The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1899, Page 2

o THE SAN FRAN® CO CALT, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1899. WARSHIPS PASS IN REVIEW BEFORE THE OLYMPIA SCHLEY PRAISES ADMIRAL DEWEY Declares the—H—ero of Manila Bay One of the Greatest Sea Fight- ers. of All Time. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Rear Admiral Schley is at the Hotel Majes- d Seventy a while in the tle, Central P Mrs. Al 'k W the he v afternoon. Aft her ca ove with her gu Fifth avenue to the triumphal arch. After the drive the rear admiral dova-at n informal dinner par Rothchild, proprietor of the hotel, v riral and the Cordovas for ye ny times when in town the miral Schley was scen for a few he thought of the reception to Admi “It is magnificent; it is superb,” appreciation of one of the greatest the pired ¢ journey to sard gn ittention throughout everything which tra By his direction fed to ve: which :d the -monstration. The g spoke but once until G reached. Th :d in answer to the the guns of old Fort Wi t's tomb when they p baying of was rs Island. Before th y was | reached hundreds ccursion boats bad crowded atrol- | boats and stretched s upon rank e from the quarter of the Oly ir whist ! throughout the jour- 1 thousands who wharves and piers, who the windows and balconies f d down from the dizzy heights of the must have impressed the ad atly, but his modesty would n nit him to view it all as a personal ovation. tonishing, astonishing!” he re- 1ted several times to Colonel Bart- but he thins of himself. As n t from . smoke from the wcross the river, blend- gray atmosphere, softened nd made the dim .vistas h the on-coming ps lay rever. thou- 1 eck of the Olympia were the sound: the crowds rhaps. they 1in th pplause, v to be he n the were spec ission. The shriek- yrever going, and around the stake on Riverside o f and each ship had let go its| ning salute, the ¢oncert that fol- | as soul-maddening—a mad, nerve-destroying roar that )st ten minutes. ) wasted that the boats in their own va- this point began to be- at difficulty. The .d to the guards criminally | ed along, many of r that one wh the othe The admiral was the crowding of ned his equan- 11, bowing and remov= ing and cheering whil water. It was not until all the warships had-| passed in review before the Olympia at anchor ¥ the iful floats rep- resenting Peage and Victory that the one incident of the day occurzed which showed that with all his geniality the vila could also be a very In less than a minute af- the Chi d passed the Olym- | by the admiral’s order, a stream nal fl ordered the fleet to dress ship and the er \en-of-war ran up rainbows of sig- flags from stem to 1 over their The order was beautifully uted except aboard the fi where the fouling of the line in top of one of the stacks caused a delay. Admiral Dewey instantly roared out » command for some one to ease the line. It fouled again and a nimble sailor sent aloft to clear it. It was per- | haps two minutes before the flags were | in their proper place. The admiral was | plainly displeased. He sent for the | officer under whose direction the order | was executed and called him upon the | bridge. | ‘I am ashamed of this,” he sald, in the tone of a sailor giving command in a roaring gale, “and I am ashamed of you.” | Several times when the excursion | boats cheered as they passed close to | the Olympia the admiral called upon | the crew to stand by and cheer. Each time the sailors leaped upon the steel | bulwarks, and, with swinging caps, responded to the command with throat- | splitting cheers. When the crowd of Is about the flagship became so dense that the progress of the rest of the parade was impeded the admiral ordered the police patrol boats to clear the way of the ships that had left the | beat the ats, 1 f ond street, the guest of Mr. and The rear admiral arrived at ty faioal ] er luncheon Mrs. de Cordova ordered & iest through Central Park and down @ < was entertained by Mrs. de Cor- &° Covets were placed for nine. Mr. & one of the gue The rear ad- & ve known each other intimately, and 3¢ 1 has been their guest. Rear Ad- nts at the hotel and asked what 8 Dewey 2 he said. ew Yerk has shown her sea fighters of all time.” 3 o | knots, but so magnificent was its area that the impr n was one of exceed- ingly slow and stately movement. The picture was continually changing, but it melted so slowly and in such meas- {ured rhythm from form to form that the sense of motion was largely lost. It started under a brilliant sky, pass- ed at the mouth of the Hudson through the threat of an ugly storm and emerged through a rainbow arch that tretched from shcre 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 d § ceremony were hardly settled befo he day itself broke on a e of greater activity than the classic ad ever witnessed before. The great vessels of the white squadron swung at tt chorage as for the past two da. the crowd of neighb ring craf swelled past counting. A could