Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-10-05
BIG NAVAL PARADE.
PAGEANT UP THE HUDSON IN
DEWEVs HONOR.
Grand Display Witnessed by Cheering
Millions = Flagship OF the Living
Hero Pays Tributs to Grant-scenes
that Will BE Historic.


AT New York Friday the greatest sailor
in the world reviewed the greatest parade
in American history. 1t was triumph
for Dewey, for the navy and for the ma
tion. The victor of the seas sailed up
the Hudson between miles Of enthusiasts
tic Americans to Gen. Grants tomb and
saluted the ashes Of the victor ON land.
The admiral stood for hours beneath the
ensign OF Farragut and lifted his cap to
the hundreds Of thousands who 'cheered
him.
The head of the naval column was a
broad arrow. Six torpedo boats spread
out as the bar, three ON a side from the
Olympias quarter. Outside Of them a
flying wedge of police patrol boats form
ed great Y, the apex of which was the
Olympia. Thanking them, ahead and
astern, were the harbor fireboats, spout
ing great columns of water that turned
threateningly toward the excursion boats
on either side when they attempted 70
crowd the line OF march.
Estimates place the number of people
who witnessed the naval parade and the
Examinations mt more than 3,OOO,000. All
the harbor glowed with red fire during
the evening hours. Lanterns finging
their colorcd flashes from on high, cleo
tric Examinations Of the Brooklyn bridge,
and scintillating bursts of fireworks were
signals Of national pride. Saturday the
admiral reviewed more than 10000 fight
ing men OF the navy and army, with the
crew OF the Olympia Mt their head
Not since Noah built the ark have so
many people been afloat at one time. For
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lem to the Jersey coast was packed with
water craft till it looked like a log jam
in a Wisconsin river. The big white
warships were mere incidents. They were
surrounded, overpowered and obscured by
a countless swarm Of smaller vessels. All
the wise men of Gotham and 100000
more went to sea in tub, after every
thing else that would float had been filed.
George Dewey of Montpelier, VT, stand
ing upon the bridge Of the Olympia, was
the center of everything.
All that is mysterious and fascinating
about the life Of men who go down into
the sea in ships was in evidence. There
were historic battleships, big, square
rugged sailing ships, coasting sehooners
which know every reef from Sandy Hook
to Portland, ocean liners, the greyhounds
Of the sea, and even an old-time Yankee
whaling brig, black and smelling Of whale
oil. But il the Hudson was filed, the
shores on either side were covered and
blotted out by the people. Chicago day
at the Worlds Fair was lonesome by
comparison. From the Battery to the
Grant mausoleum at 123d street, and
even beyond it, ran solid walls of black
and white, constantly shifting and NOV
ing, in which it was estimated more than
100000 people had part.
Olympia Brings the Climax.
The climax of the day came when the
Olympia, firing national salute as 1t
passed the tomb of Gen. Grant, swung to
its anchor, and ,one after the other, the
warships made the best of their way
down stream. Dewey stood on the bridge
of his flagship, as the New York, flying
Rear Admiral Simpsons flag, swept by
at the head of the line Of fighting ships.
For an instant the silent majesty of the
great fighting machine awed the crowd,
then the fleet of screeching tugs broke
the restraint and swept round the Olym-
pia again like a pack of hungry wolves.
At night the skies were blooming with
fiery flowers. Great searchlights flashed
from warships and from the towers of
tall buildings, while in the center OF
Brooklyn bridge, in letters thirty-two feet
high, the Welcome to Dewey" was bla-
zoned against the darkness. 1t was a
great day for the sailorman. From a
thousand masts swung the gay flags
which spell, according to the international
code, welcome to the admiral|