The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-25
BLUEJACkETS
At MELBOURNE
The Characteristic Australian
Account of the
Parade.

The following account Of the parade
of 5000 battleship sailors is quoted
from the Melbourne Age and is very
diverting indeed:
This morning the American warships
| lay motionless upon flashing sunlit
sea, their FURNISHED ornaments afre
with rays of light 4 close inspection
| disclosed active preparations for the
| landing Of 5000 armed men, Launches,
tethered to strings of open boats. link
ed together stern by bow, dragged their
| long trailers 70 the vessel s sides. The
| sailors and marines, rifles in their
| hands, actively climbed the gangwavs.
| The trailing boats were loaded down to
the water, and with the Stars and
Stripes floating in the breeze at the
prows, the launch tugs pulled away for
the land. The number of sailors who
can be packed into one little boat is
worthy of note. Big or little they
count in boat space as fifty TO twenty.
Sydney was tired out after the first
great day, and the debarkatiOn was
witnessed by almost as many police
men as civilians. The great crowds
were TO come later, and come they did
fort of everybody. Standing on Mac
quarie headland, with Farm Cove on
the left hand and WooAoomooloo Bay
on the right, the seascape was strik-
ing and beautiful. Upon the Farm
Cove waters the launches and boats
swept towards the hammered pavilion of
the official landing place, pulling up at
the pontoons with jerk and unloading
.
and then the sharp word of command
or the blast Of a trumpet reverberated
in echoes among the rocks. On the
breast of the less polished and undec-
grated Woolloomooloo harbor. with its
barriers of Imprinted wharf sheds, coal
hClks and unpretentious shipping, the
sailors boats piled backwards and for
wards in long strings, adding at each
tlip to the walls of sailor uniforms in
course of formation at the foot of the /
Domain.
As each squad of marines jumped |
ashore with their rifles they formed /
in double file under the cliffs and |
stood easv.'; With their smart peak |
ed caps. buff Ieggings, light blue pants |
and yellow stockings they looked dap /
per and active. Their ranks include |
many who are scarcely past boyhood. |
They do not represent one type of man
hood. but many. The body of Austria |
Ian troops, of British troops, of Ger |
man troops presents some general fea- |
ture. However diverse the men NAV /
be in a variety of physical attributes. /
the critical spectator found in these |
fine. virile fellows from the advancing
western world certain characteristics
4 Il,
vet. an imperfect development of a
composition of national character
drawn from the most virile races, and
more virile perhaps than any of them.
Here were more than lingering traces
of the heavy visaged, phlegmatic leu
ton; the dark eyes and the mobile
countenanee of the French; the swar,
thy skin and the lean cheek bones that
seemed to point to a far back trace
of Indian blood; the thick red hair
and long upper lip of kind of en-
bryonie Irishman, or the haxen hair
and fresh pink features, throwing back
TO the Saxon, the most striking Amer
lean traits. Right along the lines
could be traced the long spare jaws, a
hawk-like keenness of sense, AMI an
Americans are not big men. Their
Americans are not big men. Their
general height is from feet 6 inches
to ) feet Q inches, and the weight If
those who have reached manhood, from
10 stone to II stone.
ssDrass. - commanded an officer.
The long lines came to attention, and
took their dressing from the right with
an easy celebration. There was not
the snap and spring of, say, the I'm
periaI troops who landed here eight
wears ago. but it did not geeEl neees-
sarv. The rife butts did not strike the
ground with one bang. They got there
with a elatter.
Nombeur. - commanded the officer.
EVAN, tn, Thray, Fouerr, Five,
Sex.
There was time to spare. and the
again 80 stood easy under a
fue silken Stars and Stripes, or the
flag of the marine corps, blue sheet
of six. with white center. Dearlpg
q bIue anchor The officers displayed
these pennants with pride. Once the
aornnanies were standing easy, Jaws be
gan TO chew right along the lines, and
the lighted points of cigarettes flashed
in all ranks. Many chewed and
smoked at the same time,
Below the Mace udFiS AelSLlt9r IA t-lO I
narrow streets of WoOllOOmoolOo, sail
,rs were standing at ease IN double eel
7uDs that wound round the wharf
bindings and disappeared from sight
II the sharp street turuIngs- The tea
ure of these sailor-clad ranks was eE-
RENE bovfshness. The average age OF /
he sailors Is twenty-five years. but
here are soft-skinned. hairless youths ,
IF seventeen and eighteen. These
Americans do not accord with the gem
,ral notions of seafaring men, as gath :
red from an experience Of British
,Ireiackets- The thickset man, with
road back. tremendous limbs, heavy
lips. bull neck and broad sunbnrnT :
ace. who leaves the British manor :
var 70 sween the street with his wide
,lue trousers. while he assumes an air
# defiance TO all circumstances. and
ueks a black putty pipe with the bowl
inside down. is hardly 70 be found IN I
America ; feet. - Ia. there 5 a Brit
ub -a~ axFlaiupH an nni0Oker. now