The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-03
DEWEY IS WELCOMED BY
PRESIDENT M'KINLEY
Visits the National Capital and Is An HOlOred
Guest at the Executive Mansion.
Washington Goes Wild Over the Hero Who Receives the
Greatest Reception Ever Accorded An Individual.

Washington. Oct. 2,-The home-com-
ing Of Admiral Dewey-for heucefarth
the national capital is to be his home
was made the occasion for the great
est tribute ever paid by Washington to
any Individual After the preliminary
welcome tn New York, itself unsur-
passed in its kind. it remained for the
highest and greatest in the official
world to hold out the hand OF greeting
g the famous admiral and to Join with
the people who are to be his fellow
citizens I'M bidding him welcome.
Inc citizens had made every pFepara-
ton to make the occasion worthy of
their hero The decorations were elab-
CRATE. Pennsylvania avenue was one
mass Of bunting along the entire line
Of march from the station to the White
House. and not content with this, few
private citizens failed TO make some
display of color on their residences.
Unique designs in fairy lamps dotted
the horizon; great searchlights threw
broad beams of bright light across the
blue sky on a. clear October evening,
and the stately capitol stood revealed
IN its queenly beauty in the powerful
rays of many concentrated lights. The
same device was used effectively in the
stood within the range of vision of the
distinguished party which stood to re-
view the great thr0ug Of people which
passed slowly along beneath the PROV
of the white Olympia, much projected
in bold relief from the stand at the
head of Pennsylvania avenue wherein
stood Dewey. the central figure of the
demonstration.
Two Famous Orders.
On the facade of the newly completed
government postoffice famed forth two
inscriptions, the one Teciting the fam
Gus message of the president, directing
Dewey, then thousands of miles away
in the far east, to go forth to destroy
the Spanish fleet, and the other setting
out the famous ad1mirals direction to
when you are ready, Gridley," which
marked an epoch in the history of the
United States.
Twelve thousand members Of civic or
CARNATIONS paraded,. besides tens of
thousands of organized citizens,
and in al roar of cannon rockets and
the blaze OF red fire and the thuuderous
cheering Of the pcpulace and the warm
greeting of the. head of the nation,
Dewey came to the national capital to
a welcome such as has not been known
here hitherto.
His Journey from New York had been
one continuous ovation, limited i'm its
intensity only by the density of popu-
lation. The decorated special train,
which left the Pennsylvania railroad
ferry slip in New Jersey at lao O'Clock
in the afternoon, was fully in keeping
with it's distinguished passenger. 1t
was made no of five cars, the PENN
syIvania's prize Specialize Atlanta, a
dining car, a combination smoker and
three parlor cars for the acc0umoda-
ton of the Washington reception conn
mittee.
The Trip From New York.
The special was given clear track
and the run to Washington was made
without a stop, except at Gray s Ferry,
on the outskirts of Philadelphia, where
engines were changed and a new train
crew came aboard.
Almost Immediately after going
aboard the train, the admiral retired
to his private car for luncheon, which
was served for six-Adnniral Dewey, his
som George, his brother and Wife, Cap
tain Lamberton and Lieutenant Brum-
by. Thereafter the admiral lay down
and tried to get little sleep, but this
was impossible, owing to the cQntin-
uous ovation along The line.
Tt was said by the railroad officials
and trainmen that the ovation during
the run from New York to Washington
was the most remarkable demOnstTa-
ton that has ever taken place along
the line. Every town turned Cat its full
population, and every house and cross
roads settlement was turned inside OUT
to see the flying special pass.
1t had been the intention Of the we'll
meaning committee to notify all the
towns along the route at what hour the
special might be expected. but the train
dispatcher at Jersey City headed thesn
off and offered a hasty protest, saying
that it was next to impossible to get
the special out of town. and that notice
in advance would probably block the
tracks
Crowds Were On Hand.
Apparently, however. the railroad
telegraph operators had passed the tip
along, and the crowds were ON hand as
though they had been sent for
A bare stop was made at Princeton,
where young Dewey had been a sCu-
dent, and the admiral went to the
platform for a minute. merely say
| ing to the boys that he was
| pleased with the reception they had
given him. IT was such reception as
an emperor might have envied, every
\ student of the college town being III
evidence, as we'll as the whole popuIa-
| ton of the place. while college .yelfs re-
sounded above the rumble Of the de-
parting train,
Admiral Dewey was particularly
/ touched all along the line BY the Num-
Der of children who turned out To- see
him. They formed a. very large part of
the crowd in every town. and wherever
lSthere was a. school house the children
Ehad evidently been given a special re-
cess to come out and cheer the train.
There was another large crowd OF chill
dren AZ Baltimore, and Admiral Dewey,
who had come til the rear platform for
| the sixth or seventh time on the. trip,
said to the train master who was
standing by him. that he felt more
touched and cOmplimented By the at
tention of the children than bv almost
any other thing that had happened
since his return to America.
Salute Of Steam Whistles.
All along the line every train. freight
and passenger, that passed the special
saluted it with long drawn blast OF the
whistle and in all the larger towns,
where the flyer slowed down within the
city limits, there was a continual roar
| Of steam from factories, machine shops
| and the shifting engines and trains on
| the sidings.
Every engineer seemed to have been
bottling up steam for an hour in adj
vance and hung out of his cab window
with his hand on the whistle cord. while
| the fireman. hanging to the hand rails
and running board, swung the bell as
though ringing for a crossing.
| Chester and Wilmington seemed tc
have come down to the depots er