Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-05-08
ANNAPOLIS, AND ITS HEROES.
(By ,. r. Jones)

O. o 9 % . o Q 3. o o q, o O. o 4. q %
| with u desire 10 find out of what
stun these navy heroes are made. we
journeyed TO the Annapolis Naval
Academy Standing the Library Build
/ lhf' ia the center Of the great room
whose walls were covered with tho
trophies Of many wars. my gaze turn
ED to tho dome to become rlveted
upon a blue field. on which stood out
Ia large white letters. these words An
napolis graduate. The thing is real,
actual living spirit. and since the be-
ginning Of the Republic 1t has pre-
served and kept untarnlshed the glory
OF the American flag.
Dewey, Sampson. Schley Evans--all
received their training here. So did
Fletcher and Badger, whose names
nave so recently filled the dispatches.
finished by wireless from Vera Cruz
and Tampico
Beneath the dome of the great chap
el, In magnificent cript privide by
grateful nation we viewed the last
resting place OF John Paul Jones. For
hundred years these old bones Law
hidden In an unmarked grave in |
foreign country But for future gem
erations great people will atone to /
such as Is mortal Of one Of the SPLEEN
did heroes of thb AMERICAN navy. |
The spirit of John Paul Jones hovers
over Annapolis inspiring young men
10 emulate the heroism and patriot
ism OF he whose name is perpetually
preserved In our naval history
In another building we stood before
a table placed in honor of Captain
Charles Vernon Gridley. who died In
Japan few months after his name
bad been sounded around the world.
when he obeyed the orders of his Com
nodorc-~" When you're ready. Gridley
fire.
The other day the President said:
Tell Fletcher TO seize the custom
house" Fletcher did il. and the dogs
II war were let loose at Vera Cruz. I
We saw the SIS middies In their :
lrilis. az their duties. and joined them I
n their sports. And seeing. we bet '
er understood why young men have /
one forth from this place for nearly
evenly years. each with the idea de- v
erminedly liked that he will never r
I've up the ship.
Az the point where the Severn River =
bins the Chesapeake Bay. forming
arbor which viii accommodate Uncle A
ans biggest ships. stands the United ii
tass~ Naval Aoademyt II IL on r.
oced behind great wall. and the =
atss open upon an inspiring panora- n
IA. There stends three groups OF E,
agnirci~nt buildings. and beyond n,
the river. nlled with torpedo boats n,
'~troyers. tugs and small craft Of a,
cry description. One asks the name a,
tho peculiar looking training ship. ri
he told that II Ia the ''Reina her- ~
des." captured from the Span.ards by
Cuban waters during 1898 and now M.
et as = training and prison ship. Al
ross the river 4. more government mr.
nd. and a mile away Is the famous a.
! Fort Madison. a.
The attention OF visitors is attracted or
the large number OF cannon and tn
,phies OF war and as we read the in 70
riptioas upon these veteran guns on
learned that they were wrested or
I'm the Spaniards in Cuba sixteen wi
ars ago, or taken By Dewey and his We
iecrs at Manila. There are plenty IN,
relies frOm Vera Cruz. captured in Gel
IS. and from the Latin American on
artries which always seem 10 be IN,
king ND rnmpu-. PEI
a the Inspection OF captured can del
q and FLAGS the conviction drive OF
ne that practically all Of our troub- leo
for more than a hundred years
We been confined 20 the Spanish In
'aking PEOPLE. The Inscriptions an Ge
lnt out that The enforcement Of ret
! Monroe Doctrine or Of a policy "R
protection, has supplied the entire est
ivitics OF navy which has cost the
people Of the United States more era
ney than would have been fspair- ,