The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-26

portrait figures as Farragut. Decatur,
Porter and Macdonald. Besides these
there will be medallions of other naval
heroic groupings, each figure, being 12
feet in height More than two cozen OF
Lhe most eTIlclent artists OF New ork M
have been at work upon this arch Tor
some time, and nd while its nominal cost Is
many times that modest figure. On it the
four spandrels over the main arch say
the Atlantic and the Pacific on the one
the other The argument OF such an ar
rangement is, of course, the important
maritime position of New York, as the
doorway OF the new world In addition
TO this arch itself will be surmounted by
ship containing a figure Of victory On the
whole the arch is one of the most beau
IN America, many Of our best artists ana
scuptors having gladly volunteered their
services to their country
Besides this one great arch there have
been smaller affairs of a like kind erect
of the two huge columns which have been
put up in Brooklyn and which may be
It has been estimated that 20,000,O00 yards
of bunting will be in use to celebrate
ton of residence and other buildings have
been given with prodigality that IS un-
les and the clubs and hotels of Man
haitian have expended large sums for dec
ed having invested over $4,000 for the
gala day establishment of their build
flags and the national colors. The great
demand for bunting and turkey red and
Snscfed t69+ eve0 tbe 6rsSeI9t ti'1 nIicae l
viii be d6Ilied before the eeIabratio9s
shall have come and gone. Even hard
ware and grocery stores are now dispens-
ing these gay colored fabrics and estab-
lishments that never before handled such
things are selling hundreds of flags and
emblems.
By no means rne most Insignificant
part OF the programme will be the pyro-
something less than $4,000 viii be Official
ly expended on fireworks it is expected
spent by patriotically inclined citizens
for little pyrotechnical displays of their
of attraction and 1t Is said that the cleo
trical display which will flare up along
tember Is. win be visible in al directions
6nd 6qT oyer Sis 8en 90 e in The b I'D adInirai
read through the darkness the
swing in liquid fire from the center of the
great bridge which, from the distance,
win seem like a vast ,cobweb Of many
be 300 feet in length. Nearly 1000 arc re
lamps will be altght on the bridge on
each of the four towers strong search
lights will be in service, and, taken al
trical display of the kind the world has
Besides the bridge illuminations there
will be equally splendid displays on land.
At the battery there will be stationed
city hail will be weighed down with
enough electric light bulbs to illumine the
whole dark continent and strings of many
from every tower and tr%a aI1o7,+ t i
in front of the hall Tho same designs
will be carried out in connection with the
Brooklyn municipal building decorations-
while two long professions of fire floats
Will parade both the North and East riV-
ers, so if Gothamites do not 20 about
for several weeks suffering from acute
Qphthalmia it will not be the fault of the
Dewey reception committee.
hn
ating ferries. about the harbor have en-
tered enthusiastically into the plan, and
af1oat Will seem like a floating garden
of fairylike lights. Private yachts and
excursion boats will be the same, and
under q rain of rockets and Roman can
dies, the entire lower part of New York
like a jubilant inferno There viii also
be floats laden with hundreds of voices
singing national airs.
Just what plans many of the private
concerns and different individuals intend
to carry out are not yet known as these
are kept secret until the fit and proper
time Tor springing them an aStounded
electrician N Greater New York is at
present working overtime and that
ing the three nights Of the ceiebra fluf to
!lght every child IN the United States to
bed for the next two years
Just how many thousands or rather,
million, people will congregate in Manhat-
tan and line the banks and wharves along
the Hudson and the bay to witness the
return Of Dewey it is impossible to say
Military delega tes are coming all the way
from Texas and Florida and through
out the west Dewey reception clubs have
time trying to arrange for space and ac-
cOmmodation for the great crowds that
Will come east and excursion trains are
announced from all parts of the country.
It has been found that New York can ac-
at pinch and it is felt that many me-
than this number will be here to help vel
come DeWey. Just where they viii all be
slowed away IS a difficult question to
q great deal of doubling up in the city
for a few nights. New York hotels are
the largest and best in the world. but on
this occasion they have been taxed to
their utmost ana already it is no easy
suit has been that the hotel manager has
been forced to call to his assistance the
and boarding house keeper. Lodging
houses and apartment lofts will be in
for accommodation In his wav all fbe
visitors to New York will find accorlmo-
dation of more or less suitable kind. On
the whole it viii be one of the most rep
reSentatively American crowds which
member Of that great army Of 5nfoolzers
Will come intent ON just one thing and
Dewey. He viii be willing to put IN win
q lot Of crowding ana jostling and pat
lent waiting. for he knows that he is
going to see sights the like of which he
viii probably never see again in all his
life. It IS not every day an American
admiral can find a Montijo to blow up,
to make the most of it.
While these celebrations are taking
place all good Americans will remember
that even while we are burning powder
to welcome home a long absent hero
there is still many hundred hero in the
far east The thought of these brave men
who are stiu fighting for their flag and
country will not. however, cast a cloud
over the festivities Of the Olympia s re-
turn; for even though Uncle Sam still has
troubles on his hands those troubles are
of such a nature that their reward and
their compensation will come in the form
of another harvest of heroes. With Dew