The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-07
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nlly the others heid . cgatrarl opinion
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Missouri u Is yeafs. nut their enthusiau am
Ia that ~ youngsters. They will win about
t7,Oa In PRICES and that " another feaaon
Why they were blppy
Only about half of tho crews u The var.
ships we're aboard. The rest were IN shore
lcaye-ths good ooadigt men for Eve .days
and thoas whose records were q bic sha dy
for forty-eight hours. OF the latter claes
only II out % 90 failed to turn up yeater:
day, which shows that they arc nOt 80 bad
az they might be. The fourteess. Capt.
Pendieton said, would doubtless appear
ia n daw or a. ornlnhiv In anute dIetraaa
due ~ u too sudden plunge into metropolitan
Rayety after Ave months hard drilling and
total abatinence at Guantanamo.
Capt. Pendletoh said Guantanamo was
an IDEAL place for The deyelopmehs Of .hs
a gun pointer wouh be unable, after several
DAYS ashore in this d~istracting neighbor-
hood, to hit the eide Of q barn at twenty
PAGES, Down In the peaceful Cuban harbcr
with nothing 10 affect their nerves the
Of aim unexcelled by any sailors OF any
navy Of the world. including the Japanese.
One Of the astounding performances OF
the gunners Of the Missouri and other
ships Of the feet was the swift manipula-
tion Of the big i2-inch guns. In target
practice. The Missouri's men planted ten
shells In q I2xi8 oanvas target In three
minutes at / 600 yards while the ship was
going at the rate Of 10 knots. The two
guns OF the after turret were used.
Some remarkable practice in loading q
dummy breech Of q six inch ride was made
aboard several ships Of the feet. The
record on the Missouri was by . young
bluejacket athlete who In twenty-eight
seconds showed twenty 100 pound projec-
tiles into the breech.
The ship Of the mascots III the Kearsarge.
She has Tommy, a monkey in sailor uniform,
whose master. Julius Koseher, was killed
in the fire In the ships turret on April ls.
Tommy wears q cap with the Kearsarge
ribbon and otherwise has the aspect n
disposition Of a true sailor. Mike, the
pig. and Pug Parker. the gbillygoat, were
separated by the hand Of death several
days ago Pug got into the paint room
and began sampling things there. Mike
was with him and thought that his diges-
tion also was Of the ostrich variety. He
swallowed a pint Of shellac. which Is used as
a finish by the ships painters. 1t finished
Mike, who, unlike the goat, was unused
to interior decorations Of that sort. The
battleship Kentucky had a mascot, Nan,
a goat. which was fed so generously that
she dice Of adiposity.