The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1901-07-18

| stand had been moved in, and these,
with easy-chairs electric fans, electric
lights and abundant air. made it the
most desirable room on the ship. Even
! Armstrong, colonel commanding the
troops aboard, was compelled to share
his little cabin with his adjutant, and
| the generals aides were bundled into
a skinny" box between decks. There
really seemed no place for Mrs Gar
rison aboard, especially when it was
found that the passenger list was to be
increased by three, a surgeon and two
! officers going forward from Honolulu;
and one of these was our old friend and
once lightrhearted Billy Gray, now
nearly convalescent, but weak and, as
all could see, feverishly eager to get on
to Manila
All this was explained to the senator.
1t was even suggested that there was
room for Mrs Garrison on the Louis
lana, safe old tub if she was slow;
but Mrs Frank looked so pathetic and
resigned when this arrangement was
suggested that no one had the hardi-
hood TO actually dwell upon it, and the
senator said it was shame to think of
it. With whom of her own sex could
she associate on that long, hot voyage
ahead of them? Why not transfer some
of the Red Cross nurses to the Louis
lana? Mrs. Garrison had no objections,
but they had; and the surgeon in
charge made prompt and vigorous pro-
test. He knew Mrs. Frank, and she
knew him and did not in the least de-
spain She still had plan. There was
a coy dinner one evening just the
evening before the departure of the
Queen, and the gallant captain of the
ship, the veteran general, the quarter
master in charge of transportation, the
member of the senate military commit
tee, some charming girls-but none so
charming as Mrs. Garrison-were of
the party. There was some sentiment
and much champagne, as a, result of
which, at one a. M, the big-hearted sea
monarch aforementioned swore by the
bones of his ancestors in the Shiny
grasp of Davy Jones that that sweet
little woman shouldn't have to 90
a-begging for accommodations on his
ship If the general would condescend
to move into his room. by thunder, he'd
sleep up in his foul-weather den next
the chart room, and Mrs Garrison
NON DiCSo iiCl .-COultl take lne GtneT-
ais room, and be queen of the ship
queen of the Queen-queen of queens
by Jupiter. and here's her health with
all honorl a soldier, of course, could
be no less gallant than a sailor, espe-
cially as the captains room was a bit
better than the "Boudoir," and had an
ice chest and contents that the veteran
campaigner was hidden to consider his
own. The agreement was clinched that
very night before the party broke up;
and little Mrs. Frank shed tears of
gratitude upon the generals coat
sleeve and threw kiss after kiss to the
handsome sailor as she hung over the
balusters of the broad veranda and
waved them away in their swift-run-
ming cabs, and then danced off to her
room and threw herself on the bed aft
er mad pirouette about the spacious
apartment, and laughed and laughed
until real tears trickled from her eyes,
and then gave orders to be called at
seven o'clock. She meant to be up and
aboard that ship with all her luggage
before sense and repentance could
come with the morning sun-before
either soldier or sailor could change
his mind
TO the amaze of the women already
aboard to the grave annoyance of Col
Armstrong, to the Joy of poor Billy
Gray, and the mischievous merriment
of several youngsters on the commits
stoned list, Mrs. Frank Garrison, the
latest arrival, became sole occupant of
the finest room on the Ship and it was
bower of lilies and tropical fruit and
flowers the breezy day she sailed away
from the bay of Honolulu
No time need be wasted in telling the
effect of this assignment to quarters"
Prolific source of squabble as is the
custom ashore it becomes intensified
afioat, and, when coupled with it came
a shaking up and Encouragement of
seats at table, all hope of harmony van
ished on the instant. The two brave
young army girls still retained their
seats at the captains table; but two
most estimable young women, Red
Cross nurses, were dropped therefrom
and transferred to that of the second
officer on the port side, much to the
comfort of a rather large percentage
of their sisterhood who had regarded
their previous elevation with feelings
"a nut unlnlNeu RratlncallOn. linen
officers who had been seated with the
generals staff had to vacate in favor of
Mrs. Frank and DR.. Prober and Lieut..
Billy Gray. whose father and the chief
were longtime chums, and the Red
Cross nurses who had been at the first
officers table fell back to that of the
third. 1t was every bit as good as the
other, but it didn't sound so, and they
couldn't see it, and there were faces
sour as the product of the ships baker
when that evening all hands went down
to dinner, and the silence maintained,
or the ominously subdued tone of the
talk, at the other tables was in marked
contrast with the hilarity that pre-
vailed where sat the gray-haired, rudy
checked old chief and the laughing
coterie that listened to the fun that fell
from the liDS of Witchie Garrison