be 1 the water was a of mov- ing steamers. It was a moving, shift- ing picture of tugs, police fire- boats, torpedo boat achts, launches, sce boats, tramp steamers and ocean liners and sailing craft of ev kind, with big ferry excursion boats plowing their ¥y through the ruck in mysterious paths that opened before them and closed again behind them like the ice of an Arctic floe. The only stable points in the at that early hour were the warshiy cene They lay like a great white grounded berg about which th ck-ice turned and swirled without mov from th mooring: ning o T essed exciter board the New ips behind the | ng had been cleaned was ust in with a m of whistles that sounded like ten thousand craft. The last hardly drifted ba fi had ck from th n Islv and hills when a sudden impulse seem- ed 'to seize the far-reaching mass of tugs and other craft. Instead of drift- ing idly round and round the warships, like ships in an eddy, they began' to stea away to the south in parallel lines as though some current were ring them out to s But as they vanished in scores to d the Narrows there were h dreds e that swept down from up the harbor. Then there was a scurrying home of the white- hooded steam cutters of the warships. The great boat cranes amidships reach- ed down their grappling hooks and whisked the pinnaces aboard. Mega- phone commands flung across the water brought the torpedo boats to heel like the grevhounds they were at the Olym- pia’s quarter. The brilliant code flags blossomed like flowers on the Olympia from bridge to maintop. It was the or- der to form in column. The Brooklyn's pennant snapped * from the signal 3 dau set of flags passed the order to t ana, whence it was flung from s to ship down the squadron. The black speed cones of the Olympia climbed slowly to her vards as the big cruiser got under way. The other vessels slowly turned, like a troop of cavalry squadron, front toward the Narrows, and then fetching a graceful sweep, headed back up the harbor toward the Battery, the Olym- pia, escorted by the Mayor's boat, the Sandy Hook, in the lead. Back of her at a 400-yard interval came the New York, then the powerful Indiana and Mas fleet- footed Brooklyn, the old Texas, the rakish, vacht-like Dolphin; the old Lan ter, a relic of another naval age; echo d and the powerful Chicago, and finally the little Marietta, the rear guard of the fighting craft. Behind stretched the transports, and farther still, almost lost in the distance, the yachts and miscellaneous craft hull down on the horizon. The evolution began at 1 o’clock and in fifteen minutes the fighting line was straightened out up the harbor. Ad- miral Dewey was going to his own, place at the head of a squadron that would have won at need three battles of Manila Bay without stopping for breakfast. The head of the column was a broad arrow. Six torpedo boats spread out as the bar, three on a side, from the Olympia's quarter. Outside of them a ing wedge of police patrol boats formed a great V, whose apex was the Olympia. Flanking them, ahead and tern, were the harbor fire boats, spouting great columns of water that turned threateningly toward the ex- cursion boats on either side when they attempted to crowd the line of march. But the pageant back of this power- Jine and had spread themselves abous | U1 V&NEUATd was ot limited to o sin- the Olympla like a flock of wild fowl, | §'€ POF & sextuple line of ships. It was He did not leave the bridge until the | * SINUOUS marine monster half a mile approaching darkness turned the ships | *10% Whose Vertebrae were the ships in the demoralized tail of the proces- slon back to their piers. ST S DAZZLING THE ARRAY OF SHIPS IN THE PARADE EW YORK, Sept. 29.—The naval parade from the vantage points of the warships was an immense marine picture, a water pageant. with so little of incident com- pared with its great size that it ap- pealed to the eye as a painting rather than a drama. The vast gathering of water craft maintained an average speed of eight | wake of the flagship the immensity of tnoon and not infrequently called back of the white squadron and whose ribs Were rows upon rows of every sort, of floating thing that had ever run by steam in New York harbor. Thou- sands viewed the spectacle as it moved up past Staten Island, thousands more watched it from the anchored craft that crowded the Erie basin and whose spars rose in a forest about the foot of Liberty. But they were forgotten in the mass of humanity that crowded the water front of Manhattan Island and filled every point of vantage alon the Jersey shore. 