The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-06-20

hammocks wherever their ship may
happen to be in home port. A man
cannot be 'beached' for any cause in q
foreign country.
There are, of course, any number of
men in the navy, and rafting fine sail
ormen, too, who have a natural predi-
lection for drink, and these men the Of
ticers keep an eye on for their own
good. Sailors are bound to try to-
smuggle liquor aboard ship. If they
drink considerable on their shore liber-
ties, they know that when they return
aboard they are in for big heads when
they awaken in their hammocks the
next morning, and in trying to safely
bring bit of liquor off to the ship thay
have In mind the taking of a hair of
the dog to sort of ease them up when
they turn to at all hands the next
morning. Sometimes they get the Ii
quor safely aboard, but generally they
do not. Every enlisted man on Uni
ted States man-of-war, except the chief
master-at-arms and the top sergeant Of
marines, is searched at the gangway,
upon his return from shore liberty, by
the gangway corporay of the marine
guard, under the inspection Of the off,
Ger of the deck, for the purpose of as
certaining if he has any liquor con-
cealed about his clothes. The men
have picked up some ingenious schemes
for smuggling liquor in such way that
the corporal of the guard is fooled.
For example, the men on the China
station buy long eel-skins from the
coolies, fill the skins with about a
quart of liquor, and wind them around
their encks beneath the collars of their
shirts.
1T took the officers on the China sta
ton a long while to act on to this
scheme. Then the men who felt that
they surely needed a drink the next
morning after returning from liberty
discovered the plan Of filling a rubber
bag with liquor while ashore and of
slowing the bag next to their waist
bands. The liquor smugglers who OBJ
served that the searching corporal only
passed his hands up and down on the
outside of their clothes, then resorted
to the plan of tying bottles of liquor
with string on the inner side of their
legs, beneath their trousers, but any
searching corporal knows all about this
one nowadays. The coxun of the
steam cutter who makes dozens of
trips ashore a day when the cutter is
running boat has to be carefully
watched, for he is liable to be tam
pered with by the men who want liquor
pretty badly. and his opportunities for
getting liquor aboard are many. Every
once in while, upon the cutters re-
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officer of the deck, and the latter often
finds liquor neatly slowed among the
cutter COAL in the cutter bilges or even
in the boiler tanks. When this hap
pens the cox'un of the cutter is in trou-
BILE. He gets big rake-off from the
men for his liquor smuggling, which &C
| counts for the chances he will take
| The ships painter has to be watched
| too. He is petty officer, and he has
| charge of the ships alcohol, which is
| chiefly used for the making of shellac
| to paint the lower decks.
"Some Of the sailors like a dose OF
| alcohol mixed with coffee for toning
| where timers predominant. The
old fiatfeet have, indeed been known t.
drink the shellac after it has been pre-
pared for the sake Of the alcohol in 1t
and there Is an expression In the navy
4 among the enlisted men, IF you see q
| jackie combing his moustache with 6
marlin spike you know what he's beer
| at that Is very significant. But for
all this, as | say, there is an exceeding.
| ly small percentage of drinking men il
our navy in comparison with similar
| figures for other big navies. The oeca'
sional drinkers in our service, wher
they return from the beach a bit undel
the weather, are merely put In the brif
over night, and permitted to go tt
work, without punishment, the mex
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