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Show tils ; " t i I la By Waldos Eiws . VwmK m i nr J mm l Will, X AT THE BATTLE OF FRANKLIN. A lOR various reasons, not the least of which are the influence for content and the encouragement of enllstnent, It has long been the ambition of the authorltlea to have the enlisted men of the American navy take rank as the "best paid and best fed" sailors In the world. The former has been merely a matter of inducing congress to make liberal expenditure, but the latter has involved no end of thought and work. Gradually, however, the matter of , supplying the best possible food In the most la Conspicuous. EL In a recent number of the Confederate Veteran, Mr. J. K. Merrifleld o 6t. Louis had an article on the battle of Franklin, In which he related his own experiences In that bloody and momentous conflict "After a charge by Gen. Cockrlll's Missouri brigade," wrote Mr. Merrifleld, "I ran out over the works about 100 feet where I had noticed a flag go down. I picked up the flag, pulled it oft the staff and put It in my pocket A officer lying there covered with dead bodies asked me if I would remove them from his leg, as he was wounded in the knee. I got his leg free. Then he asked me for a drink out of my canteen. I leaned over and told him to drink. While he was drinking he asked me to unbuckle his sword belt, which I did. Just then I heard the wisp of a bullet, and looking up, I saw another line about 300 feet distant advancing. I turned and ran to our works, taking the belt and g iff if' W Pretty Little 8tory of a Great Fight in Which a 8t. Louis Man V vn WAAHINQ DUHE& 1 M THE HOLD On board ship, where the facilities of the galley or 6hlp's kitchen are necessarily somewhat restricted and tne food obviously cannot have quite the same variety obtainable on shore, it is of the highest Importance that the best possible results be obtained In the cooking. To that end each ship is given, a liberal allowance of cooks and bakers, Judiciously selected, and to aid them In the discharge of their duties Uncle Sara has prepared a neat cook book as well as the frills of having recipes for the stand-bynaval menus. it. s WEATHER BY WIRELESS. - VJ" - -- 11. ft V COOK PJtEPAWNG DE3EPT OE PCd ETC. 4 I r j . Kijf V Flashing around the world by wireless telegraphy warnings of approaching storms and other disturbances of the elements is one of the latest International projects. Still another of perhaps little importance Is the proposal to equip the vessels of all nations with uniform storm signals. These were the leading problems threshed out at a conference of distinguished meterologlsts of the principal nations in London. The conference is the outgrowth of a meeting of the leading meteorologists of the world In Europe several years ago. The United States was represented by Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the United States weather bureau. A concerted movement was Inaugurated to induce the principal governments to adopt a uniform system of wireless telegraphy marine weather reports and to reach an appetizing form to large numbers of bluejackets afloat and ashore has , been reduced to a fine science. To be sure, the public does hear now and then more or less strcnu- - tus complaints from naval tars on the score of the fare provided - aboard ship, but theso protests are now here near as frequent as they once were, or as they are in the navies of other nations. Moreover, such "growls" when Investigated are usually found to emanate from chronic "soreheads." In the comparatively limited number of cases where the complaints are Justified the trouble Is likely to be traced to poor cooking, rather than poor food for, unfortunately, in the navy, as in oth-e- r walks of life, there is a great difference In cooks. In an effort to insure and main tain the quality of the eatables, all r food purchased for use on a must be carefully inspected by the commissary officer. Then, too, a strict watch Is kept that Jack does not Indulge in any delicacies that are not good for him, because of climatic or other conditions. To that end the ship's medical officer prescribes as to the character of the V . ' ' K v jt; 1 Wi COCKS ON A ; ; . food that the bluejackets should eat seasons of the year at the different men In charge must bend .and with reference to the climate in every energy to see to It that which the vessel is stationed at the meals are timed to the min.time in question. ute and are placed on the tafly way of evidencing the wholebles piping hot. All preparasome character of the food provided tions are made at the tables TUT CAUEY OR KITCHEN OTA f?JT-CLA- 3d &ATTLECH1P ' for the men who go down to the before the messmen set out r eea in Uncle Sam's ships there may be men are enabled to cause the foreign to transfer the food from the galley to the tagiven a sample menu. The bill of fare is changed tars to open their eyes with astonishment, bles, and the serving Is so systematized that .dally, but a representative day's meal program whenever they entertain them aboard one of the most important dishes of the meal leave is found in the following: For breakfast, the republic's sea warriors. the heaters first. On the average American baked pork and beans, bread, butter, coffee. battleship not