Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1892 — COLUMBUS’S LONG TRIP [ARTICLE]

COLUMBUS’S LONG TRIP

Was Begun Just Four Hundred , Years Ago, Aug. 3d. An Appropriate Obiervanel of the Anniversary at Palos, Spain, by the Spanish Cruisers. A special from Palos.. Spain, August 3d, says: This is the four hundredth anniversary of the day on which Columbus Set sail from Palos, westward on his voyage of discovery, and the festivities arranged here for cerebrating the day were carried out w ith great eclat. The view from town, however, was obscured by a thick mist, which hungover the river and rendered it Impossible to see more than a Tttifflrbutllpe of thehulis ofthe vessels lying at anchor. At 6 o'clock, the hour at which Columbus began his voyage, the caravel, Santa Maria, constructed in imitation of the vessel of that name, belongthe Columbus expedition, which Upd beep lying off shore all night, set hei ' sails' for her passage through the lines of war ships anchored outside the barr but owing to the prevalence, of a dead calm, .a line was run to her, from a gun-boat and she was t owed do wn stream, fo] lowed by the Span - Jsh flotilla in single file,MinisteroLM&r line Montfgo being on board the war-ship Legisipi. The voyage down the river past the Monastery of Larabida, on which building the flags of all the American States were flying, to the bar occupied about an hour. Outside the bar were moored the vessels of the foreign squadrons which had come to take part in the celebration. These vessels were, formed *in line, between which the caraval passed amid thunderous salutes and deafening cheers. The mist and the smoke from the guns made it impossible to watch the maneuvers of the[caraval, which followed for some distance the route taken by Columbus four years ago. At 9 the little vessel returned and re-entered the river. The town of Ilelva is crowded with visitors, and all the buildings, both private and public.jtare gaily decorated.