The Washington times., 1916-04-04
Has "Tlme Of My Life" on His
Pilgrimage to Washington
and Annapolis.
INITIATED" INTO Y. NJ. C. A.
Made Member Of Academy
Organization in Rousing
Cheers BY Future Admirals.

BALTIMORE. april AFTER Billy
. SUNDAY got through having what he
called "the time of my life" In Wash
ington yesterday he went to An
napolis and seemed to have the same
sort OF time.
II was Sundays "rest day." and he
was on the high gear from $40 a. IN.
to T:I0 D. m. and preached two SER
mons during that time.
His reception by the middies was
described as inspiring by the Bal
timore .newspapermen who have got
ten somewhat used to demonstrations
for Sunday.
Rarely is a civilian allowed to speak
TO the middies: even q civilian preach
even rarer that civilian breaks
the Ice, but Sunday did that
Arriving as usual ahead OF schedule
at 3:12 instead OF $40 o'clock. Sunday
got to the Naval Academy grounds be.
fore officers sent to meet him had
Com. Sidney Key Evans. chaplain ut
the academy. soon found them and then
acknowledgements Kurtz overlook
them.
Declines to Go to Bed.
Mr., Sunday was asked II he didn't
want to 10 to bed until o'clock. when
he was to address the midshipmen. He
declined. and the whole crowd went TO
see John Paul Jones' tomb in the
chapel then to the Hall OF Flags In
Mahan Hall. back to Bancroft Hall to
zee the raft on which Richmond Pearson
Hobson escaped, from the Merrimac and
then to the Officers Mess. were a buff
fet luncheon was served. Back toward
Bancroft Hall they went. stopping by
the home OF Captain Eberle. the SUI
fhe midshipmen niled Memorial Hall
and a MILDLY officer at the piano play
ed stand Up For Jesus" There was
no Brighten the Corner" because
Rodeheaver was left In Washington.
Chaplain Evans introduced Billy, VINO
form.
In their eagerness the middies who
were seated moved up their chairs
closer, scraping the stone floor with
q fearful noise, but no more startling
than the cannonlike boom made when
Bill gave q mighty stamp with his
foot to emphasize a point In the story
The Man Without a Country" The
loose wooden platform, the stone floor
and the high pitched ceiling made an
overwhelming loud sounding board for
that stamp and 1t startled even Ma
al never looked into the faces of a
more manly looking bunch" Sunday
began. There Is no skim milk and
whey here. This is the cream of the
country and you look It. I just met
Lieutenant Fletcher, nephew of the
admiral. who is from my home towr
And, Ard here the, the boys let let out a cheer >,
many OF you are from IowaT he
shouted when he could be heard and
Aeveral hands went up.
Man Without Country.
""If I can help you half as much as
you have inspired me-" he said. II will
be perfectly satised," and then he
launched into the story or Philip Nolan
the man without a country" as he had
once before in Baltimore. The boys
rracticed in self-restraint, didn't break
loose at first, but when Bill got of on
the story OF his conversion. removed the
reading stand and the chair from the
platform to have room for a demohstra
ton OF how the old White Stockings
pitched twenty-eight years ago. the boy
woke up as with an electric shoot anC
were warmly enthusiastic until the end
when he prayed for the spirit of Don
Give Up the Ship in these boys, OF
rests"
Ma Sunday told how she had len
Daddy" to all denominaticAs since sh,
had made him a Presbyterian.
President Miles, of the Academy
Young Mems Christian Association
then faced the crowd. raised his handi
and gave orders for the academy yell
winding up with three Bill Sundays
and three Ma Sundays"
This was done with will. and Cap
tain Eberle, Admiral, Beatty. Command
er Underwood, and all the other ofri
GERS joining In with full voice. Thii
was called the Initiation. and It Il
said that few civilians ana fewer WON
en- are honored with IT,
IL was but fifteen minutes before tim,
to entrain for Baltimore, but the sole
wall of middies out in the entrance hal
proved Irresistible TO Sunday. "Hov
much time have we got. Mar he shout
ed as he made a lunge for half a dozeI
of the nearest hands. He went the en-
tire round OF nearly 100 men in five min
uteH, waved a farewell to the boys wht