The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-30

New York, Sept. 29.-The naval pa
rade from the vantage points of the
warships was an immense marine pic
ture, a water pageant with so little of
incident compared with its great size
that it appealed to the eye as paint
ing rather than a drama.
The vast gathering OF water craft
maintained an average speed OF eight
knots. but so magnificent was its ares
that the impression was one of exceed
ingly slow and stately movement. The
picture was continually changing, but
il melted so slowly and in scch meas
ured rythme from form to form that
the sense Of motion was largely lost. 1t
started under a brilliant sky, passed at
the mouth of the Hudson through the
threat o. an ugly storm, and cmeI ged
through a rainbow arch that stretched
from shore TO shore into dear and
brilliant sunset off the Grant tomb
The night had been = busy one in
the feet of warships off Tampkinsville.
The last details of he days ceremony
were hardly settled before The day itself
broke on a scene OF greater activity
than the classic anchorage had ever
witnessed before.
The Great White Squadron.
The great vessels of the white squad
ron swung at their anchorage DIS for
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 steamers. at WAS
moving, shifting picture Dc tugs. po-
lice boats, fire boats, torpedo boats.
yachts, launches, tramp steamers ana
ocean liners and sailing craft &C every
kind, with big ferry and excursion
boats ploughing their way through the
ruek in mysterious paths that opened
before them and closed again behind
them like the ice of an Arctic foe.
The only stable points in the scene at
the early hour were the warships. They
lay like great white grounded berg,
about which the pack ice turned and
swirleG without moving them from
their mOorings. 1t was a morning of
repressed excitement on board the New
York and the other ships behind the
Olympia. Everything had been cleaned
and FURNISHED from ram to rudder
Movements of the Fleet.
Noon was ushered in with a scream
of whistles that sounded like 10000
craft The last PARKWAY echo 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 war
ships, like chips in an eddy, they began
to steam away to the south in parallel
line as though some current was bear
ing them out to sea. But as they van
ished in scores toward the narrows.
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
ships. The great boat cranes amid
ships reached down their graphing
hooks and whisked the pinnaces
aboard, megaphone commands flung
across the water brought the torpedo
boats 10 keel like the greyhounds they
were, at the Olympia's quarter The
brilliant code flags blossomed like How
ers on the Olympia from bridge to
maintop. II was the order to form in
column. The Brooklyn's pennant
snapped Ave. aye" from the signal
yard, and a duplicate set of flags passed
the order To The Indiana, whence it was
flung from ship 10 ship down the
squadron.
The Olympia Under Way.
The black speed cones of the Olympia
climbed slowly to her yards as the big
cruiser got under way. The other yes
sells slowly turned, like q troop of cav
airy, squadron front toward the mar
rows. and then fetching a graceful
sweep, headed back up the harbor to-
ward the battery, the Olympia, escort