The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-06-13
FARRAGUTSFLAGSHIPH HERE
HARTFORD HAS TRAINED ass REAL
YANKEE TARS THIS TkIP.

Parted with 40 Of Them to Two Battleships
and Handed Over Nine Promising Genners
TO the Meaitor Amphitrite -Brinss q "oo'a'
son Cpses Goat From Juan fernanaes'
Admiral Farragut's old flagship. the Hart.
| ford, rejuvenated. but still picturesque. arrived
Yesterday morning from the League lsiAnd
Navy Yard and anchored OF Tompkinsvne,
exchanging greeting with the homely white
monitor Amphitrite. much better nt'ed Tor tss
business Of fighting than the black, oaken-
hulled relic OF the Mobile Bay oatt'e' Inc
Hartford is a bark in rig. and AS well equipped
o. any vess ell of her tonnage in the superb new
navy Of Uncle Sam. She has Just returned
from a cruise OF lAi days from San Francisco
having created in that period some OF the nnest
real Yankee sailors that ever trod the decks OIL
4 modern rnan-of-war.
The naval experts believe that bright young
men with nautical ambitions can be educateo
In a few months 10 be good sailors Tor the inoo-
ern varship. 1t required more than a year 10
make the old-time young man a iull-neogeo
bluejacket. The modern sailor aboard q war
ship requires less knowledge OF hanoiins
Of sails and more Of the management OF
guns and mach merry than the able seaman
Of the past. Still a knowledge OF saiis
Is mighty useful to a wsrship that may
capture a sailing craft Of the enemy Then the
prize crews with old-style nautical seamanship
come In handy. as was illustrated in our recent
unpleasantness with Spain. Besides, as an OIL
Ger Of the Hartford said yesterday. the young
men are drilled on a sailing vessel to use their
hands and feet in balancing and getting about
and in acquiring nerve aloft. which Is . hne
preparation for the work Of battle with mighty
machines ON deck and below in the engine
rooms
There never has been a finer set of all-Ameri-
can young men turned out In five months, be-
ginning practically at the greenhorn or land
lubber stage. than arrived at Hampton Roads
aboard the Hartford on May 81. The old ship has
only a few Of these clever young fellows among
her company now. She parted With 20 OF them
ct League Island. The battleship Indiana took
hIf and the battleship Massachusetts, the other
seemen and twenty landsmen. The rest were
ordinary seamen. Nine more OF the .appren-
toe crew Of 2ss yountsters were transferred to
unusual ap,liud. as. sunner.. and they viii
take q course aboard the monitor which will
make them At to be gun captains;
ca Tss Ssisny t iss 's 81, Paul a, sin snspc's St
Louis. Chicago and Cleveland They had some
practice ashore at the, Mare Island Navy Yard
Sundays. from the Golden Gate into the Pacific
and through the Straits OF Magellan into The
Atlantic, there was constant drilling The
voyage was UNPLEASANT only a few days in the
Pacific. and some squeamish young fellows had
a touch Of seasich ness for. a day or 50. But
had crossed the line felt that they were fit
OF the shellbacks. on the day the old ship
INDUCED in the horse play incidental 10 the
welcoming Of Neptune and his court aboard.
Nearly al the apprentices we're Iathered win
bv the barber OF his briny majesty with the
tridan, and forced to submit to a dqckinH. Al
hands took the rough treatment good naturedlyi
that they might have a chance 70 help in the
f~estivity as one OF Neptune's vigorous assist
ants al the next crossing Of ne line.
a dav at the island Of Juan Fernandez. where
epme Of the men who had shore liberty a few
Hours bought from a native a little but mus
same brAed that Robinson Crusoe made him q
coat % the skin Of according TO the song. The
goat is still aboard. He is somewhat OF a
fighter and has been known TO knock down
more than one unwary apprentice who chal-
ienged him TO a bout. At Montevtdeo a native
brought aboard a brown monkey, which got
whistle with such hdeiltv that he was chrisiened
"Whistlins Rufus. With the ships monkey,
the goat and the big black ,breedless dog that
came aboard at Mare lslsnd the young sailors
OF the Hartford had had lots % amusement.
This dog belongs to all hands, like Rufus and
Robinson CrusOe. The sailors bought a brass
collar for him and had the name Bum" en-
graved on II with the date of his appearance on
the ship. Every time the drill OF abandoning
ship occurred, which was once a week, the goat
and the dog and the monkey left VII all the
rest. The monkey, not being fond of the water,
always left in the arms Of one Of the men or
the officers. The goat and the dog. II they hap
pened To be left behind. thought nothing OF
Jumping overheard,
Above decks ard inside her hull the Hartford
IL equipped like a modern man-of-wnr. Six
long-barrelled, rapid-flre rifles poke from her
ports on either side and another is on the. main
deck forward. She is also equipped uith two
s-pounders and several small r guns. She
twenty years. She was practically recon
%strncted except in her hull at the Mare Island
Navy Yard. Her officers are John II. Hawley,
Commander. Alexander Sharp. Jr Iieutenant-
Commander Thomas p Grifn1 Leu
Lieutenant; ". ". Bush, Lieutenant. F.. K.
Stitt. surgeon; r. f Steals. Chaplain; G.
laws. Lieutenant; John F. Hines, Lieutenant:
Joseph Fyre, Payma.ter: James H., Doyl..
Boatswain; Thomas c. Tart. Ensign; Victor $.
Houston, Ensign; +. G.. Parker. Assistant
Surgeon; Harry Lee, First Lieutenant Marines:
Frank WATSON. Chief Sailmaker; N Macdonald.
Carpenter.
The Hartford took aboard at League Island
III recruits enlisted chiefly in the East She
will receive about the sam number from
the BROOKLYN Navy Yard this morning and will
sail for Boston this afternoon. She will take
the Eastern young men on a long cruise and
teach them things.