The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-23
JACK TARS CRUISE
Naval Reserves Start To-
morrow OH Their An
nua1 Trip to Sea.
UNCLE SAM WILL ASSIST
Men Will Practice With the Guns
Of the Yexas-Hard Training
Ahead.
UNCLE SAM WILL ASSIST

ESpeclal 10 Inc Jersey City news.
TRENTON, July q. 1S97.-Tomorrow
afternoon the New Jersey Nava Re
serves will start on their annual cruise,
which will last for ten days. The cruise
this year will be on a more elaborate
scale than ever before, and details have
been arranged With the utmost care. The
cruise will be participated in by both the
Battalion Of the East and the Battalion
of the West.
The Trenton division Of the Battalion
of the West. under command OF Lieu
tenan r. r. G. woodward, will leave
here at Ala tomorrow afternoon. They
will be Joined at Camden by the Haddon-
field and Camden divisions, comprising
the remainder Of the battalion. The
Trenton division VIII be about forty
strong, and the whole battalion will turn
ous about 100 men.
Al Camden the Reserves will board
their monitor Ajax, and win be iraHne-
diately towed down the river to Della
ware City, which Will be their fendez-
vous during the greater part OF the
cruise. Here they Will go through an
exhaustive series of boat drills and drills
In ship routine. ana later IN the week
VIII join the Battalion of the East at the
IL ptIoCnt PtdttS
are carried out.
The Battalion of the East under Com
naander Washington Irving, wifi board
the old maa-of-war Portsmouth, their
training ship, at Hoboken. They WIFI
proceed down the North River, arouhd
the Battery, and thence to Long Island
Sound. At Hampstead Harbor, the tug
boat viii BE cast of. SAN viii be set, and
the Portsmouth VIII head for Fishers
Island. It is expected that the latter
place viii be reached on Sunday, and
there the anchor will be dropped. The
boys on the Portsmouth will be put
through drills similar to those Of the Re
serves Of the Ajax.
The Navy Department has ordered the
battle ship Texas to be at Fishers Island
and during the early part Of the week
the greater part of the time OF the Ports
mouths crew will be taken up IN receiv-
ing instructions on Uncle am modern
fighting machine. There will be target
practice on the Texas with the 6-inch,
3-inch and other guns, boat drills, board
ing parties, experiments with dummy
~terpedos, and instructions in other de-
| tails of practical service on board a mod
ern warshfp. The biggest feature of the
manoeuvers will be a sham battle, the
details of which will be arranged mex
week.
At Fishers Island the Jersey Reserves
will work In conjunction with the Naval
Reserves of New York and Connecticut,
who will nave their cruise at the same
time. An admirable opportunity will thus
be given to form an estimates Of the COM
parative merits of the reserves of the
three States. as they will work together
in actual service.
Toward the latter part Of the week, if
the present plans are carried out. the ia
NOUS old Ship Portsmouth manned by her
youthful crew Of Jersey tars Will Weiga
Mehtauk Point, when She will head direct
for the Delaware capeS, and join the
Battalion Of the West at the
a touch OF life on a f~ully-equipped BATTLE
ship in actual service.
Captain William H Jacques c%onfaandI;
ing the New Jersey Naval Reserves will
be in command of the battalion at Fish
er,s Island, and will also be at the Dela-
ware breakwater for a day or two. Gov.
ernof Gfiggs has signified his intention of
visiting The Reserves at the breakwater.
if possible.
During the entire cruise the Reserves
Of course, the pfoverbial pork and beans
master william II. Fulper, Of shis city.
will provide the ratfons for the Battalion
of the West.
The Trenton division, under Lieutenant
Woodward. has been drilling Faithfully
during the past few weeks, brushing up
on the tactics that VIII be called for ON
the cruise. They have paid particular at
tentfon to. the manner Of signaling from
side TO side BY means Of torches BY the
system employed in the army and navy.
They haye become quite proficient in the
art and have paid particular attention to
The Trenton division has always won for
itself the reputation of being the best
State, I'M it is safe to say that IL will
maintain its name of being second to