The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-30
SCENES IN NEW YORK CITY.
Visiting Soldiers Participated in the
shouting.

Shouting.
New York. Sept 29.-The throngs scat
tered in Battery Park surged toward the
sea wall to-day when il was announced
that the Olympia was in sight with Ad
miral Dewey on board.
From this time on the excitement Of the
crowds increased and when the guns OF
the Olympia began to answer the sa.utes
from Castle William and Bedloe's Island
the shouting and general uproar at the
Battery defed description. The Olympia
passed close enough to the Battery for her
men and guns TO be seen plainly and the
thousands also recognized the figure of the
admiral on the bridge and broke into such
an outburst of cheering as has probably
never fioated over the waters of the bay
before. The admiral lifted his cap and
bowed repeatedly.
In the crowd were many of the visiting
soldiers who are to take part in to-mor-
rows land parade. There was more than
800 of them in one group and their shout
ing would have done credit to five times
their number.
Thousands gathered on Governors ISL
and.
The visitors scattered themselves over
the earthworks and along the wall,
and some had seats on Castle William and
the buildings overlooking the bay.
The Olympia was greeted with a great
huttering of handkerchiefs and flags as she
arrived off Castle William and after sa-
lutes had been exchanged between the
shore hsttery and the warship the crowd
followed the vessel along the shore aud
remained watching it until it mad disap-
pearel up the North river.
The multitude that gathered on River
side Drive was in itself a sight that words
can hardly picture and to those who did
not see ii, description can convey only
bare suggestion. From every direction
and from ali points, north, east and south
the way was steadily westward, and the
great sea If people that had gathered in
The morning was swelled at noon by
streams of persons that flowed steadily
through every street and thoroughfare,
which had an outlet on the river front.
The natural aspect of the landscape was
almost blotted out, and from Seventy-sec-
ond street upward, a great wall of human
beings lined the shore so densely packed,
that stand once having been taken, no
person could move to right or left. Ii was
nearly impossible to bulge and arms We're
plnioned TO sides, feet seemed rooted to the
soil, and the free action OF an individual
person was practically impossible. II was
case of move with the crowd or move
not at all in this section Of the city.
The houses on the drive were ablaze with
color. and above many of them Ions
streamers of red, white and blue floated
from tall fagpoles. The name Of Dewey
was embroidered in many of the large
flags which covered the fronts of the
houses, and sentimental phrases of the adj
miral were exhibited on many sides. Hour
after hour the crowds waited patiently,
uncomplainingly.
The country cousins of Father Knicker-
booker who visited New York for the first
time spent a portion of their idle hours
inspecting the wonders Of the Grant mon
ument. Next to the Olympia and the great
admiral himself. This seemed to
be the chief point of inter
est of persons from outside OF
the city.
Perhaps, taken all in all, the best land
view of the parade was obtained from the
Riverside Drive and from the Grant mon.
umant. The time consumed in rounding
the stake boat, the St. Mary's. gave per
song in this section Of the city ample time
to view the world-reuowned white squad.
ron and to catch occasional glimpses OF
the admiral and other officers on the deck
of the Olympia. When the guns of the
Olympia Numbered out a salute the cheers
that went up from the hundreds Of thou.
sands that had gathered in the vicinity ot
the Grant monument almost drowned tho
noise of the guns that had silenced tbt
Spanish fleet at Manila on that earlv Ma,
morning. year and ha.f ago
one OF the most delightful features "a
the day was the hearty way in which tb[
members OF the Dewey family enfoved
every detail Of the tribute to their greai
hnsman. Under the guidance OF Edwarf
wilkins Dewey. a nephew Of the ednirs1
the family party left the Waldorf A G.
tora and went to Battery park. where
they boarded the steamer SANDY Eooi
mayor Van Wyck being in waiting 70,
CHI charles Dewey the admiral,s elder
ie end son and soA's son. were