Show OX TRIAL FOR FLIRTING Some Naval Cadets Throw Kisses tan t-an Excursion Party A special dispatch from Annapolis says For two days an Irish sentry with a musket has been pacing up and down before the steam building in the Naval Academy yard at Annapolis For two days within this building a Court of Inquiry has been sitting in plumcolored chairs The Court is comp com-p sed of Commander of Cadets Farquhar and two brother officers Before the trial table which is littered with ponderous volumes and huge rolls of manuscripts are arranged twenty members of the second class of cadets The scene is one of much impressiveness rendered more so by the unusual un-usual gravity of the offence of which the cadets are suspected The offence consists con-sists in smiling and blowing kisses to a lot of Baltimore Sunday school girls on a picnic On last Wednesday afternoon the steamer I Nellie White cut loose from the Light street wharf and dropped down the harbor having on board a merry excursion party composed of the choir Sunday school and officers of the Monumentstreet Methodist Episcopal Church IfrwaaneadidjjskwhJea the steamer tied up at the Naval Academy wharf at Annapolis There she remained an hour The excursion was liberally sup plied with music the girls were in high spirits and as they tripped gaily down the I gangplank at Annapolis they became the i focus of admiration of perhaps thirty mem bers of tho second class of cadets who were lounging around the wharf displaying to the best advantage their neat uniforms their polished boots and their rattail mustaches The jolly girls were under the watchful care of the teachers of the school and though they cast many shy glances at the handsome uniforms not the slightest opportunity was allowed for the girls arid the cadets to exchange ex-change words It was a great temptation for the cadets and they stood about disconsolate discon-solate like cranes in shallow water and manifested their admiration for tho girls by smirking doffing their caps and throwing now and then it is said a kiss from their fingers These attentions however were not returned by the girls The cadets got up a sort of broom drill on the campus near the wharf and performed I a series of maneuvres romping like schoolboys school-boys and in many ways exhibited their great appreciation of the visit of the Sunday school girls Some of them were noisy but II no bad language was used Some of the cadets went on board the steamer and when she finally puffed away with a fringe of white dresses around the railing on the upper deck and handkerchiefs fluttered in the I breeze the cadets looked gloomy The watchman had been an unseen spectator of everything that had occurred While the steamer was at the wharf he vas concealed in a sentry box and made notes of the actions ac-tions of the cadets which to him seemed highly uncalled for injudicious and improper im-proper Accordingly the next day he handed in a report to Commander of Cadets Farquhar I in which were the names of about twenty of the cadets coupled with the following offences Covertly kissing the hand at an unknown female Covertly tipping the hat at ditto Covertly smiling at person or persons un laiown to the observer Exposing the head to the malarial influence in-fluence of the night air in an improper manner man-ner by laying the hat on the ground and jumping over ifc Wilfully and maliciously winking the eye in tho direction of tho person or persons per-sons of the female gender above mentioned men-tioned Exhibition of uncalledfor interest in the arrival of the excursion 1 Hollerin and carryin on The charges were copied by Commander I Farquhar The attention of several of the other officer was called to them and the Court of Inquiry was convened on Monday Nearly every cadet at the Academy has been examined When tho news of the matter was carried to Superintendent Ramsay he immediately ordered that a curtain of deep crimson mystery and silence be lowered over the Academy grounds This was at once I done and it has not yet been removed The I I Court of Inquiry expects to be in session several days They intend to sift the matter I thoroughly and the Academy is greatly scandalized at the base suspicion that a cadet could be guilty of smiling at a girl or waving his handkerchief at her from a distance dis-tance Today the members of the Court stalked about the Academy grounds in deep thought Superintendent Ramsay declined to give out I any information about the trial He talked I of boys crimes and juvenile backsliding I and thought the information should be kept from the world as it made their parents feel I bad to read about it in the papers The watchman and guards had plasters over their mouths They knew nothing and had j I seen nothing but one of them gave it out in I a mysterious whisper that the class would all be discharged The penalty for flirting with girls under I the new code of rules instituted by Superintendent Superin-tendent Ramsay varies by degrees of severity from three days in solitary confinement I confine-ment on the ship Santee on a diet of box corn and sour balls to suspension from the I Academy He has tho reputation of being j one of the strictest disciplinarians in the I service I |