiral was
mainly displeased. He sent for the OH
ca,. under whose direction the order was
executed and called him upon the bridge
II am ashamed of this" he said IN
the tone of a sailor giving command
in a roaring gale, ''and Lam ashamed
of you"
C,HEERED RIGHT HEARTILY.
Several times when the excursion poats
cheered as they passed close to the
Olympia, the admiral called upon the
crew to stand by and cheer Eacn tln1e
the sailors leaped upon the steel pul-
warks and, with swinging caps, respond
cd TO the command with throat-spHlIlllS
rCars ~
When the crowd Of vessels ABOUT the
flagship became so dense that the prog
ress of the rest were impedcd, the adml-
raj ordered the police patrol boats TO
clear the way of the ships that had left
the line and had spread themselves ABOUT
fine OLYMPIA like a flock OF wild FOWL
He did not leave the bridge until the
annroa ching darkness turned the shlpS In
tho demoralized tail end of the process
sion back to their piers.
NAVAL PARADE.
The naval parade was an immense ma
rine nicftlre. a water panomara with So
little of incident compared with It's grea'
size that It appealed to the eye as q
nainting. rather than a drama. The vast
o. altering of water craft maintained ah
average speed of eight knots, out SO mag
nificent was its area that the 1mpressloll
was<one of exceedingly slow and stately
movement The picture was continually
changing. but it melted so steadily and IN
such measured rhythm from form to
form that the sense of motion was large
l1y lost IT started under a brilliant SKY,
nassed the mouth Of the Hudson through
the throat of an ugly storm, ana emerged
mon a rainbow arch that stretched from
shore to shore, then into clear, brilliant
sunlight off the Grant tomb.
The last details of the days ceremony
were hardly settled, before the day ltsel1
broke on a scene of greater activity IMAM
the classic anchorage had ever witnessed
before. The great vessels of the White
squadron swung at their anchorage a. Tor
the past two days, but the crowd OF
neighboring craft had been swelled past
counting AS far as could be seen the
water was a mass of mooring steamers
from, Stapleton across the wide reach OF
the harbor to the Erie basin, and from
the battery to the Narrows the water was
alive It was a modern Armada, against
which the Armada launched by Philip OF
Spain would have seemed chllds toy
It was a moving, shifting picture OF tugs,
police boats, fire boats, torpedo boats,
yachts, launches, tramp steamers ana
ocean liners and sailing craft of every
rig with big ferry and excursion boats
plcughing their way through the ruck in
the clear parts that opened before them
and closed behind them like the ice Of an
Arctic foe.
The staple points at that early hour
were the warships. They lay like great
grounded icebergs, around which the pack
ice swirled and surged without moving
them from their mornings.
MORNING OF EXCITEMENT.
1t was morning of repressed excite
ment on board the New York and the
warships behind the Olympia. Every
thing had been cleaned and FURNISHED
from ram to rudder. Noon was ushered
in with a scream of whistles that sound
ed like 10000 craft. This lasted five min
utes, during which enough steam was
wasted to have run an ocean inner 10
the Azores.
The echoes far away had hardly drifted
back from the Staten Island hills when
a sudden impulse seemed to seize the far
reaching mass of tugs and other craft.
Instead of drifting idly round and round
the Warships like ships in an eddy, they
began to steam away to the south In
parallel lines as though some currents
were bearing them out to sea. But as
they vanished in scores towards the Mar
rows there were hundreds more that
swept down from UP the harbor. Then
there was a scurrying home of the white
hooded steam cutters of the warships.
The great boats cranes amidships reach
ed down their gripping hooks and whisked
the pinnaces aboard. Megaphone COM
mands flung across the water brought the
torpedo boats to heel, like the greyhounds