Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-29
PRoGRAM.

PROGRAM.
New York, Sept. 29.-The following is
the order in which the events of today
in the. Dewey celebration occurred:
10:30-Mayor Van Wyck called upon
Dewey on the Olympia and Roosevelt
left the pier on the state boat, Mon
mouth. .
1-Boats carrying the mayors COM
mittee, heads Of the city departments
and municipal assembly left piers.
n:30-Dewey returned the mayors
call.
12-Dewey returned to the Olympia
p. m.-The naval parade started
from quarantine.
2:30-Olympita reached anchorage off
Grants tomb and review of the parade
by the admiral was begun.
Dismissal of naval parade.
p. m.-Grand display of fireworks
will begin.
New York, Sept. 29.-The arrange
ments for the two days celebration ars
completed. The great arch at Madison
Square, modelled after the triumphay
arch OF Titus and upon which the most
famous sculptors of America have Law
ished their genius, is practically fin
ished and stands superb tribute to the
nations hero. 1t is more beautiful
than the arch in Rome.
New York is decked brilliantly in
honor of the gallant sailor who is wait
ing at her gate. Hundreds of miles of
red. white and blue bunting cover the
noble facades OF Broadway and Fifth
avenue, and million flags flutter over
the town. NotHeven the churches havd
escaped the universal decorations. The
doors and gothic windows of Old Trim
ity on lower Broadway are gracefully
draped with the national colors and in
ancient Trinity graveyard the tomb OF
that gallant sailor who, dying, issued
the command not to give up the ship,
Hes shrouded in the silken folds OF the
flag for which he died.
Two million visitors are here to par
ticipate in the glorious celebration.
Every road is pouring in a steady
stream, until the streets are crowded
morning and night. the surface ana
elevated cars are filled to overflowine
and the hotel corridors are jammed
with visitors. The gaily appareled SOL
diers of many states who are to take
part in the land parade on Saturday,
began trooping in last night and there
was no hour when uniformed men were
not moving in some quarter of the city
to the sound of fife and drum and horn.
Sailors and marines ashore from the
big fighting machines helped to swell,
the crowd. trooping in all directions
Uniformed members of the staff of ar
irving governors We're everywhere.
Long before sunrise the blue jackets
on Dewey.s flag ship were hard at work
washing down the decks and preparing
the flagship for the most magnificene
naval demonstration that has ever
taken place in an American port. Like
activity was in progress on the other
sea fighters riding at anchor below the
Olympia. The scene was glorious one
as the suns rays glistened on the white
sides of the big vessels and black hulls
of the small ones. The weather coul6
not have been more beautiful. There
pleasantly cool. with preeze from the
south just strong enough to straighten
out the flags
AS the morning advanced launches
darted from vessel to vessel, CARRYING
officers and orders. The shore of staten
Island and hills back OF 1t were black
with people, who cheered heartily as
the flags were raised.
At O'Clock the squadron got under
way. 1t was an inspiring moment when
the column started up the flarbor and
the great naval parade began to be a
reality. First came the police boat
which was the apex of the wedge
spreading out to the fire boats. The
steamer Sandy Hook. with the mayor
and representatives of the city, steamed
alongside the Olympia, Dewey's flag
ship, on the port side. After the Olym-
pia came the cruiser New York. Samp-
sons flagship, with her big turrets and
guns, appearing like a moving fortress,
as 1t followed in the wake of the ad-
miral's ship. The Chicago. Howison's
flagship. brought up the rear of the COL
umn. Following the New York were the
battleships Indiana and Massachu-
setts. In the rear of these modern en-
gines of war came the Lancaster. a
type of the old navy vessels. Then fol-
lowed the gunboat Marietta. with the
auxiliary cruiser Scorpion behind.
Abreast steamed the torpedo boats Por-
ter. Dupont. Ericsson, Winslow and
Gushing, and following them came the
natty revenue cutters, Mining. Algon-
quin, Gresham. Window and Onondaga.
Next in line wese the transports sedg-
wick, Mcpherson and Mcclellan, and
after them came the hospital ship Mis-
souri,. !.
At the head of the naval parade the
boats were placed in the following or
der:
Police boat Patrol.
- oeets New Yorker and Van Wyck.