The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-08-02

| bootblackS kit, less than cubic foot
of space. In long passageway
| among hundreds of others, and num-
bered 271, hung his bag, in which he
| could stuff all the extra clothing it
would hold, but the entire capacity of
that bag would arouse the scorn of
| a respectable golfers carryau, it be
| ing designed only to hold suit of
mastering clothes CHS Sunday BEST
and an extra suit of ship clothes. With
that outfit-hammock, ditty-box and
/ bag, all of which could be packed
/ twice in a steamer trunk-a benign
government was using him to carve
out a new and fancifuI destiny upon
| the path of world-power. a destiny
with which he was unfamiliar, and
| with which he asked no further ac-
quaintance.
And the duties were CALLING. For
a free-born American citizen, who had
had to pass an examination in the Fed
eral and in the State Constitution be-
fore he entered the High School, who
| had spent a year in that High School
before he had seen a placard calling
| for inexperienced young men to en-
| list in and receive the emoluments,
pensions, opportunities and disburse-
ments of the United States navy and
who had answered that brilliant call
with the buoyance of patriotism and
| the zest of adventure-for that young
ster 70 find himself up against the
proposition he faced, I repeat, it was
| calling.
| Remember that he had enlisted with
| a sort of vague idea that ships ran
themselves, especially now that steam
4 he a., r.
nothing to do with that part of it,
fireman being a different job from
that of seaman" he had the notion,
back on that hard, obnoxious school
| bench, that, if he went to sea-" ne
would just sail and sail and sail, it
really being steam, steam. steam, with
| him a fairly patient and a certainly
undisturbed hanger-on for payday
and the arrival of those other coun-
| tries so dear to the imagination. He
doubtless pictured the varied sights of
the tropics, the weird and wastefuI
colors of the East, the populous human
undergrowths in the vast marine ports
| of the world, all those vista strewn
delights pictured in sober, but none
the less romantic Gin fact more ro-
mantle because OFFICIALLY colors on the
| GERS. He saw himself reveling in the
glory of the protection of the Stars
and Stripes, shaking a jig dance under
) Moro moons. drinking malt beyerag es,
with German name, in Kamchatka,
trouncing a yellow man in Yokohama
or Bangkok, Willing away some sum-
mer afternoon with girl of the Med
iterranean,
H. IT,
, was not very likely that war would
come, not in this day and generation;
still. that was the best part of the
thing he was going to do, the chance
it gave him to be in at the finish of
But, twas all in lifetime. The danger
made it, if anything, better PROPOSE
ton than it would have been with no
monthly articles of war for mental
food
FOR IT'S WORK ALL DAY ON
SHIPBOARD.
Thus it was he came into the service,
earelessly, with certain vague but very
plausible ideas of its requirements,
ideas which he probably shared with a
very great d}OEitN VI the pcOpIc III
the United States. The first thing he
ran up against was that rising before
breakfastand- scrubbing e-deck-like-a-
hired girl proposition, which cost him
five days of good food contemplation IN
the brig. AS soon as he got out of that
he had time to contemplate, and some
what digest the
"DAILY ROUTINE
A. NJ.
800 All hands turn out.
$50 All hands turn to, scrub decks,
sides, boats.
700 Consult uniform signal, change
clothes.
100 Breakfast.
500 Colors Attention all.
SIS Turn to, clean odd spaces, begin
brightwork.
! 9.15 Knock off bright -work, go to
quarters, setting-up drill.
! $50 Drill call, preparation.
| 1000 Drills of all regular companies,
gun crews, boat crews, fire
crews, collision crews, maya
zine and torpedo crews, etc
l.30 Retreat from drills. Pipe down
! clothes, if dry. scrubbed
clothes having been hung the