The sun., 1908-01-10


$50 Pulhua n. Jamaica
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that were sung. There Is room for the
chorus Of just one more. The game is Tor
about OnS-half OF the company TO sing
the chorus and just before the finish the
others shout an interrOgatory Of aston
ishmsnt at the top OF their voices. The
chorus runs:
Dreaming. dreaming. dreaming OF that happy land
Where riven Of besr abound:
Where big gin rokeys nn the air
And hlghballs roll on tho ground.
Great sAOUE
whau HIshOaus roll on tho ErOund'
Yes. hishbAIls roll on the ground.
The merriment on the Louisiana was
not exceptional. II was a mere copy Of
what was going on In sixteen wardroOms.
Every ship was sure Il had the merrieSt
dinner and the merriest time all around
in the feet. and that was true strictly.
PUN OF THE BLUEJAcKErs.
The blneiacltets had their own fun. and
they yielded to none in their belief that
they had the best time Of ell. OF course
they were right. Look at this menu that
Uncle Sam provided for their dinner
Cream Of Celery Soup
Roast Turkey
Roast Ham
Sage Dressing GDIs' o,svy
Cranberry Sauce
Mashed PoIGlOes Lima Beans
Mixed Nuts RaIstaa
And here IL the music that Bandmaster
Il 4
merriam gesture. belie his meme. provided;
March. .. The Man Behind the Gun ...,. Snusa
Overture. The Bridal Rose" ...... ,.LdFdIisr
waltz II See Thee Again ........ ..EanndI
Selection. Woodland Ldders
5 Hahanera. .-Rscamia". ................. Redi1
star SpanEled Banner.
And didn't the first class men have liberty
to 90 aRhore2 Didn't they come back
loaded down with souvenir postal cards.
baskets OF fruit. parrots and monkeys7
And wasn't every man Of them able to toe
a seam az he answered to his name on the
liberty list7 II there was a suspicion Of
rolling gait ia Two or three couldn't they
lay il to the heat? Certain IL was that not
one OF them had drunk any OF that stun
down here that they call biograph whiskey.
the kind that makes you see moving pictures.
for the only moving pictures that any of
them saw that night were the dozen spar
1ng matches and two wrestling contests
on the quarter deck. where the bluejackets
we're piled high on high under the awning
clear up over the turret TO the afterbridge-
a. hacked a house for the space as Caruso
ever sang to.
And didn't John Eglit. the Louisiana's
American champion naval boxer. who
knocked out the English champion. Leans
Of the Good Hope. last May. take on a man
from another ship and promise only to tap
him snd not knock him out. so that the boys
could admire him and cheer him? Rglit is
a master at arms. a ship policeman At
other times. and IL isn't safe to say things
to him. even iattering things, but here the
boys could cheer him and he couldn't answer
back. And didn't the officers sit close TO
the ropes. just where President Roosevelt
sat on his trip TO Panama? And didn't
Midshipman McKiitrick. the recent cham
pion boxer Of the Naval Academy. referee
the bouts? And didn't Midshipm0n Brain
erd. the well known oarsmsn Of the Naval
Academy not long ago. act as time keeper?
And it made no difference to him that he
sat next to a negro coal posserl
And then didn't the men who Gidn't
have liberty have comic athletic sports
in the afternoon? You bet they did! -Spud
races obstacle races, sack races, three
legged and wheeIbarow races; lemon
races where the contestants held a lemon
in a spoon between their teeth and the
first man that crossed the line in the rin-
ming won; shoe races, where mans shoes
were tied in bag and shaken up ana he had
to open the bag after a run and then put
them on and lace them up, the winner to be