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Naval Militia Aboard Battleship Kearsarge

ton in seamanship: another afternoon
they would be passed on to another
schoolmaster, who would instruct them
in the nomenclature of parts of the
ship: another afternoon they went up
on the bridge and received instruction
In matters pertaining to that section:
then they went into the turrets and
they had instruction in infantry drill
and the manual of arms. In fact, in
those two weeks aboard that vessel
they were given instruction such as
a seaman apprentice who enlists in the
regular navy gets in six months at a
training station.
The officers. too. had separate schools
Every afternoon and night they were
assembled in the wardroom and vari-
Gus topics were taken up. including
deck work, navigation. organization.
engineering and flrst-aid and santa
ton.
And when the cruise had ended. q
was pronounced by those who have
been connected with the local naval
militia during its entire existence OF
seventeen years to have been the best.
most successful and most profitable
training cruise in the history of the
Naval Battalion.
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where he would get on the jump when
another drill call sounded.
So much enjoyment did these young
men get out of going barefooted about
the decks while doing seaman duty
that when it came time to go ashore
for liberty they couldn't get their
shoes on. They were in fine predica-
ment. but after more than week
aboard ship they were willing to suf-
fer almost any agony to set ashore.
and they just squeezed their feet into
shoes that once fitted.
Schools proved an interesting fea-
ture of this 1915 cruise. 1t was some
thing the local militiamen had never
before participated in on the cruises.
1t was always drills and no schools.
Each afternoon the various divisions
would be assembled in comforta BILE
places about the decks, if there can be
anything such as comfort aboard a bat
tleship. squatted down and listened to
works of instruction from the regular
officers.
One afternoon they received instruc-
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m HE prophecy that plague. cholera,
typhoid, typhus and gangrene
= would decimate the armies OF
Europe this summer seems not to nave
been borne out Last winter this
prophecy was frequently made because
of the shallow battlefield burials and
because there were long periods when.
according to the reports, burial OF the
dead was not possible. Another rea-
son for this black and dire prophecy
was because of the belief that effective
sanitation could not be adapted to
trench warfare. The medical depart
ments of the battling armies seem to
have been as energetic and efficient in
their sphere of operations as those de-
partments whose concern 1t is to slay
as many of the enemy as possible. The
medical history of the war will proba-
bly, be bright page in a black book.
News came from Europe last winter
that typhoid fever, an ancient scourge
of armies. was raging among the troops
of Austria and Hungary. The report was
plausible, because there had been few
campaigns without typhoid and it is
written in history that typhoid has put
out of action more men than have been
slain or MANNED by bayonets and bull
let's The report was surprising though,
in view of the fact that within the last
few years. the once dread disease had
been adopted in all the modern military
ravages checked because of the immu-
mixing treatment of men based on
knowledge of the cause of typhoid.
It was known that this treatment had
been adopted in all the modern military
establishments of the world, and the
only reasonable explanation Of a ty-
phoid epidemic in the Austrian ar
mics was that hosts of civilians had
been converted into troops so hastily
that there had been no time to admin
lister the typhoid prophylactic treat
ment.. Later advices were that though
typhoid had appeared among the troops
it was promptly checked and that 1t
was the civil population in certain dis
tricts which had been most heavily
afflicted with the disease.
Typhoid fever swept through thin
training and concentration camps Of
the United States volunteers in The
Spanish war and claimed
about ten victims for each man who
was hit in battle action. AS late as the
Anglo-Boer war there were in the Eng
lish army in Africa 1854 cases OF ty-
phoid-an army corps in itself-and
more than 5000 deaths from the dis
ease.
1t was not long after the opening of
the greatest war that reports came to
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CONOUERlNG DISEASE AMONG
THE TRENCHES AND CAMPS

