The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-24
THE qARS' FAREWELL.
Naval Reserves Start To-
day on Their Cruise
to Fishers Island.
CAPTAIN JAQUEs In COMMAND
U. s. s. Maine to Be Used for Gun
Drill-Division and Bat
tallien 0Gcers.

The Battalion of the East, Naval Re-
serves of New Jersey, began its annual
cruise at 2:So p. NJ. today. The old sloop
of war Portsmouth which has been tied
up all winter at the Fifteenth street dock,
Hoboken, left her moorings with almost
every member of her crew on board.
During this morning she Reserves, dressed
in their natty white suits, hustled hither
n enither on the decks getting things in
ship-shape before the start. About three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, just before
the rain storm. Commander Washington
Irving, directed his crew to shift the hip
from the dock TO the end of the pier, so
as to be in readiness for the start at
high water today. The Reserves had
scaroely started to obey the order when
the squat came up. For about fifteen
minutes. the wind blew a hurricane and
ys~napnedtef two of the, breast lines which
held 4he ship to the dock. The Ports
i mouth was blown over TO the other side
of the pier, near the Fourteenth street
ferry, but the crew were on the alert,
however. and soon had her moored IN
the desired position.
Fhe old ship is in fine trim. She will
be. towed Through Hell Gate and up 10
Hempstead Harbor, whence she will pro-
coed under her own sail to Fishers Island.
The cruise to be made during the next
twosweeks willseNceed any yet undertaken
by the naval milKiamen.
The reserves. wNl DE in charge of Cap
tain W. H Laques, commander of the
Naval Reserves OF the State.
Captain Jacques is an Annapolis man.
He wears the. Order of the. Rising Sun,
conferred upon h@m by the Mikado of
Japan for his services in -reorganizing the
Japanese Navy and placing it On a war
footing three years ago. He is a naval
engineer and an expert torpedo defense.
He has not ebeen in active service in the
United States for five years. He was APP
pointed to command the Jersey Reserves
by Governor fWerts upon the organization
of the forces eighteen months g
The reserves will be drilled on board the
United States steamship Maine on Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
AL the guns will be handled except the
big ten-inch, which is too dangerous to
be used except by experts. The amateur
tars will mess and sleep on their own
ship, which will be anchored in the
vicinity. The men will be sent aboard
in watches, starboard watch Monday,
port watch Tuesday and the entire ships
company the other two days, for a run
out to sea.
The Maine wzll be practically manned en-
tirely by they Jerseymen. The Third Cor.
Engineer) Division, under the command of
Chief Engineer Hart, will be put in the
engine ROOM and fire rooms and stand
regular wacqhes. The other two divisions
will take uptthe ship routine for port and
sea.
After this. work is through, the bat
talon will be landed on Fishers Island
and extended order. The ships second
airy battery VIII be ianded from the ships
cutters.
Leaving, the island Saturday. they will
put to sea and sail up to Narragansett
Pier and Newport, after which they will
square away for their long run down the
coast to fCape May. returning to New
York viafSandy Hook on August Z.
The b battalion is in frst-class shape, de-
spite the scare that was thrown into 1t by
the last Legislature, and the men will
give a good account oflthemselves. Capt.
Irving is just beginning to see the result
of his work. New 1eGSey is very lucky,
and the Bartalion of the East very hap
py. IN uLkhnS so oxcdAlHnt a man to COM
mand. His training. at the Naval Acad-
envy, his etperience I'm b New York Re-
serves, AND his rare executive ability
him an Ideal officer. His social side IS
also strongly developed, and while the
ship is fun of social lsfders,' the hand
some skipper leads the krace.
the crew Will number about $50 men.
The first division, lieutenant Irving
Blount commanding, Lieutenant (junior
Erade) Haywayd A. Harvey, Ensdgns c.
F Long and DanielfA. Dugan and about
sixty men; the. second division. I1feuten-
ant George Herbert MJ6her commanding,
Ensign VIM. p. OsRcArke and about
thirty men; the third division, Lieut.. B.
Eranklin Hart, Jr., commanding, Lieut..
Qunior gradel Everett w. Frazar, En-
sign Walter B.. Rittenhsause n about
The battalioa-oa1eers are:-eommander
Lieut.. Edward Mcc. Peters, Navigafor:
Lieut.. Gunior gradel Farrlham Yardley.
Ad5utant; Lieut.. Gunior gra;de) Arthur H.
CODY, Payma ter. and Ensign w Q.
simpson, Surgeon. The famous survivor
OF the Jeannette expedition, w, T. C.
Mudermanny will act as b~oatEwain. Chief
1achinist Manuel N. Leral will act as
called the 7ooys sChristian Endeavor
Sailors last tyear, is again on deck.
The ship tS equipped fer any emergency.
The engineer division has INSTALLED a
boiler n engine, furnishing power to
run pumps and dynamo, electric lights
t~hrougheuy, also signal lights A wash
has just Qseen placed on the gun deck
over the! old WASH place on the fore
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