Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-08-17
Waves Wait WhiSperingS From
Across The Seas
BREEZES FROM THE SHIPS
Mathematical Caleulaiioa ResHired To
Figurs 0ut What 4 Thisg 4 Verb
Ia Gibraltar

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perings FROM the SHIPS of the Naval
Academy sumner squadron and mes
saEes cone from across the seas q
the happenings on The sumner cruise
One midshipuan opin0n % prizes
asked Tor commodities ard souvenirs
in the ports visited beggars 6escrip-
tiCn. He writes q his mother in
New Ysrk a. follows
Well. we're again rolling around
CT the old Atlantic cut of sight ot
land. bot expecting 70 pick up the
Madeiras touorrOw morning Our
stay in Gibraltar was very short and
re didn't have but two days OF liber-
+ ty.only one Of which could leave the
+ ship OF account Of being on watch.
We got into Gibraltar last Tues
/ day and spent that day getting the
+ coaling gear working. and the next
F day were turned out az a m By
80 we were busy illing coal bags
with the dirtiest coal in the most
unhandy barges invented. We only
knocked of for breakfast and lunch,
I and quit for the day before dinner.
/ The other ships coaled way into the
night By the light from their search
/ lights and thus finished, but we turn
/ ed in, in our dirty coaling clothes and
| started coaling again Thursday morn
ing at O'Clock.
The other ships being coaled, the
fellows on them went or liberty st 9,
much TO our disgust, and il wasn't
until noon that we put on the one
hundred and ten hundredth ton. AS
soon as We had dug most OF the dust
out OF our ears, eyes, nose and
everywhere, We went ashore 4
bunch OF Us took ore OF the crazy
little carriages they have there and
drove around the town for two
hours and over into the quaint little
Spanish town on the mainland.
. There is only one street in Gibral-
tar, it runs all the way along through
the town and is the narrowest, crook
edest, most picturesque street I've
seen yet. Two carriages can barely
pass in il and there Is no sidewalk
Numbers of bazaars on both sides are
filed with silks. laees and brass
things and kept by the smoothest,
crafty and most hOspitable robbers
in the world.
Il spent an hour or more in the
bazaars and enjoyed haggling with
the Moors over the prices OF different
little things You have TO take the
price they name and divide it in two.
subtract couple Of shillings for good
luck and then divide il by five, in
order to get within a reasonable es-
innate OF what thing is really
worth, but still things are muchcheap-
er there than At home.
Gibraltar is on q peninsula, and
the English only own a small strip
Of land inland OF the rock. There
/ is a good wall and q barbed wire
fence at the limit Of that and it is
well guarded. Nobody is allowed
into town. Between Gibraltar and
the Spanish town. which is right
on the Spanish border, is a strip
Of neutral land over whiek there are
always a few Spanish cavalry men
wandering and. OF all the fantastic,
story book soldiers. they take the
cake. Their uniform is a many-col-
ored affair, and their hat is soft
white arrangement. They carry
alongside on their ponderous saddle
a earbine and sabre about six feet
| long. When you go through the gate
/ into the Spanish town the officials
/ stop you and feel youE pockets for
stuff. The town Is Just . small,
/ dirty, white-building affair, with an
arena at one end for the bull fights,
which didn't see while there.
Z A&TL~- = Ill = -
Rock above the town on account OF
the fortifcations that they throw such
q bluff about The old place must be
honeyeombed with passages for you
/ can see the holes running sll around
/ il, and II they have good guns in them
all il may be as strong as they say,
l but those that you see are old-fash-
/ ioned muZzle leaders. The Rock
/ from the water looks very grand in
/ the daytime, but at night while the
Mediterranean and the hills Of Spain
to the west are still glowing red from
the sinking sun and the lights in the
/ town and high on the hills are blink
/ ing il IS indeed wonderful sight
Well, We laid around Friday and
Saturday and were glad on Sunday
10 slip our cable and head ont TO sea
again, for Tow every mile IS 50 much
towards home and leave. Just .
month more and We viii lash our ham
mocks for the last time of old Grab
town and the next morning dissm-
bark from this old hooper.
"Wednesday This morning about
4 O'Clock, while ! was on watch, We
sighted the Madeiras and at daybreak
they presented the most wonderful
ard beautiful sight The tops Of the
mountains glowed like Furnished
gold and looked almost transparent.
while the valleys were still dark and
in6istlnct We have Just come into
the open roadstesd to Funchsl, and al
though the other two ships are at
anchor within . stones throw Of
the shore, We are steaming around
waiting for big Cuuarder to get out
OF the anchorage.
What . beautiful place this is
the rolling vine-clad mountains ris.
ing right from the waters edge, and
the little white town, nesting IN ths