The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-15
EVGNS'S MEN WON'T DESERT
PACIFIC FLEET SAILORS LIKELY
no STICK ar OUT.
Even tho RAWest Rccrulss knOW SETTER
THAN IN Take Chances In u latin AmerI-
CAb TSwn. and san FpnnoNsCO ss Nome
Foe ItOspltaD1e -CanuIng Makes TrOUhle.

Even the RaNaet MccrmleS hMOW heGeer
TITAN In Fake Chances IN q Latin AmerS-
cAb TSwn. and SAN FTamcSsCO Ss Nome
Foo HEOspitaBIe -CaaTInS Make TTrOuble.
Bob Evans II makes him fighting mad
to be called. Fighting B~Ob'-alwRys did
have more luck than a blue gnmmed dinge
in a crap game, remarked a man who knows
a lot about the American navy. Granting
him his aggressiveness. he ought really
to be called Lucky Bob He always gets
a break. Things have a way Of coming
his way.
Take this stunt he's just embarking
upon guiding the battleship feet around
to the West Coast. That in itself IL the
SWEETEST assignment ever pNllrd down by
an American Admiral In a time OF peace.
OF course. the job belongs to him. He's
the man IN line for It. But doesn't that
fact in itself help to brace up my assertion
a don't imagine that I'm alone in
making the assertion-that Evans is one
Of the luctiest heavy weather men we
ever had?
Blu l didn'.s start 90 talk about his luck
in being in line for the fat assignment.
That's been pretty well famed over ale
ready. What I'm thinking about particu-
larly as an element OF his unfailing luck
in the soft time res going to have OF Il with
his ships crews on the way round to san
Francisco. 3.
Now ordinarily when an Admiral takes
a feet on on a distant sea hike of this char
acter he's got to figure and does figure upon
a most shocking and irritating thinning out
of the freshly shipped enlisted force by
desertiOn. Admiral Bob doesn't have to
make any calculations on that at all. He'll
nave his ships companies for'ard right
up to their full strength when the feet
pulls through the Golden Cafe. Why?
Simplest thing in life. Because he'll only
touch on the cruise at South American and
Central American and Mexican ports to do
his fleet cOaling, and man-0'-war's men
don't jump their ships in South or Central
America OF in Mexico. You can gamble
they don't. Some of EN-. the new ones,
are pretty raw. hut they know better than
to go over the stiles Of their ships in coun-
tries where busted AmericanOs dom even
class with billYgOats in popular esteem
and where they've got just about as much
chance to do any good for themselves as a
spangled aigrette d have in a coke oven.
Raw ships companies will hop ship first
port they make anywhere else in the world,
but nay nay for the ship Jumpers when
they get into South OF Central American or
! MGAItDl lOTVHs AUEy i q WV WhpE WI IAldNs
and IL they're not the old timers among the
enlisted fiatfeet will put them wise. A ship
hopping gringo isn't anybody's baby in a
Latin American country. He's a leper.
that's he is--Or might as well be for
any lift ELL get, except maybe the lift At the
toe If a boot. There are too many busted.
beachcombing grsasers. anyhow. to pick
up an occasional Crumb to- leave any room
for ship jumping Yankee man-O'-war's
men to lam for those ~be8ches-even IL the
uraaaAru tbaV haua 1nf a0DnQfhian OOAaQaaaA
or ever did possess the slightest inclination
To lend an assistful hand to a down and out
gringo. And they never did possess and
don't possess any such feelingtowardt nited
81 az esians OF any class.
when a native of this country gets him
self into the position OF a beachcOmber in
any Latin American country hrs plight 10
miserable beyond depletion. Better. far
better. for a ship jumping saIlormsn to be
/ combing the beach of any of the mid-Pacilic
or South Sea Islands. IL he doesn't get
much on the and they % run him,
anyway: they sort OF let him alone and per-
init him TO mooch around, doing the best he
can. till he sees q chance to shake a shovel
or swab paint or something on a ship or
steamer bound for some American port.
The gTingO beachcomber in a Latin Amer
lean country is herded with the sandHies
and the fiddler crabs.
Man-o'-War's men know these things.
and that's what gives Bob Evans his fine.
close hauled. housed over. battened down
Cinch on his heap big wise cruise he's start
ing on. He'll carry his ships companies into
CalifOrnia's chief port witt him. THEY'LL
stick along with him just like little brides
that've got clipped wings.
They'll stand for the constant cOaling
all right-theyU have 10 stand for il. They
wouldn't have 10. as | say. and wouldn't
in any other mess of ports than the Latin
American ports - but down that way they'll
stand for and by any old thing.
III, for limbering up purposes, Evans
had. for example, to take his feet down
10 Havana and then bring it back TO some
United States port le.ore the final get
away to Charleston or Savannah, wen
say why. then the aggressive RObley
would have something TO keep him tossing
in his Admiral's bunk about. For at the
American port to which he returned in
such a presumed case I guess maybe Ad-
miIal Bob wouldn't lose hands so fast that
there'd he some embarrassment about
Spreading mess gear That's what he