El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-21
'SKY P,LO1S."
The toughest Seama Respects his
Ships Chaplain.


Ships Chaplain.
New York Evening Post.
The m An .o-war's man mesns no die
respect when he refers to his Ship
Oh splsin Is the ''sky pilot Rather
il il tenn of approval. The blue
jacket, at h art. Is perhaps the least
sacriIegious of uniformed men. Pro-
fame he NAV b.; the bluejacket's pro-
family Is a. much q habit as his attend
ance at the mess tab e, aud 1t Is To-
nocuous aud meaniuRlers. But niue out
of ten American man-o'-wsr's men
have q cOntemptuous word, aud not In
freoue thy q hard fist, for the man-o'-
war chsw" generally the sh' p's fool).
who invites suppression and q blacs
eye by speaking sueer ngly OF religion.
No man can 90 to sea for any great
length of time, no matter how coars
his tiber, without experiencing an in
fusion of what, for lack OF better
term, might be phrased the religion OF
the ea-which Is drst vague wonder
ment over the beauty OF its qutetude
aud the power OF it's wrath, and then
settled conviction, just as strong, b.
cause It is rarely expressed, thai there
Is direction aud meaning in the sea-
depths as we'll az on it's surface. b.
yond this the man-o'-wsr's man under
goes SINE convincing experiences
which he never talks about under any
clrcu nst .nces; for In the matter OF
sii-ncs on affairs that lead down to the
roots OF him he has nothing TO lean
from the clam. he simuly pu nches the
newly shipped lubber who makes too
coosptSuOus 4 parade OF q che sp brand
Of atheism and let's 1t go at that
You'll never fud an old mau-o'-war'.
man q, atheist.
Oae of the first regulations OF the
United States navy re .Ommends, in
effect, that officers and men shall
worship of Almighty God" aboard
the ships. While this regulation j.
not N andatory, being simply inserted
In the form of Q recon ~ nda ion, OFF,
GERS and men are mucn moe siuce in
their respect for the observance OF this
clause, which is read out on the quar-
ter deck by the executive offic -r At
every monthly muster, together with 3
sho t abstract OF the navy REGULATIONS.
vices aboard ship were compulsory, a.
il is In several Of the worlds navies
While there are chap aims 10 the U nit
ed s a.es navy VINO are favorites among
the men, just as there are commanders
Of ships for whom the men would fight
better than for others, all of tha ''sky
pilots" gain and hold the respect and
confidence OF the enlisted men. Chap
lain Oh d wick OF the Maioe was not
ed Captain Si9sbee in the anect'oo In
which ne was held by the crew OF the
doomed bsttleship.
Memorial services have been held in
churches Of all denomi ostions through
out the United S ates in honor of the
men who passed with the Maine, and
there have been m any requiem macs %
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the rep Dss of the souls OF the men who
went down in the bsttleship. B 1t high
m uses ashore and high mas afloat are
two different matters. The writer
happened to b. present at the only
high MACS of the Roman Catholic
church that was ever celebrated on an
Am 9ricau man-Of.war.
there ara two Roman Catholic chap
lains 10 the Uni ed States navy, and
each of them recltes the low macs OF
his creed on board his vessel every
Sunday morning, ss well as on the
holy days of obi CATION. These ma ases
are in general pretty we'll attended by
the enlisted men of all manners of re-
lieious belief, and the officers not in-
frequently attend the masses in body.
But 1t was on the United States cruis-
er Baltimore, when that fine vessel was
anchored in the harbor OF Honolulu in
eAAocC
in the story OF the American navy
was chsnted.
The Baltimore, on her way from
China to the United States, with her
''homeward-b ,und" pennant stream
ing 200 feet in her wake, ste AIMED into .
terrible typhoon few days after leav-
ing tn coast of Japan aud, hove to and
wallowing around for eight days,
came near laundering. When she
rounded Pearl Harbor Point, on the
Island of Oahu, aud crawled to her
anchorage in the harbor of Honolulu
she was q pretty rusty-loOkinR craft,
with her cutters stove In, her davits
twisted aud torn out, her chain rails
carried away, and her fehting tops
lowered TO the deck to prevent excess
sive rolling. Officers and men were
glad to get into port. for their danger
had been most imminent. Two sea-
men had baen carried away by green