the United States of the appearance of
gangrene. both traumatic gangrene. or
injuries, and Of hospital gangrene
among the French troops. Hospital
gangrene claimed its victims by thou
sands in the Crimean war, the Amerl-
The reports from France were distress
ing to all persons who had knowledge
of this old army scourge.
When bacteriology and sanitation
were infant sciences hospital gangrene
was one of the mysterious diseases. 1t
would sweep through hospital of sick
and wounded soldiers. With the Won
derful improvement in surgery. hospital
methods and knowledge of antiseptics.
hospital gangrene disappeared. 1t be-
came what physicians call historic
disease" Its disappearance in Europe
caused CONSERVATION. There was an
explanation of the gangrene of the bat
tleield, due. of course, to too long neg
lected wounds. but hospital gangrene
was another matter. Following the re-
port of the appearance of gangrene
came reports that the germ OF the dis
ease had been discovered, and this was
achievements of science and was
counted one of the good things that had
come out of the evil of the war. Moth
ing has been heard in this country of
little of the other form OF gangrene,
and the inference is that the disease
has been conquered.
Coming to the United States at the
same time with the reports Of gangrene
was news that lockJaw was frequent
among wounded troops. The reason
lay in neglected wounds There were
urgent calls for anti-tetanus serum
and all facilities in the United States
for producing this were utilized. and
it may be that tine output is still enbr-
nous. though very little is now heard
either of tetanus In the armies or of
the production of unusual quantities
of anti-tetanus serum in the United
States.
Ths outbreak of typhus among the
Serbians recalled to men disease
which has followed armies for ages and
has afflicted men where they have been
herded in foul surroundings. Typhus
is that disease which has sometimes
been called camp fever" or Jail
fever" Its cause is known. and Serbia,
after a heavy toll of death, seems to
have been freed from the plague. In
April last the announcement was made
that an American physician had sue
ceeded In isolatins the germ OF typhus.
a. nd this was also hailed as one OF the
scientific achievements of
the times and Of all time.
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signaling and otherwise assisting in
running the ship from that part. Ac-
cording to the ships officers. they did
it just as efficiently as the regulars.
But the gunnery work is what
brought the competitive spirit up in
the men. Their old rivals the North
Carolina naval militia, who headed the
list in target practice last year. were
aboard. and every bit of time that
boys in training at the guns. They
worked like Trojans to get their team
work down to a machine. And before
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flames, while others saw that all drafts
were cut off.
One District militiaman didn't an
swer the call, confident in the belief
that he would not be missed. But the
fire" was right in the spot that he had
selected for a comfortable seat while
the other sailors were rushing about
the decks. The executive officer Of the
ship found him and had him placed
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as well as hits counts in the anal
markings.
just one week after they had been
aboard the vessel the ship went on
the target range with eight well
drilled crews from the District of CO.
lumbia, some of the members of which
had never handled a big gun until
they boarded the Kearsarge. Some
members of the crews had drilled we'll,
while there was no booming and no
the feeling that the ship was falling
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the names could not be changed With
a heart-throbbing and a scary feeling
those boys we're driven into battle.
After couple of shots these same
gun-shy boys were standing up with
the rest, and they made good scores.
And the District boys accomplished
their purpose. too-they beat the North
Carolinians.
For a whole day they pumped away
at the tiny targets, fairly Kidding them
with shell. After that duty was over
the boys were anxious to return home,
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them one night scampering here and
there about the decks battening down
the matches. trimming the ventilators
away from the wind and getting
streams Of water on the imaginary fire.
Some of the boys were in their ham
mocks when the fire" broke out. and
they came just as they were. some Of
them in September Morn" style. Some
grabbed hose lines. others took up
hand fire grenades, others brought
their hammocks for smothering the
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Profitable Two Weeks Sea One of Uncle Sans Big Fighting
Use
Sailors Everything Cleaning
With Wash Day Feature Twenty Four omLean the Language the
Regulars MISUNDERSTANDING Fmemen.
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to pieces: but they became 4 little
gun shy when they heard those fve-
inch guns speak and send big she'll
roaring across the water.
They made frantic appeals to their
division Officers to be relieved from
gun duty, but the battle was on, and
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INsTRUCTION IN GuNNERY.

