The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-15

about . O'Clock in the morning wouldn't
you too be flushed with the desire 10 try
to swim out to that island fort on Charleston
and 60 a. dripping wet To Bob Anderson
with your hand our and say. You're not
Deserted. sir. We're all with you and
we're an awful big crowd ~ course
you would.
II YOU lack Ell that iesire there was some
thing wrong with YOU, especially II you
didn't Jingle a bit when the artillery bryan
TO swing down The streets Of Brooklyn on
the way from Fort Hamilton. or you saw
the steam tag Ceres pull the Powhatan out
into the stream one April afternoon about
> O'Clock, or when you looked upon the
beautiful old sailing frigate Potomac and
her fifty guns over AT the yard. her lines
softened a bit with age and her spars and
rigging making patterns Of lace against the
evening sky. and all about her that atmos-
phere Of fine sentiment and beauty as
beautiful as your old mothers wrinkled
face.
Day by day as YOU joined the knots az
citizens at the Battery, around the City Hall.
over at the navy yard or On the street corr
ners you saw more and more that this Thing
must come. Each day you dragged out Of
bed with that word war more firmly fixed in
your mind. and you fell asisep and awoks
again thinking only OF it. Between times
YOU joined the rest of New York in reading
bulletins. You commanded upon the rap
idly growing list Of resignations from the
army. Capt. T.. X. Smith Of Florida has re-
signed from the second Cavalry. Lieut..
Pendar OF North Carolina has left the First
nuo~ TtA,t lix,nny, AasNs ~ Nj
souri, has quit the Second Cavalry and 90
has Lieut.. Joe Mintur Of Virginia. They
say President Lincoln. through Frank
Blair, will offer Light Horse Harry Lees son
Robert the command OF the Army Of the
United States and that Roberts going to
turn il down. Robert Lees going to resign.
Tho band is playing merrily over on
Governors Island now and what do you
think it's all aboutr Major Holmes OF
North Carolina. who has commanded the
post for two years, has quit. and the band
In serenading him before his departure!
Those boats heading toward the island with
oil the fine folk. men and women, At the
bows are on their way to q farewell luncheon
to Major Holmes. and John Potts Brown 10
going to max . speech, in which will be
retailed all the glorious incidents Of the
Majors thirty-one years in the army and
lots OF good wishes and expressions Of
approval, in the name OF New York, Of an
old soldier who Ia sticking by his principles
in the name OF New York;
Wherefore you and Billy and TOMMY
Curry and all the rest at the Battery stood
there modify. for all your fire and euthusi-
asm at other times. when the Powhatan
swung around the toe Of Manhattan and
stood out to sea. Quite different from his
were your feelings when you gathered near
the sidewheeler Atlantic's dock at II o'clock
one Saturday morning, for instance, and
down through Canal street toward the pier
clanked Major Hunt with his Company NJ
or Capt. Barry and his Flying Artillery.
Then you asked the soldiers feverishly
where they were going and whether there
would be a q but now on the Battery you
and Billy and Tommy and all the crowd lust
watched and watched the Powhatan grow
small and smaller.
And when there was nothing left but
a suggestion Of a scattered smoke plume
you came to and noted that there had been
no salute from the other shipping nor
from Governors Island. and that not a
sound had been uttered by you or your
brother Billy or Tommy Curry or any one
In tho watching crowd. not n single cheer.
Marty and Billy and Martyrs bride OF four
months were sitting in the little parlor
OF Marty's nome one Friday listening to .
little girl. the child Of q nsighbor. tell In
piping voice Of all the wonderful things
she had seen the day before while on a visit
to a farmhouse way. way uptown at
Fordham. There had been COWS there
and horses that didn't have any straps