The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1921-10-06
Missing Document Just Recover
ed Dates Back to Building
of "OId IronSideS."
TELLS TALES OF ADVENTURE
Book Disappeared When Vessel Went
Out Of Commission and Officials OF
Navy Department Have Since
Hunted High and Low.

Boston.-The logbOok of the frigate
Constitution, missing for fifteen years,
las been found at the Boston navy
yard.
High and low the officials of the de.
partment have sought the volume ever
since the famous old ship went out OF
commission for the last time in 1907.
says the Boston Herald.
The disappearance Of the logbook
was a complete mystery and the de-
partment had come to the conclusion
that some person had purlOined the
book and that 1t would probably never
again come to light.
Covered With Crime.
And now, quite accidentally, 1t has
turned up, covered with CRIME and
cobwebs, In the upmost corner or
building 80, at the Boston yard, where
apparently it had lain, with lot OF
other rubbish, since her captain hauled
down his flag for the last time.
The logbook, which is In manu-
script, Of course, is very we'll pre-
served and it's entries are remark
ably clear. and legible. They bear
the signatures, written In the flowing
script Of u past generation, Of Capt.
Isaac Hull, Commodore William Balm
bridge, Capt Charles Stewart, Capt.
Jacob Jones, Capt. Otto c., Badger and
other commanders of "Old Ironsides."
Many interesting episodes and
events are narrated in the volume,
told In crisp, sailorlike fashion, with
out adjectives or embellishments.
Some Of these occurrences have been
forgotten and their re-tel1ing at this
time makes a strange tale of the 100
years which have elapsed since the
old ship has been i'm the service Of
Uncle Sam.
The 1ogbOOk tells, in brief, Of the
building of the Constitution, in Bos-
ton in 1894, and modestly recounts her
many engagements and adventures dur
ing the war OF 1912 with Great Britain,
most Of which are familiar history.
Describes World Voyage.
It describes, i'm detail, the famous
voyage around the world. which began
in 1874 and ended In 1846, during
which the Constitution visited the
Azores, Madeira, Brazil, Cape Town,
Madagascar, China, the Philippines
and many other places in the course
Of her circumnavigation OF the globe.
In crossing the China sea 1t Is noted
that the ship sailed through a mass
of floating pumice stone, which had
been cast up by spouting volcano in
Japan. At Canton, China, the crew
were called on to help extinguish q
huge fire which threatened to destroy
the city.
The Constitution, in 1921, made a
tour OF European waters where, on
account Of her exploits and victories
during the war she was the object Of.
great attention and curiosity. After
a trip OF 46 days.. under. the command
of Commodore cambridge, she reached
Gibraltar, short Of provisions.
A detail Of men was sent ashore to
procure food, and "after a lengthy
talk with natives" according to the
log. they succeeded In bringing aboard
oranges, apr1cots, lemons and vegete-
bles. One rather wonders how such
fare appealed to a crew of husky
man-'O-warsmen after 46 DAYS
cruise.
Arriving In Genoa harbor on July
A, 1921, q 1lcknesv broke out aboard
the ship which lasted for two days.