The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-30
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New York, Sept. 2S.-The naval pa
| rade from the vantage points of the
Warships was an immense marine pic.
ture, a water pageant with so little OF
incident compared with it's great size
| that 1t appeared to the eye as paint
ing rather than drama.
The vast gathering of water craft
maintained an average speed of eight
knots, but SO magnificent was it's area
that the impression was one of exceed
ingly slow and stately movement. The
picture was continually changing, but
it melted so slowly and in such meas.
ured ryhthm from form to form that
the sense of motion was largely lost
1t started under brilliant sky, passed
at the mouth of the Hudson through
the threat of an ugly storm and
emerged through a rainbow arch that
stretched from shore to shore into a
clear and brilliant sunset off the Grant
tomb.
The night had been a busy one in
the fleet of warships off Tompkinsville
The last details of the days ceremony
We're hardly settled before the day it
self broke on a scene Of greater activity
witnessed before.
The great vessels of the white squad :
ron swung at their anchorage as for
the past two days, but the crowd of
neighboring craft had been swelled past
counting. As far as could be seen, the
water was a mass of moving steamers.
1t was moving, shifting picture of
tugs, police boats, fire boats, torpedo
boats, yachts launches, tramp steam
ers and ocean liners and sailing craft
of every kind, with big ferry and ex-
cursion boats ploughing their way
through the mysterious paths that
opened before them and closed again
behind them like the ice of an Arctic
foe.
The only stable points in the scene
at the early hour were the warships.
They lay like great white ground,
about which the pack ice turned and
swirled, moving them at their moor
ings. 1t was a morning of repressed
excitement on board the New York and
other ships behind the Olympia. Every
thing had been cleaned and FURNISHED
from ram to rudder.
Ready to Move.
Noon was ushered in with the scream
of whistles that sounded like 10000
craft. The last far-away echo had
hardly drifted back from the Staten
Island hills. when a sudden impulse
seemed to seize the far-rea ching mass
of tugs and other craft. Instead of
drifting idly round and round the war
ships, like chips in an eddy, they be-
gan to steam away to the south in a
parallel line as though some current
was bearing them out to sea. But as
thev vanished in scores toward the
Narrows there were hundreds more
that swept down from up the harbor.
Then there was a scurrying home of
the white-hooded steam cutters of the
ships. The great boat cranes amid
ships reached down their graphing
hooks and whisked the pinnaces aboard.
Megaphone commands flung across the
water brought the torpedo boats to keel
like the greyhounds they were at the
Olympfa's quarter. The brilliant code
flags blossomed like flowers on the
Olympia from bridge to main top. 1t
was the order to form in column. The
Brooklyn's pennant snapped aye, aye
from the signal yard. and duplicate sets
of flags passed the order to the Indiana,
whence it was flung from ship to ship
down the squadron. The black speed
cones of the Olympia climbed slowly
to her yards as the big cruiser got un-
der wav The other vessels slowly
turned. like a troop of cavalry, squad
ron front toward the Narrows, and then
fetching graceful sweep, headed back
up the harbor toward the battery. the
Olympia escorted by the mayors boat,
the Sandy Hook in the lead. Back of
her at 400-yard interval came the New
York the powerful Indiana and Mas
sachusetts. the fieet-f0oted Brooklyn,
the old Texas. the rakish yachtlike Dol
phin, the old Lancaster a relic of an
other naval age: the powerful Chicago,
and finall the little Marietta, the rear
guard of the fighting craft. Behind
stretched the transports and further
STILL almost last in the distance, the
yachts and miscellaneous craft hull
down the horizon.
Like an Arrow.
The evolution began at l o'clock ana
in Is minutes the fighting line was
Strengthened out up the harbor. Ad-
miral Dewey was going to his own
place at the head of a squadron that
would have won at least three battle
of Manila bay without stopping for
breakfast.
arrow. Six torpedo boats spread out
Olympia's quarter. Outside of them
flying wedge of police patrol boats
formed great V. whose apex was the
Olympia. F'lanking them, ahead and
astern, were the harbor fireboats, spout
Ing columns of water that turned
threateningly toward the excursion