The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-04-28

Luncheons Served the Visitors.
Norfolk Va. april Z7.-Entente cordisle
is being written so large over all Hampton
Roads that Andrew Carnegie. commando
OF the Legion, can read it from New York
and be glad
The rockies on the mess deck call it
mixing, the officers IN the Chamberlin
ciubroom over at Old Point Comfort give
il no name. but cIink spoons in the
glasses and pass their cigarette boxes.
/ Yesterday all was fuss and feathers
over at the exposition grounds. Hospi-
tality and parade uniforms 90 not 20 well
together. But Friday the men who live
in the steel hulls out on the roadstead
came out Of their shells and went putting
back and forth in little boats getting ac-
quainued and making The stranger vel
| come within the gates The man with the
gold on his cap ordered Scotch for his
/ new-found German friend The Jackie
swashed his beer around IN the can and
pledged the health Of his British brother
tar
Gen Grant Gives Banquet.
/ Maj. Gen. Frederick D. Grant gave a
banquet in honor of the attaches OF the
legations and the officers Of the feet. az
the Chamberlin tonight The sailors OF
the German c"rIiser Room entertained fifty
rockies from the Louisiana and the Ala
bama on the mess deck at their boat at
the same hour.
Gen. Grants banquet was a swell af-
fair. He represented the government.
and as a representative he extended the
| hospitality Of the government 10 the COM
manders and captains Of the American
feet and the military attaches from
Washington who came down to witness
the opening Of the exposition. There were
lseventy-five guests
! admiral RobIey D. Evans, commander
of the Atlantic feet, sat at the right OF
the host. Then came Rear Admiral Sir
/ George Neville, of the British feet. Com
mandeT Kalauven HOfe. Of the German
contingent; the Austrian rear admiral.
/ Herman v0u PIeskitt. the admirals ia
command o. the divisions of the Ameri-
can fleet. and the captains Of the Ameri-
/ can and foreign aeet. Col. Harrison. COM
/ mander of Fort Monroe. several Of the
army officers from the post and their
wives, and thirty Of the legation STATS
/ from Washington. with their wives, COM
pleted the company.
Entertains on Room.
Heinrich Viemen. s n s Room, was
/ leader OF the hosts that entertained the
American jackies on the German cruiser.
! From the Louisiana and the Alabama
| they came, three boatIOads. The Fener-
weksmaat, who seems TO be by unani-
nous consent diplomatic agent and mas
| ter Of ceremonies on the Room, met the
! American taTs AT the rail with hearty
/ hail in Schleswig-H -Holstein German There
/ were no introductiOns.
/ Wen Just say that we're glad 10 see
you" said Big Blu Thompson, gunner's
mate Of the Alabama, 'and If you can't
/ understand. just watch Us grin"
! The Room men took the Alabama and
| Louisiana boys down to the mess deck,
and the first piece of furniture seen in
! the foreground was large brown keg
with the German naval stamp across the
/ bottom
| If anybody cannot understand how TO
| ask for beer. just turn your mug upside
down, and they'll savy, said Big Bill in
/ a monitory whisper. But one OF the Ger
/ mans who used 10 be a sailor on the ST
! Louis, and who had been wig-Wagging IN
| German for three days with German
| American on the Alabama, stepped into
I the breach and constituted himself chief
! translator and booster Of the fun.
| Between beers, the Fenerweksmaat
played tunes on the accordion. and after
I Things began 10 liven up a bit. Jim Rob
I erts, the man VINO aimed the record
/ making gun on the Alabama at the target
practice last fall. put on the gloves with
/ Big BIZ. Jim had carried the gloves over
with him on purpose. and the two of
them showed the German boys how they
slug in the American navy. The beerfeSt
Gid not break up until 80 O'Clock. and
even then there was more beer in the
third keg.
Jackies Plan .Partfes.p
This afternoon one of the men on the
( Virginia let out secret-speak il soft.
for the Virginia men are laying low and
do not want 10 blow the gan before the
time comes. On next Thursday night the
Jackies on every American ship are 60
4 ing to blow the taTs on the foreign ships
nearest anchorage TO the finest feed and
! booze party that ever hit Hampton
Roads. The Virginia treats the Briushers
/ from the ROxborough. the Illinois takes
on the Germans from the Room, and so
on.
jim 4ANbSAAS Hat1S LlaA ALE Etf AllliteAL
/ has given each ship which is 10 entertain
500 for grub and beer But that is not
enough for the Virginia boys. who have
already put 500 more in the chest. and
the feed that they are going to buy
would turn your hair gray. There'u be
turkey on that menu. and the best turkey
/ that grows Ia Norfolk County, too.
Two lines Of commerce stgeamed from
the fleets in the harbor to-day The
sailors came to Norfolk, because Old
Point is only a place for officers and rich
folk. Down on the water front of Nor
folk, where the bags Of fertilizer stored
On a neighboring wharf hold out a strong
signboard for the strays 70 navigate by.
there is a quiet little saloon. There are
pictures of old whale ships and shells,
painted inside with pictures OF the Viz
ginia, known elsewhere as the Merrimac.
The community of fellowship between
Jackie and Jackie on all the ships Of the
combined fleets has scented out this re-
COSTTNVFn on THIRD PACE