The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-29
He WANTED THE SHIP
Thought He Was Eligible to Com
mand a Cruiser.
AN OLD TINE NAVAL PRANK
The Shabby Triel That Was Played
Upon a Patriotic Greek eoiIermaker
BY Some Of Uncle Sans Sailors With
Whom He Had Shipped.


ermaker while we were on the Medi.
terranean station" said a retired petty
officer Of the navy. "Our former boil
ermaker's time expired while we were
az Gibraltar. and az he was not In good
physical shape he wasn't reenllsted,
but took his discharge and returned
to the United States by mail steamer.
So the ship was shy a boilermaker.
very important and necessary petty
officer down below In the engineers
department. and when the ship pulled
into Naples harbor the chief engineer
went ashore To see II he couldn't dig
up a bollermaker
There was clause In the enlist.
ment regulations permitting command.
Ing officers To ship necessary men on
foreign stations In short handed emer-
gcncies. The chief engineer brought
back 10 the ship a Greek named Char
lie Marc. The man couldn't speak any
English to speak Of. but he was u
good man AZ the boilermaking bust
ness. and he was duly shipped aboard
of us for three years. He was wild,
hairy looking lot, Marc was, and he
got good deal OF laugh at the
hands Of the crew, especially the
younger fellows. from the time he first
came over the side.
MARC thought that there wasn't any
other country on the map except
Greece. and after he got hold Of
enough English To make himself un-
derstood he used To take som, of the
young apprentice boys up .nto the
eyes ~ the ship and tell them. with
many gesticulations and furious words
Of the different kinds of tar Greece
could knock out of Turkey.
"The ship W. around on the Pa.
cific station when the war broke out
between Greece and Turkey. when
the news Of the outbreak Of the war
got TO Marc our boilermaker, he
nearly had heart disease and whole
lot OF other sudden things from pure
excitement. He just couldn't hold
himself In. he looked so tickled
"'Da Greek man villa bin, bin
Dim, da Turka man. was Charles
Maro's way of putting 1t. and he didn't
see that the Turk had a ghost OF n
show. All hands forward encouraged
u'nh IN 'he @'et' ihey all acquiesced
IN expressing the peher 10 marc tha'
Greece would simply eat Turkey up
Then bosun's mate who knew how
10 cr"ck the most lmpossiDie JOKES
with face as solemn and wooden as
an Indians took Charlie in hand and
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