Show kt keep the old names rather than turn to the new at the close of the reign of roy ally in america the southerner ap patently ly thought route and more than this if the hazing is brutal the offender faces a prison sentence in to the certainty of dismissal from the service in disgrace hazing is an unpopular pas time at annapolis today to day the annapolis school was built to provide for a few cabets cadets the changes time has brought has weib that the shad made it necessary that provision he made tor ow of things many congress has appropriated birge sums for arnoth the capacity and the usefulness ot the ing as long as school new buildings are up new facilities the substance tor the training of the modern day sailors are being added and in a year or two at the cost of 10 the institution will be so transformed that the shades of the old salts who in life knew it will not know it save by the abiding THE WOW WW aad A of the spirit of things W wf if i flavy which must ever remain it the amerl can seaman is to keep true to bradl hundreds follow in their train alon the modern part of annapolis is within the grounds of yie naval the naval academy the rest of the academy the old is giving way rapidly town Is ancient and with the sail to the new this holds true happily ora school honorable the residents enough however only in regard to of annapolis are loath to change the buildings the broad parade ground in its green beauty and the great trees that sheltered the stu had sped oer the water modern amerl cans know annapolis as the home of the naval academy the school of the sail or has an interest that has proved over shadowing to the american at a als tance when he gets here be finds that the old sea town has an allurement ot which he knew nothing lutle by little the residents 0 the maryland city have come to realize the importance to their tho great government institution the time was when all roads led to the state house or to the carvel mansion but today they run without the shadow of a turning as the townspeople view it to the gateway ot the academy grounds ro HALL the naval academy of today to day Is a stranger to the naval academy of yester things and as longas they are wholly comfortable there Is wisdom in their reluctance to part with the old things and their clustering memories the very ann at which you eat your dinner bloused men and women who saw the revolution and the passing rule of britain a passing that come of the conservative ones 0 the viewed with regret this inn Is on prince george treet the did not change the name of the old annapolis thoroughfare within its walls richard carvel courted dorothy manners and the host of the inn seems to be prouder of the ancient fact than he Is of his modern prosperity there is a trap for him who I 1 attracted by the bait of things ancient at every turn of the annapolis way the old elm on boston common now gone the way of all things perishable was of no earlier seed sprouting than was the old poplar that still stands sturdy and green on the campus of st john s college annapolis people call the poplar the liberty tree and it has a right to the name under this tree the patriots of the colony met and made their pronouncements for freedom k charles carroll of carrollton who signed the spoke to the people in its shade and urged them to their duty to liberty as against kings lafayette was entertained under it and it has been the central point of independence day celebrations unnumbered the records eald to be authentic have it that in 1652 the colonists and the ock indians agreed under the great poplar to have a period of peace annapolis people believe that their liberty tree was growing when columbus landed its trunk Is only a shell today to day but it Is a huge shell and the branches thereof put forth leaves in the earing in thrifty multitudes there aro three houses standing in Anni polls tn well preserved old age that served as the dwelling places of three colonial governors one of these residences was erected as a street passer informs one the lord knows when certain it Is though that the house was standing and in use in 1692 tor it was occupied then by gov francis Nl cholson when the statehouse burned in 1704 the residence was used for the sittings ot the colonial assembly and it Is sturdy enough today to day in appearance to war against time tor centuries to come there Is a king george street as well as a prince george street in annapolis and not many squares removed Is the duke of gloucester street williamsburg in virginia has a street named tor the duke or rather tor his title and there was a tendency all through the south to day but tho spirit is the same gratefully enough for if it were not it would be a sorrow and a mournful cause to the country they are turning ou sailors from the school today so the veterans say who will meet the mark square loed with the seamen who have made american ships respected wherever a starred pennant floats they are graduating classes more than strong in these days formerly a class of 50 was believed to be fairly large the school in its membership s fully double the size of the mill tary academy of west point the increase in the number ot sea cadema is due to the great growth of the navy and to the fact that ship for ship the vessels of the present day require three where the vessels