The daily sentinel., 1899-10-14
DOING HONOR.
Mrs. Dollie Bates, Formerly of
This City Writes a Graphic
Description of that Won
derful Triumph.

for publication. The communication is
well known in this city, where she re-
sided for several years of her very young
womanhood. t..
The letter and the description con-
tained therein give fine idea of the
great naval and land parade from an eye
witness Mrs. Bates position on board
tae steamer Republic giving her fine OPP
portunities OF observation. The letter
tells more than the everyday newspaper
descriptions and will doubtless be read
with great interest. Mrs. Bates was
very fortunate in being present in New
York on that great occasion.
New York City,
October 2nd, 1899.
Dear Walter:
Knowing you to be an enthusiastic ad-
mirer of Dewey, am going to give you
some idea of how he was received in
New York,
or course you have read something of
the preparations made for his coming,
but one can scarcely conceive OF the
amount of labor put in on decorations,
On Broadway magnificent arch was
erected in his honor and named the
dewey Arch" I went down about
once week during it's construction and
the progress was wonderful. 1t is the
most marvellous piece Of workmanship l
ever saw.
also saw the floats, peace" and
"Victory" during their construction and
they were magnificent on the water.
The illuminations on Brooklyn bridge
we're beautiful. 1t appeared one blsze
of incandescent lights outlining on one
side dewey" in colored lights, each let
ter being about three feet high. 1t
could be read at a great distance.
The World building, and also the
Journal and Herald were strung with
lights from the first story to the top, and
beautiful flag made of the colored in
candescents. hung out from the highest
point of the World building.
The whole city viewed from an obser
vatory Friday night was a brilliant pic
ture and sight shall never forget.
We were fortunate in being on board
the Republic (excursion boat the day of
the Naval parade We we're on the wa
ter all day and were in the second divi
sion Of the parade. At noon every boat
on the water whistled prolonged salute
to the Olympia, which fired a response.
The parade then moved up the river
to Grants tomb. 123rd street, where the
large ships anchored and fired the thir-
teen guns, a salute which is the custom
in all naval demonstrations. We sailed
my field glasses could see the admiral
very distinctly.
Most Of our large battleships and
cruisers were in the parade and the fol
lowing Sunday, as they remained an
chored at the Tomb, we were allowed to
go aboard and see the big guns. 1t was
all 30 wonderful to a country bred, like
myself, that fancied l was under some
SPELL
l am sure shall never see more
Deautllul blRnC tuan tue SUNSET Oh tuo
Hudson river at the close OF the naval
parade. The beautiful colorings of the
sunset dancing on the waves and casting
reflections on tho ships and hundreds of
boats formed grand panorama.
The illuminations and fireworks in the
evening were finer than anything ever
seen before in New York. SO they tell
me. The ships were illuminated from
stem to stern with incandescents out
lining every curve and casting reflections
on the Hudson until 1T looked like
river of fire. Millions of people witness
ed this from the banks.
On Saturday the land parade was
equally as fine. 1t was to start prompt
ly at eleven o'clock and at nine We start
ed for our seats on 72nd. street. We
thought several times we would have to
turn back, the crowds were 80 dense all
along the line Of march that those hav
ing seats on grand stands were unable
to reach them without . policeman to
make a way through the crowd. The
people were clubbed on all sides by pol
ice to keep order in the crowds. We
didn't reach our seats until IL o'clock,