| Show OLD OID P JO BE A Newport Special to New York World Word Poor Por old ld Constellation Gon last of the thee eighteenth e frigates After Af 10 years yer of s on the seas se she wil will now be b allowed to tu rot way avay a her days day in peace at anchor in the upper har harbor harbor bor Orders have hV ben received to fit out anew the famous old warship for cruising purposes Since this relic of historic days da s long bygone has ha been here the te station ship hip of the naval training t ning station The new n W orders ar received now with wih mingled regret ret and pleasure pl auTe by all aU the officers aboard abr her regret that the old ship sp is to leave her present quarters which all al supposed se would be her final anchoring place and pleasure that after fr more mo than tana a century of service serlee I she is destined again to sail J the seas i carrying the flag na she for a gen generation I erton before the e oldest officer meer now n w II in born the service sice of ot the te United States was brn She has ba lived lve In l three tt centuries and lias done good service in ail al Her rec ree record ord is filled with glory go honor and rd re renown renown The Constellation as by DY m mt 1 means the t vessel vel that was w launched so proudly In Baltimore to t begin her war warlike like career in i e closing cl bg g years y of the theold old century Her tr timbers have been changed over a d over again agin but the stanch old ship ad remains rans the Constella Constellation tion ton still sti and to the old ol salts salt who rev reverently pat pa her bel bulging sides side she is sUn still the old Constellation which fought the French French frigates and andLa ad adLa La Vengeance and stormed stored her way W through the fleet teet at the te entrance of the harbor of Tripoli Her subsequent career r is interwoven with every page of American merln history eyer pa from the war of 1812 through the civil war ar No ship has h the record which her et bulwarks so 50 elo eloquently tell tel She started by telling the Frenchmen that lat the th government of or orthe the United States was WW not to t be inter feIed with wih and ehe he enforced the les lesson lesson son with ith a 8 good gO dose do of shot and shell shel In the war of o 1811 18 she s was often ofte in the she was influential in teaching the te fu future future ture officers and men of the American navy the arts of wa war in tim tm s of peace Thomas Thoma the th Constellations first was wa from New York and a native of Long Island He had a along along long honorable J career Her Ber latest lates commander commander is Captain John J Hunker who is also als in command of the training station staton He comes coms fro Pennsylvania and nd Is a graduate of Annapolis class cla of |