3 This feature of the scene first broke on the view as Castle William roared an admiral’s salute to the Olympia off the Battery. By the time the answer and smoke had died -away from the | | O+ 00460000000 B e SRCES SRCRS SO SRR @0@0«&0«90@04}0@0@0—@0 B R O R the watching crowd dawned on_ the crews of the squadron. Every foot of | the city water front was a mass of hu- | manity. The wharves, the ferry slips, the roofs of ferry and warehouse rose one above another in solid blocks of | people. Above the lower structure of the water front every roof bore its liv- | ing freight old office buildings and moder \pers were crowded with stands, upon tiers of seats like an immense threater whose roof | was the ., whose walls®were the sur- rounding hill nd whose back drop | the was the horizon of the lower bay. As pageant moved majestical nto Hudson it was seen that the 1l lined the water front and tops thicker, if possible, than and stretching up the river along whole line of parade. The heights the W he | of the Jersey shore were also crowded red masses of people. uch an unbroken rank with parti-¢ They were not | as along the wharves of the New York slope was side, but wherever the wooded breke into a clearing the slope blackened with people from crest to ine. There was no possible way 1ting the crowd. The morning declared there were 1,500,000 visitors in the city. The impression conveyed by the crowded shores was that it would have taken that many in‘ addition to the local population to form the concourse that watched the water pageant. The spectators might | water of est pape have beén computed in army corps, certainly not by individuals. | Up the Hudson pandemonium reigned supreme. Aerial bombs broke at intervals overhead in puffs of white smoke, and a feathery canopy of steam hung over the advancing fleet as | hundreds of steam whistles !screamed continually. The narrowing throat of the river crowded the advancing v sels together in an almost compact | mass. The broad arrow formation still drove the head of the column forward unmolested through the ranks of the waiting ve Storm clouds that had gathered down the bay followed close in the pageant’s wake. A sharp wind bred whitecaps even in the nar- row river, and a few raindrops pattered on the decks. The glare of an angry sky turned the harbor behind the war- ships to molten lead, upon which the gigantic figure of Liberty seemed to stand for a time and w soon swal- Jowed up in a bank of gray haze. Then | the threatening sky relented. The sun broke out ahead and painted across the sullen clouds a rainbow arch | that stretched from Manhattan to the Jersey shore. It seemed a bit of na- ture's art work spread by a kingly mir- acle at the opportune moment, beggar- ing man’'s more humble efforts on shore, but forming a fitting arch of triumph beneath which the victorious admiral sailed to his triumphal anchorage. The old Portsmouth’s crew manned the rigging as the Olympla passed, and off Grant’'s tomb the naval reserves on the St. Marys did the same. Round the stakeboat the Olympia turned smartly, her guns throbbing a deep throated sa- Jute to the resting place of another na- tional hero. The other vessels of the white squgdron swung around the St. Marys in turn, each saluting the tomb, though at the head of the line the sound of further guns -was lost In the roar of steam whistles. 4 The turn of the parade broke the for- mation of the police boats beyond. re- pair. The warships doubling back into the mass of advancing boats threatened for.a time serious consequences, but the Olympia and her consorts safely drop- pedk anchor at last in reversed column and the water pageant passed the ad- miral in review. The police boats re- appeared as individuals and uncere- moniously shouldered intruding vessels out of the line of march. The official procession and its varied following of tugs, launches, steam dredges and ex- cursion boats rounded the St. Marys and ‘came down the river in an indis- tinguishable aquatic mob that was still passing long after the night illumina- tion had begun. From the time the British yacht Erin started she certainly was the chief at- traction along the river front after the Olympia had gone by and Sir Thomas Lipton was accorded an ovation all along the line. To those on board the Erin, decked out as she was with flags of all descriptions, it looked as if the American people were greatly pleased with Sir Thomas and were delighted with an opportunity to give him a hearty welcome. They ran alongside in tugs, barges, launches and big excur- slon steamers and shouted -all sorts of complimentary things to him, while the tall yachtsman on the upper bridge of the Erin wore a smile all the after- A o e Coiner of the Governor’s Room Where Dewey Will Be Presented With the Loving Cup. ‘ B R i S ot e e e e e | ana gave the { more cheers, | ally swung around and headed down to- | @ +D+ O PO DI OGP DD IOEOEOEOIOIOIDI0ED4 D 404040600000 his thanks for the kind wishes. Sir| Thomas had on board fifty or more of his friends on this side of the water | and from England, and the company | during the latter part of the afternoon | were kept bt those who watched tha | sides. | D Among and Hon. Charles Russell of London. | Even befere the Erin had weighed | anchor, half a dozen tugs had come | alongside, and the cheering and whist- | ling rang in the e: until the end of | 1l for the start was! ir led, followed by a| ring of steam yachts | smothered in flags in two long lines. | The Erin headed the starboard column, | with Colonel Jchn Jacob Astor's Nour- | mahal right astern, while the Niagara, | with Howard Gould on board, headed the port column, with the new Joseph- ph N. Widener right behind The Erin was continuously sa- luted on the way up and the man on the after deck, beside the flagstaff, which carried the big yacht pennant, continuc dipping it in return. | hing seems to be going first- | 1id Sir Thomas, as the yacht | neared the Battery, “and the narade‘ is certainly success.