The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-24

toned six floats OF fireworks. New
Yorks old city hall will be weighed
down with enough electric light bulbs
10 illumine the whole dark continent. /
and strings Of many colored electric
lamps win be festooned from every tow
er and tree about the park in front of
the hall The same designs will be car
ried out in connection with the Brook
Ign municipal building decorations.
while two long professions Of fire floats
will parade both the North and East
rivers, so if Gothamites do not go about
for several weeks suffering from acute
ophthalmia it viii not be the fault Of
the Dewey reception committee.
The different railway companies
operating ferries about the harbor have
entered enthusiastically into the plan,
and every scow, barge. tug and car
ferry afioat viii seem like a floating
garden of fairylike lights. Private
yachts and excursion boats viii be the
same, and, under a rain of rockets end
Roman candles. the entire lower Fart
of New York, the Battery and the in
ner bay viii look ike jubilant inferno.
There will also be floats laden With
hundreds of young voices singing ma
tional airs.
Just what plans many Of the private
| concerns End different individuals IN
tend to carry out are not yet known,
as these are kept secret until the MT
and proper time for springing them on
an astounded public 1t is known new
ever. that every electrician in Greater
New York is as present working over
time and that enough electricity VIII
be expended during the three nights
of the celebration to light every child
| in the United States 10 bed for the
next two years.
Just how many thousand or, rather'
million, people will congregate IN Man
haitian and line the banks and wharves
along the Hudson and the bay TO VIZ
ness the return of Dewey it is impos-
sible to say. Military delegates are
coming all the way from Texas and
Florida, and throughout the west Dew
ay reception clubs have been formed
| Agents and special commissioners have
been in New York for some time trying
IN arrange for space and accommoda-
! ton for the great crowds that viii ccme
east and excursion trains are announc-
ed from all parts Of the country. IL has
been found that New York can accom-
modate as many as 100000 guests
| II a pinch. and it is felt that many
more than this number viii be here TO
helm welcome Dewey. Just where they
will all be slowed away Is citlcult
question to answer, but there VIII Ger
| tainly have 10 be a great deal Of oou-
bling I'D in the city for a few nights
| New York hotels are the largest ana
! the best in the world. but on this &C
casion they have been taxed 10 their
| uttermost. and already ii is no easy
thing TO secure a room or bed. The re-
suit has been that the hotel manager
has been forced to call TO his assistance
! the long abused and much maliSned
/ Iardladv and boarding house keeper.
Lodging houses and apartment i1its
will be in communication with on
| ferent hotels. and 20 these the overNc"
icroyyds will be sent for accommodation
I'm this way all the visitors 70 New
York will find accommodation OF
a more or less suitable kind. On the
whole il yvfl be one Of the most repre-
tentatively American crowds which
ever came together in one city. Every
member Of that great army Of snlookeTs
will come intent on just one thing. ana
/ that one thing Is 70 help 70 Weicofne
/ Devy.y. re will be willing 70 put up
with a lot Of crowding and jostiing and
! patieut waiting. for he knows that ne
! is Going to soc sights the like u which
I no win probably never see again in ali
/ his life. II is not every day an Amer
1 lean admiral can find a MontiJo 70
blow up. so the people u this repIDlc
Iare going 20 make the most Of II.
( While these celebrations arc taking
Mace all good Americans VIII rernenl-
Der that even while We are burning
r.gy~der 10 welcome home a long absent
( hero there is stiu many hunared nero
i, The far east Tire thought q those
brave men who are stan fighting ~
their naE ard country VIII not. now
ever. cast q cloud over the feetiT.iieH
- the OIyrnria's return. fgr even
-to,,rb T-rrle sam Ftlli has trouble ~
hts hauds those troubles are - such a
nature that their reward ard fheir
& -o~-rarsstlar wiII come ia TIRE form r.
arofb.r harvest % heroes Wfth DeF-
~ NO celebrate frat. fog Dewey vas
first AZ Manila
But what about the hero . al t1.H.
The modest little admiral hiuseltt ESW
w1n the hero VINO receives TIE moss en-
srgp.assic and popular rgescoFne ever
extended By ths American bepE-e wear
h.s EXCEPTIONAL hpnoTE
EVERY one VINO k1ozs anything q
Dewey knows hlT - arlEU@r tols q leE-
ssrr The victor q Manila Fay E+lt
wear the same sized RAJ on ta@ ~
q tha 7frh = September A. be wFEe %
tat hat spring Midnight vEen - aa-
n ee-,a % q . day vita TIE srea-