Show BOMBARDS THE PIRATE j Battery A Does Some Splendid > o Shouting at Garfield JUBILEE DAY AT THE POPULAR OLD RESORT Immense Crowds Wat h the Firing at a Small SchoonerFifteen Hits Iffiade at Nearly a Thousand Yards The Boat Was Not a Boat but a BillboardArabs Do a Turn and the Trapeze Performers Amuse the Immense Crowds Fortyfour hundred people saw two sections of battery A bombard a pirate craft at Garfield yesterday afternoon Said nirate craft was a makeshift boat which looked about the size of a small skiff at a distance of 000 yards from the shore I All efforts to float the General Garfield I j and tow her out into the bosom of the briny proved unavailing So the Jubilee I commission sent out a force of bridge carpenters and they rigged up a boat j Said boat sw a boat and of a boat It was a boat with extensions fore and aft akin to the bill boards on which you read I that St Jacobs Oil cures all pain I Incidentally it may be remarked that I the boat is > there yet all shots fired being short of damage beyond eleven holes in the body of the ship and four in the stack for It had a stack It looked like a small tug 00 miles off to the artillery but the men did well according to the general inspector of target practice the brigade inspector and General Penrose who was present and manifested a lively interest in the proceedings I THE BOMBARDMENT The distance was unknown and the men had to guess at it The sights were I raised to 19 minutes 5 seconds and the first shot fired by the first section was low The second section elevated to 22 I and was away high The second attempt by the first section was short and then the second came in for a hit at the waterline water-line at 19 minutes flat The first followed I at the same elevation and penetrated the stack The mossy crowd of farmers gathered gath-ered in rear of the limbers were disappointed disap-pointed in not seeing legs and arms l yin y-In the air and the deep boil like a pot and began roasting the artillerymen until un-til one sergeant offered Mike OMeara J23 ito i-to go out and sit on the gunwale which offc was declined and the others retired from circulation Twentythree shots fired were solid shot and five shell Two shrapnel were also used The shell failed to do the execution expected The shots fired at the same elevation as that used for case shot fell short and the rangefinders range-finders did not seem to be able to get the exact elevation in the limited number of rounds used The shrapnel were too high in each Instance THE RESULTS The following are the results of the shots as recorded and as will be official 1 ° reported Case Shot First SectionFirst shot I line but low second ditto third hit I lower portion of stack fourth low fifth hit in hull sixth high seventh hit eighth hit nlnCX high tenth high twelfth high thirteenth hit fourteenth over I Second SectionFIrst shot line shot over BConil hit at water line third hit at right of stack fourth hit fifth hit sixth hit seventh high eighth high ninth under tenth under eleventh I elev-enth hit through ton of stack twelfth hit thirteenth hit fourteenth hit Shrawnel Shell First SectionBoth shots hirh I ierouoion Shell First SectionFirst shot under second under third under Second SectionTwo shell line shots but both short Mlajor GtWis and Secretary Rosnon of the commission visited the boat at the I conclusion of the flrsng rind reported 15 hits in all four of which wore tihnmgrn the stack Those who witnessed the shooting were amused by the mannerin which the shots richetted after striking the water A case shot would strike and go through the lumber conn sing the boat as though it was paper and then go screaming off across the lake dip in the water again throw up a shower of spray and then off screaming again to dash up some more ere it sank to an teternal r tin t-in the lake There V ere a whole lot of people there who were dissatisfied with the affair But It Is no fault of talC men handling the guns Every officer present agreed that I the work of the men was remarkably I well performed all things considered Among these are the loss of the foresight I fore-sight of the gun of the first section I which militated against Gunner Lewison considerably Then too the target vyas too small Had It been the Garfield she would have been blown to pieces f But with target as small as throne it was iiiiroefeible to obtain a belter result than was assomplished of From a military standpoint the affair j to c It fell was a success from a spectacular far short Y j THE ARABS Tho Arabs did a good turn af the beach during the afternoon and amused the crowd greatly by tbeir feats of skill The pyramids formed by standing on the shoulders of one another were interesting In-teresting and the other exercises were also of Interest InterestThE DE NOVAS I The trapeze performance was enjoyed and was all right considering the fact that a strong wind was blowing at the time One of the performers fell In the I flying act but escaped injury by falling into the net |