The Conway log cabin., 1900-08-28
AROUND CAPE HORN.
Mason E. Mitchell's Long Trip
 on the Hartford.

clerk, United States Navy, has re- turned home, after an absence of
 fifteen months. He is just from
 Boston, where he was detached
 from the United States training
 ship Hartford, after having served
 on board that vessel for ten months. | He has been on very interesting trip, which covers more than 25,- GOO miles. He left here ill May,
 ISeo, for Washington, and report ed for duty on the U. $. $. Yer
 mont i'll New York after serving
 there short time he was sent over
 land to San Francisco by the way
 of Atlanta, New Orleans and Los
 Angeles. At San Francisco he
 promoted from pay yeoman to pay
 clerk and assigned to the U. s. $. Hartford, which had lately been
 reftted at cost of $65o, ,ooo, ap- propriated by congress to restore the ship just as she was when Ad-
 miral D. D. Farragut was on board her during the civil war. At Mare , Island, Cal, the Hartford was commissioned, with Capt. John M.
 Hawley as commander and twenty other line and staff officers, 100 l sailors and petty officers, 25 ma rines, band consisting of IS mem
 bers and 800 young men from St. ! Louis, Chicago, Cleveland and other large cities of the west.
 I On Jan. 10 the Hartford left San
 Francisco for Valparaiso, Chili,
 and after very delightful trip of . 54 days put in Juan Fernandez, or Robinson Crusoe's Island, for the
 day. This was quite treat for
 the young sailors, as they were al-
 lowed to go on shore and see the , place where Alexander Selkirk lived for five years ill complete sol
 itude, the cave, the mountain $ where he watched so long for a t ship, and and the tablet erected to '' his memory by the English.
 The next stop was Valparaiso, y Chili, where the vessel remained a ;, fortnight, during which time visits '. were made to Santiago, the capi-
 tai, and other places of interest q near by. The ship then left for ,t Sandy Point on the Straits of Ma gellan, and after very exciting :, trip reached there in safety. It
 was on this trip that very severe
 storm was encountered, and for ' two days the Hartford rolled and tossed as if she would break to
 pieces. One stop was made at Gla- cier bay, in Chilli, near one of the
 largest glaciers i'll the world, it u being much larger than the noted u one in Switzerland. After four ! days stop at Sandy Point the ship t started for Montevideo, which was
 reached after ten days steaming. T. Here one of our own ships, the U. > $. s. Wilmington, was anchored, il but in quarantine.
 Montevideo is one of the best
 cities in South America and is Il noted for its cleanliness and its r. fine theaters and cathedrals.
 l- After ten days stop there the I. Hartford was ordered to Bahia, It Brazil, to join Admiral Schley s fl squadron and to take the sick IS home, and after four days stop -s left for Earbadoes, West Indies o whch was Che oi the most inter- I ' Sotsh- t'tst|N> tC'i oii ttEC u sfi.
 Id.s .s one ol tie nE.at denaels
 )pulatci islands Ill tie world, It
 naving over thousand to the ;.luale m.le. The island IS owlied d Dy Great Britain and is headquai-
 ters for the British Government in the West Indies.
 From Barbadoes the Hartford
 went to Hampton Roads, then to
 Philadelphia, where the whole '' crew was transferred to the battle !" ships Massachusetts and Indiana. The Hartford then went to New York, where 300 more boys were . taken on board, and then left fo1 . Boston to participate in the Bunker
 Hill celebration with the Rear
 sarge, Texas, Massachusetts, New
 York and Indiana.
 if In Boston MT. Mitchell was de- tachad and after catt1iru acoo,,,+c