The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-11-18
Jonathan Worth Daniels Dis
covers From His Lofty
Perch That Everybody On
Deck is BoW-Legged-Son
of Secretary Houston Guest
of Daniels Lads,
MADAME on Dit in New York Morn.
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Although the young sons of the Sec
rotary of the Navy have cruised about
until they are as familiar with ships
and sea as the 'middies.' it was not
until the other day at target practice,
dow at Hampton o that they
climbed to the fighting top Of the mill
tary mast, 1870 feet above the deck OF
the Rhode Island.
1t was Il gay and dizzy experience
with no less han 130 thrills, up to
that high point in space, where they
saw people and things from a new
startling point of view.
Look, Look" said Jonathan Worth
Daniels. blinking at the distinguished
persons below-oficial ladies in proud
attire, and the ships officers in
brave and cleaning uniform-"Look,
They're all bow-legged, every one OF
them"
When the Wyoming fired, a launch
from the Rhode Island went out to
pick up the torpedoes, because things
like ~torpedoes, Which cost on an aver
of $4,000 each. cannot afford to
be lost at target practice. Thus it
happened, that beside climbing to the
fighting top of the military mast, and
discovering the apparent idiOSyncras-
les of people on the deck below, the
Daniels boys and their guest, Frank
lin Houston, the son of the Secretary
of Agriculture, went out in the launch
from the Rhode Island to oOk for
torpedoes.
But suppose said one of the
guests on the Mayiower, when they
were all returning to Washington,
lust suppose that one Of those tor
pedoes had gone astray-were you not
n little bit afraid of that when you
were sailing around to pick them up?'
snh NO - coisJ nf tho D0ninJS
boys, 1--WE were not in the least afraid,
because that torpedo would have gone
three feet below our launch!'
The target practice at Hampton
Roads is a realistic game, into which
not many American lads ave the rare
good fortune to enter. 1t is a game II
which there Is no pretending" play
battle at sea, because it is a nava
contest, and it requires no effort o
the imagination to fancy oneself il
the thick of a real sea fight.
Franklin Houston II Guest.
But, although the arts of peace ma,
be ~inglorious. they have a certain
charm to which Franklin Houston
the guest of the Daniels boys, was no
insensible. 1t was when they wer
on the May1ower coming home
smoothly and quietly along the Poto
mac. between green-bordered hill:
that young Houston observed:
Gee, but this is a stylish bOat-wit
meals served In courses,-and a
that"
Undoubtedly, "all that include
the brocaded walls of pink satin i
the Presidents apartments, the lu
urious furnishings of cabin and dec
but the supreme proof of all that Wa
stylish from the normal boys pOii
of view. was the way the Mayfiowt
served her meals,
There was q photograph made {
the Secretary of the Navy on tt
bridge of the Wyoming. The Seer,
tary of War is there, too, but Seer,
tary Daniels is most imposing in tt
cap of a naval officer, which is
becoming, one ScurrieS abOut to fir
If the Secretary Of the Navy has n
the rank which entities him to chan,
the fashion of his nat.
But he has not. 1t was simply II
wine that did il. When he found tn
the winds and the waves and wealth
had no respect for persons. and
x for the formal appearance
a member of the Cabinet, he fitted
his head the cap of one of the OF
GERS. and SO he was photographed.
a borrowed hat.
What Is IL Delaying Pr?
Under any and all conditions t
Secretary of the Navy is subjected
the endless questions which have
way been put to the fathers a
mothers o. sons since the world /
gan. In any it is alwa
an advantage when both father a
mother happen to be present VIII
the questions are put. as, for inStan
at dinner the other night at sins
oak. the beautiful home OF the Sec
tary OF the Navy and Mrs. Daniels.
Washington.
What is a Delaying PIN" I
question. ringing. clear. and not to