Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — DEWEY IN CHICAGO. [ARTICLE]

DEWEY IN CHICAGO.

WINDY CITY OBSERVER MANILA BAY ANNIVERSARY. Naval Victor Is the Center of Interest in the Parade—Streets Radiant with K turnerb and a Cheering Multitude Gives an Ovation. Admiral Dewley arrived in Chicago Monday to attend the observance of the second anniversary of the Manila Bay battle. He was a little ahead of time, as he was at Manila bay two years ago. A' big crowd awaited the admiral and his wife. The admiral was met at South Chicago by the general executive committee, headed by Mayor -Harrison and George G. Dewey, This committee extended an official welcome, the Mayor offering the freedom of the c|ty to the distinguished guest and nsAuring him that the town would be “wide open” for him. In the afternoon the admiral was given a reception by the Canadian-American Association. In the evening there was an illumination of the lake front, aud later a naval bail at the* Auditorium. On Tuesday “Admiral Dewey occupied the post of honor in the great parade given in honor of his victory over the Spaniards two years before. Down through the streets, made radiant with banner and bunting, with flag and festoon, rode the admiral of the navy, the central figure in a swinging mass of color and music. Ten thousand men, in resplendent uniforms of blue and gold, of scarlet and gray, trooped before and after him. Half a hundred bands blared the brassy notes of soul-stirring marches, a score of fife corps shrieked the shrill measures of war tunes, horses pranced, flags waved, sabers flashed and an uncountable multitude watched the spectacle. George Dewey will probably remember the sight he watched from the reviewing stand in Chicago. It may not have been as - spectacular as the naval pageant which New York arranged for him, nor as long as some other parades he has seen, but it was a brilliant procession. There were regulars, national guardsmen, Mexican and civil war veterans, man-o’-warsmen, soldierly youngsters who marched like old campaigners, and Chicago's representatves in business and the professions. Eight divisions of them there were, and they swept through the cheering lines of packed humanity, under the banners and the streamers, past the admiral and his party like an army marching in triumph of a conqueror. Chicago had turned out to do honor to a hero. Political affiliations were forgotten. All remembered the terse sentences flashed under the ocean from Hong Kong two years ago. That was the keynote of the thought along the line of march. That the admiral enjoyed the sight and the sounds of his welcome was shown by his smiling face as he passed along.