Daily Kennebec journal., 1898-06-16

came IL blaze OF light again. The lands
man was down on the foils as laborer.
seven wears at Mr. Edison's electrical
works, and he is about the most valuable
electrician-~a chief petty officer--;n the
navy today. He Is serving with one of
the fleets in Cuban waters.
When the cruiser Columbia was In mid
Atlantic making her record breaking
trip from the other side a couple of wears
ago. the revolution counter of the star
board engine ceased WORKING The reyo-
luton counter of man-of-War engine
is an essential bit of clockwork In meas
uring the turns of the propeller to the
logged knot and these data have to go
in the engineers logbook by hours. The
machinists tinkered with the balky revo-
luton counter. which Is very compli-
Gated bit of machinery for an hour or so,
one by one but they had to give 1t up.
The assistant engineers took try at fix
ing the counter. but they too, had to
abandon the delicate job. o. course. the
revolution counter was not necessary to
the driving of the ship, but, on this re-
cord-sma shng cruise, it was pretty es-
sential that the counters should tell Il
correct tale. Up for'ard the story went
that the starboard engines counter had
quit working, the men of the black gang
doing the talking about it. A shock
headed Swiss. who had been shipped as
a landsman at Southampton and was act
ing as captain of the head" the mean
est job aboard man-of-war, heard the
tdlk. lie Sbdulbieu AIT 10 the engine
room machine shop, asked the chief engi-
neer TO let him have a look at the non
working revolution counter, and IN five
minutes the revolution counter was again
attached TO the starboard engine and
working beautifully. The shock headed
Swiss WAS 4 mechanical genius VINO had
been practically brought up in the watch
making establishments of his own coun-
| try, and he Is now the foreman of one of
the big American watch manufacturing
factories.
AT Newport last summer the officers of
ore of the cruisers gave luncheon
aboard to some of the fashionable folk of
that resort. one of the ladies of the par
ty, a harpiSt, had her instrument brought
along by Il servant, ana she played for
the party IN the nessroon. The music
was exceedingly sweet and moving, and
the lady WAS ii0nzcd. When she had
concluded her performance one of the
buejacktts was called aft by an officer
to remove the harp from the mcssroom
aud place 1t in the steam cutter, 10 be
taken ashore. The AiGGs Jacket happened
to be an ordinary seaman of no particu-
lar account, VINO from the time the
strains from the meSSroOm had struck up
had listened AZ the sangway with pccu-
! ll&r hight III MS eye. lie was Welsh
man, A. member OF the multitudinous
Jones family. he brought the instrument
10 the gansW3y, hrsitated for II moment.
as If wondering whether he dared or not.
and then ne lDrked the cover from the
hdrr. grabbed 4 ditty box for 4 seat, aud
sat down TO play The harp. THAT ancient
and noble instrument iS rarely played In
these days as this rouEh-luoking Welsh
bluclackct played il. The strings were rs
ui gold under his touch. His harp music.
strong. SOFT. plaiutiXe. ana alto&vtho
beautiful. rang over the >i4p, and all OF
The lncSSroum party We're It the g.tugway
before half At dozen chords had been
struck from tnc instrument. The blue
Jacket played on. needless OF the g1zo OF
lhe people from the after part of tae ship.