Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-20

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ton never suggested itself to him H..
d,dnt be.ong % deserving family.
We were given a week to, make repairs
and get ready. ard ! think this young
chaps people must have put in that week
pretty busily. considering the amount of
fun that ward room attendant had with
us the cruise from New York to San
Francisco, wnicn Is the point of this yarn.
Welcome Guest.
well, We got under way. the young fell
low maintaining steady respectfulness OF
demeanor and doing his work with alac-
rfty all the time and our first stop to coal
ship was at Pernambuco Brazil. On the
day We arrived at Pernambuco our lands
man put i'm his name for liberty, and went
ashore i'm the morning. Some of us aft knew
some of the Pernambuco people from for
mer cruises, and We went ashore the same
day. Who should in the drawing
room of the very first house We visited
chatting Familiarity and languishingly with
the girls of the house. but our Nice-shipped
ward-room attendant. The head of the
house welcomed us with the remark:
mates here already
OF course IL was our duty as men to
treat this enlisted man of ours as IL he
were upon the same official plane
the girls of the house we were not ace
high compared with the way the young
landsnan stood with them. and IL was dis
treSsi1g. One of my ward-room comDan-
ions took the head of the house. a very
wealthy shipping merchant aside after a
time and asked him if he had had former
acquaintance with the young man.
No former acquaintance was the re-
ly exhibited but all the same. all of us
that would make him a welcome guest
in my home as long as he chose to re-
main here
THE young man came off to the shin the
same evening and waited on the table with
a degree OF respectfulness and attention
even more pronounced than he had former
~ exhibited but. all the same, all of us
fancied We detected a humorous CLEAN in
his eyes
We coaled next at Buenos Ayres. The
Ward-rcom attendant with the letters went
ashore there, and so did We. accompanied
this time by the comm nding officer The
commanding officer had the pleasure that
afternoon Of exchanging the salutations of
the day with our ward-room attendant i'm
the drawing rooms of the most notable
banker in that great city. He was enter
tained with some good stories by the ward
room attendant, and he had TO listen TO
them, too.
Had Fine Credentials.
Might beg to inquire as to this? in
quired the old skipper of the banker when
he had chance, abiding TO the presence
OF the ward room attendant in the bank
ers room.
Simply said the banker. he ia 2 very
charming young man. and the Credentials
ne bears from my friends in New York are
Oh most exceptional cha racter. To ac-
commodate me, you will, of course grant
MIN liberty to remain with me during the
presence OF your ship i'm the harbor?
Most certainly. the captain had TO so
accommodate the banker in this wise as he
mad, in common with hundreds of officers
In our service, been the recipient of many
courteses at his hands. But We could see
the skipper Sulp bit at il. We met our
ward room attendant i'm every house we
visited in the city for the week we e.
manned IN the haTbor. On sailing day lie
came back. rocking cheerful. and RESUMED
the pipeclaying of our white shoes and
waiting on our table. But the CLEAN of
quiet enjoyment IN his eye seemed to have
grown keener
The next coaling port was Pernambuco
Inis time our mess room boy went ashore
soon after the anchor was let 60 and nand-
ed ms letters TO the American consul They
must have been pretty fine letters too for
tne consul requested the skipper to permit
the young man 10 remain ashore at his
house over night. The skipper could do
nothing else but grant the request The
next morning the ward room attendant
came Off to the ship in the steam launch
with the consul. aad he shared i'm the salute
OF seven guns, which American men-of-war
give to ship-visiling consuls The worst of
1t was, all the men forward who by this
tiinc were aware OF the whole business.
were grinning very exasDera. ingly when
the ward room boy came off to the shin
with the saluted consul.
Social Trfumphs.
well. there is hardly any use in carry
ing the thing through the whole cruise to
San Francisco. All the way up the west
coast Of South America, Central America
and Mexico. it was precisely the same as
1t had been down the east coast The
quantity of impressive letters which that
young fellow must have carried I'm his dirty
box was certainly something to wonder at
At Callao he was lionized by the best peo-
pie in town. At Valparaiso nothing was
too good for him in the SWEETEST villas. He
went up to see the cathedral at Lima a
little ahead of rs. and when got there
we found the bishop showing him through
the edifice. Positively, IL was humorous
AT San Francisco. when we finally ar
rived there, he found his discharge await
ing him. secured through the efforts Of his
people In Washington, and he went over
the side, grinning. with his hammock and
dftty bag. That evening a lot of us from
the ward room went ashore to see the boys
at the Bohemian Club. Our edward room
attendant sat In q circle OF twenty OF the
best men in the club. himself the hest got
ten-up member Of the lot, telling them OF
his cruise. amid roars Of laughter And
m vanfs,ro that he -. StS-ss -..a-