The age-herald., 1899-09-30

eeeeeo oeeoeeeeeoeesesd hideous by their shrieks. They kept com- ing in pairs and half dozens until they lay dozen deep, resisting the charges of the patrol boats in their determination to get up within shouting distance. Their recklessness was amazing. They ran across each others bows, they rubbed against one another, pushed bow on stern until further movement seemed paralyzed by in- eXtricable confusion.
 Admirsi Returns the Mayors Visit
 It was with great difficulty that the police boats could clear passage for the ad- mirafs launch when he went off to return the official visit of the mayor at noon and when he did step into his launch the pat riotic sailors and engineers grabbed their whistle cords and made the bay ring with noise. This was only a prelude to what continued throughout the day, an almost continuous roar of steam whistles.
 The warships at this time lay spck and span ready for the start, their furnished metal flaming in the sun, their sides white as virgin snow. Between them and the shore lay the lew, long, lean, wicked look ing torpedo boats and still inside of them
 
 Aboard the Olympia the marines and sail ors had been severely inspected from the toe of the marine to the jaunty cap of the last sailor. All seemed a little dazed at the prospect before them and no doubt many would have preferred a programme involving duplication of the Manila fight to the ordeal they were to go through. The officers of the fleet did not wear their showy uniforms, but were attired in special undress A." as it Is technically known in the navy. There were no gold epaulets, gold bound beavers and clattering swords aboard This was by the admirafs order and added but another to the many evidences of his modesty. brother and the widow of Captain Gridley who fought with the Olympia in Manila bay, Colonel Franklin Bartlett, former representative in congress from New York and an int- mate friend of the admiral, together with three newspaper men, were the only eiVil- ians aboard. One of the naval guests was the engineer of the Olympia when it led the way past Corregidor island. He was given three rousing cheers as he went for- ward to see the men.
 Signals Fleet to Get Ready
 Tmmediat tely after Admiral Dewey re- turned from Sandy Hook the wi8-wagger on the bridge signalled the fleet to prepare to get under way. The gangways were hauled up and the booms rigged. An old ouarterma ter hurried with a small, dark roll of bunting to the main hand over hand It hung there while the bugle sound ed the call to quarters and the marines Thn1 fl nal to weigh was given a pull on the hal yards opened the roll and spread the four starred flag which Farragut flew as he ran the fort in New Orleans. It was the lag which was presented to Admiral Dewey. As it broke, sailors at their stations and the marines on the quarter deck greeted it with the hip-hip-hooray we got from our ancestors. The flag fioated proudly all through the pageant It is the most pre- cious possession of Farragut's pupils and when it is struck on Monday 1t will proba- bly, be forever, as it is altogether unlikely that Admiral Dewey will ever command another fleet.
 It was exactly l o'clock, the hour fixed for the start, when the fleet with anchors shore-hove began to move They faced about as on pivots and headed for the Hud- son, followed by the long line of vessels in civic parade.
 A Grand Spectacle
 When the ships had strengthened out for their journey across the upper bay the snectacle they made will ever be treas- ured in the memory of those who saw it. In advance of the Olympia was double line of patrol and fireboats. On the port beam of the Olympia was the escorting ship Sandy Hook with the mayor and other disnitaries aboard, and in her wake at in- tervals of 400 yards stretched out a mile long were the great towering warships the armored cruiser New York; the battle ships Indiana and Massachusetts, cruiser Brooklyn second class battleshlp Texas, the old wooden Lancaster. the gunboat Marietta and the Chicago, the flagship of the South Atlantic squadron Old Glory fiuttered from each masthead and tahrail. On each quarter of the New York was the black low-lined torpedo boats, thence on each flank. The rest of the procession trailed out for miles. Slowly and majes- ticly the procession moved.
 Gives Close Attention to Everything
 Admiral Dewey went up on the military bridge as soon as the start made and remained there throughout the parade, heroic figure outlined against the skies for the thousands afioat and ashore. With him