The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-10-05
BIG NAVAL PARADE.
PAGEANT u? THE HUDSON IN
DEWEYS HONOR.
Grand Display Witnessed by Cheering
Millions - Flagship of the Livins
Hero Pays Tribute to Grant-Sceues
that will Be Historic.

AT New York Friday the greatest sailor
in the world reviewed the greatest parade
in American history. 1t was a triumph
| for Dewey, for the navy and for the ma
| ton. The victor of the seas sailed up
| the Hudson between miles of enthusias-
| tic Americans to Gen. Grants tomb and
saluted the ashes Of the victor on land.
| The admiral stood for hours beneath the
ensign of Farragut and lifted his cap TO
| the hundreds of thousands who cheered
| him.
The head of the naval column was
| broad arrow. Six torpedo boats spread
| out as the bar, three on side from the
| Olympia's quarter. Outside of them
| flying wedge of police patrol boats form
ed great V, the apex of which was the
Olympia. Thanking them, ahead and
astern, were the harbor fireboats, spout
ing great columns of water that turned
! threateningly toward the excursion boats
on either side when they attempted 70
crowd the line of march.
Estimates place the number of people
! who witnessed the naval parade and the
illuminations at more than 5000 900. All
the harbor glOwed with red fire during
tht tNtHtilS
their colorcd flashes from on high, cleo
trio illuminations of the Brooklyn bridge,
and scintillating bursts of fireworks were
signals of national pride. Saturday the
admiral reviewed more than 10000 fight
ing men of the navy and army, with the
crew of the Olympia at their head.
Not since Noah built the ark have so
many people been afoat at one time For
full hour the mighty Hudson from Har-
lem to the Jersey coast was packed with
water craft till it looked like log jam
in Wisconsin river. The big white
warships were mere incidents. They were
surrounded, overpowered and obscured by
countless swarm of smaller vessels. All
the wise men of Gotham and 100000
more went to sea in tub, after every
thing else that would float had been filled.
George Dewey of Montpelier, VT, stand
ing upon the bridge of the Olympia, was
the center of everything.
All that is mysterious and fascinating
about the life of men who go down into
the sea in ships was in evidence There
were historic battleships, big, square
rugged sailing ships, coasting schooners
which know every reef from Sandy Hook
to Portland, ocean liners, the greyhounds
of the sea. and even an old-time Yankee
whaling brig, black and smelling of whale
oil. But if the Hudson was filed, the
shores on either side were covered and
blotted out by the people Chicago day
at the Worlds Fair was lonesome by
comparison. From the Battery to the
Grant mausoleum at 123d street, and
even beyond it, ran solid walls of black
and white, constantly shifting and NOV
ing, in which it was estimated more than
6,OOO,0 900 people had part
Olympia Brings the Climax.
The climax Of the day came when the
Olympia, firing national salute as it
passed the tomb of Gen. Grant, swung to
its anchor, and ,one after the other, the
warshipS made the best of their way
down stream. Dewey stood on the bridge
of his flagship, as the New York, flying
Rear Admiral Simpsons flag, swept by
at the head of the line of fighting ships
For an instant the silent majesty of the
great fighting machine awed the crowd,
then the feet of screeching tugs broke
the restraint and swept round the Olym-
pia again like pack of hungry wolves.
At night the skies were blooming with
fiery flowers. Great searchlights flashed
from warships and from the towers of
tall buildings, while in the center Of
Brooklyn bridge. in letters thirty-two feet
high, the Welcome to Dewey" was bla-
zoned against the darkness. 1t was a
great day for the sailorman. From
thousand masts swung the gay flags
which spell, according to the international
code, welcome to the admiral.