The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-17

respects. As each passed down the line
OK anchored ships, the marines got into
place again on the quarter deck, presented
arms, and the drums rutfled and the band
played. A Rear Admiral gets only two
fuffies and fewer bars OF march than the
President or the Secretary of the Navy.
but the ceremony was impressive.
It was 4 o'clock before the President
and those with him left the Kearsarge.
More ruff1es, more presenting arms, more
of Hail, Columbia on every big ship OF
the feet. The destroyers couldn't carry
ont the ceremony to its fullest extent be-
cause they haven't bands or marines. IL
this had been a week day, the ships would
have fred salute to the President and
the Secretary Of the Navy. Everybody was
glad 1t was Sunday. There will be enough
saluting during to-morrows review:
When the President had steamed away
in the Sylph and Secretary Moody had de-
parted In the Dolphin, there was little
lul in the strenuous life the marines and
bnnclsmen were leading. But they had to
20 through the ruffiing and saluting and
march. playing three more tunes, while
tho three Rear Admirals were returning
from the Kearsage to their own fiagships.
About this time the yachts, launches and
excursion steamers began to arrive. In
ard out Of the lines they steamed and
s3iiod. Everybody was out for GOOD
time. One Of the naphtha launches had
some freCrackers which were fired AZ a
saltue to the ships, but got no response.
Yachts which dipped their colors were
always answered by similar courtesy from
the men-of-war The steamer Northport
brought down a crowd Of excurslonists
from New York. A good many OF those
who attended the meeting of the Holy
Name Society AT Oyster Bay managed to
get out to the fleet but most of them pre-
tn or prpHl
dents address.
People in the launches and other craft
who wanted TO come aboard the warships
end made so bold ~ to say so were received
courteously. The white, monster ships,
Kearsarge, Illinois and Alabama, were the
min attractions to visito rs The thing that
struck most Of the officers and enlisted
men as strange. was that the girls among
the visitors didn't ask for cap ribbons.
Most people who go aboard men of war
think that cap ribbons are TO be had for the
asking and that Uncle Sam has an unlimited
supply on hand 10 give away. But officers
and men who have the habit Of presenting
these souvenirs to people they know, and
people they don't know, find their pocket
books simmer in consequence
There was only one case reported where
a visitor acted in disagreeable way. He
let it be known that as Il taxpayer he owned
part of the ship he visited, Here's your
share, said a jackie, picking upa splinter
from the deck.
The visitor went over the side muttering.
He didn't carry the splinter with him.
Sir Thomas Upton passed the fleet in the
Erin at o'clock. He is to be the Pres-
dents guest on the Mayfiower tomorrow.
The yacht Prvateer was with the Erin.
Sir Thomas stood on the bridge and saluted
each ship as he passed by. dOffing his cap.
When the review is over tomorrow the
battleships Kearsarge, illinois and Alabama
are to go ahead at full speed under forced
draught and run to Race Rock, at the
eastern entrance to Long Island Sound.
There il a rumor in the fleet that there
ia to be a race, and the Illinois is the favorite
in the betting. Orders to send the first
division of the torpedo boat destroyer
fiotila to the Asiatic station have been
received by Rear Admiral Barker. This
division consists of five vessels under Lieut.
Lloyd c. Chandler.
The cruiser Chicago. just back from
Europe, joined the fleet this evening She
will take part in the review tomorrow.
Admiral Dewey, it is expected, will arrive
in a yacht tomorrow morning several
hours before the review begins.
Oyster Bay tonight presents an appear
ance not unlike that Of a small town on the |
eve of q big Varsity boat race. The one
little hotel in the place is packed; the Railways |
are filed with cots. hunks of blankets have |
been improvised on the parlor floor and |
some people even are sleeping IN hammcks
on the veranda. Rooms in private houses |
all over town also have been taken for the
night.
The streets are crowded with yachtsmen,
trim in white duck and white caps, who
swagger along, singing rag-time songs and
shocking Oyster Bay in other ways. Now |
and then, in the confusion of noises, a |
college yell rings out from the throats of
who haven't been cruising
away from their university long enough |
to know that the wide world around here |
isn't interested just now In college shouts.
The waterfront is lined with yachts and |
other craft and the bay is aglow with mast |
lights and electric flashes from ports, while |
off in the Sound the fleet, with its many
hundred lights, looms like an illuminated |
city. Laughter and song ring out and are |
echoed back from the island across the bay
in confusing medley. All have come to see |
the review and all are preparing to see it |
In the best spirits possible.