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TUK MOKNINU ASrOKUN. WKDNKSHA , UCTOMIt 11, 8')0. Admiral dewevs naval pageant Vivid Description of ihe Parade as It Passed Up the Hudson. THE CROWD STUPENDOUS Greatest Spcctadc of the Kind Ever Seen Iu the Woiid-No Un toward Incident. The naval parade from the vantage point of the warships was an Immense les had been routed by her successful marine picture, a water pageant with war record, the rakish, yacht-like Dol o little of Incident compared with Its: phin. the old Lancaster, a relic of an great slie that ft appealed to th eye I other naval agv; the powerful Chicago, as a painting rather than a drams. I her ancient top hamper gone, trimmed The vast gathering of water craft I down to modern fighting compass and .maintained an average soeed of eUht knots, tut so magnificent was Its areaj that the lniDremlon to an observer taJoned on the New York was one of' still, almost lost In the distance, the aeeedlngly slow and stately move-.yachts and miscellaneous craft hull ment. The picture was continually down on the horlson. changing, but It melted so steadily andj The evolution began at 1 o'clock and In such measured rhythm from the In fifteen minutes the lighting line was form to form that the sense of motion straightened out up the harbor. The was largely lost It started under a, hend of the column was a broad arrow, brilliant sky, p&setd at the mouth of ' SI torpedo boats spread out formed 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 sun set off Grant's tomb. The night had been a busy one in the fleet of warships oft Tompkinsville. The last details of the coming day's, ceremony were hardly settled before ! the day Itself broke on a scene of greater activity than the old time an chorage had ever wittnesaed before. The great vessels of the White squad ron swung at their anchorage as for the last 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 fmm RtanWnel Kfmrnn t ha wt.to rMrh f of the harbcr to the Erie Basin, and from" the Battery to the Narrows the water was alive. It was a modern ar- mada, against which the Armada launched by Philip of Spain would have seemed a child's toy. It was a moving, shifting picture of tugs, police boats, fire boats, torpedo boots, yachts, launches, tramp steamers and ocean liners, and sailing craft of every rig. with big ferry boats and excursion boats ploughing their way through the mass in mysterious paths that opened before tuem and closed again behind them like the Ice of an Arctic floe. The only stable points in the scene at mi cariy nour were ine warsmps. They lay like great, white, grounded bergs, about which the pack ice turned : and swirled without moving them from I their moorings. It was a morning of repressed excitement on board the New ' York and the other ships behind the' Olympia. Every thing had been clean- j ed and burnished from ram to rudder. The crew was as spotless as the vessel, every one, from the admiral to the ensigns, groomed to drawing-room fitness. There were few callers. Sir Thomas I Llpton came aboard from the torpedo' boat Norrls with Chevalier de Martlno, J the queen's maritime artist. The art-j 1st remained for the day, but Sir i Thomas Llpton, after a hurried chat with Admiral Sampson and Captain Chadwlok, ran down the ladd'-r like a boy and scurried off to the Erin, En sign Delia Georges, of the Grek navy, slso came aboard, and remained: throughout the day. Noon was ushered In with a scream of whistles that lasted five minutes, during which steam enough was wast ed to run an ocean liner to the Azores. The last faraway echo had hardly drifted back from the Staten island hills when a sudden impulse seemed to seize the far reaching mass of tugs and othr craft. Instead of drifting Idly round and round the warships, like chips in an eddy, they began to steam away to the south in parallel lines, as though an unseen current were bearing them out to sea. But as they 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 warships. The great boat cranes amidships reached down their grappling hooks and whisk ed the pinnaces aboard. Megaphone commar.ds flung across the water brought the torpedo boats to the Olym pla' quarters. The brilliant code flags blossomed like flowers on tha Olympla, from bridge to maintop. It vu the ordor to form In column. The Brooklyn's pennant tnuptMd "aye! ay!" from the