The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-22
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= Somewhere out at sea 300 amateur sailors
srmorad cruiser West vfisiafSl daj4 81 try
/ sns 10 learn bow to. de. 9z1At tbe 9ealfaM
/ do when they are n otashSTe.; Tie enateurs
4 9reS 1oEbeB OF the First Battalion. os ttge
4 Few. Yofk Naval Militia, and they will
cfut6 Cd the Govefnhrent'S Narsbip Until
\ July ~. sThsy sailed yesterday afternoon
!, froul tho ma OF war Anchorage an Temp
tinsville shortly after 8 O'Clock. just where
they were going. except to sea-, none Of them
knew when the West Virginia ssileds. rs
/ eThese peyer va Q hahPier lot thsn III.
/ ohscsn and men from Navigator Bohhafd
down to the youngest ordinary seaman
They began to gather. Abp4rd their own,
ship, the Granite State 0h6e tbs Wooden
| hi@9te New. HampshifeE Mt Ahssfoohof,Eass
Twe2ty4Bara iAreet. oiopa Adfors, psoont
though they were not due to leave town
untiI9 o'clock. Some Of the younger men
stood about trying to get sunbtJped before
[ they boarded the West virginia-so that the
real sailors would think tASt dtlleaSt they
welHt scatboat operators, but the sun want
shihkhg very much and they had to give up
N despair.
Others sat about with copies pf the
/ Young Mariners Ready Reference trying
I To learn how to make a couple Of half
hitohes about the blight ola hswser ,-fer-
betting that the tying Of ropes is not o big
part Of the daily routine Of the modern
man-'o-warsman while still others who had
psvsr lone anything more immoral than
smoke q Turkish. cigarette" were taking
little nibbles at huge blocks of licorice-
favored navy plug, Many Of them
new how 70 swear, and were letting them.
selves out at the weather man FOR not giving
them q better day to sail. since they did
not look particularly well in oilskins and
o 'westers, And there were no girls around
tina recreation pier to bid them an affec-
tiohate good-by.
IN We were the Brooklyn branch OF the
Neyal Militia We could take girls along
NTH u.s. srowled an A.. B., who recalled
the story Of how the officers Of the battalion
across the river struggled their wives
aboard a Government yacht last summer
and took them down to Hampton Roads.
But here we are going for a week aboard
Q real man-of-war and not SO much as q
waving handkerchief
On the steamboat Pavnee the amateur
bluejackets leftithe Granite state at $50
In the afternoon and in less than an hour
had gotten their kits slowed aboard the big |
white cruiser swinging with the tide. When
they foundt that instead of going up the port
gargway 70 the quarter deck, as they had
done when they visited the feet in the
North River, they had, to 60 aboard from
tho boat boonhs they got their first taste
OF running away to sea. And for many it
was 60 different from all that they had
read. - ~
There were no smiling middies; carrying J
orders from the quarter deck, and there
were no long toms. and no hammocks in
the pettings above the bulwaTts.
EVPn the iof1cefs were somewhat" DIS
from the quarter deck, with every man
Jack OF the. ships company IN fun view,
there was the intervening superstructuFe,
and no way Of seeing. unless one went TO
the bridge. There were missing a LOT, Of l
; ;ai | sss sh e. eaa thought went rifsh a
True, there would be no topsails to reef In
numerous gales OF wind-there would be no
rousing out in the dead of night TO epel
boarders: and the ordinary seamen, Noticed
for irate bos' MS to 10y alongside their hsads. /
But there would be plenty 70 do and It would
be % different. doing IT, hide heal saibons
looked on and smiled knowingly, II not pity
tngly. ,I
going to State camp at Peeksdll. There, at
least, there are no regulars to jibe, and the
can keep them away II. they. do
come. But on a manro' war it's different
for no real. sensible faty captain is going /
10 lot more than half his crew rave a weeks
just because there are several
hundred young men on board who are will
Ing 70 work for their board and the Joy Of
they will be homo next Sun day With
Of the. wonderfully deepd. sunbprped
and better ssanaeR 6ut it WIKI be latter
and pointing one Founders, ,xth, only an
occasional turn at the bigeer fellows. They"
will have learned that being {. sailor in
the old days was, II the books be true. a l.
great deal better than being a machipist
On . modern cruiser unless 6f course they
had access to the wardroont -ifT.':' ~'.Iii1