The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-03

Iy burned that the skin peeled off and
not being attended to became 80 sore
that the surgeon had to attend to them.
| Those who did not burn were tanned as
| brown as a berry
The men showed a wonderful adaptable
| ity for the work of sailing the ship. Few
If any of them had ever sailed in a YES
sci of its size before, and the only expe-
rience the other had had was sailing
small boats about the harbor or a voy-
age or two in a coaster. Yet it was not
long before these amateurs were running
up the shrouds, spreading out over the
boomS and. skipping through the tops like
veteran men-of-wars men. Only a few OF
them had been aloft before, and at first
went up rather gingerly, but in a day or
two they were as much at home on the
| upper topsail yards as they were on the
spar deck.
Four men helped to sail the ship who
were not member of the Reserve. Three
were men-of-wars men and one a whaler,
who spent most of his time growing at
the officers and criticising the manner ir
which they worked the ship. One of the
men-of-war's men is a character. His
name is Jack Mountain, and he is a type
of the old sea dog. Jack at first could not
conceal the disgust he felt at being
obliged to sail with an amateur crew, and
the manner in which he expressed his
contempt for the christian Endeavor
sailors as he called the Reserves. was
forcible and picturesque. But as time
went ON Jacks views changed.
He looked aloft one day with critical
eye at a sail WHICH UQe DOYS a0du JuSl
furled and enthusiastically declared that
it was a neat job and could not have been
done better by a crew of experienced sail
ors. Jacks admiration for the Reserve
soon became us picturesque as his con-
tempt had been, and yesterday. when the
men were on the foicastle previous to go
ing ashore, he felt constrained to address
them as the captain had done.
I'm proud O. We. You've got the maxim
Of sailors in yer, If yer are Christian En-
deavors."
N work of the officers was no less
c-ommendatory than that of the men
Every one of them is in active business.
Commander Irving is at the head of an
important department n a prominent IN
donough Craven is at the head of a muni-
eipal department. and Lieutenant Edward
Mcclure Peters, who navigated the ship
is Superintendent of a chemical works.
Lieutenant Haywood Harvey is connected
with the Harvey system of hardening steel
Hart, Commander of the Hoboken divis-
ion. is a commission merchant. Lieuten-
ant George H. Mather,. commander of the
Newark division. is a ~draughtsman in the
Crescent ship yards at Elizabeth, and
Lieutenant Irving Blount.. Commanded of
the Jersey City Division. is IN the hydro
dict Prieth is a newspaper man, and En-
signs William O'Rourke and CT. Long
are architects. Commander Irving, Lieu
tenant Commander Craven and Lienten-
ants Mather and Blount are Annapolis
men,. Navigator Peters has commanded
merchantmen. There was not a government
officer on board nor did any one connected
with the Navy department assist in nav
igating the vessel. That work was done
entirely by Lieutenant Peters. New Jer-
sey has a navy of which she may feel
proud.
The Hobcken division is composed main
ly of Stevens Institute students. among
whom were members of the Mandolin and
Glee Clubs. Occasionally when the on
p%ortunity presented itself the clubs gave
impromptu concerts between decks. The
division also contributed an excellent VEN
looking for officers who they imagined
had called them. His talent was sup
pressed however when he was detected
down the ladder between decks looking
for a senior who he thought was calling
him.