 "This picture makes a quick appeal to popular patriotism, and has been a decided  hit  wherever it has been shown. At the opening a Spanish flag is seen floating from the top of the flagstaff; then a United States sailor appears shinning up the staff with a bundle tied to his shoulders. He rips down the Spanish flag, nails Old Glory to the staff, and as the breeze carries it out, waves his cap to the cheers of his comrades below."