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THE REMINISCENCES "OF A PAYMASTER.
A love of the sea is in my bores, and I never had the faintest wish to choose. any other career.. With these wards Paymaster-Rear-Admiral W. E Martin M.G., opens his Adventares of a Naval Paymaster," which is pub lished. Even without this" introduction, Says a hipe Paper, the book would-cun- vince the reader of the bond of affeetion which exists between the writer and the profession in which he has spent the best part of his lite,
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DRV DINNER. Adinimal Martin is not a believer in pro- | hibition, as he makes quite clear in bis account of ais effical dinner in 1886 ht Halifax.
Our first cruise was to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island," where the Scot Ret, was in force. I remember the Ad- miral's disgust at ising offered nothing gre exciting than bedone at the official diner at Government House. The very people who made the law prohibiting liquor were the chief law-breakers Lawyers kept private stocks of liquor in their houses. I am writing of al years ago. Today there are a greater number of innocents trying to make England dry by way of local option, the option the exercised after the people have had abeiency of lies and one-sided statis- ties pumped into them. We met so many nice people at Charlottetown that wil npleasant memories were blotted out until revived by what is going on in England now.'
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The book is as fresh as the sat sea itself. Like the narratives of most sailor authors, it is rich in stories, and these are especially interesting where they
The author tells of another little in illustrate the changes that have takenteiden of a similar character place in the life and customs of the Royal Navy, even during the last forty years, for it was no longer ago than November, 1884 that the anthera "Devonport boy," by the way-passer into the service as an assistant clock, and presented him self at the Admiral's office at Mount Wien.
STERN DISCIPLINE.
For his first shove off," he was sent to Malta, to join the Alesandra, flagship of Lord John Hay, Commander-in-Chief Fin the Mediterranean. Without previous instruction he had to keep the balger of the flagship His "boss"wasPay master Silas Winter Parker, who had rough ways with him, but proved a good friend. For every mistake young Martin made the paymaster assayed him that he would stop his leave for a day and see that he received a ens with a horse whip: He was a man of his word, for the assist. ant eleek had a year's frare stopped and
· received over 300 cuts."
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Some of the executive officers were al speedingly toeratic, even for those days. While Martin was serving in the Alexandra she visited Limasol, arromyist by the Superb, Inflexible.. ard. Monarch. The raptain of the Super was a hartinet. He would not allow his junior officers to hand except in uniform. This is was that one of them was met halfway up a mountain, in a paiforr frock coat.
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The Pylades, Capt. Rolfe, took the Governor of Newfoundland tra visit cur tatin ports on the coast. At one port the Governor landed, leaving Lord George Fitz-Gerald (private secretary) and It. arbad in the boat to await hix return. ean came down to the boat and courteously asked Lord George to enne to his house and have a drink. On their way up the man explained that he had wished to extend the invitation to Har- ford: but noticed that he belonged to a teetotal abstinence, society, as he was wearing a blue ribbon. It was the Pour Har- Egyptian war medal ribbon, bord: Perhaps for once he regretted the medal!
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QUEEN OF THE WASHERWONEN.
Admiral Martin has much to tell of Happy days spent in our West Indian possessions, where the Navy was very remarkable popular, and describés personality, Jane Anne Smith, a tall degrees, who was queen of the washer. wonen.
I recall that when this lady first visited the Bellerophon, after coming over the gangway she saw the comman- der George Primrose, on the quarter- deck. In two strides the gigantic agrees reached him, and, lifting him off his feet, pressed him to her breats and kissed him in front of all hands, exclaiming joyously, th Alassa Primrose, Jonc Anne member you when you was little midshipman, so high. How's you, cousin, Lord Rose- hery' 4"
Cricketers will be interested in this incident. At a cricket match against. St. Kitts their last man was in, and they The ball wanted que ran to equal us. was hit for six to the boundary, wher Lieut. Lyon, of the Pylades, in deep fekt made a great leap, and caught it in one hand--a sensational feat which Ave the Fleet the match. Years after I was landing with my chief, Commodore called the incident. He was equal to the
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Admiral Martin met the Geran Ent peror on several ocensions during in craise of the Training Suadron in 1999, and gives this little sketch of the Kaiser: The Emperor had a nice clear eye, and made himself very charming and Ideasant to us; also a quick, impatient
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IN A HAREM BY MISTAKE," But it would appear that the rigorous discipline in the eighties was comp Edmund Poe, at St. Kitts, „when I re- sated for, in a measure at least, by the opportunities for adventure, and ad- miral Martin tells of one amusing in-persion, for he merely said; Quite so, "Martin. I did the same thing myself cident in which he participated while once. Just as you describe, the hall had servig if the Crion at Alexandria.
