Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1901 — THE ARMY AND NAVY FOREVER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE ARMY AND NAVY FOREVER

From Morning TUI Night the BtigU Keep the Echoes Flying. Truly ’tls “the army and navy to ever” at Halifax. From morning tl night the bugles keep the echoes flyir about Chebucto Head. In the mornli you are awakened by the heavy clan ing tread of the squad of the engine* corps going from the Citadel barracl to work on the new fortifications * Herring Cove. At breakfast you a startled by the booming of cannon the harbor, and the waiter tells y< that a French man of war has Ju come in and Is giving two salutes one to the military commander of tl garrison and one to Admiral Bedfor of the British North Atlantic squa ron, whose flagship, the Crescei spends the summer in Halifax ai the winter at Bermuda. Later on British officer, every detail of dre and manner the perfection of go form, gloved and hooted and spurn drops with clinking sword into t sent beside you on the street car. Y take the ferry to Dartmouth and pa H. M. S. Quail at the King’s Do< with a score of barefooted sallc washing <jown her decks; a little ft ther up you see a line of dirty snile carrying baskets of coal to the bur ers of the Indefatigable; out In t stream a squad of marines are havi sword drill on the Crescent, their i bers flashing rhythmically In the st At 12 o’clock you set your watch the boom of cannon. After suppe “tea” It is In Halifax—you sit on t hotel porch and watch two thousa Tommies stroll by in all varieties uniform, but always with the sa absurd little cane, the day’s dut ever, now mostly awooing bent As the twilight dies away you ms vp your mind to take a lonely row to the Northwest arm in the mo* light. As yon push out Into the h bor you see the black bulk of the fl ship lit up with colored lights. A tie later you hear the ship’s bq strike up the “Marseillaise” in hoi of the visiting Frenchmen. There an Interval of silence, and then ' “Blue Danube” floats out across water, nnd you realize that the offic of the fleet are giving a ball on flagship; so yon draw your boat el« up under the shadow of the ship 8 listen to the music nnd voices t watch the gay uniforms and dress Then, If you are a casual tourist hi for a day or two, you give up yi lonely row In the moonlight and m< up your mind to come to Halifax ag next year nnd bring letters of inf ductlon and stay for a fortnight or c perhaps.—Boston Transcript.