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Show U SURVIVOR OF SHIP New Yorker Remembers Service on Constitution. Emmanuel J. Rauch. Elghty-8la Years Old, Who Waa on Veasal 70 Veara Ago, Said to Be the Only One of tha Craw Left. New York. Kmtiinnuel J. Ilauch believes be-lieves that ho la the ulilcut aurvlwir of lh.no who served on the I'lillcd Htntt-a ship Ciin-i. Hill 'on lis waa bom In Theater futility, ri'iinaylviinlii, nn November No-vember A. lt--i. and la fur fruiu ahuw-lug ahuw-lug hla Ml yeara. Ills tliaehaige from tits ('ntialltutli.n Is dalrd I'lhruiiry 1 K 13. Iin I. inks like a man nf ubuut tij and well preserved at that. It was on July 14. the hundredth an-ulverrary an-ulverrary ut the c,iie uf Old trim allies liniii a lirltlrh II. "t. II. a. a reporter re-porter called on Mr Haucli. The dale s.mgcsti'd to Mr. Ilauch that lu 1 b::a. iic lh" .inntveraary uf thai event, he lilicavd ut the 1'liil.idt Iptila limy yard Hie luunclilpg nf tho Vnlird States line uf baUleslilp IVuiis) Ivaiila, then lbs lament ai-u iioli.g vesai-l lu the world "The I'eunlsylvanla was what was called a luur decker." said Mr. Haucli, "iillhniiKh ahe really had Ave decks. She win pierced (or Mil guua. but really real-ly rurrli-il i!0 they weru rant Iron nunii In those dr.ya nf which the heaviest w-.-ro elglitei-n potiuilers. "Ttie IVnnsyUuiita had been started start-ed about lull, but fur yi-.ira bad lain brirway out uf the ways and had neurly rutted tn places when the government gov-ernment decided tu llnlfl. l.i-r clie was never really euulpped, bin t.i.,n the spars uf tlm Ohio and inilleil in Nurlolk, whereislie becunie a sel.oul .'.lid nursing hhip. Site waa not any good sea going Veanel " "How did )nu come to take to the sea?" Mr. Haucli was n-.keil 'in ISM cnugrcne, nnxlnua to get a heller clement Into the navy -t'n,s Sam's anlliira were a pretty hard lot In tbohe da a- paacd a bill allt.wlei; I,. ,la bi'twceti Ihe ages of thirteen and fifteen lo !-e oppruillces for three years and then, after having panted an eiaiuliialliiu, which Ir.clii.led h"r t. t, ai C Spanish, tu become lull bluwu mltl-alilpmen. mltl-alilpmen. "Tha: Induced me to ship, which I did In I'hlladelphln In 1MI I lay around on a receiving ship until tho tleanier Mlsrlaelppl, ttie n.t real man-of-war the Vnltea Btnlea poa, sesaed, waa Inunrhed In Hecrnibor, 1812, when I wus assigned to her. "1 left her to Join the Constitution whlih l.sd been overhauled at Norfolk hut ahe waa quite unfit to go to sea Meanwhile one of my frlen.la had ap piled tu the secretary nt the navy tl . have me made a midshipman and ilia covered that when congreas passed tha ' bill of 1M9 It bad failed to revoke a ' previous bill on the same subject, ao , all my dreams nf becoming an o flic or were shattered; In furt congress had i played a rather mean trick on amid lliuia Inda who had apprenticed themselves them-selves In Vnole Ham's navy." |