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Show PRESIDENT TAKES ill WITH SAILORS Crew of the Battleship Missouri Particularly Honored by Nation's Executive. BAKNSTABLE, Muss., Sept. 'J9. rreil-dent rreil-dent Roosevelt visited the. North Atlantic fleet. olY Sapo Cod today aud left with-cu-tuueicatio praieo or tho officers aad crews of tho fleet. The crew of the battleship Missouri, on which tho President spent tho day, cheered thcmsclres hoarso as ho left tho chip at 1:30, for they hud hail an honor presented to them which no othor crow in tho navy had ever received. The President nnd his guafcts ERt'do to dinnor with tho jackics. This feature of tho trip was n surpriso both to tho officers- and thn men. When tho Missouri Mis-souri left tho tsrgat ground und returned lo her unchorngo and tho llrst mens call was EOtindcd on a marino'c trumpet, tho notOs had not ceased echoing throughout the fleet when tho Prosidcnt called Admiral Evans to his tido and announced that ho and his guests would tako dinner with the sailors. Tho neeesbary orders wero immediately issued and tho enilors jumped to their feet in r.nrpriso when they raw President Kooso-volt Kooso-volt walk on tho after-gun deck and take his pl3C0 at a table, whoro he and his guests had the sanio mcsr. that was being rcrved to tho r.ailors at tho surrounding tobies. Ono of the men. observing that there wcro no napkins on tho President's tabln, rushed to tho ward room to procurn tho necessary labia linen. When ho returned the President thanked him, but said ho was "dining with tho boys today," and would havo 110 privilego which thoy did not on-joy. on-joy. Tho nailors, pleased with (ho President's Pres-ident's action, touk no further steps until nt tho conclusion of tho dinnor, when thoy sont to tho President's tabln ;i box of cigars ci-gars which had been obtained by subscription subscrip-tion from the navy cautoci:. President lloosovelt left for Oyster Bay this afternoon, after ho had received a long dispatch from Secretary Taft dealing with tho situation iu Cuba. |