Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-03
Gen. Corbin'S
 New Navy
JACkiES WILL HAVE UNIFORMS OF MOST GORGEOUS
 CHARACTER.
Cid Salts Arms Will Be Striped AS a Zebra's Lee.-FireTen Will :. Shovel Coat eWaring White Duck Tnousers--Deck Hands Will Roll MoIasses Casks in Natty Suits While Corbin Looks On.

New York May 2-MajorGeneral Henry c. Corbin. with the thought of that fine yacht-like tug the govern nent is going to furnish fer his per sonal use, is making preparations to array his crew in uniforms the like of which were never seen on sea or land, but often on teh stage. Officers wearing smart double-breasted h}ouses with two rows of gold but tons down the front, white caps with rakish patent leather vizors and white duck trousers and white shoes, will face quarterdeck when the yachting blows the waters of New York har- lior Natty tackles, wearing sailor caps, with streamers, sailor jackets with wide reverse, showing a striped yachting jersey, and with trousers rhat spring enough at the bottom to cover No. IA shoe. will assume graceful attitudes about the deck.
 Gen. Corbin. brilliantly uniformed, will sit down under the awning on the afterdeck entertaining his guests while a white-coated steward serves iced drinks from long cut-glass pitcher with grass, pineapples and cherries in ii.
 How is she pointing, captain?" Gen. Corbin will sing out.
 The captain will Stop pacing the quarterback, put up his marine glass, enot the kind the steward is handing around), salute and reply:
 Sou by sou'east, sir, about three points of Sanitary Scow No. 96.
 Get her in the wind. captain, get her in the wind. sir
 "Aye-aye, siri" the captain will re- ply. Then the party on the after deck will sing "A Sailors Life for Nine,' and the yacht-;ug will tear on it's way through the bay.
 Of course all this will happen if the war department agrees to pay the cost and Gen. Corbin has put the matter hefore the department in such clear light that the officials cannot have the heart to refuse, especially after they look over the uniforms now ou dis play at the quartermaster's depart ment in Washington
 It is understood at Washington that Secretary Loeb is one of the admir- CTS of Gen. Corbin's plan to uniform 1he deckhands on the ancient ferry boats and tugs that are doing army service in the harbor of New York The secretary failed in his plan tC uniform the White House attendants.
 Ever since Gen. Corbin came tc New York to take command Of the de partmtnt of the Atlantic, with headquarters at Governor Island, he has been very busy arranging things according to his hotion of how theJ should be- He learned all about these things when he was a guest of ths German emperor.
 The first thing Gen. Corbin did wal to establish a salon at his quarters All of the officers in the departmen were invited to come all dressed up and Governors Island never say such a brilliant sight When the gen ' eral came to make his visits 10 tn city. and found that an ancient ferr, boat, pauonized by washerwomen grocers' boys and laborers, he wen straight to the front and talk abou the terrible state Of affairs. He tol, the department officials right to thei faces that he wanted different kin' of a tug-a tug with a cabin in it, s that if be should be caught out as ia as Liberty Statue some dark night h could cast anchor and turn in withou resting his head On a twoinch coil 0 rope. He was told that he could pun chase such a tug if he could find one but on second thought the secretar of war believed it was better to wal