The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-07-13
DROUGHT WIDESPREAD SAYS SAILORS RAN WILD COUNTY NEWS ITEMS
BILIOUS DANISH PROFESSOR OFFENDED
At AMERICAN SAILORS
JACK TARS TAKE DENMARK.
Sailors of American Fleet Give
Phlegmatic Danes Taste of Siren
uous American Life.


A Danish professor has had his
philOsophic calm somewhat disturb
by visit of the American warships
TO Copenhagen. Wishing no doubt
to warn his brother professors in
St. Petersburg, he writes TO one of
the newspapers of that city, signing
himself DIR. A." and says:
For seven days and as many
nights the whole of Copenhagen has
been occupied with the visit of the
American fleet. 1t is scarcely pos
Sible to believe that city OF half
a million inhabitants, that is TO say,
big city, would permit itself to
be upset in such way as Copen-
hagen has really been by the visit
of 4 ZOO foreign sailors.
Copenhagen is in the habit of
boasting of its blase cosmopolitan
ism and the average Dane does not
as Il rule take much stock in mill
tarism, eithero II land or sea. The
lively boys in blue who visited us
| from free American however, cap
tured the hearts of the people of
| Copenhagen-yeS, they had in real
| ity won them before their arrival.
! Some little time before the four
colossal war vessels from over the
water had cast anchor in the outer
roads of Copenhagen the question of
what could be done to make the
tarism, either on land or sea. The
shores of the Oere Sound as agree
able as possible was the solids ub
! ject discussed With the assistance
of the whole population a program
of festivities was arranged which
was SO crowded with official and
semi-official functions and festivities
for the officers and even more es-
IN fnr hn snn 10, n-C'
that the strongest nerves were ne
cessary to carry it through. 1t was
carried out, however, and while the
four gray monsters set sail tins
morning for Stockholm, and good
people of GoGG.nhaPge. ere sitting
nursing their heads
The pain in the hair from
which they are suffering is partial
ly of a moral nature. This is not
only the case with great number
of the women of Copenhagen, who
must feel a belated remorse that
they were too hearty in their enthu-
siasm for the visitors from over the
seas, but also their fathers and
brothers shake their heads with
anxiety when they consider the lib
erty allowed to 1000 more or less
drunken sailors.
1T cannot be denied that the
foreign sailors, and in some cases
their officers. while they were on
| their twenty-four hours leave on
land conducted themselves in a way
that was not always worthy of the
navy of a great Power. 1t goes
without saying that continually
serious and stiffly correct conduct
| conduct cannot be demanded from
sailors going on land, after a long
4 ht,t rha,
rants overflowing with loud voiced
sailors singing and yelling without
any consideration for the other
guests, or when one sees late at
night or in the early morning hun
dreds of sailors sleeping in the
principal streets and later on be-
fore noon sailors filled with alcohol
singing, shouting and playing mouth
organs as they drive through the
streets in motor cars, each man ac-
companied by n Danish girl, then
| patience becomes exhausted, more
especially when one remembers the
proper behavior of the sailors of
other navies when they are on leave
in foreign ports.
'It must be remarked that the
shore leave of the American sailor
always lasts twenty-four hours, from
early in the morning until the next
! day at the same hour Under these
conditions the temptation to go TO
excess is very great, especially when
! it is remembered that the pay of
the American sailor is very high.
All the sailors who came ashore i'll
Copenhagen were well supplied with
money and they must certainly have
spent 100000 among the reStau-
rants, the motor drivers and the
girls.
'It should be remembered in
passing that the commanding Off
Ger of the American fleet. Admiral
Badger, made a bad blunder in the
course of the dinner given by the
Danish ice-Admiral Vandel to the
American officers. Admiral Badger
called for cheers for the German
navy, and his attention was called
to the error by some one in the
hall. Although the Admiral correct
ed himself by substituting Danish
for German the toast was drunk by
the company in great confusion.
1T was generally understood
that the Admiral made a slip of
the tongue which ought not to have
occurred on such an occasion, but
now one of the Copenhagen papers
declares that the Admiral of the
American fleet was under the i'm
preston that Copenhagen was real
ly on German territory. On the day
after the dinner the Admiral is re-
ported to have had the crews of |
his ships formed up on deck and |
to have confessed to them that he |
had made scandalous mistake and |
thereafter addressed them in the |
following wards:
L do not want you to make a |
similar error, which would give pain