Arizona republican., 1899-09-30

New Ycrk, Sept. 29.-(SpeciaI.)- )-The
 night had been a busy one in the fleet
 of waIships off Tcmpkinsville The last details of the days ceremony were
 hardly settled before the day itself
 broke on a scene of greater activity than that classic anchorage had ever witnessed before. The great vessels Of the squadron swung at their anchor age as they had done fer the past two days, but the crowd of neighboring craft had been swelled past counting. As far as could be seen tte water was a mass of mooring steamers.
 It was moving, shifting picture of tugs. The only stable points in the scene at that early hour were warships They lay like great white grounded beTgs, about which the pack ice turned and Swirled without moving them from their moorings. It was morning of repressed excitement on board the New Ycrk and other ships behind the Olympia. Everything had been cleaned and burnished from ram to ruddar Noon was ushered in with a scream Of whistles that sounded like ten thou sand craft
 The last faraway 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 around and around the warships like ships in an eddy. they began to steam away to the south in parallel lines as though some current were bearing them out to sea. But as they vanished in scores toward the narrows, there were hundreds more that swept down from up the harbor. Then there was scuTrying home of the whit.,-hoOdad steam cutters of the warships The great boat cranes amidships reached down their grappling hooks and whisked the pinnaces aboard.
 Megaphone commands flung across the water brought the torpedo boats to keel like the greyhounds they are, at the Olympias quarter. The brilliant code flags blossOmed like flowers on the Olympia from the bridge to main i top. It was the order to form in col umn. The Brooklyn's pennant snapped ! Aye, aye" from the signal yard, and l duplicate set of flags passed the or der to the Indiana, whence it was flung ! frcm ship to ship down the squadron The speed cones of the Olympia l climbed slowly to her yards as the big cruiser got under way
 The other vessels slowly turned like troop of cavalry, the front toward 1 the narrows. and then fetching graceful sweep, headed back up the harbor toward the battery, the Olympia escorted by the mayors boat, the ] Sandy Hook, in the lead. Back of her at 4O0-yard interval came the New York, then the powerful Indiana and the Massachusetts, the f1eet-footed Brooklyn, the sturdy old Texas. the rakish, yacht-like Dolphin, the old Lancaster, a relic of another naval age, the powerful Chicago. and finally the little Marietta, the rear guard of t. fighting craft.
 Behind stretched the transports. and
 
 tance, the yachts and miscellaneous craft, the hull down the horizon. The evolution began at 1 o'clock and in fifteen minutes the fighting line was ont Up the harbor Ad- mira1 Dewey was going to his own place at the head of a squadron that would have won at need, three battles of Manila bay without stopping for breakfast. TEa head of the column was a broad arrow. Six torpedo boats spread out as the bar, three on a side, from the Olympia's quarter. Outside ,f them flying wedge of police patrol boats formed a great V. whose apex was the Olympia. Thanking them ,head and astern were the harbor fire boats.
 Every foot of the city water front