The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-04-30

ship In the thick of fight. The men
OF the engineers gang bear the brunt
or the drill, and the hustling they get
through in attaching hose to pumps
and valves all over ship is worth see
ing. 1t is jump, jump perpetually
when a man. of-war is going through a
series of drills of this sort, and the
men forward, as well as the watch and
division officers aft, figure on patching
out their regular amount of sleep by
cat maps during the hours of the day
when their ship is on a practice cruise.
All of the time, however, practice
cruise or in port. the men forward
have got to be on the alert for the boz
suns mates vicious little pipe. There
are so many ways in which they can
be caught mapping. Even in the sim
pie matter of taking in the washed
clothes from the lines they are liable
to fall afoul of the master at-arms.
When the washed duds Of the men for
ward have been hanging aloft on the
lines long enough to dry, the bo'sun's
mate makes scrape to the officer OF
the deck, and asks permission to pass
the word-preceded by long blast on
the pipe-"All hands scrub the wash
clothes" This means that the
scrubbed and washed clothes are to be
taken in, and taken in in a hurry,
too. The men who have clothes on
the line make a scramble for the main
deck, II they have any sense, and stand
by to grab their wearing gear as the
lines are drawn in. Often, however,
those whose ears are not cooked don't
hear" the passing of the word, with
the result that their gear remains
hanging on the collapsed line. The
MASTER alarms is always standing by,
to spot remissness of this kind, and he
simply takes possession of the clothes
| thus unclaimed. In the course of an
| hour or so the man whose buds have
| thus been seized wakes uD to a reall-
cation of his loss. He goes with a
| poor mouth" to the Jimmy Legs" -
| otherwise the master-at-arms. Poor
mouths don't have any effect upon the
ships chief Of police, however, and the
only way the derelict may gain pos
session of his seized gear is to report
himself at the mast as a SLOUGH with
no ears on his head. Some of the blue
Jackets do this, but not manv. To re-
port themselves thus means a loss,
usually, of shore privileges, and most
men forward would rather lose every
stitch in their ditty-b bags than to be
held aboard ship when their mates get
permission to go ashore.
OF all the words passed by the boz
suns mate, that which has the
! to, ic.
"All hands bury the dead" This
word however, is a set affair, and is,
of course, never sprung as a surprise
upon the men. When there is dead
man aboard a ship too far at sea to
permit of shore burial, the men for
ward, as well as the officers aft, are al
ways notified in advance of the time of
the sea burial, for all hands are re-
| duired to show up at this ceremony in
their good uniforms. The men for
ward are pretty quiet and restrained
when there is dead man aboard, and
the officers aft talk no more than me-
cessary until the body Is over the side.
| If the dead man was an enlisted man,
and a good shipmate and popular
among the men, the bluejackets all
have word or so with each other
over their pipes about the good points
of the jackie the sailmaker's mate is
fixin' UP below for the locker cruise. "
If the dead man happened to have
been surly and unpopular in life, the
blueiackets in general have a good
word for him, anyhow, and relate to
each other various little incidents go
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lot, after all, only he wanted to be let
alone, and that was nobody's business
but his own" No dead man IS ever
spoken of in an i'll way aboard an
American man-of-war BY general
consent the men forward Delay in theil
little amusements of the deck while
the dead man still remains urburied in
the deep Occasionally young fellow,
under such circumstances, will forget
himself and execute a jig or two. until
the sharp but subdued command
KNOCK off, from group of the old
timers puts the shame in his eyes
The sailmakers mate is treated pretty
deferentially by all hands while he is
in charge of the body that he has
sewed up in the hammock for the toss
over the side. Saillnakers' mates are
all old-timers, and thew get so used to
this work that they regard it as mere
ly routine work. When all is in reaGt-
ness, all of the bo'su,'s mates on the
ship assemble at the gangway ant
sound three or four loud blasts in uni
son on the graduated pipes. Them in
chorus, they pass the really moving
word, "All hands bury the dead.
This is the call to quarters, and when
the men are in line and have answered
to their names, the chaplain. or in the
absence of a chaplain the commanding
officer, reads short burial service
and over the side goes the dead man
When the men in line are dismissed
from quarters, they are quite them
selves again. BY general consent, the
last of the dead man is heard when his
body goes off the plank, and the wing
dancing and harmonica music are not
curtailed ON the same evening
Jacks gone on his long liberty" some
of the men may remark, as they breal,
away from burial quarters, "and he's
done his last trick in the brig. He's
all right. "-Washington Star.
TURNING THE TABLES.
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