™ . Looking over through the tremendous | crowd thac covered the wharves and | Battery, he shouted down to those on | deck: Just sce them over there; did | You ever sce so many people? It i wonderful, marvelous! T could not be- lieve that so many people could be got | together When off Twenty-third | street, Sir Thomas became exercised at the congestion of the boats ahead and shook his head as he thought of the | chances of getting the Erin through the me: In geing by the training ship Portsmouth the jackies lined the rail | n a tremendous cheer, which was answered from the crew of | the Erin on the far deck. Then came | vells and -vhistles from | those on shore, until Sir Thomas' sides | rly shook with laughter as he said, | must ail have money on the | Shamrock.” | It took nearly an hour for the head of | the yacht fleet to reach the turning] point off Fort Lee, but the Corsair fin- | ward the Olympia. At the same time | half a hundred excursion boats, tugs | and launches which had been waiting | up the river for the yachts to appear | joined in, so that a solid column came | sweeping down on Admiral Dewey. The Erin was in the center of this great mass of boats and the formation of the | yacht club fleet was at once lost. | The great mass swept by the Olympia five and six abreast, but fortunately ! the course was . comparatively clear when she went by and Admiral Dewey was easily recognized, waving his hat frantically at Sir Thomas as he stood on the after bridge. The crew of the| Olympia also recognized the Erin and gave her a tremendous cheer, which ‘was returned by the entire company on board the Irish yacht, while the big | fleet of excursion steamers and the two | or three hundred- thousand people on shore joined in cheers.” The Erin ran down the river until she reached Ho- boken, where she took up her position to participate in the illumination in the evening. PYROTECHNIC AND ELECTRICAL DISPLAY AT NIGHT NEW YORK,: Sept. 29.—Never before in the history of New York has this city witnessed a greater pyrotechnic and electrical display than that with Wwhich the return of Admiral George Dewey was celebrated in the harbot and waters surrounding the island of Manhattan to-night. The great hulks of the battleships of Dewey's fleet silhouetted against the dark background of the sky shone from stem to stern with myriads of incandes- cent lights, while all around innumer- able brilliantly decorated yachts and other river craft honored the nation’s hero, 4 Crowds occupied every point of van-. tage along the New York shore from Grant's tomb to Fifty-ninth street. One hundred thousand people, men, women and children, at a donservative estimate, saw the illumination from Riverside drive. Sir Thomas Lipton’s yacht Erin was brilliantly lighted with streamers of white lights and the name Erin in green between the masts. From the bay the letters on the Brooklyn bridge “Welcome Dewey” were plainly discernible and were one of the features of the celebration. | remarkable voyage de from the decks of the Erin were | {} Prince Reginald de Croy of Belgium | ren f | dlrglnmaL [ ond | were on board of an intercolonial spe- As if to join in the popular acclaim to the great admiral, nature lent her forces to the display of fireworks, for the sky was {lluminated frequently dur- ing the evening with flashes of light- ning, showers at times interrupting skyrocket proceedings, though but slightly dampening the good nature of some of the crowds. Thére was seem- ingly no end to the display of fireworks. Every wharf landing and pier had its quota of sightseers, and the enthusiasm was abundant. From the hbusetops as well as from the sidewalks powder by the barrel was burned and. rockets sent aloft in honor of the hero of Manila. Over on the Jersey shore the display was just as generous, and the sky was lighted with the blaze of fireworks, making the surrounding seas bright as midday. Brooklyn and Staten Island contributed. to the general and gener- | ous burning of powder. | The fireworks float Mars, loaded with fireworks and aglow with those being displayed, took fire in the East River and instantly blazed up, frightening the twenty men on board, who at first at- tempted to julp overboard. The blaze was started by the sparks setting fire to a tarpaulin which was used to cover a lot of skyrockets, Roman candles and the like, and those were sent flying,in all directions. With the assistance of the police boat officials the men on the float succeeded in checking the: flames, but all the fireworks were destroved. DEWEY PRESENTED WITH A HANDSOME MEDAL. NEW ‘YORK, Sept. 29.