People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1893 — THE GERMANS GET THERE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE GERMANS GET THERE.

Arrival In Hampton Roads of the Fatherland's Crack Warships — Their Generous Welcome. FORTRESS MONROE, Va., April 19. - Germany came in with smoke and glory. It was just dusk. The warships had remained quiet for several hours. The crowd on the wharf and floating around in the double-decked steamers were saying that the day would end without any more foreign arrivals. They did not see the great white ironclad bearing toward the Point, with another stanch warship following slowly in her wake. The big Kaiserin Augusta, with her two towering masts, three yellow smokestacks and long tapering ends, was not observed through the forest of masts and penants until she

swung around the east end of the fleet and began blazing away while steaming down the lines. The Kaiserin Augusta has nothing but big guns, and her salute of twenty-one guns to the stars and stripes over the fort simply shook the Old Point and jolted the water into choppy waves. They boomed and roared until only the masts showed above the masses of smoke, and the Seeadler coming behind was forgotten and lost to view. Then the fort began to answer with twenty-one guns to the German flag, and as it concluded the Kaiserin, which had come to a point opposite the Blake, turned loose fifteen thunderbolts for the English vice admiral, and the Blake returned seven to Capt. Buchsel of the German cruiser, who was standing on the bridge in full uniform scanning the roads and directing the fire. The Kaiserin fired starboard and port, fore and aft. She turned loose all her guns, and in her tribute to the two admirals raised such a glorious rumpus that the disturbance made by the Blake

Monday morning was as nothing in comparison. The Philadelphia popped away an answer of seven to the thirteen guns for Rear Admiral Gherardi, who was on shore in his civilian clothes, the two Germans kept up on their way east and the Kaiserin Augusta dropped anchor just west of the Van Speyk, and southwest of the Philadelphia, west of it 300 yards, the Seeadler halted and almost immediately two barges manned by sturdy German sailors came ashore for mail. Admiral Bancroft Gherardi stood on the quarter deck of the Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon taking a good look at the great show now being given in Hampton roads. Within a radius of 1 mile from the flagship where the admiral’s pennant was dancing in a lazy northwest wind no less than 100 craft were either anchored or shifting about

over the blue waves. The flags of seven nations were flying. They were: The United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Italy and Holland.

THE U. S. CRUISER ATLANTIC.

THE BRITISH CRUISER BLAKE.

THE FRENCH CRUISER HUSSARD.