The sun., 1908-04-30
SEEING THE SCHOOLSHIP OFF
BOARD or EDUCATION SAILS
AS FAR As GLEN COVE.


and the splcndOr OF the Seven Seas.
Not since Capt Bradley s. Osbon stood
In his dragon peajocket OF an Admiral OF
the Chinese navy upon the poop deck Of
the Sacramento night boat out Of Hoboken
when she was sinking on the keys Of Keokuk
until the last but him had fed into the sur
rounding corn has there been such cruise
Ss that Of the training ship Newport Of the
New York Nautical School yesterday.
With a hundred souls on board besides
the members Of the Board Of Education,
Who as any unmarried teacheress will
teIl you. are soulless. the ancient man-o'
war braved the dangers Of He'll Gate, tiokled
Execution reef and the Hart's Island shoals
and finally brought up all stanch at Glen
Covo-thirty miles in three hours
II was the first leg in the long cruise
that the boys Of the Nautical School are
10 take from the foot of Fast Twenty-iourth
street, where the old Newport has been
Tookiy 9 In the tide since last October to
Plymauth. Gibraltar Madeira and back
again 10 Twenty-iourth street just be-
cause the Newport made thirty miles in
three bours yesterday is no sign that she
will turn Flying DutChman Oh Montauk
Point and never, never get back to Twenty
fourth street again II takes such an old
timer o few preliminary knots TO get into
her stride. you know.
So it was that early yesterday morning,
when tie hundred-odd boys representing
the two classes of the school that New
York maintains to feed the merchant marine
turned out Of their dream bags and slowed
them snugly away, their parents and friends
were all down at the recreation pier where
the Newport was tied up carrying bundles
and bulging packages Of goodies. II is a
long way to send your boy, away over to
] Madeira, when maybe he has never been m
Manhattan in these three yeaO gone.
Promptly at 9OS o'clocl, Capt, l.. II,
Everhart. up on the bridge with Navigator
G. e. Littlefsld, pulled the engine room
signal, and down in the nusty she'll ~ the
old ship bell sounded like the tinkling
old bells on springs that ring in the houses
of old days 4 hosns ripa shriesed and
half a dozen Of the boys in white scafnperPd
fore and aft to drag in the dripping nawsars
"a the old Newport waddled backward ont
into East River
Man tho wards" came the order from
Capt. Everhart, and instantly the whole
hundred Of the spry boy sailors, syriugy
with the excitement uf tho forthcoming
holiday. sNaTmed M tue rigging nn the
shore side OF the ship and faced about
toward the black pierful ot folks behind,
shouting and waving their caps m anever
10 the parting cheers over tleir heads
N,r a han
ing the insignia of tho city Of Now YORK
or Of the school and at the mi2ze1 gaf
there hung a great thirty foot gala flag,
curling ldUlly IN the WIND from across the
river
In a group on the quarter deck stood tho
guests who we're 10 -ee the Newport on hey
Journey "A far as Gien cove. Ghe,o were
Commissioned Maxwell Of the Board of
Education and Gis fellow cOmmiss'S -CTG,
Higgins, Katzenberg, Sherman, Wander
hof. Wilsey. Dounely. Man, HIuh ard
HsrTison and Secretary Palmer. EN-CoTr
missioner Adams, nr IeipziRer, s'lpc.in.
tsudsnt Of the school lecture course, Richard
b Aldoroftt chairmI Of the executive
committee NJ the Nautical school, and
Prof Jacob Of Columbia lricersty, IS
we'll a. the officers Of the aMmHi assJcia.
ton OF the sohool. completed the partc.
But, no: there was also tho Ancient Mariner.
over whose dover Of eighty one rm'r"'s
there has psssed the genus Of romance
and from whose oraCular tOague have
fallen for nearly three-qiartsrs Of Ger tlry
tales that make tho Ssgas sArirk within
themelves and the tiest NJ Robin Hood cry
for mercy . ~. ,-....
Mariner. closing ono eye against the
smoke n his cigarette. we were just there
two days when the chief NJ that lslapd
killed two girs and cooked thcn Ovar a
slow fire says that chief - mo, savs
he"
sPhe-e-e-e.w!" went the bosns pipe
Just thcn nal al the younet ora Scrahhlod
forward 70 rlenr away the r0re. about tho
anchor blocks and make ~ or thing
shipshape about the bridge stdnchions
'Phe.e-e-e-ew,' shried the whistle v'ithn
a minute, and others had e. get down to
the eun deck and hand ont camp stools
for the members Of the Board Of Educa-
ton The Newport ploughei up under
Blackwclrs Island Bridge Just then, and
oven Mr. Morrison, the executive officer,
IN the Quarte- deck cooked a. anxious
eve aoft at the rsking nastncsds, which
cleared the red chords Of the bridge Nv what
seemed from below 10 be- a sCaHt dozen
inchos
Some Of the board merrbers had been
held by the glittering eye ere this, and the
Ancient Mariner was again rectinc the
log Of his extraordinary adventures
"It was while ] was an admiral In the
Argentine navy and | was just trying To
drill somo discipline into the men when
what dos that rank traitor do but try n
bring dynamite invented 1891 aboard
smuggled in a medicine chest | seizod
him BY the arms he dropped the dynamite
but even before il could touch the deck
had reached out with my foot end caught
the handle Of the medicine chest with the
toe NJ my boot, II was W. the work ot a
second 10 toss that dU.c. stun over the
how with swing Of my toa' nno even while
the fellow hgq bls knllc ua.d" ..-.r-"
Man the rigging" came ag, in the Ca
from the bridge aud q : all TIE BOYS swarmed
up ard the guests Of tho shin ran over 20
the sine - zee who u wa0 TO tp houorad
a piping cneer came from oH the stsrhncrc,.
There on tho extreme end OF Hgliets Point
where the iUghor stands we're T. hundred
or so Of boys frola some OF the schools in
Queens. Commissioner kdtHeNlerg bad
told them that the boys OF the Newport
we're go.nz 10 sail I'D the river esEruay
and with their teachers they had turned
out in full force. each with his flag and all
Of his lung power in good working order
When the children Cheered a nearby
factory caught the infection and footed
it's whistle. Capt. DAILY in the pilot house
Of the Dock Departments tug Richmond,
which was following the Newport up the
river, footed on his whistle and Capt. Ever
hart on the Newport's bridge held down
the whistle cord FOR four long blasts Of
farewell.
just as the Newport had passed Thirty
fourth street q little police launch had
darted out into her wake. Now the launch
drew up within h0lling distance Of the
Rroup of grownups on the quarter deck
That's Sergt Lewis Of The h6rbor po-