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Show MIDSHIPMEN ON ANNUAL CRINSE Washington, Aug. 8 With 223 midshipmen mid-shipmen of the first and third classes aboard, the battleship Illinois report ed to the navy department today that She had left Funchal. Maderla, on the last leg of her foreign crul6e. The vessel will land the future admiral at Annapolis on August 29 Advices from the vessel declare tho midshipmen were entertained royally abroad at the various ports at which the warship touched and that the cruise had been a highly profitable one for the classmen While at Antwerp, the advices sta-ted, sta-ted, the Illinois had as Its guest Chas j D Hayes, who served in the civil war aboard two )1 the first armored war vessels in the United States ni-vy. ni-vy. the double turreted ram Keokuk, and the monitor Montauk. The veteran vet-eran wrote to the commanding officer his regrets that he was "too old and feeble" to visit the Bhip, whereupon the officer went ashore and took off j the old seafighter and bis aged wife (Of a dav aboard The Illinois will arrive In Hampton Roads August 22 to take part in tho big gun practice. One week later u will unload the cadets at Annapoll3, at which time they will be given a month's leave. j |