The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-06-01

! defect or fault cannot be helped. for as
| Lieutenant Commander Pendleton said
| IF YOU want n small target for the enemy
| TO shoot AZ and have big guns 10 fight with
| yourself there is but one way TO do it:
! give the room TO your guns and machinery
! and get az much of your ship under wafer
/ as you cam" and the Monterey fills the bill
| in every particular The officers quarters
/ on the ship are none too comm odious at
! any time, ana on this trip when there were
| over twenty men to put in quarters in the
! ward room in tended for thirteen, it can be
/ imagined the officers OF the ship were not
so very comfortable.
But they made the best of it, sleeping on
| tables, boards laid on desks in the Offices
and wherever they couid find place.
Saturday night The CALL reporter will
never forget. He was given hammock
''sluug" between two others. each ham,
mock seven inches apart. but his ham,
mock was just opposite the door from
which the ashes when hoisted from the
nteroom are thrown into the sea. They
began hosting ashes few minutes after
the reporter mad been assisted into the
hammock by two sailors on watch. and as
the wind, whistling through the open
door. blew the dust back. the reporter had
nice time. He was eonsoled, however,
after he had got up a1d was walking the
deck by finding three or four officers of the
ship also walking around owing to their
inability TO keep in their cramped quar-
tiers.
Sunday morning came at last, and the
log was thicker than ever. There was
nothing to do but wait until it lifted. and
in the meantime the reporters settled
down and secured n ''mess"-in other
words regular place to eat.
The sailors on the Monterey live ex-
tremely well. Tho Government only al
lows them 30 cents a day in rations, and
fifteen or twenty men club together, elect
I IN, 4 l. G.z.- .
their ratiohS-that is, take 50 apiece in
| money per month instead of food. put the
money in a common purse, add to it as
much as they ulease, and the caterer buys
| fresh meats, vegetab les, etc, on shore,
and the cook serves them up.
Berfsteak, stewed tomatoes, fried p0ta-
toes. bread and butter, coffee and pickles
is breakfast that beats Uncle Sans
canned ratlons out of sight.
The reporters lived in Master-at-Arms
Bradley's mess and lived well for G. de
Blocker, the cook, learned his trada in
France and hasn't forgotten it since he
joined the navy. Bottled beer 10 allowed
10 the men in moderate quantities and
coffee and tea are also served.
All day Sunday while the Monterey was
at anchor in the bay she was crowded with
visitors and every cIaft that floats in the
bay from rowing shell to big stern
wheel steamboat came to see the ship
Colonel MsShafter visited Captain Kempff
during the afternoon.
About 3 O'Clock Sunday afternoon word
was received from Point Lobos that it was
'clear outside" and orders were at once
given to fire up and heave the anchor. 1t
took fully half an hour to get the 5000
pound anchor up out of the mud and as
soon as II was on deck the monitor moved
away on her great trial. The engines
were started at fifty revolutions to the
minute which moved the ship at the rate
oil about four Knots an hour The two
Scotch boilers. about which there has been
so much newspaper talk, furnished the
steam, the Ward boilers Lying cold" As
tile Golden Gate was neared the speed Of
the engines was increased to seventy-five
revolutions per minute ana the vessel
moved along at about seven knots per
hour. This speed was maintained until
the bar was reached when the engines
were run at 100 revo buttons and the speed
incre ased to len knots an hour ana the
run for forty-eight con secutive hours was
commenced at 4 10 O'clock.