for the goal had been reached and in
terest was waning. However, there was
drills were taken of the schedule after
the target practice was over.
After q voyage on the battleship these
men would make good volunteer fire.
men. A part of their duties was to
learn how to protect the ship from IRE.
A rapid ringing of the ships bell sent
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the big ship went on the range they
were working like the mechanism Of a
chronometer.
They had worked to get tbs heavy
shells in the gun as rapidly as pos
sible consistent with safety. They
had learned to prepare the gun for
action in the shortest time, for time
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the sailors. bent their backs double and
started holystoning the decks until
they were Immediately white.
And the boatswain's mate had an
eagle eye. too sharp for some of the
District boys who were not used to
doing things well. That mate could
watch twenty-five men at one time and
could tell the minute some man skipped
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shaken down" there wasn't a finer
naval militia crew in the country. and
the regular officers gave them full
credit for everything they did. Under
calked decks. built target RATS for
subcaiiber practice and did any one Of
a number of things They were on the
bridge night and day at the helm and
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6NHE private flower gardens Of
Washington, the flower borders
q and beds and the window box
gardens show a tendency toward the
growth of annual Towering plants.
style. perhaps because so many Of the
bright, blooming and cheerful ANIMALS
were garden pets and garden beauties
when grandma was a girl. One of the
most prominent of the private odd
fashioned" gardens in Washington is
that of Mrs. Sampson. at the northeast
corner of New Hampshire avenue and
Corcoran street, but many bright and
radiant old fashioned gardens are
blooming just as happily in other sec
lions of the District.
Not everybody in these days of new
fashioned or new-fangled roses and
carnations can call the names of the
genial flowers that are coming into
popularity in those sections of the
city where the homes are three stories
high. But these sweet ANIMALS are
bringing the most prosperous and
prominent citizens under the enchant-
ment of their beauty.
Ageratum, with it's blossoms of rose
white and blue-especially blue-iS
winning praise for it's contrasts and Its
combinations with geraniums, perillas,
amaranthus, alyssum and candytuft.
What memories alyssum brings back to
old time folk, White alyssum was the
usual variety planted in borders. edg-
ings, baskets, pots and rock work, but
there were, and of course still are. yell
low varieties of alyssum, and now and
then 1t is seen in Washington flower
garden today.
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half inch of the deck. 1t seemed to
change the sound of the holystone.
That's what the men said. anyway. Of
course, one doesn't get a chance to sit
down and think during the hours of
daylight aboard a battleship. These
District sailors were no exception.
When the decks were we'll holystoned
then came the paint work to be washed
and there were miles and miles of this.
stretching, as the citizen sailors SEEM
ed to think, from Hampton roads to
Long Island sound. Steel parts of the
ship had to be sandpapered to get the
rust off. and the brasswork had to be
polished and other woodwork scrub
bed. If there's any appendicitis in the
navy. it doesn't come from sedentary
occupation, at any rate.
BY the time these chores were COM
pleted the officers would be awake and
fed. or half fed. for some of them
didn't manage to get full breakfast
some mornings. The officers mess ia
bles must be cleared up entirely at $50
and any one who happens to be half
through his breakfast at that time
loses out
The call to quarters is then in order
and every man must assemble in clean
white uniform for roll call. This is to
see that every man is accounted for
and that all have clothes nice and
clean. But the first few roll calls after
the ship had poked her nose outside of
the Chesapeake capes of Henry and
Charles there we're a few missing
names. They had been unwillingly
learning a part of a sailor mans du-