—Mayor Van Wyck, on board the Olympia, to-day presented Admiral Dewey the freedom | of the metropolis and a medal. The Mayor’s presentation speech was as fol- lows: Admiral Dewey, with pleasure and by . direction of ‘the city of New York 1 meet you at her magnificent gateway to extend to you in her name and of her million visitors, the leading citizens of forty-five States, representing almost | every hamlet in the nation, a most cordial welcome, congratulating you upon being | restored 'to your family and home. i A loving and grateful nation is glad- dened by vour safe return from the most of history, so far reaching in its results that the clearest | mind cannot yet penetrate the distance, It has already Softened the voices of other nations in speaking of ours, changed per- manently the map of the world, enlarged the field of American pride and completed the circle of the empire in its western course. Your courage, skil }lfld in a single na | | | | | and wisdom, exhib- | al engagement of a | common varrior and y sur- ders and then dons the habit of the | he greatest reception awaits you that, | was ever tendered a military “or civil hero. Such an outpouring of the people | was never dreamed of before. Never has | heart of America turned with such | perfect accord and trusting confidence to one of her sons as it does to you. I place at your ¢ sal the freedom and unlimited hospitality of the city of New York. Admiral Dewey said, looking at the Mayor's stenographer: “You're not go- | ing to take down what T say, are you, | Mr. Mayor? I never could make a | speech,” Mayor Van Wyck smiled, and Mr. | arvey went on making his notes. Mr. Mayor and gentlemen,” said the admiral; “‘of course it would be needless or me to attempt to make a speech, but my heart appreciates all that you ve | said. How it is that you have overrated ¥y work I cannot understand. It Is be- anything 1 can conceive of why there should be such an uprising of the country. 1 simply did what any captain in the service would have done.” | H “Admiral,”” said the Mayor, ‘no tongue can ever utter or pen write an | overestimate of what you did f vour country."” 4 . Admiral Dewey smiled and 's cheek flushed .with proud color urfler the bronzed skin. He shook the hund of the Mayor, who then reached into his pocket and drew out a medal of honor which the city voted to the hero of the | war with Spain, saying: The city of New York had made to com- memorate this reception to you, the hero of the Spanish-American war, 4 badge. a facsimile of which they desire I should nt to you in commemoration of the event. ‘““How magnificent!” exclaimed the admiral, taking the medal. “How beaatiful! It’s splendid!™ Then he called for his Chinese servant and passed the medal to him. “Pin it | on, sir,” he said.to the Chinese. *Pin | it on so it won’t drop off.” i el ! RELATIVES WITNES ADMIRAL’S TRIUMPH NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—One of the! | success of the MARCONI'S SYSTEM WORKS PERFECTLY Apparatus to Be International Used During the Yacht Races Fully Tested. Navesink Highlands. purpose of reporting the international Call worked perfectly. self as entirely satisfied with the t tune to be on board the Ponce durin [ 3 b3 > o g b3 this country. o 2 8 3 =4 into the air. As soon as the riggers his apparatus, established connectio: gan to grow nervous and announced to the receiver, which began to tick SONORONOINUER O LD NOIRIND most delightful features of the day was | the hearty way in which the members | of the Dewey family enjoyed every de- | tail of the tribute to their great l(lns-' man. Under the guidance of Edward Wilkins Dewey, a nephew of the ad- miral, who has been a New Yorker for} years, the family party left the Wal- | dorf-Astoria for Battery Park, where | they boarded the steamer Sandy Hook, | Mayor Van Wyck being in waiting for | them. | Charles Dewey, the admiral's elder brother, was the dean of the party. His wife and son and son’s son were with| him. There were Mrs. H. H. Finiey, a niece of the admiral, and her daugh- | ter, Miss Frances Finley, and Mrs. Ed- ward Wilkins Dewey, James L. Martin, | Mrs. Martin, Miss Martin, Fred A.| Howland and Mrs. Howland, Willlam T. Dewey, James F. Dewey, Mrs. Kate Squire, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick B. Mc- ‘Cune, George P. Dewey, Lieutenant and Mrs. Theodore G. Dewey, C. Wol- cott, M. ‘Wolcott and C.