The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-06
i American Citizens Gather to
Honor Admiral Dewey.
METROPOLIS GORGEOUS IN CuLOR
The Nations Hero Modsstly Re
ceives he Epcom,ums ofa
Graf. fuI People.

NEW IOhk, sept Zb.-DeWey Is
home Just as silently as he stole by |
Corregidor island and the Spanish |
guns at the outer Manila harbor on |
the morning OF May 1st last year he
OF the ocean this morning into the !
outer harbor of new York. -
There is Dewey way Of doing things
and it is different from any other
mans way. Washington and New
York agreed last night that the Ad-.
miral must be fully 500 miles on the
Atlantic coast, when. as a matter of
fact, steaming at the rate of nine knots
an hour. he was but hundred miles
away. The people were at their
breakfast tables, the city was hardly
awake, when up from the Hook came
the message: Olympia sighted" The
sensation was as great as IL II were
time of war and the signals had fash
ed: THE enemy's fleet in sight" Rain
fell during the night and the morning
was cloudy on Sandy Hook was veil
upon veil OF drifting mist. The shift
ing winds had made the sea nasty and
| it promised to be stormy day. Fish
ling craft and Observation-Disclosures
schooners miles out caught through
the gloom faint glimpse OF what they
took to be a huge steamer slowly work
ing her way into the harbor. Trhe. she
flew a little blue flag on which were
| four stars but in the half light and
half darkness II was impossible for
them to make out that she was the
famed Olympia. They passed her. not
knowing that she vas bearing home to
a grateful people the greatest sea
Tighter of modern times.
Somewhat different this from the
Homecoming OF Caesar, Titus or Ma
poleon. No galleons in the train of
this swift-winged cruiser. bearing
weeping captives and the plunder OF
the lands and homes OF other people:
no marks of triumph over the Spanish
dead left buried In the waters OF Ma
lnila bay; no pomp of entrance with the
prffed-up consciousness of victory
lust the plain, simple homecoming ot
George Dewey in the same unostenta-
ltious manner that he departed months
ago.
AT Sandy Hook lookout the ever
, vigilant watchman. eager to- detect the
first sign of incoming vessels. was
: straining his eyes to the east when into
his line OF vision came the gray out
lines of two stacks from which was
belching black smoke. Now out of the
. mist came the PROV of ship far diff
lferent in contour from that OF an ocear
liner. To his mate the watcher shout
ed: That's man-of-wari" Then M
hesitated for moment before he fairly
yelled: BY -. it's the Olympia,
He could not say more. He was q.
dumfounded as were the citizens %
New York when his message came q
S them: Dewey and the Olympia OF
e Sandy Hook and coming in"
At Scotland Light the night watcher
were trembling with excitement. The.
: could scarcely believe their eyes n
{ they wandered over the blue Admiral
flag and realized that the Olympia wa
upon them with the same suddennes
that she descended upon Montojo on
May morning not so long ago. Blu
there she was, the water foaming a
her bow, the jack tars skipping Owe
{ the deck. the Admiral and his dog Bo
above the deck and Lamberton by hi
= side. One OF the watchers turned tn
: steam siren whistle loose and its Will
y scream apprised all on board the olym
s pia that they were recognized and vel
!. lcomed. Then the big bell OF the Scot
q land Light began to boom and IN
lcrew of the ligntship rushed on dec
half clad, madly waving their arms an
cheering. These toilers OF the Sc
e were the first to greet Dewey. and judg
). ing by his nature. he probably appre
e lated their greeting more than tha
vhich swollen Tammany gave him 4
he afternoon. The Mackay-Benne.