more than four minutes is reThe young men who enlist In the United For dinner, roast veal or roast beef and quired to serve the cooked portion of a meal States navy do not have to wait until they acgravy, stewed tomatoes, mushed for more than TOO bluejackets, and on the batpotatoes, to aboard enjoy tually go cruising warships bread, butter and coffee. For supper, bologna tleship Missouri, a record of two minutes for the plain, substantial, nourishing food that aausage, cheese, potato salad, bread, butter a meal has been attained over and enserving lubber" Uncle Sam "land The prescribes. and tea. Tie, fresh fruit and other delicacies over To do this, either mess strikers again. In Is not at the navy rolling put aboard ship are often included in the supper bill, and a serve tea and coffee at the same time must the the outset, but spends some six months or power ice cream freezer is, during the that the meBamen are serving the solid food, more In a preparatory course of Instruction at summer months, one of the most frequently or else the drinkables must be served In ada training station on shore, but In these used features of the equipment of the galley vance, but this latter can readily be done If as on the warships every effort Is or kitchen of the average battleship. In this necessary, for experience has proven that tea to provide nourishing food In sufficient made It may be added, that the presence , connection coffee served at boiling heat will retain and to tempt all sorts of healthy appetites. variety '. on shipboard of a mechanically operated Ice their heat for some little time. All the cooking and baking for the navy's tars ..cream freezer but calls attention to the fact Is done by enlisted men of the service blueThe general mess on a warship, comprisjthat the average floating fortress flying the jackets who receive somewhat better pay than ing practically nil of the enlisted men of the Stars and Stripes is equipped with almost most of their fellows because of proflclenty In navy and marine corps Is divided Into messes every culinary appliance known to the art of this work. of about 20 men each, and a meHsman is detwentieth century cookery. There are potato tailed for each mess, to receive the food from Ship's cooks receive $25, $:10, $40 and 55 machines, potato mashing apparatus,' the cooks at the galley, and serve It at the per month (In addition, of course, to board, meat grinders, an electrical dough mixer, dish mess table. Tipping Is not only unnecessary, lodging and all expenses), according to their washers and other innovations. but it Is forbidden. When men are landed skill and experience. Makers receive $35 and from a warship In large numbers, either for To realize how well Uncle Sam's bluejack$45 per month. At the head of the cookery ets fare with reference to the cravings of the going Into camp or for an expedition, a comdepartment of each ship are a chief commismissary corps, including cooks, bakers and inner man, it Is only necessary to compare an sary steward and commissary steward who remesmmen Is sent with them, to see to It that ceive pny of $70 and $ti0 respectively. M a average day's meals with the Items of food testimonial to the skill of the naval cooks, It they have good food and plenty of It. provided by the Hiltlxh government for the may be remarked that from this same class fighting men aboard his majesty's armorclads. There Is a popular misconception regardrecruited the cooks and stewards For breakfast your Hrltlsh tar has one pint of of men1-aring the manner In which Uncle Sam provides of the "measmnn branch," who buy, serve and jcocon, and dry biscuit. At dinner he has salt table board for the occupants of his floating cook the food of the olfleers aboard ship. There JjUe ipork and pea soup, but no vegetables. In addition fo the pay provided fortresses. are Chinamen and negroes among the cookery In the afternoon, In lieu of supper, he has for enlisted men, the government undertakes "tea" when his meal consists of one pint of staffs of our warships, but a large proporto subsist them, and this la done at whatever tea and more dry biscuit. Think of that for a tion of the men who prepare and serve the expense may be necessary. The fixed value of food are final meal of the day as compared with a Intelligent, young Americommutation for one ration Is, by law, 30 cans. Yankee naval menu that Includes not only cents, but thu commutation of rations Is a broai" butter and tea, but uIko freah meat pie, Marvelous advances have been made on privilege, not a right, and there is error In the frier" tatoes, etc., to say nothing of the 200 our warships In the matter of quick service of that has become prevalent in some quar' Ice cream that are consumed on a meals. It is now a watchword on board ship idea qua ters that each enlisted man Is entitled to reAmerican battleship on many a firs that Mann dishes shall be served hot, and cold ceive just 30 cents' worth of food each day or ones cold, with no ausulcion of stale food. The a ling. No wonder the American men- 30 cents in money. man-of-wa- i 4 . , i l.J. QATTLECH1P agreement so that all nations shall display a uniform marine storm signal. In effecting an International agreement It is believed that it will be a great factor in saving life and