signal yard, and a duplicate avt of flaga paus ed the ordr to the Indiana, when It was flung frtn ship to ship down the squadron. Tho black speed conce of the Oljmpia climbed slowly to her yards as the big cruiser got under way. The other vessels slowly turned like a troop of cavalry, squadron front toward the Narrows, and then. In a graceful twerp, headed back up the harbor toward the flattery, the Olym pla, escorted by the mayor's boat, the Sandy Hook, In the lead. Back of her it a H yard Interval came the Sew York, then the powerfut Indiana and SIasscliutts, the flivt-fiwted. Brook lyn, the sturdy old Texas, whose crlt- finally the little Marietta, the rear guard of the fighting craft. Behind stretched the transports and further the barh, three on Olymoln's quarter. a side from thei Outside of them! flvinir wedre of nolle oatrol boats! forn-.ed"a grat V, whose apex wrs the Olympla. Flanking them, ahead and astern were harbor fire boats, spouting great columns of water that turned threailngly tow.ird the boats on either side when txcur o i they at- tempted to crowd the line of march. Hut the pag?ant back of this power ful vanguard was not limited to a single n..r to a sextuple line of shins. It was a sinuous marine monster hiif a mile wide, whose spine was the White Squadron and whose ribs were rows upon roxs of every sort of flut ing thing that had ever run by steam In New Tork harbor. Thousands viewed the spectacle as It moved up past Staten Island: thousands more watched It from the anchored sailing craft that crowded the Rrln basin, and whose spars rose in a forest about the foot of the Liberty statute. But they were forgotten livj the mass of humanity that crowded the waterfront of Manhattan Island and filled every point of vantage along the Jersey shore. This feature of the scene first broke on the view aq rAt!e Trillium rrAroA i an (dmlral salute for the otvmnla off. the Battery. By the time the answer-! in? cn-.nt.o hait ait-a, fww t Via i wake of the flagship the Immensity of ....... I the watching crowd dawned on the j opens of the squadron. Fvpry font of i tie el'y waterfront was a mass of hu manity. The wharves, the frry slips, th nWs of ferry and warehouses rose on above ani'her In solid blocks of Kopl Above the lower structures of the waterfront evry roof bore Its llv Irg freight. Stores, old office buildings and modern skyscrapers wcr crowded with stands, tlrs upon tiers of K'ats, like an Immense theater, whose roof was the sky. whose wrllR were the ur rotindlri!? hills and whose bark drop was th.p horbon of the lower hay. As the pa?ant moved majtlcally inti the Hudson It was sn that the j crowd still llnod the waterfront and , housetops thlrker, If possible, than I ever, and stretching up the river along, the whole line of parade. The heights of the Jersey side were also crowded with parti-colored masses of people. They were not surh an unbroken rank as stretched along the wharves of the New York side, but wherever the wood ed slopes broke Into a clearing the slope was blanketed with people from crest to water line. There was no possible way of estimating the crowd. It had been leclared that there wen? 1,500.000 visitors In the city. The Impression conveyed by the crowded shores was that It would have taken fully so many in addition to the local population to form the concourse that watched the water ragant. The spectators might have been computed In army corps, certainly not by Individuals. 1TP the Hudson pandemonium reigned; supreme. Aeriel bombs broke at In- tervals overhead In puffs of white nation. His opinion on all matters np sinokc, and a feathery canopy of steam j pertaining to the Tagal race Is of In whistles screamed continually. The j terest and value, and when seen af the narrow throat of the river crowded the! Waldorf-Astoria, where he Is staying advancing vessels together In an al-' for the yacht races, to a New York re-1 most compact mass. The broad arrow' porter he said: ! formation still drove the head of the column forward unmolested through the ranks of the waiting vessels. Here, too, a disaster of wind and rain Impended. Storm clouds that had inhered down tht bay followed close In the pageant's wake. A sharp wind bred whltcaps even In the narrow river, anJ a few raindrops pattered like bul lots ivo the decks. The glare of an an gry sky turned the harbor behind tlw Wt,w Wl!u