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...flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into the most sumptuous suite on the Texas at Brooklyn Navy Yard, they inferred the improvement was in honor of the President. But a deck officer said: "Not at all! We're putting those in for our Admiral." Caesar is not greater to his sailors than his chief of steel-plated triremes...
...been U. S. flagship since July. Like all ships, the Texas has her own history, at least one episode in which has never been officially published. One night during the War (so the sailors' story goes) the Texas was steaming full speed past Long Island. One of the deck officers on watch was a young Naval Reserve officer, in private life a wealthy yachting dilettante. The waters around eastern Long Island were as familiar to him as had been his nursery floor. When he saw Fire Island dead ahead of the Texas he knew what he saw and rushed from...
Songs and slips on the banana peel are well managed in: Manhattan Mary, Show Boat, A Connecticut Yankee, Hit the Deck, Good News, Funny Face...
Deep thinkers depend on A Connecticut Yankee, Manhattan Mary, The Mikado, Good News, Hit the Deck, Funny Face...
...explosion's results: Four of the Langley's men badly injured and a dead man (Chief Carpenter's Mate James Raynor Ailsworth) identifiable only by his Masonic ring; a ragged split in the Langley's plane-landing top deck...