-S. Wolcott. | “This is the grandest celebration I| have ever seen,” said Charles Dewey, | after the parade, “and I am an old | man and have traveled much in this| country and twice in Europe. I have| n triumphs and celebrations there. | pud e X at e | Not one of them ever began tc approach this in magnificence and beauty. It is the Lord’s day. He is with us. The | skies are bright and the sun is smiling | upon us. Everything contributes to the pageant. We heard a| great deal before we came here about how great the triumph would be, but | nothing like this stupendous outburst | ever entered our minds. The love and | admiration of the American people for | the admiral is wonderful.” DEWEY DAY OBSERVED ‘ IN SANTIAGO DE CUBA SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Sept. 29.— Dewey day was observed here with a patriotic demonstrjtion by Americans. | The .Government Puildings were gayly | decorated and all the tugs. in the har- bor blew their whistles. While the cele- | bration was general among the Ameri- | cans the Cubans took no part in it. In an editorial in El Cubano to-day exception is taken to the remark of | Admiral Dewey that the Filipinos are as capable of self-government as the Cubans. The editorial concludes by saying that Cubans have had enough of intervention and that clean machetes cut keenly. | DEWEY HAS SATISFIED ‘ ALL SHADES OF OPINION LONDON, Sept. 30.—The Times, in an editorial tracing Admiral Dewey's ca- | reer, says: “Not the least remarkable | fied all shades of opinion. There is no | NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—From the chartroom Ponce messages were flashed by wireless across. the city and over New York harbor and bay Other messages were received in reply. sending and receiving the apparatus ' established by Marconi After it was all them interesting souvenirs in the shape of duplicate copies of the first message sent by wireless telegraphy over a considerable distance in ‘With her towering foremast the Ponce. attracted great attention as she passed up the river first in line after the division yachts. Riggers were at work ypon the steamship until 9 o’clock in the morning lash- ing to the foremast the spar which carried the connecting wire, 140 feet and was ready for hig assistant at Navesink to call him. It had been expected that the first signal would about 11 o’'clock, but the noon hour came without results. installation at Navesink had not been completed, course, no tests could be made during the. afternoon. nearly exhausted, just thirty-four minutes after midday, a spark flashed of the steamship @ telegraphy this afternoon &} to the station at & Both in for the vacht races for the Herald and The oves Marconi expressed him- ose who had the good for- carried away with ests. g the parade b & = b & < b finished their work Marconi set up ns with currents of the upper air be recelved at Marconi be- that in all prebability the work of in which case, of After he was off the first message. DERORONORORORORNORNORIRNGNOLO record of a single jarring note to mar the harmony of the occasion. We in England can have no more pleasant duty than to congratulate America upon the possession of her gallant sea- men and her exhibition of legitimate pride in that possession. We feel sure nobody in America will question the propriety of the considerations which deterred Canada from allowing a de- tachment of the imperial forces to take official part in a celebration that must necessarily recall painful memories to another nation with whom we maintain traditional relations of ®peace and friendship. The vast majority of Amer- icans unquestionably appreciated Eng- land’s friendly attitude during the war, but we doubt whether that could any- where be so cerdially appreciated as | among the American sailors, who had special opportunities of putting it to the proof all the world over in their daily relations with the British navy. We do not believg that the seeds of friendship thus sown in the two countries are des- tined to remain sterile or to ¥ield only an ephemeral harv of empty pro- fessions of good will. STREETCARS WERE CROWDED WITH TRAFFIC NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—At least 2,300,000 persons were passengers on the street railways to-day. The elevated railways carried 1,000,000 persons, and practically all on the Sixth and Ninth avenue lines. The Metropolitan lines carried about 1,200,000 persons, and this traffic, too, was confined almost entirely to west ‘side lines. About 75,000 persons rode on the Third avenue line. Transportation facilities on all rail- ways entering New York were heavily taxed, and the street railway traflic was the heaviest in the history of the companies. Officials of the companies predict, however, that to-morrow all {ransportation records will be broken. The managers of all railways dread the rush which they expect to-morrow when the Dewey celebration ends. They estimate that, including those who will rrive to-day, there will be at lea ,500,000 visitors in town, and the m: Jjority of them will want to go home at once. At all railway stations all pos- sible preparations have been made for handling the crowds. Ordinary time- tables will be abandoned and trains will be run just as frequently as is con- sistent with safet TROOPS FOR THE BIG PARADE TO-DAY NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—In New York City an army of national guardsmen camped to-night. Major General Roe | part- of the celebration is the fact that | says there will be 23,000 soldiers in line | Admiral Dewey has manifestly satis- | to-morrow. Nearly all the troops are already in the city. SHIPWRECKED PASSENGERS ROBBED BY THE FRENZIED, DRUNKEN CREW MONTREAL, Quebec, Sept. 29.