The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-22

nose arms gave SuGllCE u III pIAlSCAg
eagle,
Under whose shade the ramping lion slept;
Whose top branch overpeer'd Jove's spread
ing tree
And kept low shrubs from winters power
full wind.
Southern people, and especially the peo-
pie of Georgia, will be apt to take a very
kindly view of President Roosevelt's adj
ministration on account of the strong strain
of Southern blood in his veins, his mother
being a native Georgian Of long Georgia
descent. Two other interesting facts are
told by the President in a letter, written
by him in January of 1900, TO his friend,
James E.. Osborn, Of Wilmington, Del, who
was a gallant Confederate soldier in a
Georgia regiment. In it he says: lone of
my uncles built the Alabama and another
fired the last shot from her before she
sank"
With the yacht races scheduled to begin
within the present week, the lay mind
should seek to make itself familiar with
the nautical terms which will be most fire.
quently used. 1 therefore append a list
which is, 1 think, more nearly complete
than any heretofore published:
ABAFT-Anywhere after, or behind, the middle
part of the vessel.
BEAM-Extreme width of a vessers null.
BEAM ENDS-List of vessel to port or star
board side to such an extent that her beams
approach a vertical position, another
passes so close TO windward as TO take the
wind out Of her sails.
BEFORE THE WIND-when the wind is fol-
BENDING sAiL~securing sails in their posi-
tons to a yard. boom or gan:
BOWLINE-Specihcally, a bovine Is a Knot,
but in sailing parlance a vessel Is on a bow
line when she is making a long stretch with
CROSS SEA-Nhere the waters OF a channel
and the sea meet.
EASE oFF-To slacken; usually refers to the
sheets.
EVEN KEEL-When a vessel has no list and
FREEBoARD2The part of the side Of a yes
sci which lies between the line Of hotation
GARRBSoAtIRsD-sTaAKESThe first range or
strake Of planks laid on a ships bottom.
GATHEREThe act of overtaking another vessel
IL Rey,d 1y ,ro %nif fhs de n HseHS
HARD DOWN-To put the tiller as far to lee
ward as it will go; conversely, the helm IS
hard up when it is put as Ear to Windward
as possible.
HEAD SEA- sea coming from the same point
of the compass the vessel is directed toward:
HEAD To WIND-The situation OF a vessel
when she has been thrown up into tie wind
and all her sails are shaking.
HEAVE TOTO bring the vessels head to the
wind.
IN sTAYs-when a vessel has come up into the
wind preparatory 10 going about on another
tack. A vessel stays" when she goes about,
and fills when she completes the evolution
and takes her new course.
KNOT-A nautical mile, containing 6,0S0.27 feet.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS toward which the wind
LIE To-Keeping a vessel so close 70 the wind
that she makes little or no ~eadwey; a ship
lies to- when she IL hove to-"
~LIST-Th incline Of a vessel TO port or star
unfurI sail.
LUFF-A vessel is lgned by putting her tiller
TO 1eeT TSs ,s sRo . p ! 1sii = n tSs up uP INTO the
mast; per contra, the leach" is the outer
MISSED sTAYs-when a vessel loses the wind
from her sails in taking another tack.
left side Of a vessel looking for
RUN-To sail swiftly before a breeze.
tackle By Which the mainsail Is
hauled in or eased OF and secured in posi-
sAG~When a vessel drifts sidewise under the
influence OF a wind
sCUD-To drive before a gale.
SET OF. THE TIDE-The direction in which the
sTARBoARD-The right side Of a vessel. loos-
ing forward.
sPAEs-A general term applied to masts.
STAKEBOATLThe boat or buoy which makes
the imaginary line Of the start or tnrninS
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. from which the wind
blows. ""1
An Indiana man, just back from Bsffalo
tells an amusing experience of the commit
cations which are prone TO arise in times Of
stress and crowds, such as those natural -
a great exposition. He and his wife hoaraad
at a private residence where were anothe,
gentleman and his wife. from another mar,
OF the country The Indianian's wife too,
a bath In the one bathroom. one morr,,s
and ne went later for the same 49,