The record-union., 1899-09-30
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themselves were lost in their own
vapor.
The parade at this point began to
become disorganized, many pleasure
craft leaving the line below and crowd
ing so fiercely about the Olympia that
she was maneuvered with great diff
hculty. The excursion boats, loaded to
the guards with people, were almost
criminally reckless as they passed
along, many of them listed SO far that
one wheel was buried deep, while the
other scarcely touched the water. The
Admiral was sometimes annoyed by
the crowding of these craft, but he re-
tanned his equanimity through it ALL
bowing and removing his cap to the
exulting and cheering crowds.
1t was not until all the warships had
passed in review before the Olympia
at anchor below the beautiful floats
representing Peace and Victory that
the one incident of the day occurred
which showed that with all his genialty
the hero of Manila could also be a very
stern sailor. In less than a minute
after the Chicago had passed the
Olympia by the Admiral's order a
stream of signal flags ordered the ves-
sells of the fleet to dress ship, and the
crews of the men-ofwar ran up rain
bows of signal flags from stem to
stern over their topmasts. The order
was beautifully executed except on the
flagship, where the fouling of the line
on top of one of the stacks caused a
delay. Admiral Dewey instantly
roared out a command for someone to
ease the line. 1t fouled again, and a
nimble sailor was sent aloft to clear
1T. 1t was, perhaps, two minutes be-
fore the flags were in their proper
place. The Admiral was plainly dis
pleased. He sent for the officer under
whose direction the order was exc
euted, and called him upon the bridge.
1 am ashamed of this he said, in
the tone of a sailor giving command in
q roaring gale, land / am ashamed of
you"
Several times when the excursion
boats cheered as they passed almost to
the Olympia the Admiral called upon
the crew to stand by and cheer. Each
time the sailors leaned upon the steel
bulwarks, and with swinging caps, re-
sponded to the command with throat
splitting roars.
When the crowd of vessels about the
nagship became SO dense that the pro-
gress OF the rest of the parade was i'm
peded, the Admiral ordered the police
patrol boats to clear the way of the
SHIPS that had left the line and had
5 spread themselves about the Olymuia
ike flock of wild fowl. He did not
leave the bridge until the approacbine, 6,
darkness turned the ships in the de-
Inorallzed tail of the procession back to
their piers
AN IMMENSE MARINE PICTURE.
NEW YORK, Sept 29.-The naval
parade from the vantage points of the
Warships was an immense marine pic-
tufe, a water pageant with so little
oL incident compared with its great
size mat 1t appealed to the eve as a
painting rather than a drama. The
vast gathering of water craft main
tanned an average speed of eight
Knots, but so magnificent was its area
that the impression was ono of a.
ceedingly slow and stately movement
me picture was continually changing.
put II melted so slowly from form Ia
FORM mat the sense of motion was
IdFSeiy lost. It started under a. bril-
lant sky, passed at the mouth of the
Huason through the threat of an ue1v
storm, and emerged through a rain
DOW arch that stretched from shore to
shofe INTO clear and brilliant sunset
off the Grant tomb.
Inc night had been busy one in
the fleet of warships off Tonnl,inc-
vile The last details of the dav,s
ceremony were hardly settled before
the aay Itself broke on a scene of
greater activity than the classic an
cnofage mad ever witnessed before. The
great vessels Of the white souadron
swung at their anchorage as for tho
past two days, but the crowd of NEIGH
boring craft had been swelled mast
counting. AS far as could be seen
the water was a mass of rno,,ino.
steamers. 1t was a moving, shifting
picture OF tugs, police boats, fireboats
torpedo boats, yachts, launches. trann
steamers and ocean liners and SAILING
eraIt or every kind, with big ferry ard
excursion boats plowing their Wv,
through the ruck in mysterious maths
that opened before them and cIosad
again behind them like the ice NJ an
Arctic foe al
ne only stable points in the scena
az that early hour were the vvarsbi,,,
Ahey lay like a white grounded hero.
0OouI Whlch the pack ice turned and
sMirled without moving them from,
their moorings. iAA
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