Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-06-03
THE M|DDIES EMBARK
FOR SUMNER CRUISE
Life On the Ocean Wave to be
Theirs for Next Three Months.
THE GIRL | LEFT BEHIND Me. "
Much in Evidence On the Wharf,
Services Aboard Ship Tomorrow
mo Foreign Cruise This Year
---Will Sail On Home Waters.

For the midshipmen at the Naval
Academy today is the saddest of the
year, for he must bid his sweetheart
goodbye for two months at least, dur
ing which he will be on the annual
practice cruise. And he cannot even
go forward rejoicing. as the work on
the cruise is about the hardest actual
labor during the course.
1t will be more tedious this year,
because on account of the European war
the cruise will be confined TO American
waters, the farthest point reached be-
ing Guantanamo. where the ships will
stay from June 21 to July 6. From
there the ships return to the base at
Provincetown. The entire itinerary for
the cruise is as follows:
Leave Annapolis June 5, arrive at
Culebra June II; leave Culebra June
17'arrive at Guantanamo June 81 leave
Guantanamo July 6, arrive at Privince-
town July 49, at Portland missouri
and wisconsin, July 22-24; return TO
Privincetown missouri and Wiscon-
SIM July 25; at Boston (Ohio) provis-
I,
(Missouri and Ohio) July 29-31; re
turn to Provincetown missouri and
Ohio) July 81; at Boston wisconsin
provisions, coal July 20, August /; re-
turn to Provincetown wisconsin, Au-
gust / at Boston (MissourD provis-
ions, coal. August SIS; return to Prov
incetown (Missouri) August s.
At Salem (Ohio) August So; return
to Provincetown tOhio) August Z, at
Gloucester (Wisconsin) August 81 re
turn to Provincetown, (Wisconsinl AU-
gust z; leave Provincetown, August ID; /;
arrive at Hampton Roads, August IS;
leave Hampton Roads, August II: ar
rive at Southern Drill Grounds, Au-
gust 81; target practice, August 2l-27 :;
arrive at Patuxent river. August Is;
arrive at Annapolis August 80.
The address for the squadron dur
ing the summer cruise will be Care
Postmaster, New York, n. Y"
The embarkation started at o'clock
this afternoon, and the tug Stand
ish was busy getting the middies and
their luggage on board the three ships,
me- 'hTd of each class going to each
vessel taking part in the cruise, the
Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Once on board there will be no more
shore leave here. but friends and rela-
tives will be allowed tomorrow, as us
al, to go aboard the ships. The crews
of the different ships will be called on
board tomorrow to be ready to sail
early Monday morning
The Academy grounds, especially in
the vicinity of Lovers Lane, this morn
ing reminded one of a multitude of
pictures of "The Soldiers Las, Fare
we'll" Little groups of middies were
having q lasr talk with father mad
nethers and sweethearts, nai in a
lnaiority of cases 1t was just two seat
cd on the lawn q: benches with set
fat es' mauy of them telling the old.
oud story and building castles of the
great day to come
President Wilson, in his talk to the
graduating class yesterday, reminded
the midshipmen that they were not or
dinary colleg men and to see them to-
day any one woul know that they real
ize their responsibility. Unlike ordi-
nary college men, they cannot look for
ward to two months of a round of
pleasure; to them it is only work of
the hardest kind.