The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-05-30

than have been bestowed upon any 9TH
er vessel OF the navy. Among them may
be mentioned a silver service of twenty
four pieces from citizens of New York;
a silver punchbowl and ladIe, from the
New YORK Yacht club; two silver cam
delabra, from the New York board of
trade; large music box, from man
lfacturer and ships bell from the
Seventh regiment, N. G. S. N. Y. A
patriotic merchant of clippings has Civ
en- to the ship a number Of scrapbooks
containing practically everything that
the newspapers have ever said about
her, and the late George w. Childs pre-
scented her with a pigeon cote stocked
with homing pigeons of the best blood.
The cruiser Baltimore has received
from a citizen of the big town of that
name portrait of Lord Baltimore, the
acceptance of which is the subject of a
letter written on January 2, $780, by
George Dewey to Winfield Scott Schley.
AT that time Dewey was chief of the
bureau of equipment, and Schley was in
command of the Baltimore.
The state of Massachusetts has given
to her namesake warship a bronze stat
lie of Victory valued at $1,000. Not to
be outdone, the city of Concord has be-
slowed upon the little cruiser of that
name a miniature copy in bronze of the
famous statue of the Minute Man of
1775." 1t weighs three hundred pounds,
is two and a half feet high, exclusive of
the pedestal, and stands at present on
the forward part of the poop deck of the
Concord. Nevertheless the navy de-
partment does not consider that statues
are appropriate gifts for ships; they are
cumbersome and sure to be in the way.
No American war vessel has even fig
urehead, the place of that ancient and
respectable institution being taken by
shield and flags.
The cruiser Charleston has been pre-
scented by her name city with silver
punchbowl, but among her gifts the one
most priced is a ships bell, owing to a
rather romantic incident connected with
it. She was built at San Francisco, and
the workmen engaged in it's construc-
ton, numbering over a thousand, de-
cided that ordinary bronze was not good
enough for her bell So every one of
them put into the mould, when the mott
en- metal was poured in, a silver coin,
and thus it happens that the bell of the
SllOl lSotOll loS pdlIiSuldliy SllNC
ring. The secretary Of the navy said at
the time that it was an appropriate
and graceful thought adding that no
gift ever received by tn enavy depart
ment had been more highly appreciate
ed.
The state of Iowa has bestowed upon
the battleship Iowa a silver service of
forty pieces, valued at $4,000. Most i'm
portant among the Oregon's gifts are a
portrait of Irving Scott, her builder and |
an oil painting of Mount Hood, by Miss
Eugenia Shelby, who launched the YES
sell From citizens of Texas the battle
ship of that name has received fourteen |
pieces of silver. The city of Detroit |
presented the cruiser Detroit with a |
painting of the city for the cabin and
silver punchbowl and ladle, worth 81
500, for the wardroom The gunboat
has had from the city of |
w. Va, silver punchbowl
and china and glassware for cabin and
wardrobe. Other presents to date have
been as follows:
To the cruiser Philadelphia, from cit
liens of. the Quaker city, a clock worth
81, 600
To the Raleigh, from citizens of North
Carolina, silver punchbowl and ladle,
worth 1925.
To the Newport, from citizens of that
own five pieces Of silver worth $1,S00,
TO the Montgomery, from the city of
hat name, a punchbowl, ladle and
.welve cups, worth $1,000.
To the Helena, from citizens of Hele-
Ia, punchbowl and ladle, worth ST.
,0O
To the Columbia, from the Light In
antry corps of Washington, d. c., a
hips bell worth $400.
To the Atlanta, from the city of At
anita seven pieces of silver.
To the Bancroft, from relatives Of the
ate George Bancroft, a ships bell
To the Harvard, from undergraduates
# Harvard, a silver loving cup and
ix-pound rapid-fire gun. 4,
To the Yale, from undergraduates of
yale, fifty flags.
To the Newark by the city Of New
rk, case of stationery.
In 1897 the school children of Annapo- y
Is gave to the gunboat Wilmington !
ilver-mounted Bible, inclosed in glass V
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