Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1890 — THE NATION'S VISITORS. [ARTICLE]

THE NATION'S VISITORS.

Brazilian War Ships Given Royal Greeting at New York. The Brazilian war ships, the Aqidaban and Guanabara, which arrived off the southwest spit, lower bay, late Tuesday afternoon and anchored there for the night, weighed anchor shortly after 8 o’clock next morning, and steamed slowly up the bay and the North river to a point opposite Twontysfourth street, where they came to anchor again. They were escorted by the American gunboat Yorktown and the dispatch boat Dolphin, the vessels pro* ceeding in the following order: First the Dolphin, followed half a mile astern by the Yorktown: then came the Aquidaban, followed by the Guanabara. the same distance intervening between each vessel. As the Dolphin passed quarantine the guns at Fort Wadsworth fired a salute. As the fleet steamed on in single file the bay was dotted with tugs and small sailing craft filled with interested specta. tors. At 9:40 thenavy yard dispatch boat steamed out past the battery and fell into line threesfourths of a mile ahead of the Dolphin. As the latter passed the statue of Liberty the colors were run up and at the same moment a puff of white smoke came from old Castle William on Governor’s Island, and cannon roared out a welcome nine consecutive times. The Bras zilian cruiser Aquidaban responded with fifteen guns. The little fleet continued its way up the North River, the revenue cutter Chandler acting as police boat to keep other crafts out of their course. It was about 11 o’clock when the fleet finally dropped anchor at the foot of West Twenty-fourth street. This will be the permanent anchorage of the Brazilian vessels while they remain in this port. The United States steamship Philadelphia, of the North Atlantic squadron, Admiral Gherardi’s flagship, lay up the river about 400 feet above the Brazilian vessel.