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PANORAMA VIEW OF CLEVELAND'S OUTER HARBOR, TAKEN FR Perry's Victory Celebrated An Imposing Array of Bulk Freighters to - Le Seen in the Outer Harbor at Cleveland HERE has never been witnessed | on the Great Lakes a scene paral- leling that which was to be ob- served in the outer harbor of Cleveland on: Sunday morning, Sept. 14, marking the opening of the celebration in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of Commodore Perry's victory over the British fleet at Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie. When the battle of Lake Erie was fought, there were few vessels on Lake Erie, not many, and none of them larger than Perry's flagship Niagara, which looks like a tiny morsel alongside the great ships of today. At that time there was nothing on Lake Superior larger than the birch bark canoe of the Indians and the batteaux of the French voyagers, and there never had been anything larger there. The view, therefore, that presented it- self to the beholder in the harbor of Cleveland on Sept. 14 was impressive and significant. Certainly few people have ever seen a finer array of bulk freighters. The exactions of the trade are such that vessel owners cannot afford to delay ships as time in the short season which obtains on..the lakes is money} yet there were several sufficiently patriotic and public spirited to delay their: ships for the better part of the day. These great freighters, loaded with either coal or ore, lay at anchor until the Niagara hove in sight in tow of the gunboat Wolverine and convoyed by the gun- boats Dorothea and Essex and the rey- enue cutter Morrell. Then they grad- ually swung into line and formed part of the procession from the pier head to Gordon park. The great sidewheel- ers of the Detroit & Cleveland Naviga- tion Co. and the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. added to the impressiveness of the spectacle, as did also a fotila the operation of their. of tugs under Captain Phillip Broderick, of the Great Lakes Towing Co. The naval division was commanded by Com- mander T. B. Bolton, of the naval re- serve ship Dorothea. The bulk freight- ers were under the general direction of Capt. W.-W. Smith, superintendent of the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. When Gordon park was reached the bulk freighters dropped out of line and proceeded to the various ports to which they had been previously assigned. The bulk freighter William P. Palmer was the flagship of the bulk .freight fleet, which consisted of the following vessels: Carrying capacity Boat--Captain. gross tons. Woo Palmer, A. F. Chatibers....... 12,000 Poi bhoausey jo Pi Parke S505 0S. 12,000 By We Berry ©. .C. sbaliour.... 240. 0.. 10,000 WB. Schiller" Jc "hakramboise....... 12,000 Usaac Ellwood: G:.-o. 'Bowen... +). 2... 8,112 Bdenpom,. | -Cullen 3. sco ee 8,170 Bricsson: = Allen: Collins; 3's. 2... 2.3: 53957 Peter, Reiss ©. P bahn. . 6 oe: 9,000 Jeo). Sullivan, S. Bo "Vassey. 2... 3. 2? 10,500 Sultana: a. hc Cotterell: .. s 4 e. 5,000 GREETING PE RRY'S FLAGSHIP NIAGARA AT THE FOOT OF EAST NINTH STREET, CLEVELAR