patronised by the Filipinos, warships to molten lead, upon whlrh The university of Pan Thomas, which the gigantic figure of Liberty seemed w, fgtabtUhcd In tt7, Is one of Hi , to stand for a time and was soon twal-j A,j ,t (,a, without any exception, the lowed up In a bank of gray hase. Then, moal nivrtilrnvnt natural history col the threatening sky relented. The sun fcoti,,,. i hMVe ewr swn. This cl broke out ah. ad and palnbM across wt,m iHH, c,V.vliniel In four tl.e sullen clouds' a rainbow arch that p.y,,! octavo volumes by (Ih friars, and stretched from Manhatten to the Jcr- contains sp.clniens of all the flora and soy shore. It seemed a bit of nature's fAunrt geographical spot-lntcns, hugs, art work spread by a kindly miracle at( anln-ala. and. In faot every form of the opportune movement, beggaring vegetable and animal life to be met man's more humble efforts on shore, but forming a fitting arch of triumph,1 beneath which the victorious Admiral' sailed to his anchorage. The old Portsmouth's crew manned the riggings as the ciympia pai, and off-Oram's tomb the naval r- serves on the St. Mary a did the same. Bound the stakeboat the mass of ad- vanclng boats threatened for a time serious consequences, but the Olympla and hr consorts safely dropped anchor, at last In reversed column and the water pageant passed the admiral In review. The police boats umvremonl- ously shouldered Intruding vessels out of the line of march. The onVlal pro- cession and Its varied following or u3, miiiniiiT.. mrwu .iins'n mi t x- cursion boats rounded the St. Mary's and came down the river In an India- tlntilh.itle aouattc moo mat was ""I P-!,rPr long after thf nlsht lllu- initiation nan Begun PRAISE FOR OUR PHILIPPINE WARDS Ciilnne Reeves of the 13th Minm sn a Savs The are Well Civiliz-d. MAJORITY ARE EDUCATED Their Colleges and Advanced Schools Compare Favorably With Those in Enropp or America. Among the many volunteer troops that made notable records for service in the Philippine, none were perhaps butter equipped, better drilled and more thoroughly at home In the field than the Thirteenth Minnesota. They were a husky, well built lot of men, and the loon or tnelr quarters at Camp Merritt. San Francisco, last y?ar, and th' Ir ap- nnrfin-o at drill, approached closely to thi regular army standard. The men had great esprit de corps, they were proud of their appearance, th-ir record In the militia and their ability to take rare of themselves, but, proud est of all of their colonel, to whose un tiring efforts they largely owed the per fect condition In which the outbreak of the war found them. The colonel un der whose command they sailed out of San Francisco bay a year ago last July on their voyage to the most outlying of Uncle Sam's possessions was C. MoC. Reeve, the son of a soldier, and a sol dier himself from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. The record of! the Thirteenth Minnesota at the siege of Manila, Its capture on August 13, l."t. and In the subsequent contests with the Insurgents, Is well known, and has added a bright page to American hlstnry, In which there Is nothing to criticise and all to praise. For the part he played In the taking of Manila, the president and his advisers Justly felt that reward was due to Colonel Reeve, and made him a brigadier-general, Ma nila captured, General Reeve was put In charge of the delicate and responsi ble duty of policing the city, a duty which he discharged with credit to him self and satisfaction to the Inhabi tants. His duties brought him closer, per haps, to the native of the city and Isl and than any American officer had bfn, and he made the most of his opportunities. A keen observer, with a wide knowledge of men and affairs, he, made a close study of the Filipino, hlsj habits of thought and the posslblllti s the future hold for him as a man and a "Thae seems to be much misappre hension In this country concerning the Filipino nation, which Is generaly re- gardod as being composed of a semi- barbwrto, uncouth and uneducated pco- pie. This Is, howw. far - removed form ths truth, for the natives arc very genet ally educated. insldo the walled city were two uni versities which previous to the war tuuni in the atvhlpelagiv The other Is te fomlnlean University, which Is of enormous else, and occupies two entire Mocks within the waited city, and pre- Vous to the outbreak of hnrtllltlea tt earrhd no loss than five thousand rtm-s of native students on Its rolls. rt trochee many branches of education. including academic, las. ; ntedlrlne and applied sciences, with the eompMe neo- .,uy paraphernalia In all depart. mnts. In all the villages throughout the Island aI. excellent sohol are to be found, and I haw herd K stated by competent authorities that W per cent cf the native are educated, but this I think Is an exaggeration. From per- ,wt otw.