Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-06-24


| ing the early reception in the harbor.
Col. Roosevelt was waving his hat in
response to the cheers that were waited
to him from craft on all sides, when he
sud- emily paused, and, looking in the
pointed his hand to the south. He seemed
to be giving a warning and the men on
the Gilkerson turned quickly in the di-
rection indicated. They saw the bow of
the battleship South Carolina looming up
hardly a hundred yards off the tug
starboard quarter, and Capt. Martin of
the Gilkerson, who had been looking for
danger in another direction, put his
wheel hard over just in time to get his
boat out of the big warship's way. From
the Gilkerson Mr.. Roosevelt could be
to the front of the flying bridge and
pointing out to her the picturesque scene.
Spies Children on Cutter.
As the cutter Manhattan came along
side the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, Mr..
Roosevelt made his way through a
group of second cabin passengers who
clustered along the rail, and spying his
children on the Manhattan, called to
them and threw them kisses.
! Mrs. Roosevelt was the first to come
down the gangplank from the Kaiserin
had thrown her arms about Archie and
| Quentin, and effusively kissed and
| Rugged both of them. She next greeted
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and his fancee,
| Miss Eleanor Alexander.
! Mr. Roosevelt made a flying leap to
the deck of the Manhattan and with the
exuberance and spirit of a school boy
he slapped his son Theodore on the back
| He then turned to Miss Alexander and
kissed her. He took up Quentin and
Archie in his arms and gave them re-
| sounding smacks.
with Collector of the Port Loeb at his
side. extended cordial greetings to the
others on board the Manhattan. He
shook hands with everybody, including
members of the crew.
| In the meantime the big liner was
hemmed in close by mail boats and news
paper tugs, while clustering about this
central group were tugs, yachts, excur-
sion boats lighters, and all kinds of mer-
| chant craft, all gayly decorated with
| flags. The cheering was continuous be-
tween those on board the assembled fleet
early morning had been foggy, but under
the influence of clearing skies, 1ags and
| pennants broke out gayly and the sun
was bright and warm.
The South Carolina came to anchor
! a thousand feet in front of the liner,
aud two cable lengths away from the
| noll lin. Once more the guns belched
| forth salut, this time from the battle
ship to the secretary of the navy and
from the secretary's boat in return.
Simultaneously with the firing OF the last
gun, both ships broke out lines OF burgess
and signal flags from masthead to deck
| line.
AS the time for Col. Roosevelt's ar
rival at the Battery drew near enormous
crowds sWarmed toward Battery park,
overfowing the sidewalks and almost
| tying up traffic in the lower part Oh the
city.
appearance. Flags f1oated everywhere
pictures of Roosevelt were hung in
| Thousands of windows, and along the
line of march buildings were draped
with bunting.
At 9:2S the kaiserin Auguste Vlcrorlia
! rassed the battery, going up the North
| river to her berth in Hoboken. She
roared a deep bass salute and siren
answered.
All the stands were covered with
white canvas and decorated with bunt-
ing and flags. Directly IN front OF me
stand from which Mr.. Roosevelt speaks
/ n sDace had been reserved for the re
cention committee and other guests OF
the day. Back of this the people began
piling up, row on row, by countless
| thousands, patiently awaiting the coming
of the ex-President. Broadway and the
| other streets leading into Battery park
were filled with moving streams of hui
mainly, all hurrying on In the struggle
for places of vantage.
Furious Din from Whistles.
While the naval parade was still invis-
ible from the Manhattan shores all the
whistles in the lower harbor broke into a
furious din of discord. Roosevelt was
approaching and the crowd began to stlf
nervously. Swift excursion steamers,
the rails black with sightseers, began to
file by the Battery, and still the parade
was invisible. At $3.50 the heavy thun-
der of a salute came rolling across the
| harbor.
A moment later the white hull of the
first ship in the parade, dressed from
stem to stern in flags, came in sight and
the Seventy first Regiment band. sta
toned on the water 'front.', struck up
columbia, the Gem of the Ocean"
| There were no cheers from the crowd
that packed the park and filled windows
of office buildings. The people were still
and expeetant.
But from excursion boats in the har-
Dor a better view of the water parade
was to be had. AS the gray hulled
South Carolina came abreast of the Rob
| ms Reef light, a churned rift of white
foam at her bow, the patrol fleet of
revenue cutters swung into position to
starboard and port Of the line, and slow
! " the maritime pageant passed on, with
skirmish line of war vessels. Behind the
Androscoggin the merchant vessels took
their positions in double columns, main
tanning a distance of 300 feet. Divided
into Il divisions commanded by as many
vice commanders, the parading fleet,
nearly 200 strong, steamed up the bay
and into the Hudson, keeping well in
towards the New York shore. When
opposite the stake boat anchored off
Fifty-ninth street. the procession turned
towards the Jersey shore and steamed
down the river to the Battery.
Wharves Dressed for Occasion.
AS the defIe reached the lower end
of Manhattan every craft afoat and
every factory ashore put it's enthusiasm
into steam and let loose a pandemonium
such as is heard but once year, at mid
night Of December 81. Many of the
wharyes and decks along the river front
had dressed" for the occasion and the
spectacle of the two lines of bunting
decorated vessels slipping by, halyards