Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1899-10-05

sion boats on either side when they
attempted 10 crowd the line of march.
A. Sinn0us Marine Monster.
But the pageant back of this power
full vanguard was not limited to a sin
| gle nor a sextuple line OF ships. 1t
was sinuous marine monster, half
a mile wide. whose vertebrae were the
ships of the White squadron and whose
ribs were rows upon rows of every
sort of floating thing that had ever
run by steam in New York harbor-
Thousands viewed the spectacle as
| it moved up past Staten Island, thou
sands more watched it from the an
chored sailing craft that crowded the
Erie basin, and whose spars rose in a
| forest about the foot of Liberty But
! they were forgotten in the mass of
/ humanity that crowded the water
| front of Manhattan Island and filed
every point Of vantage along the Jer-
/ sey shore
Immense Throngs of Spectators.
This feature of the scene first broke
on the view as Castle William roared
! an admiral's salute TO the Olympia eff
the Battery. BY the time the answer
Al S41ONC QlCd NUN lilo
wake of the flagship the immensely Of
the watching crowd dawned on thu
crews of the squadron. Every foot OF
the city water front was a mass OF
humanity. The wharves, the ferry
slips, the roofs of ferry and ware
house rose one above another in solid
blocks of people above the lower struc-
lures of the water front every roof
bore its living freight. Stores, old of
fee buildings and modern sky serapers
were crowded with stands. tiers upon
tiers of seats like an immense fheateT
whose roof was the sky, whose walls
were the surrounding hills and whose
back door was the horizon of the
lower bay. As the pageant moved
majestically into the Hudson it was
seen that the crowd still lined the wa
ter front and housetops, thicker. If
possible, than ever, and stretching up
the river along the whole line of pa
rade.
On the Jersey Side.
The heights of the Jersey side were
also crowned with parti-colored masses
of people. They were not such an I'M
broken rank as along the wharves Of
the New York side, but wherever the
wooded slopes broke into a clearing
the slope was blackened with people
from crest to water line. There was
no possible way of estimating the
crowd The morning papers declared
there were 100000 visitors in the
city.
The impression conveyed by the
crowded shores was that it would have
taken fully that many in addition to
the local population TO form the con-
course that watched the water pageant.
The spectators might have been COM
puted in army corps, certainly not by
individuals
PandemoHium ReiEned Supreme.
Up the Hudson pandemonium
reigned supreme. Aerial bombs broke
at intervals overhead in puffs of white
smoke, and feathery canopy of steam
hung over the advancing fleet as hun
dreds of steam whistles screamed con-
tinually.
a Storm Threatened.
Here. too, disaster of wind and
rain impended. Storm clouds that had
gathered down the bay followed close
IL the nageant's wake. A sharp wind
bred whitecaps even in the narrow
river. and a few raindrops battered Oh
the deck.
The glare of an angry sky turned
the harbor behind the war ships &c
molten lead upon which the gigantic
figure of Liberty seemed to stand for
a time and was soon swallowed up iii
a bank of gray haze
The Threatening Sky ReIented.
Then the threatening sky relented.
I he sun broke out ahead and painted
across the sullen clouds rainbow
arch that stretched from Manhattan
to the Jersey shore. It seemed a BIZ
of natures art work spread by kind
" miracle at the opportune moment.
beggaring mans more humble efforts
on shore, but forming fitting arch
of triumph beneath which the victo-i-
Gus admiral sailed to his triumphal
anchorage.
Saluted Grants Tomb.
The Old Portsmouth crew manned
the rigging as the Olympia passed, and
off Grants tomb the naval reserves on
the St Marys did the same. Round
the stakeboat the Olympia turned
her guns throbbing a deep
salute to the resting place Of
another national hero.
The other vessels of the White squad |
ron swung around the St Marys in
turn. each salufing the tomb
The Review and Return
The turn of the parade broke the
formation of the police boats beyond |
repair. The war ships doubling back
into the mass of advancing boats
for time serious conse-
quences, but the Olympia and her con-
sorts safely dropped anchor at last in
reversed column and the water |
pageant passed the admiral in review. |
The police boats reappeared as indi- /
and unceremoniously Shout |
dered intruding vessels out of the line |
of march. The official procession and |
its varied following of tugs, launches, |
steam dredges, and excursion boats, |
the St. Marys and came down /
the river in an indistinguishable /
aquatic mob that was still passing long |
after the night illumination had be- |
gun.
PRESIDENTS COUSIN KILLED. |