The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-06
MILLIONS GREET DEWEY.
THE HERO or MANILA REACHES
AMERICA.
Preparations for the Greatest Popular
Demonstration Probably Ever Given
an American-I0OO,O 900 Strangers.

NEW YORK September 26-The
Olympia, flecked here and there with
the rust of a long voyage, passed from
the monotonous tossing of open sea
and dropped anchor inside Sandy Hook
at 1880 o'clock i'm the morning.
As she did so, the great guns on the
Ordnance Station at the Hook thun-
dered out the II mighty notes of well
come which are due an admiral and
the long, black-mu2zled dogs, whose
bites made an end of Spanish rule i'm
the Philippines, barked in answer.
Tired men, who tomorrow will find
honors that they never dreamed of,
strained their eyes to catch through
the fog and mist which enveloped the
bay, the low-lying lines of land, to dis
cover in some momentary lift of the
white curtain, some habitatiOn of a
COuntryman-sOme place that some
American called home.
NEW YORK, September 2S.-New
York was decked brilliantly today in
honor of the gallant sailor who is wait
ing at her gate. Had an ocean of col
or swept through the city, it's ebblng
tide could not have dyed the streets
more brilliantly. Hundreds of miles of
red, white and blue bunting cover the
noble facades of Broadway and Fifth
avenue, and countless flags flutter over
the town. Not even the churches have
escaped the universal decorations. The
doors and gothic windows of Old Trim
ity, on Lower Broadway, are grace
fully 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, lies shrOuded in the Silken
folds of the flag for which he died.
\ million visitors are here to par
tcipate in the glorious celebration.
Every road is pouring in a steady
ha
morning and night, the surface and
elevated cars are filled to overlooking
and the hotel corridors are jammed
with strangers. The gayly appareled
soldiers of many States, who are to
take part in the land parade on Satur-
day began troopng in today and there
was no hour when uniformed men were
not moving in some quarter of the city
to the sound of martial music. Sailors
and marines, ashore from the big
fighting machines, helped to swell the
crowd moving in all directions. Uni
formed members of the STATS of arrlv-
ing Governors were everywhere.
NEW YORK, September 2S.-George
Dewey, hero, never in his whole life put
in a buster day than today. 1t was a
strangely diversified day, too, in which
the business of being an Admiral and
the pleasure of being a hero followed
each other in swift alienation.
From mid-forenoon until the sun fell
the Admiral shone in gold lace, cooked
hat and epauets. 1t all made him Of
ficialy fit to welcome the state and ma
tional dignitaries, who in like trappings
went to do honor to him, but it did not
hinder him from doing kindly honors to
humber folks. He left high officials
standing bearheaded while he kissed the
| little babies. He stopped in the midst
| of toasting a Governor to pass his glass
of champagne up through a skylght to
a woman who knelt on the hard deck
| to gaze at him. And through all the
changing duties of a trying day he was
| the same Dewey, prompt, frank, demo-
cratic, gracious, but always the digni-
| fled Dewey pictured on the first day of
his arrival home.
The days first ceremony was the pre-
sentation of the bronze Congress med
ais to the $50 men who fought under
! Commodore Dewey's oue-star red flag
in Manila Bay. Captain Lamberton, of
! bushy whiSkers and rosy face, pinned
| the priceless trinkets to the blue JAG
kets, each tar coming forward as his
name was called. Even the Chinese
| servants of the Admiral came in for
! decorations, and the crew cheered as
! the small images of Dewey were pinned
upon the Celestials' breasts.
| WASHINGTON, September 2S.-Ad-
miral Dewey is assured of a fine home
| in Washington as a free gift from the
American people. Subscriptions receiv-
| ed today brought the fund up to about
! $4S, 900, and there is no doubt it will
reach the $4,000 mark set by the COM
mittee.
NEW YORK, September 2S.-Twelve
hundred strong, the Peoples Choral
Union, led by Frank Damrosch, paid a
tribute of song tonight to the sea he
roes. About 700 of the singers were
women. In the steamer Warwick they
left the pier at Beekman Street at 7:40
p. m, and forty minutes later the War
wick lay to fifty yards from the stern
of the Olympia.