been hit for six. I jumped in the air, With other officers attended a levee and caught it in my right hit to the at Raselin Palaer. By mistake, wo horror of the field, I dropped it. but. entered the wrung dont and found weight it in my left before it reached were in the haren! The Princess sent a niessage to say she was sorry that the the ground":"" religion of her country forbade her to receive us, but she hoped we would, takı some coffee and write in her book. The Khedive (Tewk Pasha) recrived us alone in a very pretty room, but with showy furniture, and ghandeliers with hundreds of candles in glass globes. There was more coffee in gold cups inlaid with dia
the monds, which attendants Were scrupulously careful to remove from our hands the moment they were empty." Here is another 'ittle venture. "One evening George Warrender, our gunnery lieutenant: Gordon, captain, R.M.L.T. and I went for a sail by madon The name cards for the dinner tablo light in our wanteen boat. Gordon taking were some nicely painted Spanish Sgures, his guitar. We sailed to the palace and such as a girl in bright colours dancing, serenaded the harem, The Nubian guards with tambourine in hand. The commo: gut very angry, and when the Khedive dore told: me to write one out for the appeared and the guard turned out, we Emperor. I used the last one I had, I ran-before the wind towards Fort Mex. without thought, being very auch rushed We went alongside a dabatten to avoid for time. At dinner that night the Em- SUBSCRISED AND PAIL UP pursuit, and were sheltered by Setwars peror took up his name card, and showed Rastave FUND Bey, who lived there. There was a rów
it to the commodore, who said something, next day: the Khedive wanted as handed but they both looked at me and the Em
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WEST LONDON BRANCH: The However, thanks to the mediation of Am I like the Devil. What!!
14-16, Chekapur Street, London, S.W. L.. friend of the Kledive, an Englihsman, on figure on the card was of the Devil horas,
EASTERY BRANCHES: shore, he treated the matter as a joke, tail, and toasting fork, and in my neat and invited us to dinner."!
copper-ate hand was written "His Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, Colombo Majesty the Emperor.
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PORK WITH A HISTORY,
Describing a West Indies cruise, the author has something to say on the sub ject of food which may he pondered with profit sailormen who are clined to criticise the messing in the Navy
as if the wheel of life were too slow. for his taste. He was fall of energy, and quick in reparted. In fact, very much all there
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The salt pork had a long history behind toate tribute, and to whom he refers ited when the casks, were opened its in the final chapter of this delightful odour: pervaded the whole ship. One
autobiography as my dear old chief." cask we got from Port Royal yard had
In the same chapter, the author writes: heen in pickle since the days of Nelson 1 look back on my career in the Royal į We did not eat it. It was thrown over Navy, and, in spite of all disadvantages board. There was no bread at sen, hit inseparable from a life at sea, I feel that the ship's cook used to make dough there is no profession in the world that oakes, the size of a peony bun and as brings out the best in man as does the heavy as lead. We bought them for Royal Navy, with its discipline, training,. threepence each. They were certainly and trailitions, gassed on like an inspir- satisfying. The ship's biscuit was gene-ing religion from one generation to an- rally full of weevils, and most of our sen other." food smelt of cockroaches. How well I "remember the misery of being "Bensick amidst such' aids to convalescence 17
Capt. C. P. Fitzgerald, of the Belle- rophon, was A martinet, who threw our batla overboard, anying he never bad baths when, be was a midshipman, and ordering the gunroom officers to have tea ut 5 p.m. instead of dinner at 7 p.m. The result was we had long fast until next morning's breakfast."
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