The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-03
PETS OF THE WHITE NAVY
Monkeys nd Guine
GayC Career of and BaItmo

the Baltimore of their pets sagacfty
| would fill volume, nor have the men
who sailed with him on the old Galena
forgotten him. 1t was on the Galena
that goat from the Richmond was
brought to pay him a friendly visit.
Billy, however, seemed to fear that
the stranger might usurp his place in
the affections of his shipmates, for he
opened hostilfties at once by butting
him off the forecaStle along the gang
way and down the accommodation lad
der. He has been photographed many
times, and no picture of the crew of
the Baltimore is complete without
Billy in the foreground. His latest
photograph, which accompanies this ar
t1cie, was taken at Yokohama in July
last. Bflly's favorite lounging place is
near the carpenters bench, where he
nlbbles shavings, and steals delicate
morsels from the glue-pot. He is fond
OF fruit, and receives much Of it from
his messmates, but he refuses any that
has been bitten.
Not long ago he ate the sailmaker's
waxed thread with the needle attached,
but so far has suffered no i'll effects
Last summer l made the acquaint-
ance OF a small tan-colored goat belong
ing TO the Cincinnati, and affectionately
called Our William by his messnates.
He is native of Key West, is very
wei behaved and mild hammered IN
less leased and is great friends with
Minna, the kitten named after the
writer, which belongs to one of the
cruisers gallant officers. Minna. is a
native of Brooklyn, and having been
born amid the nautical surroundings of
the navy yard is thoroughly at home
on ship board.
GUINEA PIGS. DOGS. CATS AND
MONKEYS.
The Newark has more pets aboard
than any vessel in Uncle Sans service,
a happy family" that would do credit
to an old-fashtoned circus, dwelling to-
gether in peace between her armored
Sides
There is the McGinty family of
Guinea pigs. black with red spots, and
consisting of Mr.. and Mrs McGinty,
natives Of Montevideo, and three little
McGintys, which were born on board
the Newark last May. There are five
canaries that I'LL the ship with their
sweet songs all day, and at night, too,
when the electric lights are on. -Four
or five parrots chatter in aTnity, and
one of them, Jack, whistles After the
Bail, Sweet Marie and many other
popular tunes, 30 the great delight of
the crew
Hombre is a little white dog, a ma
tive of Spain. He came aboard at Ca
diz in 1892 and is very intelligent ami
mai; sits up, holds a pipe in his mouth,
laughs or cries, as requested, and
shakes hands. One day Hombre went
ashore and was shot by a policeman,
but not fatally. When the policemen
saw his collar engraved U. S. S. Ncgy-
ark he took the wounded dog 10 a nos
pftal, where he was treated until l.est
day. when he was sent to the ship But
Hombre was in the sick bay a long
time. and was only saved by the skill
ful treatment of the ships doctor, who
attended him as he did his human pa
tlents, regularly every morning HON.
bre is the pink of maritime manners,
always waiting for the officers to enter
the boat first, no matter how eager he
may be for run ashore. Dick is a
cat who garnbols ON the deck by moon
hight, and whose chum, Tom, a big
maltese, fell overheard one dark night
and was drowned.
The brave old Kearsarge had a mon
key and cat, and later on a young
bear presented by the American Con-
SUI at Tangier to Captain Sigsbee The
monkey and the cat fought continually.
until one day the monkey threw the
unfortunate pussy overheard The cat
was swept astern, and the monkey. ran
along the rail chattering like a fiend
AS III was very bad weather at the
tune, the cat was left to her fate.
About a year before the Kearsarge was
wrecked one of the officers was pre-
sented with an English bulldog. The
dog and the bear struck up an unac-
countable friendship, occupied the
same quarters, dined together, and fro
licked like a couple of kittens. Ali
gators and seals are found occasionally
on the men-of-war, for almost anv Iiv-
ing thing Will be made a pet of by Jack.
Iahe Raleigh's mascot is a raccoon.
probably the only one in the navy.
The Columbia has no pets at present.
When the San Francisco returned
from Bluefields in July, 1894. 1T
brought JACKIE, a clever little South
American monkey who lived in the
norecastle. JACKIE learned to smoke
cigarettes, and was plentffully supplied
Wlth them by the marines. His favor
lite Triple was very strong sweet coffee
with dash of rum in il, and his chief
amusement to lie in wait for a passing
sailor, snatch his cap, scamper to some
lofty perch, and fling it far out in the
sea. To recover the caps would have
seriously inlterfered with the routine
OF duty, so J'acko was sold to a Brook
lyn salloonkeeper for SIS.
the San Francisco also had a goat,
which was entered on the nlan-o-war's
log as BILLY, born at st. Thomas West
indies, February 81, 1894 Was buried
at sea coming home from Rio de IAN
Giro, March %, 1884,
The old Lancaster, now out of com
mission, had 6. monkey for many wears
but ON the last cruise he found a not of
red PAINT which had been left on deck
ate it, and gave up the ghost, to the
great grief of his master the boat
swain
The Chicago when in commission had
two dogs, big mastiff who shared the
sailors quarters, and Joe the cap
tafn's psf pug
Rose, a beautiful black and white
spaniel, lived for twenty years ON the
OLD Essex, and was photographed in as
many different poses as a professionaI
beauty. e'--S'i
Beef, a black poodle, belonged to the
old Ossipee. She cruised around the
West Indies, and then voyage6 To
China and Japan on the Alhanoe
W'nen her owner left the service. she
was left aboard the Alliance. but
nlourned for him so much that She
s!ckened and died. Beef was never
able TO overcome her feminine horror
OF firearms. When the first gun was
nred ait target practice She always dis
appeared below, taking refuge in one of
une storerooms until practice was fin
ished. Beef died in Japan. and was
puried at Nagasakl with military
honors ''1iy
A QUESTION OF VISION.