APPENDIX 



MELVILLE AT HOME. 



The following account of the arrival and reception of Engineer 

 Melville and his companions at New York city is copied and com- 

 piled from the New York Herald : 



"The party of relatives, comrades, and friends of the returning 

 heroes, who had gone down to Quarantine to meet them on the 

 Navy Yard boat, the Catalpa, spent Tuesday afternoon and night 

 in waiting, most of them spending the night at the Staten Island 

 hotels. Arrangements were made for calling the passengers of 

 the tug together at any time of the night if the steamship was 

 signalled. There was fortunately no necessity for doing so, and 

 when the meeting did take place it was beneath the fairest of skies 

 and amid the balmiest of breezes a perfect autumn day. 



About ten o'clock, Wednesday morning, word was received on 

 the Catalpa that the Parthia had passed Fire Island. An hour 

 later Mr. William P. Clyde's steam yacht, the Ocean Gem, having 

 on board another party of welcome, glided past the Quarantine 

 dock amid an exchange of cheers, and on toward Sandy Hook. 

 On the yacht were Aldermen Roosevelt, McClane, and Brady, of 

 the Aldermanic Committee; Colonel Church and Judge F. J. 

 Fithian, of the Citizen's Committee; Chief Engineers Loring and 

 Allen, and Past Assistant Engineers Kelly and Barry, of the 

 United States Navy; Messrs. H. C. Ellis, J. Bryar, F. M. Can- 

 field, John Collins, and others. 



Health Officer Smith had kindly agreed to go out to the Par- 

 thia in the Catalpa, and when at half-past twelve she swung off 

 from her dock upon the announcement that the Parthia was com- 

 ing up the Narrows, she carried that official with her, as well as 

 one of the gayest and most expectant parties ever seen. There 



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