New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-30
THE OLYMPIA LEADS A HOST
TO HONOR THE ADMIRAL.
WARSHIPS. YACHTS AND ALL MANNER
OF CRAFT FORM \ LINE THAT EA'
TENDS FOR MILES S-MAJESIlO
COURSE FROM TOMPK1NS-
VILE TO GRANTS TOMB.

Lavish Honor showorei all her stars.
And afiiuent Fortune cmptied all her horrl
Yea. let all good things await
Him who cares not TO be great
But ne saves. serve the State.
There is a new law for those Americans who
have won great fights for their country abroad
When such a great warrior comes home he must
90, with due attendance 20 the north Of the
Island Of Manhattan. and he must salute the
great warrior who sleeps there The great war
rior who sleeps does not see him who has
watched and waited and fought and kept the
country safe. h. watched ard waited
and fought and kept it. he does not hear his
salute; he does not know that he is passing by.
Al least, the part Of him that lies there does
not and hear and know. He does not answer
the salute. But cannon voices answer for him.
From the floating forts Of iron upon the river
and from the pile Of granite upon the hill the
deep throats Of war shout the greetings of peace.
When this IS done the conqueror may pass
his way and go where he will
A year ago came two rear adrnirais-s Sampson
and Schley-from the battle where they had
destroyed a hostile feet. TO salute the resting
place Of General Grant An admiral came
yesterday 10 90 the same observance Ho haa
come half way round the world, from where he
had fought such a fight as never was fought
before. and where he had upheld the dignity Of
the flag Of the United states as 1t seldom was
upheld before in a foreign land. He came en-
deared to his countrymen no other man OF
the last quarter Of a century has been. They
have seen in him more than in any other the
type OF all that they should wish 10 in
themselves and in one another the type Of al
that Is fine and deep and true and brave in tie
American character.
And so the people OF the United states wait,i
for his homecoming with eagerness. that they
might make him sec how they valued his ser
vices in their behalf. and, Ear more his strong
and true and gallant and gracious character
as their representative. befor, themselves ami
before the world II the celebration OF yester-
day and to-day does not moan that. It is a mer
gigantic picnic, and all the money that is spent
on it IS wasted.
LAST YEARS PAGEANT AND THIS YEARS.
Those who saw the water pageant Of last year
and the one of yesterday could scarcely fail 10
be impressed with one Of the manifest differ
ences between them. Last year seven warships
all the armored craft of the United States
Navy-hled up the Bay and up the river be-
fore the mutitudes gathered to greet them and
under all the rejoicing and through all tho
cheers there ran feeling Of deep awe. and there
,F ,fd truc-
ton and Of death that gave solemnity 10 all
the triumph The ships looked Ike fierce dealers
OF Justice and death. where justice should de-
mand death They gray and dark They
had the scars of battle upon them Their faes
were battle lags Where the water Tapped away
from their hulls the green weeds Of the tropio
seas were seen cinging, they had had no time TO
be spruce and dapper. They We're working ships.
fresh from rough work All about them spoke
Of guardianship for their people and of destruc-
ton to their foes And when the people saw
them they thought. even while they cheered. OF
the few dead Of their own and ~ the many dead
OF the enemy.
But the ships u yesterday! Every one OF
them was CLEANING white In neatness, IN
beauty-as far as a warship can he beautiful
and that Is sometimes pretty iar -'hey were ike
rch mems EacHtS. i"e'e "''V '''' ' -
many rich mon IN the parade but no' one OK
them better kept. better groomed neater'
trimmer finer than the ships OF the Navy VINCE
were built not for pleasure bu, for giving and
taking hard blows
THE BIRTH OF THE NEW NAVY
7, ,s strange tha. foreigners should ever have