National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-11
ANNAPOLIS AROUSED.
A SOUND OF REyELRY BY NIGHT.
Graduating Day-President Garfield Present-He
Makes Speech-A Distinguished Gathering
"A Splendid Scene-The Ball Last
Eight-Wealth and Beauty.
Special to THE REPUBLICAN.

Special to THE REPUBLICAN.
ANNAPOLIS, MD, June 10.-The quaint
old town of Annapolis is having its biggest day
in the year to-day. As the commencement days
of Harvard and Yale are to Cambridge and New
Haven, so is the Oh which the diplomas are
awarded TO 15.c cadets who have studied hard to
Dee9tlSle theoretical naval officers to Annapolis.
r-No city takes so great an interest in this COM
| menccment day at Annapolis as does Washington;
and the beauty and fashion, the young bellies just
| entering society and those who have had the ex-
perience of one or more seasons all go to Annapo-
lis to lend their beauty and grace to the exercises
and to give brilliancy TO the hop" which always
| follows at night AS a representative of The
REPUBLICAN took his seat in the 12:10 train
that rolled cut OF the Baltimore and Ohio
depot he found himself Immediately behind
two West End beauties. who were eagerly antici-
pating the good time they would have at the hop.
One had before participated in the pleasures OF q
naval cadet commencement hop, and she was re-
lating TO her companion who for the first time
to visit the Maryland capital, the enjoyment that
was in store for her. While they were thus pleas
antly chatting young scion of an old sea-dog of
an admiral joined them and commenced narrating
his experience while a cadet at the academy. He
was extremely youthful in appearance, his chin
adorned with a family struggling moustache.
There nothing intellectual in his appearance.
His head would fit a number five hat, and his
pedal extremities measured two full feet of twelve
inches each. But to hear this young cub talk one
would think he had reached the age of Me-
thuselah, so many and varied had been his eXpe
Tiences. He filed those two girls up with more tales
| of personal experience during his cadctship than
could have been crowded into Mark Twain's In
of Annapolis, he told them of eight years he had
spent on the Pacific coast of cruises in the Medi-
terranean, to South America and to nearly every
foreign shore. The young thing who was making
her first acquaintance with a naval cadet
graduate eagerly drank in all he said
and evidently thought this insignificant
specimen of man a hero: but the older beauty
occasionally showed an interrogation point in her
eye. and the curl Of her lip showed that her
credulity was not imposed upon. Her whole man
ner at times seemed TO say that she thought the
young man had been a companion of the marines,
and imagined that he had them for auditors. All
this however, is mere depression, but it served to
afford no little amusemc to the undersigned dur
ing the tedious trip down.
THE CAPITAL OF MARYLAND
is like all Southern cities, bearing the marks of age
and antiquity i'll the laying out of its streets in the
arrangement of its public buildings, and in the
appearance ofits private dwellings. The dome of
the State House rises high above all other build
inEs, and the edificc is really imposing struct
ure. There are many private residences that are
large and baronial in appearance, and with their
surrounding grounds show to the beholder that the
owners are ofthe old wealthy Maryland stock, all of
which is said to descend directly from Lord Balti-
more. The streets are narrow, with narrow side
walks and in some it is with difficulty that two
persons can walk together. should imagine that
upon ordinary days the whole place would look as
sleepy, devoid of life and energy, does Alex
andria or Georgetown. To-day. however, every
thoroughfare is thronged. The blue uniforms and
brass buttons of the cadets seen at every step,
as all are at liberty now. Here is manipulating
young fellow, who has just graduated, and leaning
upon his arm, with maternal pride beaming in her
face, is the mother, who reoices in his we'll earned
success Behind them is another. who is support
ing with his young, strong arm his
old and feeble father, who, from the
bronZed face shows that years ago he was in his
country naval service, and as he gazes with fond
admiration at the well formed MILDLY at his side
one can see that he thinks with satisfaction that
his own name will be handed down in the Nations
annals through his son. Then there are other
graduates with sisters and lady friends, and junior
cadets with younger girls hardly yet in society,
but who for to-day are exhibiting all the little
feminine coquetries Of the most finished belle.
THE EXERCISES AT THE CHAPEL
this morning were highly interesting. The Presi-
dent, Secretary of the Navy Hunt. AttOrneyGen-
eral MacVeagh. Colonel Rockwell, and those who
accompanied them and the party numbered about
forty were there, as were the officers and instruc-
tors of the Academy and many naval officers of
rank and distinction President Garfield made an
address to the graduates congratulating them
upon the successful accomplishment of their term
of hat how iI,ct
commencing the real business of life and that all
their training thus far had been simply to fit
them for the actual duties upon which
they were now about to enter: that success
could only he attained by untiring industry, by
indefatigable energy. and persistent determine
ton. He referred to our navy, showing the de-
yelopment and Improvement that had taken place
within the past few years, and said that now the
United States possessed the most powerful though
not the largest navy in the world He referred to
the fact that in this country success III life was
not confined TO those from the cultured class, but
that eminence was most frequently attained by
those from the humber walks of life. An address
made by Senator Morgan, of Alabama and by
Secretary Hunt who awarded the diplomas.
THE ACADEMY GROUNDS
have been thTonged all day with visitors even the
rain failing to keep the ladies from promenading
with the cadets and listening to the excellent
music furnished by the Naval Academy Band,
which has been stationed in a covered pavilion.
These grounds splendidly laid out. and are
kept with that Scrupulous neatness that character
ICES all work done by the Government
THE HOTELS AND BOARDING. HOUSES
are all filed and it is with difficulty that the
throngs that the evening trains brought down
could be accommodated. Every hotel, and there
are not great many OF them, is crowded, and the
clerks, unaccustomed to this tremendous influx
of strangers are frantic in their endeavors to place
the numerous applicants for rooms and board
Those who were wise secured their rooms by tcle
graph days ago, but poor devil of a newspaper
man, who is fired upon the trip at five minutes
notice. has TO take his chances for cot or q shake
down in a billiard-room.
WHO ARE HERE.
To enumerate all who are here would fill col
umns. Not only from Washington, but from Bal
timore, Philadelphia, and New York, have large
parties como attend the exercises of the day and
the festivities of the night Among those from
Washington l have noticed Franklin Roberts,
John H. Magruder Miss Lippitt, Mrs. ]. Ford
Thompson, Miss n. Thompson, Mrs Peabody, Miss
Lawry, Mrs. Charles Thompson, Miss Knox,
Mr. E B. Barnum, Mr.. cambridge Hoff, lieutenant
commander United States Navy; George s. Hobbs,
Norton McGrifin, Major George C. Wedderburn
Mr. ]. F. Fry, Mrs. William Knox, Miss Anita
Knox, Captain r. s. Culum, U. S. NJ G.; o. B. Shall
lenbcrger, U. s. n; 4. ]. J. Halsted, Mrs. N. P.
Fisher, Miss Fisher, General and Mrs. McKeeYer,
Miss E. McKeever, Miss l. Patterson, Admiral ]. F.
Rodgers George Heller, Lady Thornton, two Miss
Thorntons, Mr.. Adam, of the English Legation, J.
Haines, Morgan r. WISE Colonel Coggswcll, Miss
Coggswell, and Miss Brooks.
THE HOP
The muse Of Terpsichore invaded the realms of
Hercules tonight and came forth victorious from
the scene. Memories of other deeds, where pa
triotism controlled the muscle of manly arms,
come silently flowing across ones mind like the
ceaseless murmur of the waters of the Bay surg
ing against the shores of Annapols; for where the
middics held high carnival tonight was known