—Two hundred and fifty scantily clad, bag- gage-bereft men, women and children cial which steamed into Bonaventure depot to-night. They composed the greater number of those iho sailed from Liverpool on September 15 on board the steamship Scotsman, bound for Montreal, which was wrecked on the shores of’the Straits of Belle Isle at 2:30 o’'clock on the morning of the 21st inst. It was not only a tale of shipwreck that they had to tell, but one of death, suffering and pillage, for fif- teen at least of the Scotsman’s passen- gers perished, all suffered cruelly from cold and privation, and, almost the worst horror of all, the men who were supposed to succor and assist those committed to their care in the hour of need, turned on the helpless passen- gers, and, with loaded guns and volvers, compelled themw to part. with the few valuables saved. Captain Skrimshire and his officers were exceptions. For the honor of the British merchant marine the crime may not be ascribed to the men en- gaged in it, but to a gang of wharf rats and hangers-on, picked up on the docks at Liverpool to replace the usual crew of the Scotsman, which joined the seamen’s strike on the other side. The list of those who perished is as follows: First-class passengers: MISS STREET, Montreal. MRS. CHILDS, wife of the stage manager of the “Sign of the Cross” company, which was on board. MRS. ROBERTS and infant. MRS. M. M. SCOTT. MRS. ROBINSON, wife of the man- ager of the Sunlight Soap Company of Toronto. MRS. DICKINSON, wife of a former editor of the Toronto Globe. Second-class passengers: MRS. WATSON. MRS. TALBOT. . MRS. TUTHILL. MRS. SKELTON. c MRS. ELIZA WATKINS. MISS B. WEAVERS. It will be noticed that all who per- ished were women. This is accounted for by the fact that they were occu- pants of the first boat which left the s vamped before it could get clear of the ip. Entering the Straits of Belle Isle on Thursday night, the steamer ran into a dense fog. At 2 o’clock in the morn- | ing there was a shock underneath the | keel of the vessel, followed by another | and still another. The passengers were | asleep In their berths and were all awakened by the shocks and hurried on deck. The thick bank of fog shut out the sight of shore. A superficial examina- tion of the ship told Captain Skrim- shire that she would be a total wreck and must be abandoned, at once. A port lifeboat was lowered-and in this many of the women and children were placed. Hardly was it clear of the ship when it capsized, throwing its occu- pants into the water. Those who per- ished were in this boat. Some were saved, tor the ship had listed to port and several women were washed back | on the deck. One woman clung to a rope for two hours before being res- cued. Meanwhile disgraceful scenes were being enacted on board. Hardly had the | vessel struck before the men from the okehole rushed into the cabins and, | slitting open valiges and bags with their knives, took all the valuables they could lay their hands on. Several of them fired shotguns and tried to force men to leave their cabins. It is said that some of the steerage passengers joined the firemen in looting the baggage of the first-class passen- gers. In more than one instance rings were torn from the fingers of fainting and dying women. Captain Skrimshire and his officers could do nothing against the mob. ‘When morning came it was found that the Scotsman lay close inshore alongside a cliff fully a thousand feet high. A second boatload of women and children which had been sent off was called back and the passengers trans- shipped to the rocks alongside the ship. Until 6:30 the officers and some of the crew of the Scctsman worked unceas- ingly in getting the passengers ashore, and when darkness and a heavy fog set in they were safe on the rocks. But here the new danger of starvation faced them. The lower decks of the ship were entirely under water. A quantity of biscuit was carried on shore was and on this, with a very Ilittle corned” beef and wild berries, over 200 people existed for four days. Some natural steamer after she struck and which springs were found, but despite this the n: W bad condition of food and water brought on-much sickness. Many of the passengers suffered from the exposure. After much difficulty some overcoats and shawls were secured for the ‘women, nearly every one of whom had left the ship in night clothes. The passengers were obliged to climb up a rocky cliff nearly 300 feet high be- fore they could find a place large enough to rest. Here they stayed on the rocks for four days and nights. 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