Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1916 — also George Ade Comedy [ARTICLE]

also George Ade Comedy

Washington’s Birthday On a Battleship 46 Years Ago.

Just 46 years ago today, Washington’s birthday, the U. S. S. Iroquois, homeward bound, met the Great Eastern, then the largest ship afloat. She was on her way out from England tj lay the India cable. We met the Great Eastern about 20 miles south of the Island of Helena, which place she had just left and which place we were headed for. It was just a little before noon day and after the usual custom of important ships at sea when they mm," especially ip those days with no means of finding out the latest news, we -hove to, meaning that both ships practically stopped so that we exchanged a short visit, got the latest news from each other, then resumed our journey. We told them that being Washington's birthday we would soon fire a national salute of 21 guns. We then dressed ship and fired the national salute. The Great Eastern, not being a warship, carried no guns, but run Old Glory . up to the top of the main mast and kept there while We were in sight and also as was usually i done in days when we parted, each ship dipped their colors, dipped the flag by lowering it several feet three times, meaning a cheerful good-by. We soon anchored at St. Helena, where the body of the great Napoleon slept. We remained there for a long time, which gave every person on the ship a chance to see all the sights to be seen. St Helena is an island in the South Atlantic ocean, 15 degrees south of the equator or, »ay 900 miles After a pleasant stay there we again started on our last lap of our trip fti-nund .the-- globe* arriving-home- at Hampton Roads on Good Friday at midnight, April 15, 1870, and on the following Wednesday noon at the place where we started from, the navy yard at New York, making a four year cruise and traveling over 100,000 miles. That was the record of the ship’s log book. JOHN O’CONNOR.