property on sea and land and at the same time be highly Important In weather predictions. These subjects were dealt with by two committees, one on maritime weather signals and the other on weather marine telegraphy. The first committee was composed of Dr. W. N. Shaw, director of the Urttlsh meteorological office; Frof. A. Augat, director of the Central French meteorological service; Rev. L. Froc, director of the Zl Ka Wei observatory at Shanghai, China; Rear Admiral 1 1 In, director of the Deutsche Seewarte at Hamburg, Germany; Prof. II. Mohn, director Norwegian Meteorological Institute; Prof. Willis L. Moore and K. Nakamurny, director of the meteorological service of Japan. In addition to Messrs. Augat, Hlrz and Moore, the other committee was composed of Lieut. Gen. Rykatcheff, director of the Central Physical observatory of St. Petersburg, Russia. "One of the principal problems taken up by the Conference," said Prof. Moore, "was the question of International agreement as to the taking of wireless marine weather reports. The scheme was to obtain the adoption by all of the leading nations of a uniform method ol taking and transmitting wireless meteorological observations so that each observation, no matter by whnt nation taken, will be comparable with the observations taken by any other nation. There Is now no uniform system of reand transmitting marine wireless ceiving weather reports and exactly the same things are not observed. "Observations received by a ship would be transmitted to other ships, so that by relaying from one vessel to another observations from the entire ocean would then within a few minutes reach the land and the central meteorological offices In the nlted States, France, England and Germany and other Interested nations would be able to complete these observations each In Its proper geographic position, and thus to determine the location of stormi and foreenst their future direction. Such fort-cost- s could be distributed to the vessels In the same manner In which the observations on which the forecasts vera hardware collected." James K. Merrifield. sword with me. These I presented to the Historical society at St. Louis through Gen. Harding of Jefferson City. "The flaz was of the First Missouri infantry, and was destroyed in the big fire In Chicago. The sword was the property of Col. Hugh Garland, commanding the First Missouri regiment in that battle. Col. Garland was undoubtedly killed where he lay after I left him, as he was in the line of the firing. I have no doubt that I was tha last person to whom Col. Garland ever spoke. I have often wondered If any of his relatives were llvine. If so. 1 wish I could see them. I was glad to be able to give him a drink of water." A short time after the Dubllcatlon of Mr. Merrifleld's article in the Con federate Veteran, he received an interesting letter from an ate who saw the water incident. The letter Is dated at Washington, and says: Dear Sir: I notice In the Confed- erate Veteran a very interesting ar ticle under the head of "The Other Side at Franklin." which reminds tna so forcibly of what I saw and heard myseu on tnat moody battle field November 30. 1864. I was captain of Company H, Second and Sixth Missouri infantry, Gen. Cockrell's brigade. In the famous charge made by the Missouri brigade I was seriously wounded in my right leg (which was amputated next day on the field) neat the federal breastworks close to the cotton gin, and not far from the Carter house. My wound was so serious that I could not crawl or get away, and while thus prostrated on the ground I was shot through the forearm, shattering both bones, and a few minutes thereafter I was again shot In my left shoulder. In this awful condition, with my clothes saturated with blood, and with hundreds of dead, and wounded confederate soldiers ly Ing almost In a heap about roe, I be held the dead body of Col. Hugh Garland, commanding the First Missouri regiment in this battle, who was, killed by a second shot, and while, prostrated on the ground, and many other wounded confederates were killed all around me while lying on the ground weltering In their own blood. I was not more than six feet from Col. Garland when a federal soldier (to me unknown) did give Col. Garland water from bis canteen and straighten him out on the ground, relieving him somewhat from the weight of other poor dying com rades. History will state that the battle of Franklin, Tenn., November 30, 18C4, was the worst slaughter pen and the most bitterly contested of all of our battles with greater loss of ' life on the confederate side for the number engaged than any battle of the civil war. Franklin has an Inter, est that no other bottle field possesses. With the surrender of Gen Lee at Ap pomattox almost In sight the hero-Isof the confederate soldier at the battle of Franklin has added another star to the shining crown of her achievements. Many confederate soldiers are anxious for the government to erect a monument to the valor of the soldier that wore the blue and to the soldier that wore the gray at the bottle of Frank-lln- . Will be pleased to hear from you on this Important matter. I am. with J. M. HICKKY. greatest respect. Captain late Company U and Sixth' Infantry, C. 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