GETTING TIRED OF TRIP.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2389, 2 January 1909, Page 6

GETTING TIRED OF TRIP.

DISGUSTED WITH HERO WORSHIP. ... MEiN GET TOO MUCH DRINK. Th© New York "Eagle” of OctobeT 21 says:—According to naval officers now' with the fleet that is making a tour around the world, they are having a hard timo maintaining naval discipline on iboard ship. They all seem to be unanimous in the opinion that every one will 'bo gl>id when the voyage is terminated, not only because they will 1 then be at home in the States, but because the feastino- and djrinking and hero-worship wiH be over. Nothing like (hero-worship oan turn a man’s head so quickly. Olf course, there are exceptions, and one is given herewith, written by a murine officer of one of the batt.esh.ips. It happened ’while the jackies and marines were marching back to their Ships after the celebration and reception lat _ Melbourne. “Well, wo finally -reformed amt marched down to the depot and took trains back to our boats,’/ writes the officer. "I saw r an amusing incident on the way to the depot. Right m front of me were two big, fine-lopkmg sergeants, carrying our colors. At one spot where the mob was thickest, a good-looking, well-dressed young woman dashed out, 'and, running up, jumped on the neck of the largest sergeant —from behind, too, anU cluno- there, craning her neck, trying to klsa him. It was surely funny, for her feet were about three feet from the ground, and he probably carried her fifteen yards before she .got her chance to lass him. Then she iumped down and ran back into the crowd, while all sorts ot yells and cheers followed her. During the whole proceeding the sergeant never even so much as looked around, bu Marched on as if robbing pening. One woman nan out tp me and stuck her card in myhaml jing: ‘Be sure and see me, Yankee officer.’ The card proved her to be some manicure artist, I believe. This same officer writes : “This cruising and junketing - s horribly demoralising for there .is no doubt of that, wo uou get any drills; tbe men are being pimpered and ‘heroed too , thev are sent ashore too often, an the“ minute they land they are set noon by a bunch of natives and g - T en so much booze that they ihvariaJ get too drunk to return to their ships on time. There tried°-bv Kemore than one hundred tned bv ge neral court-martial and more 21 hundred tried by summary courtmartial for directly due to too much jamboreemg. So an ot us will ‘be glad when it is all over.