1. THE Despatch AND THE Monmouth, FROM THE Erastus Wiman. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN H. DINGMAN. 2. THE Sirius. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY A. R. DORCHESTER.

tary Noble, Governor Hill, Mayor Grant, General Schofield, Hon. William M. Evarts, Walker Blaine, Attorney-General Miller, Secretary Proctor, Chief Justice Fuller, William G. Hamilton, James M. Varnum, Hon. John A. King, Jackson S. Schultz, Frederic R. Coudert, O. B. Potter, Clarence W. Bowen, Commodore Ramsay, and hosts of other notables. The seakissed shores at this interesting moment were literally black with people: all New Jersey seemed massed on one side of the Kill von Kull and all Staten Island on the other. The buildings and the trees were filled with men and women, and the bright national colors were everywhere floating in the breeze.

The escorting steamers of the centennial committee, led by the Erastus Wiman and the Sirius, were already in line, awaiting the signal

4. AT THE WHARF. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY A.

R. DORCHESTER.

for the movement of the naval procession. These were freighted with the committees, and with governors of states, commissioners, military celebrities, statesmen, foreign ministers, great divines, poets, historians, men of letters, and other guests of distinction, who had been invited to partici

pate in receiving the President. On the Erastus Wiman, for example, were ex-President R. B. Hayes, Chauncey M. Depew, Senator Sherman and

daughter, Governor Foraker of Ohio and family and staff, Governor Buckner of Kentucky and staff, Hon. William Wirt Henry of Virginia, Governor Gordon of Georgia and staff, Governor Bulkley of Connecticut and staff, the governors of Iowa, Michigan, Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island, Indiana, and of several other states, Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, ex-Secretary Bayard, Edward F. De Lancey, Henry G. Marquand, Senor Romero the Mexican minister, Dr. George B. Loring, our new minister to Portugal, Professor Drisler, acting president of Columbia college, and a thousand or two, more or less, of similar quality. The splendid steamer Monmouth was laden with the overflow from the Erastus Wiman, a brilliant throng, including several belated governors of states, of whom was the governor of Massachusetts and his staff. Other steamers, much too numerous for mention, were on hand crowded with appreciative passengers, and when the Despatch began to move toward New York the spectacle was the most beautiful and imposing ever witnessed on American waters.

There were nine monster men-of-war, resting with their noses pointed up stream, some two hundred yards apart in single column, a little to the west of the main channel, each of which saluted the Despatch with twentyone guns as she came abreast, while sailors with their caps off swarmed to the rigging with the agility of cats, and spread out upon the yard-arms in silhouette lines of human figures set against the sky. The magnificent fleets of steam yachts, merchantmen, and revenue cutters also saluted with uproarious racket, and fell into line in their proper places, each vessel from the largest to the smallest being enveloped in bunting of all colors and devices, and crowded from stem to stern with showily dressed and enthusiastic ladies and gentlemen. As the marvelous pageant advanced, every boat in the harbor was quickly afloat, with others that had no assigned place on the programme. Gayly trimmed launches, tugs, private yachts, ferryboats, propellers, excursion boats, and sailing craft of all descriptions, crowded with spectators, were in bewildering motion, dodging in here and there among the great steamers for a near view of the Despatch, the central attraction, as if unconscious of the existence of rear-admirals and proclamations. Some six hundred vessels it is said paraded, and the line, had it been stretched out as originally planned would have reached not less than fourteen miles. As to the deafening noise produced, words can never do it justice. Cannon, steam-whistles, and cheering tried in vain to drown each other, while the locomotive and factory whistles along the shore added their discordant screams, guns boomed from every bluff and pier, the multitudes shouted with all their strength, and at New Brighton a steam fire-engine shrieked from an elevation with significant results. The

2. EX-SECRETARY BAYARD AND MR. FISH. FROM A DETECTIVE CAMERA PHOTOGRAPH BY MR. BLACK.

water was lashed into a white foam tinged with blue, every drop seemingly converted into a sparkling gem under the sun's rays, which with the changeable, leisurely-moving panorama of marine beauty, particularly at the proud moment of its completed proportions, made the whole surface. of the bay more brilliant in effect than a garden of choicest flowers. It was a picture picturesque in the extreme, and to be seen but once in a lifetime. The marine pageant was a success from first to last, and, in the admirable order of its arrangement, and in the unparalleled grandeur of its extent, has never been equaled on this continent or indeed in the annals of the world.

The view of lower New York from the parading vessels was also something to be remembered. The massive buildings were clothed in the national colors and covered with thousands of people; the streets and wharves were packed with patient crowds-every available spot where a human foot could be planted was occupied. The camera is the best chronicler of what was seen from the water. It is believed that upward of two millions of intelligent American citizens overlooked, in one way or another, the memorable naval parade.

The ceremony of landing the President was unique. The row-boat in this instance was manned by a crew of experienced oarsmen, descendants of the masters of vessels who rowed the barge of Washington across the bay in 1789, Ambrose Snow, coxswain, one of the oldest and ablest ship captains in the country. Chairman Asa Bird Gardiner of the Committee on Navy, Frederic R. Coudert, and Jackson Schultz, accompanied the President and Vice-President in the little dancing craft, and amid vociferous cheers from every quarter and a noisy chorus of steam whistles, they safely stepped upon the float at the foot of Wall street.

The formalities of introduction were brief. Major Gardiner presented the President to Hon. Hamilton Fish, president of the centennial, who received and gracefully introduced him to the governor of the state of New York and the mayor of the city. Mr. Fish then said: "Mr. President In the name of the centennial committee, representing the enthusiasm, the gratitude, and the pride of the nation on this anniversary, tender to you the welcome of New York, on the very spot where, one hundred years ago, your great predecessor, our first President, planted his foot, when he came to assume the duties of the great office which has now devolved upon you, and to set in operation the machinery of the glorious Constitution under which the government has prospered and enlarged and extended across the continent, insuring peace, security, and happiness to more than sixty millions of people, and not a single slave." To this