Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-02-28
OLYMPIA PREPARING
FOR LONGEST CRUISE
THOUGH Is YRS. OLD

The cruiser Olympia, fVom whose
bridge Admiral Dewey directed the
battle of Manila Bay lies in Broeklyn
Navy Yard. New York in her twenty
sixth year. preparing for crnisa thai
\ IL probably be The longes' IN her
cara,r
yice-Admiral Harry $ Knapp who
succeeded Rear ADMIRAL William S.
Sims in the job Of getting along with
the English" in London, has asked for
Dewey's ship in which to make long
inspection OF the European ports in
which American vessels operated dur
ing the war. The Olympia is an old
command OF Knapp's, too, for he flew
the flag from her in 1916. when he was
ruling Santo Domingo for the Navy
| Department. So after being over
hauled. the Olympia will sail late III
March for London. to be gone, pen
haps. six months, perhaps year
She looks like a tenement building
covered with fire-escapes, said the
COB, who personally conducts visitors
from the navy yard gate to the 0lym-
pia plank and takes them back again.
skipper? Good scout He'll $3.50
with you if you're on the level with
| him. and, what | mean, he can be
rough II you want to play that way
Good quarters and feeds ~ ell, too. IN
pufin the rest Of my cruise right here
unless somebody gets me shanghaied
off,"
"How's the Exec2'
The guide hedged little here.
"Oh, / guess all execs are all right
when they amt execs,' he said. trying
to be as charitable as a gob's tradi
tional feeling for the executive officer
would let him be when they get
them another" job they're all right
aeain. nut you know how /. is--an cYeC
has got to be kind Of hard-boiled'
guess
Capt r. l.. Wyman. L. S. n. is the
skipper who'll go $3.50 when you're
on the level with him lie is to take
the Olympia to London for Nice-Ad
miral Knapp, and on her long cruise
from London. perhaps even from Arch
angel. to Brest, Gibraltar, Sp3lato
where the Olympia served a. the sta
ton snip after the armistice, Cortt
and Constantinople.
The Olympia's 400 men are q new
generation. of gobs. for many hund
reds have shouldered their bags an(
hammocks and waddled down hel
plank since the veterans OF Manila Ba,
were paid off Perhaps some OF those
enlisted men are still in the service
but their places en- the old ship arr
being capably filled by Youngsters, mos
of them apparently not out of thei
teens OF beyond their early twenties.
some IRE OF that type waa go in.'
tie navy to make i their sanla fof III
land othe,s ere inc youngsteI enlistc'
since the armistice or who didn't ge
enough seafaring in the Naval Reserv
during the war
Although the Olympia was almos
up to the draft exemption age and he
speed is only sixteen knots. she dit
her share in the great war. In IN
summer of 1918 she went 10 Archangel
flying an admirals flag. and after on
short return trip to England she wen
back, to remain in the North TO
months directing the American sui
chasers that were operating on tn
coast.
She is now being fitted with a SO
luting battery so as 10 be able tospel
form the appropriate courtesies on en-
tering foreign ports or when foreigl
officials come aboard to meet Vice
Admiral Knapp. She also carries tel
5-inch guns. taken from the Tennessee
which makes her modern ship Il
armament, for al her &c years.
Naval men believe Admiral KNAPP
had several reasons for asking for tn
Olympia. He was in the service whel
she fought her great fight and ma,
now be reckoning on the impression
which her traditions will make Wit
the nations he is to call upon as CON
mander OF the United States nava
forces operating in European waters
She has been the flagship Of severa
Knapp's illustrious fellow-admiral
and predecessors in flag rank.