New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-08-31

ship for considerable period are ex-
pected by the officer of the deck to re-
turn just trifie exhilarated, but they
never return quite incapable. "
"Men who exhibit the slightest indi-J
cations Of being addicted to drink are
turned down fatty by the examining
surgeons when they present themselves
for enlistment nowadays. The surgeons
tell me that they can tell from a mans
eyes whether he has ever suffered severe
~ from excessive drinking, no matter
how long the man may have abstained
from drink before seeking enlistment.
eff men addicted to drink do happen
to get by the examining surgeon and re-
veal their weakness by going on tears
every time they go ashore, the navy
gets rid Of them by simply bleaching
them-that is, by putting them on the
beach with their bags and hammocks
wherever their ship may happen to be
in a home port. A man cannot be
'beached' for any cause in foreign
country.
'There are, Of course, any number Of
men in the navy, and rafting fine sail
ormen, too, who have natural predi-
lection for drink, and these men the
officers keep an eye on for their own
good. Sailors are bound to try to snug
gle liquor aboard ship. If they drink
considerably on their shore liberties,
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 they
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 liquor safe
~ aboard, but generally they do not.
Every enlisted man on United States
man of-war, except the chief master at
arms and the top sergeant of marines, is
searched at the gangway upon his re-
turn from shore liberty by the gangway
corporal of the marine guard, under the
inspection Of the officer Of the deck, for
the purpose of ascertaining if he has
any liquor concealed about his clothes
The men have picked up some ingenious
schemes for smuggling liquor in such a
way that the corporal Of the guard is
fooled. For example, the men on the
China station buy long eelskins from
the coolies, fill the skins with about
quart Of liquor and wind them around
their necks beneath the collars of their
shirts
"It took the officers on the China sta
tion long while to get 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 resorte6
to the plan of tying bottles of Liquor
with string on the inner side Of thei,
legs, beneath their trousers. but any
searching corporal knows all about THU
one nowadays. ~
1.-The COX 'un of the steam cutter, wh<
makes dozens Of trips ashore q day
when the cutter is running boat, hal
to be carefully watched, for he is labl,
to be tempered with by the men VIII,
want liquor pretty badly, and his op
portunities for getting liquor aboart
are many. Every once in awhile, upol
the cutters return to the ship, it i
searched by the officer of the deck, ant
the latter often finds liquor neatl,
slowed among the cutter coal, in th,
cutter bilges or even in the boiler tanks
When this happens, the COX 'un Of til,
cutter is in trouble. He gets big rak
off from the men for his liquor SNUG
Cling, which accounts for the chance
Z he will take.
''The ships painter has to be watche.
too. He is a petty officer, and he ha
charge Of the ships alcohol, which j
chiefly used for the making Of shella
to paint the lower decks.
i t'Some Of the sailors like dose o
alcohol mixed with coffee for 'toning
and SOLDERING up purposes, and as TIL
ships painter is occasio nally corruptibl
and carries the keys Of the alcohol tank
there is quite a little drinking Of thi
mixture on some OF the ships where ol,
timers predominant. The old fiat fee
have indeed been known to drink th
shellac after it has been prepared 70
the sake Of the alcohol in it, and ther
is an expression; in the navy among th
enlisted men, .H you see jackie comb
ing his mustache with 8 MARINE spike
i You know what he's been al, 1 that j
i very significant
4 50 But for all this ~ i saw there,
]. an exceedingly small percentage .
drinking men in Cur navy IN oomparl
i son with similar figures for other bi
naviea The occasional drinkers ia on
| service, when they return from q
i beach BIT under the weather. q
i merely put IN the brig overnight On
| permitted % 50 10 work without puI
j ishment the next morning. - Wasi
> iington Star.