-rvatl.Mi. however, I should in.tt so per cm are educated. You find no female servants In the rhlllp pipes, all forms of work b. ltig perform by the men. and the Filipino I hud as ordinary house servants could rid and write Spanish and understood flj.utvs In their simple forms. "The hoys there are educated In church sohools In the various villages. ami i trunk in tn.-ir -rvxn. roi.g's and school of applied scleno they teach everything there that we do here In America, with the possible exception of telegraphy. "There Is another thing I want to speak of concerning them, and that Is their entrance Into the domain of mod ern professions. An English colonist told me, and I found no reason to doubt his statement, that among the doctors In Manila there were two or three native Tagalos, who were with out superiors In thWr profession, and who were accomplished and scientific surgeons, "The best dentist In the city and on the Island was General Aravello, now one of Agulnaldo's army. He Is a full blooded Tagalo.' The general had also studl.il the de velopment f arts and science among the natives. ' Their working of gold, sliver and Iron metals," he sold, continuing, "Is most skillful, and tt Jewelry they make 1 very beautiful. They model uetl in rluy, and cane wood and Iron In the most exquisite manner. Judg ing tuelr finished work from the stand poln' of a tyro In art matters, such as I am. It was to all uppearanoe abso lutely correct. Some of the best at tcrncys at the Manila bar are natives, and are well grounded in the theory and practice of their profession. Pa- terno, said to be the present head of Agulnaldo's Cabinet, and Mablnl Ara yano, who have accumulated a large j fortune, were txrth full blooded Tagalos. "As a matter of fact, since 1872 the Filipinos have sent to Asiatic and Eu ropean universities two hundred of their young men annually. There are eleven schools for women alone In Ma nila, and besides the regular form of education these women are taught sew ing, embroidery and the like, as are ' orlrla In . K I Allnlnr T-V. ., nMn , . . ..V . r,.... ... ...... .......... . ,,, j ai itiwifiii by native nuns, and their needle work Is wonderful." "And how about modern macliln ery?" was mtkiii. "Do they have an aptitude for It?" "You know the complication of steam engines, and the trouble tt Is to get them properly and efficiently run In some other countries," said the gen Mai. "For Instance, In Mexico no na tives are employed as firemen and en glneers, a responsible work which Is wholly performed by white men. Well, on the only railroad on the Island of Luzon, the Manila and Daguypan railroad, the engineers, firemen, brake men ana conductors are all natives, as well as all the machinists In the rail road shops. All the steamers plying between the Island ports have native engineers and stokers. They are, also, a great race of sailors, as Is natural, from th nature of the Island home." "Admiral Dewey used a great many of natives In the shops at the ars'nal at Cavlte, and told me he found them most satisfactory workmen. I brought home a carriage with me made wholly by them and of native design. It re sembles a baby coupe. Their carriages are made small on account of the diminutive else of their horses, which Rr K inort backed, sturdy race of Im mense strength, somswhat smaller than our polo ponies. The coupe, which Is Continued on page T. OREGON INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION.,.. OPENS IN Portland, S'pt?mbcr 28, CLOSES October a8, 180Q. Horticultural and Agricultural Products of Oregon, . Washington and Idaho In greater variety and profu sion than evsr before. bennctt's Kcnuwncil Military Hand MISS AI.K I. KAY MOM) America's Greatest Lady Cornel Bololst. Tilt uneijualed I'LOKKNZR TK01TK Cf Acrobats, direct from ths Smplr Theatre. Londoa; their first appear- anre in America. 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