ties-manning the rail. But they were
not in the prescribed erect style. They
were bit droopy and had dark
brown taste in the mouth.
Those boys seemed to get seas1ck
@I,o tro
heavin' in, just off Old Point Comfort.
But few hours of steady rocking
brought them to their feet. However.
when they did manage to get around
to the mess table. they went after that
substantial food so hard that the pay
master was about to charge double
ra ton to them. A few of the boys didn't
learn to come to quarters clean until
it had been impressed upon them by
couple of hours additional duty. put
in giving, the ships brasswork a mir
rorlike polish, under the watchful eyes
Of the master-at-arms.
Then came the drills and schools.
lasting until 4:30 o'clock in the after
In the evening there were a few min
utes for recreation, until they turned
into their hammocks to be rocked to
sleep with the motion of the ship. At
least those men who did not have
watches during the night could turn in.
Many of these District militiamen al
ways tried to find some excuse to give
for not washing clothes. But the
bugler sounded fresh water call morn
ing and evening. This was the signal
for the men to stand by" and draw
buckets of fresh water to be used in
washing clothes. 1t was scrub clothes
all the time, with the deck for wash
board, wash tub and all. And if a
sailor didn't scrub clothes in the pre-
scribed time and came to quarters in
dirty clothes he got extra duty and
washed his clothes, too. under the
watchful eye of the ships police. At
least that's what the District boys had
to do.
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not always mean the white and blue
and purple wild asters, that bloom in
late summer and autumn in the woods
and fields. but he may mean some Of
those old-time garden varieties that
produce flowers equal in form and size
to some of the better sorts of chrysan-
themums. While the plant world is
none too we'll supplied with blue
flowers, the aster provides all shades
of blue and purple, and in many gar
dens the beautiful New England wild
aster has been taken in and cared for
as a domestic plant.
What garden of the olden time could
be considered complete without those
large rose-like flowers and which grew
and thrived If the sun were warm and
the soil rich under the name of bal
sam? 1t was native OF India, but
before it became a republic. One sees
a touch of balsam in some of the city
and suburban gardens. And one also
sees calendula, or pot marigold, its
yellow from ivory to deep orange. This
ancient favorite seems lately to have
come into especial repute for beds.
borders and backgrounds and may be
seen In the windows of florists shops.
Calendula was called pot marigold be-
cause its dried flowers were sometimes
used for flavoring soups and stews.
Coreopsis was one of the old-fash-
toned favorites, and its blossoms of yell
lows, maroons and browns not only
decked the ancient gardens. but because
the flowers were long stenmed. grace
full and handsome it was much en-
ployed in bouquets.
Campanula, or Canterbury bells. or
slipperwort. is another flower that
lived in grandma's garden and which
seems to have come back to blossom FOR
the moderns. Candytuft is with US,
white and fragrant. and in beds is do
ing all it can to make Washington
beautiful.
Generally the cockscomb, though odd.
picturesque and historic, is not at home
in aristocratic gardens. 1t seems to
live most happily with plain people, and
in those city gardens inside paling
SON, scarlet and occasionally yellow,
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Discipline is what some of the Dis
trict sailors found it hard to submit
to. The men could only go in their
hags-thats what the sailor has for
a bureau, chiffonier. washstand and
all. a canvas bag-it's the whole bed
room furniture in one-at certain times
of the day. Some didn't heed the warn
ing. so they. too. did double duty for
violating this part of the regulations.
And the love for tobacco and the prac-
tice of taking a smoke whenever one
wanted it back home didn't work on
the ship. Some few were caught
smoking out of hours. 1t was double
duty for them also.
But after the District sailors had
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-17
PERSONAL MENTION

