Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-03
Men and Thin ps

Three bluejackets on the L 3. s.
Maryland have had their names Off
i clally mentioned by Admiral Thomas for
lnerltorious conduct during thu target
practlce at Magdalena bay. They are
j: j. Donelly, j. C. King and j Green
Inese men, respectively, first loader,
hoistman and Zimmerman, on one of the
cruisers S-inch guns, obeyed the orders
10 look into the breech of the gun after
| each shot to discover if there was any
scrap of burning powder or canvas left
| in the bore, and they found on one oc-
caslon hre in the gun after the dis
charge. Quickly signaling to lower the
ammunition car, the men rushed the
charges back to the handling room.
promptly taking the precautions which
saved the ship from a repetition of the
Georgia disaster. The orders to inspect
the bore after each shot were issued
after the Georgia disaster the tempta-
ton oeing to omit the precaution in the
| haste to fire rapidly.
andrew Donovan of Missouri. hence
forth will take his rest in a bed an em-
peror slept in, for at the Fifth Avenue
motel auction he purchased for SITS the
furniture In suite ~. It was this suite
| that was assigned to Dom Pedro, en-
peror of Brazil. when he visited New
York. The bed is of walnut and the
walnut chairs and divans are damask
covered. 1t Is called the damask set.
Ihe brass bed that the prince of Wales
used when he was at the Fifth Avenue.
together with the other furniture of
suite 81, where he lodged, went at a
higher figure than that Dom Pedro
had used. The set was sold piecemeal
and brought $500. A marble clock alone
brought $25.
Pope Plus x has sent autograph let
ters to Archbishop Farley of New York
and Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia,
congratulating them upon the hum
dredth anniversary of the erection of
their sees. Both archdioceses were
established in April, 1903. The pope ex
presses his satisfaction at the progress
made in the archdioceses, the zeal of the
clergy and the devotion and the ability
or the archbishops, and in conclusion
ne 1mparts the papal blessing to the
prelates.
Blest Be the Tie That Binds" was
written by Rev. John Fawcett, who In
the latter part of the eighteenth cen-
Jury was the pastor of poor little
chufch in Lockshire, England In 1772
ne accepted a call to London church.
His farewell sermon had been preached.
six wagons loaded with furniture and
books stood by the door. His congre-
gatlon, men, women and children, were
IN an agony of tears. Mr. Fawcett and
ms W1fe sat down on a packing case
and cried with the others. Looking I'm
MRS. FaWcett said "Oh, John, John. I
cannot bear this! I know not where to
go!" Nor I, either said he: "nor
Will we go. Unload the wagons and mt
everything back in its old place" His
letter of acceptance to the London
church was recalled and he wrote this
hymn to commemorate the episode.
In time of athletic rivalry no senti-
ment expresses the thoughts of a Har-
ward man better than ITO hi with
Yale" Dean Briggs of the faculty, and
the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, veteran
clergyman and chaplain of the United
States senate, once went down to Sol
diers' field together at such a time.
Where are you going, dean?" asked a
friend. ITO yell with Hale" answered
the smiling Briggs patriotically and
with diplomacy.
Leander Crihfield, one of the old
est printers in this country, who first
set Samuel Morse's telegram What
Hath God Wrought" when it was sent
to Baltimore on the first official trial
Of the telegraph, died in Hillsboro,
Ill.,, recently
Crihfield was at that time COM
oositor in a Baltimore office and his
take happened to include the article
the trial of the telegraph.
-rihfield had spent his last years on
! farm near Hillsboro.