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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1899
Page
6
A New York front page recounts Admiral Dewey’s welcoming parade aboard the battleship Olympia. Three million witnesses watched the fleet pass the harbor as flags fluttered and crowds cheered along the East River from the bridge to the Battery in a grand display of color and ceremony.
The parade up the Hudson formed with Police Boat Patrol and Fireboats leading to Grant's tomb. On Olympia's port bow Sandy Hook carried Mayor Van Wyck and city delegates, followed by New York, Indiana, Massachusetts, Texas, Brooklyn, and Chicago with other ships and revenue cutters. An escort line extended for a mile while officials rode in official boats and wore special undress uniforms per the admiral's orders.
Thousands of vessels sailed up the upper bay and river as New York honored Admiral Dewey. Flags adorned wharves and clippers while crowds on shore and afloat filled streets and waterways with noise. The Olympia hosted a Marine panorama with a sea of banners and a six hour bowing tribute to the admiral.
The port column enumerates steamships and propellers under command of J. Pierpont Morgan on the Corsair and Captain Perry on the Red Ash. It details sections of eight to twelve ships led by named captains, including prize vessels from the Spanish-American war and a flotilla headed by the John Neilson and Charles Spear.
Crowds mobbed the Olympia as Admiral Dewey led a civic fleet from Tompkinsville. Patrol boats cleared a path amid shrieking whistles and pushing craft. The parade route stretched past Long Island shore with Wadsworth, Fort Hamilton, and Staten Island spectators watching the armed ships. The four starred flag of Farragut was unfurled aboard the Olympia before dawn, then the fleet moved at 1 o'clock downriver toward the Hudson in a grand procession.
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