Margaret Smith Of Hermlston is at
the 81. George today.
II. F, Bowman of Echo is among
the visitors in the city
Mr. and Mrs. VIII Potts are am
ong the Helix people here today.
Mayor Homer l. Watts of Athena,
was a visitor in Pendleton today.
Asa B. Thomson is up from Echo
today for the good roads meeting.
Charles Schwald OF Freewater is a
business visitor In Pendleton today.
W, e. Brock and ]. v, Tallman are
back from Hot Lake where they spent
few days.
C. H. Bishop, Freewater lawyer is
looking after business affairs in the
city today.
Mrs, J. X. Bolts and children went
out on the n. p. train this afternoon
to Helix.
Mr.. and Mrs, H. G. Casteel OF Pilot
Rock were at the Pendleton yester.
day evening.
Emmett Reese came in from He
lix today and left for Portland t.
join his wife.
John Ross a well known farmer Of
the walla Walla river, is a Saturday
visitor in Pendleton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-17


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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-17
Gambling Den Raided.

Last evening about $50 Chief Of
Police Kearney paid a quiet visit to
the colored mems club at the corner
Of Main ard Alta and interrupted a
gambling game being played by
Frank Johnson and Willis NJ. Miles
both colored men. Miles put up
SIS to insure his appearance in po'
lice court this morning and, when
he did not appear, that amount was
forfeited. Johnson, who was ev'-
IDENTIFY the loser, was fined 375 bu!
was unable to pay The police have
had their eyes upon this place for
some time and have visited It unsuc-
cessfully several times before.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-17
namage suit Up Monday.

The damage suit OF Twitchell "
Thompson for $4,000 on account Of
alleged injuries caused in an autom
bile collision with a bicycle, is set fcI
trial Monday morning and there is
much interest about town in the case
not only because of the prominencs
Of the defendant but because Of the
prominence of the opposing attor-
news All efforts to compromise the
affair have proven futile and the le-
gal fight promises to be one of the
most notable in the history Of the
local court.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-17
Cleaning House Is Burned.

About o'clock this morning fire
was discovered issuing from the
wooden building near the leyee or
Cottonwood street on the r. Alex
ander property The building has
been used as a cleaning house by @.
E. Bergman, proprietor Of the
French Cleaning Parlors, and the fire
is supposed to have originated from
the machine room, The building
was gutted before the firemen had
the flames under control and most OF
the contents were lost.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-17

In the windows of the La Dow
sporting goods store today is huge
salmon, weighing AZ pounds and be-
ing A inches long, caught by Asa B.
Thomson of Echo the other day below
the falls at Oregon City with IL
ounce rod. Many have stopped to
gaze upon it today and the majority
have been very skeptical over the an
nouncement Of the feat which is writ
ten a piece of cardboard. Yet, ac-
cording to anglers, the feat is moth
ing unusual for fishermen below the
falls in the willamette
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-17
Change In Time Table.

Commencing tomorrow morning
new time table will go into effect up
on the O.-W. r. & ". lines. according
to Agent O'Brien, but the changes In
the time Of arriving in and leaving
Pendleton will not be altered much
No. II hereafter Will leave Pendleton
at 1855 a. m. instead Of 1859, No
IS will arrive from Portland at 5:15
D. m. instead Of $40 and No. 10 will
reach PendIeton at is a. m. Instead
OF 1925. There will be no change In
the time Of No. l No. IL will leave
Portland at $50 .. m. and arrive In
Spokane at s:25 a. NJ while No. II
will leave Spokane at S:45 p. m. and
reach Portland at 7:45 a. m. There
will be no change at Pendleton In
No. 4.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-17

James \, cooper, former hotel
man in this city, left Wednesday for
The Danes out from which city he
has purchased a ranch. The ranch
consists Of section Of wheat land
and ten acres of Royal Ann cherries
and is what is known as the old ],
Williams farm on Five-Mile. Mrs,
Cooper viii join him as soon as
school is out but all expect TO return
for the Roundup.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-04-17

The final preliminary Of the coun
ty spelling contest is being held to-
day for the selection of the distrie
representatives at the final contest
In this city May I, Several OF the
rural schools sent their best spell
ers here today for a division contest
at the court house. The results viii
be announced next week.