of the past re quiren one thee the e are more than cadema at annapolis and in a year or two the number will be augmented by at least one third the whole system of instruction save in one marked respect has changed since the d ay iy the present superintendent capt charles J badger was learning the ropes on the training ship in the annapolis harbor the older officers had to learn many new and strange things with the change from the old type of fighting crift to the new the changes came gradually however and it is said that the adaptability of the veterans to new conditions led the authorities to decide that al though steam had supplemented sail the best preliminary instruction in seamanship for the cabets cadets was to be had on vessels of the style of the old navy admiral sands while superintendent broke up haeng at the academy he shares honors with gen ailles who killed the practice at west point bisot long after admiral sands was detailed for duty at the school there mas an outbreak of hazing and the admiral with the commandant of cabets cadets cad ets went at the task of stopping the practice not for the moment nor for the month but tor all time formerly every time there was a hazing scan dal at either the military academy or at annapolis congress would censure the authorities for not maintaining discipline and then would pro aeed out of hand to reinstate the guilty cabets cadets whom the authorities had dismissed in order that discipline might be maintained how much stopping of hazing there could bo with congress condemning the offense one minute and condon ing it the next may readily bo conceived through the influence of the superintendent a law was passed which gives the authorities a much freer hand in hazing matters than they had before the cadet who hazes today to day can be beep abated from the service by an extremely elpe dents in the early days of the school and that are of sufficient age to have done shade duty for many generations of sailors before their day are still standing the march of modern improvements having been so directed as to pass the ancient mon aichs archs by the mans life small as Is its compass Is intricate and full of interest the externals r it they really may be accounted externals have a world of significance the young sailors are hemmed in with incentives to a heroic discharge of duty west point has its battle flags and its memorial tablets to the men who served their country against its enemies on land at annapolis are gathered the trophies of the sea and there are many of them tor the defeats of the ships of the american navy were so few that a una or two 0 history s pages are sufficient to record them perrys pennant which flew from his flagship the lawrence at the battle of lake erie lg here it Is a red ensign with the words of lawrence cm brol dered on it in white letter swords that are now the rallying cry of the men of the american navy dont give up the ship capt lawrence had been killed in the action of bis ship the chesapeake with the british ship shannon only a few months before perry engaged the enemy but his last injunction to his men already had become the yankee tars watchword the lake arle flag Is in an almost perfect state of preservation the flag of the british brig boxer capt blyth commanding captured by the american brig en oft the coast of maine is in the academy s keeping capic burrows the american command er was killed in the very hour of his victory near the boxer trophy are the flags of tour of the british vessels captured by perry at the battle of lake kriethe Eri ethe lady prevost the hunter the little belt the chippewa and the detroit with the erie flags are those of the the beresford the chubb and the linnet british ves sels sunk or taken by the american mcdonough at the battle of lake possibly the most interesting of all these spoils of the american sea fights is the great wooden figure of the british lion wearing a crown and with one paw resting on a globe representing the world for arrogance of presumption the conception has few equals it was of course carrying out in sculpture the idea of the world sovereignty of great britain when decatur in tho ship united states defeated and captured the british macedonian the lion with its globe was found on its forward deck there are two iron long toms in the trophy collection that fell into the hands of commodore mcdonough after the victory of lake champlain aln one of the guns has a deep indentation made by a shot from a gun of the american fleet during the action the british commander commodore down ie was killed in this lake fight it is a matter ot record that be came to his death by getting into the way of the recoil of one of the cannons now in the annapolis museum charles stuwart wart the american grandfather of the irish leader charles stewart pamell made possible the addition of two flag trophies to the annapolis collection when in command of the constitution old ironsides he captured two british men dfwar the cyane and the levant which he fought near the coast of the Madel raa stewart won the fight the navy of the united states had its full share of making the count rys history there Is no pros ent intention on the part of the men who have the midshipmen in charge to let them become for gerful of the past and the glory that has come to the service |