Show A Blue Room Ceremony Special to TUB UEHALD Examiner Dispatch WASHINGTON May 22 When the President dent with a few cabinet officers and friends went down the Potomac in the Dispatch two days ago Baby McKee went along and he proved himself such a good sailor that the officers and men of the ship determined deter-mined to dress him out in a great broad crowned cap blue jacket and bellmouthei trousers The baby has a great head He can wear a No S hat without any trouble and the Dispatch people had some trouble in getting a fit but they ultimately managed man-aged it and yesterday a delegation of the old i men of the sea called at thin Whit House with an entire naval rig out for the baby The baby was formally and completely com-pletely deprived of his long clothes and dressed up in his uniform topped by a broadcrowned cap bearing in gold letters the name of the United States steamship J 1 UI The ceremony was performed in the blue room and was witnessed by the President and all the Harrisons Scotts and McKees within the precincts of the White House There was considerable difficulty in getting the baby into the trousers Trousers didnt seem to be much in his line and he was soon restored to his commodious long clothes but the sailor cap fits him very well and he is greatly delighted with it He went to sleep while wearing it Tuesday night and he wore it all day yesterday The attaches of the White House have been teaching the baby seamans language for which he shows great aptitude and when the nurse says all hands on deck the young commodore crawls over the blue room on all fours with great agility The old men of the sea failed to give the baby a title but at the White House they now call him the commodore |