Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-03-30
JUST ONE MORE CRUISE
"0|d |ronsdss" Coming ls lhe
Exposition.
n line ABOUT ALL THAT IS LEFT
Carpenters at Work Repairing the
Old Shi? Have Removed Man,
Original Timbers and Put in New
ones-Societies Protest.

inc jamestown Exposition will be
inc old frigatc Constitution, which
III now being rebuilt for tho TN
down tho coast. The New YorK
Herald says:
old Ironsidcs" is going on nno,h.
CT cruise.
Meantime societies for the prescr-
walton of venerable landmarks and
reVcrcd trophies nrc urgently pro-
testing against the project to allow
The frigatc to he sent to the james.
town Exposition this summer.
Cold hearted and unsentimental
statesmen and mercenary men of ar-
iairs urge that 1.-THE old hulk Is AL
ready worthless" and that n matter
OF risky trip or two up and down
inc coast "can do no mere than pro
vide the worm eaten relic with n
iast resting place at no expense, i'm
the sen among the fishes"
Meanwhile u half score of shin chr!
penters are prodding with cold steel
ana Keen edged augcrs into the nun
Ky walls of the frigate; new ribs aro
being built to take the place of tho
uecayod bones, and the paint not and
inc varaish can are speedily oblitcr.
h'ing traces of the famous sen rover
as she used to be.
July has bcon fixed upon nv thc
tnsentimentalists as tho date when
Old lronsides" is to slim her moor.
ings at the Charlestown Navy Yard
ami drop out of sight of relic wor.
sh:pping Bostonians.
Like top at the end of n limo tbc
Oh frigate will make her porIlcus
"trip behind scagoing towboat but
every spar and sail and ropo will
Swing above her decks Just ms sbc
was equipped when, nearly n century
ago, she set sail In search Of thn
Guerrierc and the Cyane and tho Lo.
want md the pirates of Tripol ana
the African coast.
lt is to be n profaning of an honor.
ed trophy, declare those who still ro.
we're the fame and glory that is tho
history of the old vessel.
1t is the only chance FOR tbo old
mas been TO coin few dollars for
her remaining days. declare tho wor.
shippers of Baal.
Name Alone Left.
AS she Is being restored undor tho
present plans the old vessel viii ho
ieit ms the Constitution In name on.
~ During tho work of strengthen.
ing her for possible last VOYAGE
the carpenters have discoyorcd tbot
mere is hut little that will moi nood
10 be replaced by new timbcrs To.
day ono side of the fricate has bnon
stripped to the water line. ana such
reconstruction as is considered No.
cessary TO make her scawnrthv for
her shcrt voyage Is now going nm
Last week one of the s;,inwrights
discovered what was apparently -
notrified peach in perfect presorvo.
ZION between the shoathinr which
during lull in an old sea fight had
nerhaps been dropncd there Inv pun.
her while eating his dinner noar n
norton of the smashed bulwnrls
wrapped about the fruit was an old
piece OF naper. printed In old style
When the frigatn is finally rcstor.
cd she is TO he equipped. among otber
relics, with the old and nnaint figure
mead and the self.same wheel recent.
~ discovered which she carried I'm
nc DAYS of her commission
in case she is sent to the Jomos.
town EvDcsition MS the boncrod roll,
OF the War of 1912 her inferior rnI
bo provided with the numerous son.
According to the old model of tho
vessel, no iron was used In tho rio.
RlnS. or i'm fitting out tho Constifm.
ion rs she first went into commits.
sion, where ropes could bo substitut.
tod. In the work If remodcllinr tho
frlgate tnis plan of tho rigging will
be carried out in detail.
An Urn Which Came Back.
ono nG tho
that VIII he exhibited on hoard tho
vessel when she has hecn placed nm.
ner her new commission will he n
nhhosome china water urn, which
was presented to the frlgato by the
citizens Of philadelphia I'm 1877
1liis urn was not long ago brought
UP from the bed of the Delaware Inv
dredge. and strangely enough it
is today in as good n state of presor.
Vallon as probably before il was droD,
ped overheard.
The bowl, which will hold about
hhi a gallon, is decorated on one
sac ny the coat Of arms of the State
Oh PENNSYLVANIA and on the other
WIN the Inscription, presented by
me CITY OF Philadelphia to the Con-
stitution, 1897"
Many valuable paintings and repro.
auctions OF the old vessel will hang
inon the walls of her cabins when
shc is ready for her sea trip
Another historic trcnhy aboard will
be the umbrella, or kedge anchor, one
ot the two said to have been used by
the Constitution in ESCAPING from the
british fleet off the British coast.
me framework surrounds long
Polc, and when covered with canvas
ana opened Is like huge umbrella.
IL was on 81 certain scorching July
Day IN 1872 that Captain Hull of tho
Constitution nlD1DS. ~, into oh N