Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-10-05
MILLIONS VIEWED IT.
No Other Man Was Ever Given
Such an Ovation as Dewey.
A Thousand Vessels Participated in the Ma
val Parade, 100000 People Were
Aboard Ship and 10000 Were
Looking from the Shore.


New York, Sept. 3O.-No Roman con-
queror returned to his triumph of bar
barrie splendor; no victorious king or
prince coming home from successful
war ever received such a magnificent
ovation as overwhelmed Admiral
Dewey yesterday as he stood on the
bridge of the Olympia at the head of
magnificent feet of steel thunderers
of the deep, followed by thousand
vessels of peace, each TERED and coated
black with people and sailed over the
bright waters of the upper bay and up
the broad pathway of the sunlit river,
whose banks were gay with millions of
flags and streamers dancing in the
wind. AS the tomb of Gen. Grant on
the Riverside drive was reached the
fleet paid its tribute to the memory of
the great warrior with a national salute
of 81 roaring guns. The fleet then
anchored and reviewed the almost end
less procession of craft that steamed
past, also burdened with humanity
that they looked as if they would turn
turtle before they got back to their
piers. Toward the end the parade be-
came disorganized and it took hours for
the heterogeneous fotilla to get by.
Darkness at last brought relief to the
tired admiral who had stood on the
bridge for six hours bowling his &C
Acknowledgements to the stentorian ex-
preston of homage.
The evolution began at one o'clock
and in Is minutes the fighting line
was Strengthened out up the harbor.
The head of the column was broad
arrow. Six torpedo boats spread out
at the bar, three on side, from the
Olympia's quarter. Outside of them
flying wedge of police patrol boats
formed a great V whose apex was the
Olympia. Thanking them, ahead and
aStern, were the harbor fire boats,
spouting great columns of water that
turned threateningly toward the eX-
curSiOn boats on either side when they
attempted to crowd the line of march.
But the pageant back of this powerful
vanguard was not limited to single
nor a sextuple line of ships. 1t was a
SinuOuS marine monster half a mile
wide whose vertebree were the ships of
the white squadron and whose ribs
were rows upon rows of every sort OF
floating thing that had ever run by
steam in New York harbor.
Thousands viewed the spectacle as it
moved up past Staten island, thousands
more watched it from the anchored
craft that crowded the Erie basin and
whose spars rose in forest about the
foot of Liberty. But they were for
gotten in the mass of humanity that
crowded the water front of Manhattan
island and filed every point of vantage
along the Jersey shore. Every foot of
the city water front was a mass of hui
manity. The wharves, the ferry slips,
the roofs of ferry and warehouse rose
one above another in solid blocks of
people above the lower structures OF
water front every roof bore it's living
freight.
New York has never witnessed be
fore anything approaching this won
derful, remarkable demonstration. The
Columbian naval parade, the dedication
of Grants tomb and the reception Of
the North Atlantic squadron last fall
all pale before this gigantic ovation to
the sailor who, in single morning, de
stroyed an enemy's fleet without the
loss of man or ship. It is not be-
yond the mark to say that 5000, OOC
people viewed the pageant from ashore,
and that $50, 600 We're ahoat.