Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-04-04
PROWNClALs ENLls1lNs.
Or Heighbors Crossing the Line 10 Serve in
Uncle Sans Navy.

Wateryilie. April 3.-(SpeciaD.- AS indi-
Gated exclusively in these dispatche.
early last week. there is every reason r..
believe that residents Of the provinoo,.
are coming through to the States for tho
sole purpose Of enlistlng in the navy Of
your Uncle Samuel. The Journal ranro
sentative met train No. 1902. the Provin-
| cal express from st. John, n r. and
| came vest to Bangor. where It was fo,,p,,
| mat on account of the delay of tho ev
press by Il freight wreck on the Canadian
| Haciiic the second section of the train
| from Bangor 10 Boston. had gone along
ana IL was necessary to stop over uutil
| this morning, taking train No. "a. There
, were u second-class passengers on III.
| provincial express, including four women
! when the Journal approached the mar.
Of the crowd upon the matter of enlistins.
in the navy Of the United States. at fret
| the people regarded the reporter Win
| more or less suspicion. as though thov
believed he WIS an agent for the Sparief
ana was prying into their business Ia an
uhWarrahtable degree. it was some tim.
| before the reporter could gain the conf
dence Of the passengers, which ig notbino,
very unusual in everyday life. and tben
4 was with some difficulty that the men
were induced To talk
John Frohocck Of St. Johns. Newfound-
iand, young man Of % years. an ahIo
seaman, fisherman along his native
coast, was the first to admit that he had
come to the States with the intention of
rnistinG in he navy. and what he said
Was practically the position of the rest
Of the party Of more than dozen who
mad similar views. Frohoeck said that
he and four others had come through far
the purpose Of eniisting. because thew
thought that was about as good wav
10 get living as they could find. these
times. They had been told by friends in
the States that the government would
have to recruit the navy 10 a war footina,
and maintain it 50 for some time to come.
Put as there would probably be no war
1t was good scheme for young men who
are good seamen to get into the service
ana make little something beyond A
bare living, which is more than most peo-
pie are now doing in Newfoundland.
The names Of the men who came with
Frohoeck are James Carroll Thomas
Wulstead AT St. John n. B., they had
been joined by nine others from different
points in Nova Scotia and Prince Ed
ward 5 Island. These were Thomas
-sraffam, Theodore WEIGH, Henry Raw.
,haries and Andrew Later brothers. and
William Later. their cousin. Daniel
Thomas. William King and Philip Bart
~. They are all strapping great fell
oWs bone and sinew being more pron1i-
lent than personal beauty. The plans
T the men were to stop off at Ports
mouth. as they had heard that that was
he place where they could get a navy
90. They were all anxious 10 know if
var had been declared when they were
1et a Nanceboro. and seemed pleased
hat hostilities had been deferred for a
ime.
The party Of 13 had tickets reading
My to Portsmouth. n. H. and it was a
are enough thing that they were to stop
acre. The men seemed to be instructed
: to where they should so and what
lN should do after they got there. When
skcd if they had been approached by
ny official of the United States. they
.ouLd answer NO, not by navy Off
al, ana there they would stop leaving
be interrogation to believe if he wanted
, that they had been sought ont by
enc one bu, not by representative Of
he United States navy. If the United
jates navy gets the crowd that went to
portsmouth,. today the department will
-; have lost anything.