The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-10
TEA WITH ADMIRAL DEWEY.
Party of Americans In Naples Enc
tertained by the Admiral.
From Letter in the Lowell Morning
(,itizen-

tertained by the Admiral.
| From a Letter In the Lowell Morning
Citizen.
Come and see how I live" he said.
after our formal introductions were over.
He led the way into his sleeping room, the
roomy cabin that he had made so home
like. "Oniy think" he said TO one of the
girls, "a big gun always in your bedroom
and another in your dining room. And
you must see my dog, Bob
Bob is an Eskimo dog that he bought
| in Hong Kong after the fight, and they
have grown to be the greatest friends on
| board. AS we passed into the dining room
cat ran across the deck. The dog turn
ed back. You are afraid, Bob" said the
admiral. The dog wagged his twisted
tail. Orderly" said the admiral A
young man in white saluted. Take Bob
and show him the cat" His eyes twin
kled with mischief as the dog was LED
away. do not know how it happened
but another party of Americans, who ar
rived al this point, were introduced for
mally, and after a few pleasant words
were allowed to so away, while we wera
invited to take tea with the admiral
OF course, it will not look the same to
you, but out here in the bay of Naples,
with the smoke rising from Mount We
suvius into the cloud above. with the sky
elsewhere a soft Italian blue, with the
sun shining on the white villages across
the way and on the grim fortresses that
guard the port; here under the American
flag a friendly little circle in wicker
chairs, chatting like old friends with the
man who is doing more to-day to give
our nation dignity abroad than any Amer
lean who sails the seas, it was an hour
before which the Appian way in Rome,
O qrf tray of Do,
OF the Swiss mountains and lakes became
things that were but the fancies of an
idle hour.
1 was there as guest and so I cannot
repeat some of the things that were said
but 1T can be no violation of hospitality
TO tell little of that tea party. The ia
bles were set on deck by the Chinese stew
ard AT home he is a rich man, with a
farm and sixty laborers. but he has served
Dewey for more than a dozen years. and
he would not leave him when the OlymDia
sailed for home. HE is richer than | am y
said the admiral, but he makes the best
tea that ever you drank" The steward
served the tea, but it was the admiral,
the captain and the flag lieutenant who
passed around the cakes.
Our conversation was that of the draw
ing-room at sea. The admiral talked of
the dog Bob, and put him through his
tricks to show his sagacity. He never
let's me out of his sight, night or day"
said he. Then the conversation would
turn to the fight at Manila bay, and the
three officers would tell how they had be-
leved in the cruiser, and how they would
have fought the whole Spanish fleet with
her alone. There would be delightful lit
tie comments upon the incidents of the
! day, and upon the part that the English
and the Germans played; words for the
sincerest friendship for the English.
Admiral IOpWpX
Austria, as saying that our next war would
be with &c any. He did not say that
He said that If the next war was with
Germany it would be started by the Ger
mans. not by the Americans. And he does
not believe that there will be such a war.