The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1908-01-10

they had the best time Of all. OF course,
they were right Look at this menu that
Uncle Sam provided for their dinner
Cream Of celery soup.
Roast turkey.
Roast ham.
Cranberry sauce.
Mashed potatoes. Lima beans.
Mixed nuts. Raisins.
Coffee
And here is the music that Bandmaster
Cariana whose German accent and Wag-
merriam gestures belle his name, provided
March The Man Behind the Gun, ........... solsa
Overture, The Bridal Rose ............... IayaleF
Waltz. II See Thee Again -.-............. Estrada
selection. Woodland LADDERS
HabaneTa, "Escamilla -......................R eda
star Spaugled Banner.
/ And didn't the Grst-class men have lib
/ erty to go ashore? Didn't they come hack
loaded DOWN with souvenir postal cards.
/ baskets of fruit, parrots, and monkeys ?
I And wasn't every man of them able 10
toe d seam as he answered 10 his name
ON the liberty list? If there was sus-
picion OF a rolling gait in two or three.
/ couldn't they lay IL 10 the heat? Certain
lit was that not one Of them had drunk
/ any of that stuff down here that they call
! biogTaph Whiskey, the kind that makes
you see moving pictures, for the only
moving pictures that any Of them saw
I that night were the dozen sparring
matches and two wrestling contests on
the quarter deck, where the blueiackets
/ were piled high on high under the avn
| ing clear up over the tuTret 10 the after
I bridge-as packed a house for the space
as CaTusO ever sang TO.
Only a sparrlBs Contest.
And didn't John Eglu. the Louisiana's
/ American champion naval boxer. who
knocked out the English champion, Leans
of the Good Hope. hast May, take on "a
man from another ship and promise only
70 tap him and not knock him out. so
that the boys could admire him and cheer
him? Eglit is "a master-at-arms, a snip
policeman at other times and It isn't
safe 70 say things to him, even catering
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 mis-
trip to Panama? And didn't Midshipmaa
Nc Kittrick. the recent champion boxer
Of the Naval Academy, referee the bouts?
And didn't Midshipman Brainerd, the
well-anown oarsman of the Naval Acad-
eTAy not long ago. act as tImekeeper2
And it made no difference 10 him that he
sat next 10 a negro c0sl-passeTt
And then didn't the men who didn {
have liberty have comic athletic sports
in the afternoon You bet they did,
"Spud" races obstacle races sack races,
three-legged, ana wheeibarrow races.
lemon races. where the contestants held
lemon In a spoon between their teeth.
and the first man that crossed the line
in the running wou shoe races, where "a
mans shoes We're tied in a bag and
shaken up. and he had to open the bag
after run and then put them III and
lace them UP. the winner 10 be the llst
man reporting 90 the referee. 1t was All
fun, and the DULLES shouted themselves
hOaTse over IT, What matter if q dozen
men reported al tine sick call the neNI
morning with feet SO sore that they could
hardly walk from the running IN the bare
feet on the hard decks Oh. yes. the
bluejackets had the best time Of ali,
Excitement of the Rowing.
And then there was rowing In the morn
ing. You who have seen the Poughkeepsie
and New London contests may think you
have seen great rowing spectacles. and so
you have. but you want 10 see rowing
contests in 2 fleet Of l4,Ol0 jack tars 20
know what enthusiasm is. They lined the
rails, turrets, bridges, masts, and tops,
and danced and yelled like Comanchcs
as the crews passed down the line OF
ships. They yelled just as loud when
fourteen officers crews contested. A
pretty incident occurred after this race
There had been great rivalry between the
officers Of the Vermont and the Lou
isiana- Each thought il would win. Meth
er did. the Louisiana coming in fourth
and the Vermont fifth. The Vermont
crew Immediately rOwed to the Louisiana,
and the two crews in their rowing clothes
sat in the wardrOOm and passed the bowl
around. When the VeTrlonts men went
home the entire crew of the Louisiana
gathered at the rail and cheered. The
Vermont men tossed their oars. and then
the crew sang their merry Christmas
song, the first Of the 200 or more times
that it was heard by the feet.
The Minnesota's Reception.
The reception on the Minnesota was
also memorable. Old friends in the feat
gave greetings It was brought out in /
one Of the, conversations that Rear Ad- /
miral Evans, the commander-in-chief of F.
the fleet was the only man in the feet /
who fought in the civil war, and it was /
also revealed that he was in the greatest /
pageant Of war ships that ever left /
Hampton Roads before this one. That /
was in December, 1864. almost forty-two /
years to the day that the present fleet
left. That feet went out 10 capture /
Fort Fisher. where Admiral Evans was /
wounded and where, with a revolver, he /
prevented a surgeon from cutting off his /
right leg.
There were 14,COO men in that feet. |
about the same number as in this There /
we're sixty naval vessels and the rest 1
were ninety transports. under command
1f Gen. B. F. Butler. Admiral Porter /
was the naval officer in charge. It took /