Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-02-27
100000 IN GOLD
PAID FLEETS MEN
Jackies Won't Get Shore Leave
Until After Inauguration
BATTLESHIP VERMONT
is UNDER QUARANTINE
Several Hundred Enlisted Men Whose
Terms Have Expired Were Sent
Ashore and Immediately Started
Homeward-Had the Time of Their
Lives In Australia.


Norfolk, Va, Feb. "a. Yesterday
was payday in the big battleshiD
feet, which returned on Monday to
home waters. The bluejackets and
marines were made happy in the pos
session of so much ready cash. but
there were other things that took away
a good deal of the pleasure they felt.
In the first place word went around
that the enlisted men OF the returning
feet were not to have any shore lib
erty until after the inaugural OF Presi-
dent Taft. in which several thousand
Of them will participate.
The men on the good conduct rolls
had expected to be given permission
to enjoy themselves In Norfolk. where
the buildings in the business section
are decorated with bunting in honor OF
the fleets return. A brigade from thu
battleshfps will march in parade In
Norfolk ON Saturday. but will be sent
back to their vessels as soon as this
ends.
The Vermont Guaranteed.
The officers of the Vermont were an
exception. A yellow flag flying from
the vermont's foreyard told the ini-
tiated that she had contagious or in
fictitious disease on board.
An enlisted man is under observa-
ton in the supposition that he con-
tracted sms llpox ct Port Said. So no
body was permitted to 60 ashore from
this battleship.
The officers and men Of the Yer
were paid first.
Eight hundred Thousand dollars in
the shining gold pieces was brought
down from Washington in the heet
tender Yankton, which had come homo
ahead Of the battleships. Pay officers
with their clerks and yeomen went
over to the Yankton from the other
vessels, and each was given the re-
quisite amount Of coinage done up In
bags which the Yankton's pay forces
took from three big chests. Everybody
was paid in cash.
In forbidding shore leave to the en-
Used force of the feet Admiral Sperry
made an exception in the case Of tho
Yankton This little ship served rs
tender to the bigger vessels and, in
order to keep in touch with them when
they we're in the many ports visited,
she had to start in advance OF their
sailing dates.
Yankton's Men Ashore.
On that account the Yankton's men
saw little OF the festivities in the
fleets honor. To compensate them for
their hard work and privations, half
the Yanktons crew were given shore
liberty.
Several hundred bluejackets and ma
rfnes whose terms of enlistment have
expired were sent ashore: Most Of
them are from the middle west and,
with plenty Of money in their pock-
cts, they lost no time i'm starting home
ward
Onicers and enlisted men say that
they had the time of their Hives IN
Australia. Without intending to re-
feet ON the entertainments provided
for their In other foreign countries,
they make it plain that the Australian
government and people wene foremost
in displaying hospitalityg
No explanation of the cause fow Cap
tain Hamil IN NJ Hutchins' detach-
ment from the command OF the battle
ship Kear~s rge by Rear Admiral
Sperry at Gibraltar, nor the reason
for his coming home ON q passenger
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