Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-10-05
A CONTINUOUS OVATION.
Shores of North River ResOund
with ROars of Welcome.
MILLIONS SAW THE PAGEANT
The First Day of the Dewey Celebra-
zion at New York was Record
Breaker i'm Point of Enthusiasm and
Size of the Crowds that Pa rticipated

barrie sDlendor; no victorious king or
prince coming home from a successful
war ever received such u magnificent
ovation as overwhelmed Admiral Dew
ey yesterday as he stood on the bridge
of the Olympia at the head of mag
nificent fleet of steel thunderers of the
deep, followed by Il thousand vessels
of peace, each black with people, and
sailed over the water of the upper bay
and up the broad pathway of the sun
lit river, whose banks were gay with
millions of flags and streamers dane
ing in the wind. The sky was blue,
the water rippled under the wind that
held out flags straight and jauntv, and
the wharves, piers, rocky heights and
grassy knolls were black with frantic,
enthusiastic people, who strivet weak
ly to make their shouts heard above
the perfect bcdlam of footing whistles
that accompanied the admiral ashore
and afloat.
AS the tomb of Grant on Riverside
drive was reached the feet paid its
tribute to the memory of the great
warrior with a national salute of 21
guns. The fleet then anchored and
reviewed the almost endless process
sion of crafts that steamed past, all
40 burdened with humanity that they
looked as if they would turn turtle be-
lore they got back to their piers. To-
ward the end the parade became disor-
yanized and it took hours for the hotil-
la to get by. Darkness at last brought
relief to the tired admiral who had
stood on the bridge for six hours bow
ng his acknowledgements to the stem
:orian expression of homage.
New York has never witnessed be-
fore anything approaching this won
lerful, remarkable demonstration. The
Columbian naval parade. the dedication
Of Grants tomb and the reception of
the North Atlantic squadron last fall,
all pale before this gigantic ovation
20 the sailor who in single morning
destroyed an eDemy's feet without the
loss of a man or q ship. 1t is not
beyond the mark to say that 100000
people viewed the pageant from shore
and that a quarter of a million were
ifloat
When the parade began the Olym-
pia's speed cones climbed to her yards
as the cruiser got under way. The other
vessels slowly turned toward the Mar
rows and then headed back up the
aarbor toward the Battery, the Olym-
pia escorted by the mayors boat in
the lead. Back of her came the New
York, then the Indiana and Massachu-
setts, the Brooklyn, the Texas, the
Dolphin, the Lancaster, a relic of am
other naval age; the Chicago and final
lv the little Marietta, the rear guard
Of the fighting crafts. Behind
stretched the transports and further
still, almost lost in the distance, the
yachts and miscellaneous crafts. The
evolution began at l o'clock and in Is
minutes the fighting line was straight
ened out. Admiral Dewey was going
to his own at the head of squadro6
that would have won three battles of
Manila bay without stopping for break
fast.
The head of the column was broad
arrow. Six torpedo boats spread out
as the barb, three on side from the
Dlympia's quarter. Outside of them
flying wedge of police patrol boats
formed q great V, whose apex was the
Olympia. Flanking them, ahead and
aStern. We're the harbor fire boats,
spoutinp great columns of water that
turned threateninglv toward the eX
curSion boats on either side when they
attempted to crowd the line of ;narch.
Put the pageant back of this powerful
vanguard was not limited to a single
nor to scXtuple line of ships. l.
was IL sinuous marine monster, half
mile wide, whose vertebrae were the
ships of the white squadron and whose
ribs were rows upon rows of every
sort of floating thing.
ITD 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 feet as
hundreds of steam whistles screamed
continually. Storm clouds that had
gathered down the bay followed close
in the pageant's wake. \ sharp wind
bred white caps in the river and few
rain drops battered on the decks. The
glare of an angry sky turned the har-
Dor behind the warships to molten
lead. upon which the gigantic figaro
of Liberty seemed to stand for time
and was soon swallowed up in n bank
Of gray haze. Then the threatening
sky relented. The sun broke out
ahead and painted acrcss the clouds a
rainbow arch that stretched from Man
haitian to the Jersey shore. 1t seemed
a bit of natures art work spread by 81
kindly miracle at the opportune mo-
ment. beggaring mans humble efforts
on shore, but forming a fitting arch
of triumph beneath which the victor.
ious admiral sailed to his anchorage.
The old Portsmouth's crew manneG
the rigging as the Olympia passed, and
of Grants tomb the naval reserves on
the St. Mary did the same. Roun1
,he stake boat the Olympia turned
smartly, her guns throbbing a salute
to the resting place of another national
hero. The other vessels of the white
squadron swung around the st. Mary
in turn, each saluting the tomb. The
Olympia and her consotts dropped an
chor and the water pageant passed the
admiral in review.