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


OF course, required by the recruiting Of
tlcers, to make positive Affirmative
reply to this question. After the for
eigners have had a taste of the kind
ness and liberality with which they are
treated on American men-of-war, they
are anxious for an opportunity to arise
that will give them chance to exhibit
their loyalty to the flag they serve I'M
der. With reference, by the way. to
this questioning by the recruiting Of
ficers of applicants for naval enlist
ment on the point of their devotion to
the American flag in case of war, re-
| cruiting officer on one of the receiving
ships mischievously asked a young
| Irishman, who wanted to ship as coal
| passer, whether he would fight against
| the country of his birth in case of war.
| "Foight agin Oireland!" exclaimed
the Irishman. "Niver, sor. Sure,
there'd be no made fur it. Oireland
'ud become nothin' but a big American
| coalin' station This Irishman was
shipped.
! Another reason why the foreigners
exhibit every bit as much eagerness for
| the naval fray as their shipmates of
| American nativity is that the Ameri-
can bluejackets often twit them, gen.
orally in a joking way, but not infre-
| quently with a dash of meaning mix
| ed uD In it, upon their foreign birth.
An American bluejacket and a German
man forward are standing at the gang
way talking.
! well, that last batch of papers maxi
es it look like war;" says the German.
"And what if they do?" replies the
| American, to draw the German out.
Where would you cut in, you bloomin'
squarehead, if there would be war?"
| Thus the good-natured argument
would be preciptated.
There was an English quartermaster
serving on an American cruiser in dry
dock at the Brooklyn navy yard when
! the Venezuelan excitement was at its
hight.
"Well, you blasted lime juicer," said
one Of the Englishman's American
shipmates to him one day, ST suppose
you'll be lumpin' back y England on a
cattle packet, now Tat we're about
due to drub your"
The Englishman, a quiet, middle
aged sailorman, pulled up the sleeve OF
his mastering shirt and showed, tat
| lOOSU OIl lllG llllSI Sluc VI Ills llSlis
forearm, a recumbent lion.
when that washes off, mate" said
he, It'll go back to England; not be-
fore. I'm an old enough man to have
been in the British navy when the cat
screeched through the air up for'a ard
For that reason, I've got more to get
even for than you have, for 1 felt the
cat more than once"
There are exceptional cases natur-
ally among these foreigners in the
American naval service. A young Eng
lishman was shipped on an American
cruiser as a mess attendant a few
years ago in Honolulu. He was devoid
Of tact or even common sense. He had
not been aboard the ship two days be-
fore he began to emit British roars ano
to disseminate a sort of Rule Brittanie
spirit forward. The substance of his
comment was what a simple task the
English navy would have in sweeping
the American navy off the seas ir
case they ever came together. The
cockney was thrashed a dozen times
before he had been aboard a week. He
complained at the mast about it, but
he did not state the occasion for the
thrashings he received, nor did the
men who were called before the com
handing officer reveal why they hat
pummeled the English mess attendant
| American naval sailors never tel
anything at the mast, even to cleal
| themselves. Had they told the com
manding officer that they licked the
Englishman for giving utterance tt
disloyal sentiments, they would have
been instantly cleared, and the Eng
lishman would have been beached. At
Ter the cockney mess attendant hat
made an offensive nuisance of himself
aboard for nearly two weeks, he wen
ashore one day. There were six ex
British naval sailors serving on the
American cruiser-solid, loyal men
They went ashore in body after thei
countryman They met him in an Eng
fish saloon on Benetnia street, in Homo
lulu. The eldest Englishman of thu
lot, deep-voiced gunner's mate, tool
the cockney mess attendant by tn,
ear, screwed the ear couple of times
and said
1--WE ave decided, we dirty little cove
that yere not to return to the ship
Ye're to stay ashore and keep on beint
the crawlin' little beachcomer that y
| was when we were taken on poaru
Hamerican man-o-war and fed AM
treated like a white man, which yol
are not. Ye're a foul-tongued littl
tripper, and ye're not gime to liv
among men. If you come off to the ship
it'll be the worse for ye Ye won't b.
taken as a deserter. Well fix that. Blu
don't we come back to the ship"
The cockney didn't return to tn
ship, being in fear of his hide, and jus
tifiably in fear of 1t. The Englishmel
serving on the American cruiser wen
to the skipper in a body and told hin
about what they had done when the.
returned to the ship-and the cockne,
mess attendant was not picked up as
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