New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-17

| pansaeoIa. Fla, June 16.-The navy
,.,a,ors can,e hack from the war yes
terday, and the big birds when soou'e.
over the sand dunes and SCRUB uihOei no
snclrcie Vera Cruz few back TO the roos'S
which they left Just eight weeks ago
Two OF them, flying boats ca ana 90
literally came back on the wing aitnousn
their flight was only from the Mis''o
sippi's anchorage across half mic oI
wind swept bay TO the beach instead Vi
the longer flight that had been hoped ior.
/ c,ptain Muslin OF the Mississippi had
intended TO send up two OF the nnsuns
with Lieutenant Towers ana bne's"
Chevalier in one and Leutenan's Dell
niger and Smith In the other. when sorhe
sixty or seventy miles at sea ana YET 'he"
! fly on a compass course.
| One Of the reasons that the aNla'ioh
SQUAD returned, however, was because "
the deterioration of the machines i'o'"
the daily soaking and baking they "eIo
| getting under Vera Cruz's rainy sesso"
and their condition, together win sea
| too heavy to make starting prdc'o'
compelled the shorter flight
The Mississippi received her sailns or
ders last Thursday evening. The navy
blrdmen, who, in addition to youth anu
! beauty, were noticeable in the sonie
what languid atmosphere OF vera CruN
1 for what is sometimes described 40
''pepp," had just finished their regular
afternoon water polo battle, and were
making for their launch TO 90 ABOARD
Lnn mi
Lieutenant Towers that Captain Mus"'
had received sailing orders
/ Home" somebody shouted were 30
! ing home" and everybody Rugged every
body else and, all talking and aughihe
at once. tumbled into the launch ana out
10 the Mississippi. Here the good news
was confirmed with the message from
| the flagship TO break shore camp ana
proceed TO Pensacola. A couple OF
/ .1irne- ulcers" young officers from the
British cruiser Suffolk, had been askeu
over to dinner that night. There were
one or two other guests and there was
a very happy party, but lat once means
'at once" in the navy. and before dinner
was over several young officers were on
their way ashore and the searchilgnt
was playing on the aviation camp. All
eveninF. while the Mississippi In final
hurst of frivolity was running off NOV
ing nictures on the quarter deck, the
searchlight blazed across the harbor'
throwing up into white circle OF light
a mile or so away the tents and little
stretch OF beach which for month past
had been one OF the most interesting
places about Vera Cruz.
Starts in Dewnpour.
nv the time citizens were taking their
rnangoes and coffee in the portales next
morning everything was folded up and
packed away, including two dismantled
machines, and the three other machines
were flown out TO the ship and hauled to
a safe berth on deck.
There was rumor from the flagship
that the Mississippi might be asked 10 take
some refugees, and she stood by for a
time. but not long before noon, in a pour
ing rain. she got under way and laid a
course northeast straight across the Gulf
to Pensacola.
1t was none too soon, as the aviators
remarked not altogether in jest. for,
without hangers and subjected TO the
daily soaking and baking OF the tropical
rainy season, the machines were de-
teriorating rapidly, and continued flying
with them might have resulted in any
thing but pleasant experiences.
A few hours steaming took the Mis-
sissippi out of the coast rains, and next
morning the sun came up into cloudless