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THE MARINE RECORD. i nn _—_—<~XSY—a—sY———ovv039uoOpnMu—— ——S—S——SSS— S000 SSS ————————o—oeoeo A SAILOR’S BURIAL. It has remained for an eminent ‘‘sky pilot’? to take the wind out of the old sailor’s last wish, who gloried in having a cemetery where he cou'd roll around, suppos- ing that the doctrine should prove true, that the soul entered one of the animal crew. He did not care to go to a beast of the land, but wanted a dwelling far more grand, etc. In carrying out this proper sentiment, the parson, as he is prone to do, laid the old sailor out flat and beat him even in the last round, for no tar boiler ever had the honor of fixing his departure in so ship- shape a manner as was carried out at Galveston recent- ly. In this case a tug-boat was duly chartered for the funeral at sea of a learned man who wished his body to be so disposed. He was the Rev. James de Buchanane, Ph.D., M.D., who said his happiest years had been spent on the ocean, and he wanteda sailor’s burial. His body was accordingly taken well beyond the three-mile limit, and sewed up in a hammock, with weight at the feet, he was regularly committed to the deep. TD OO AN OFFICIAL INQUIRY. Lieutenant J. EK. Reinberg, the assistant inspector of the Eleventh life-saving district, is conducting an offi- cialinvestigation of the work of the crew at Milwaukee, in connection with the wreck of the Sumatra, early last Wednesday morning. This investigation is not being made in response to charges or complaints, but in ac- cordance with arule of the service, which requires a thorough investigation of all cases where loss of life occurs in a wreck. Comments have been made, how- ever, on the assumption that the crew were too slow in getting to the scene of the wreck. $$ rrr : ANNUAL MEETING OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers will hold its annual meeting in the auditorium of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, No. 12 West 31st street, this city, on Thursday and Friday, Novem- ber 12 and 13. On Friday, November 13th, a banquet will take place of which subsequent notice will be given and to which members of the association and their guests are invited. Members intending to propose candidates for mem- bership are requested to notify the secretary, in order that the necessary blank forms of application may be forwarded and properly filled out.. Papersto be read at this meeting should be forwarded to the secretary as soon as possible. The usual notice giving assignment of papers will be issued about November 1. Clement A. Griscom, Sr., is the president of this soci- ety and Naval Constructor F. T. Bowles, U.S. N., of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is the secretary. Anyone de- siring further information in regard’to the coming meet- ing can communicate with Secretary Bowles. — EP ee ee REFERRED TO CAPT. EVANS. U. S. Ship Indiana, Sept. 22th. edditer army and Navy Jurnel deer sir i wanter tel you that wen we men on this ship gav 3 cheres for the men wot giv the selver wich the skiper hollerd for i did not chere mutch we nea dont get no silver but scous pans and pint pots it dont do us no good to no the wardroom has that brite work and it only maks them mor uppy than they is god nose. wy they ant got nuthing sutble to ete offer it and wot they has ant no more fillin offer silver aperns with candle berrys. stuk rownd than offer there busted crokry. it just gives them sik panes, to luk at it they dont want no julry but food in there stommix, and if the state of indiana had tuk that mony and pade off sum of the ded hors on pays books i-gess thade hav cherd so dam lowd al alone they wodnt hav wanted us to do it for them. 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