Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-29
TARS HAVE 100000
TO SPEND IN NEW YORK
Sailors From Big BattIeship
Fleet Flock to Broadway,
ignoring the Bowery.

NEW YORK, Septemb Der 29-There was
| another addition today to the big fleet
of warships assembled in New York har-
Dor. Daylight revealed the battleship
North Dakota. which came into port dur
ing the night. at anchor off Tompkins-
vile, making ready to join her fourteen
companion vessels up the harbor. The
North Dakota has been undergoing re-
pairs at Norfolk as q result of the recent
explosion of oil in her engine rooms
while she was off the Chesapeake capes.
when three of her men lost their lives.
Seven battleships came into port yester-
day.
The 11,ooo men on the fighting ships will
be paid off to the amount of about $780,
600. New York will get its share of this
wage. All yesterday and last night the
| bluejackets. proud Of the shooting record
the fleet of Rear Admiral Schroeder had
made on the range. paraded Broadway
and other lively thoroughfares
Time was when Uncle Sans fighting
man turned naturally to the BOwery for
his recreation and pleasure. but that has
passed. Nothing Is too good for the man
behind the gun nowadays, and he is to be
found wherever the highest class of en-
tertainment is. Not only musical comedy.
Bowery is only poorly patronized side
show.
The Nebraska. Rhode Island and vir-
ginia of the third division were the
channel yesterday morning. Followed by
the. Mississippi Idaho, Minnesota and
Vermont of the fourth division. Only
the Georgia of the Atlantic fleets sixteen
units remains at Norfolk.
From Aboard Ships.
There was fun afoat yesterday as we'll
as ashore, for those who did not get
leave have all the joys of anticipation.
Aboard the big Delaware, off Tomp-
kinsville. is that source of perpetual
humor and pugnacity, Murphy, the nim-
BILE boxing kangaroo. which the citizens
crew of the Wisconsin upon the visit of
the fleet to that port in 1908 When
the Wisconsin went out of commission
Murphy was presented to the new dread
nought and there isn't a better fighter
or a better natured figure in the navy
than Murphy. who is we'll poised and self
possessed. Murphy is also a hearty eater.
Aboard the South Carolina is the gam
est fighting cock in the navy. The bird
was presented to the battleship by twelve
time the namesake state presented to the
battleship her silver service.
Cholera May Change Plans.
After the ships get fixed up and the
boys have had their run ashore, the
Atlantic fleet. according to the plans,
is going cruising to the Mediterranean
for the purpose of giving the enlisted
men a pleasure trip But the appear
ance of cholera in Naples and other
Italian ports may spoil this plan, and
the fleet may go instead to South Amer
lea.
There will be sixteen battleships on
the cruise, one torpedo boat flotilla and
eight auxiliary fighting ships. The ships
will reassemble at Guantanamo, and on
those drill grounds with them will be the
auxiliary cruisers Tennessee, North Car
DINA, Washington and Montana, besides
the scout cruisers. Salem, Birmingham.
and Chester; two fiotillas Of torpedo boat
destroyers of seven units each and one
division of submarines of seven units.
Each battleship now has its "home
port" some harbor to which she will
some time in the year return to anchor.
Thus, every enlisted man may make his
plans for leave accordingly.
The little red pennant with the black
ball, signifying the vessel that has made
the best record at gunnery, may soon be
fluttering from the battleship Idaho. 1t
means that prize money and medals will
be distributed among the men, congratu-
latory letters and marks of distinction
among the officers, and that altogether
the Idaho. will be a f1rst-class ship for a
man to be attached to.