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'98 NOTES. 



U. S. R. S. Vermont, New York Navy Yard,May 2, 1898. 



Well may the old class of '98 be proud of the material of which she was 

 composed. To be sure some of the members did not perhaps during the last 

 year exert their energies as much as they should have in the proper channels, 

 but when the news came from Washington that Uncle Sam was in need of 

 apothecaries, almost as a unit the class went to the front, and offered its 

 services. Of the many who offered eighteen have already sworn to uphold the 

 Star Spangled Banner, and many more are anxiously awaiting permission to 

 do so. Even among our sister members has the spark of patriotism beeu 

 kindled, and two now have their applications in, only waiting for permission 

 to go to the front as nurses. 



Our sister class of '99 is not without representatives, as the brave Pompelly 

 and Winters are now away at sea perhaps fighting the hated Spaniards. Many 

 of our members have been disappointed, and could not enlist, because of 

 physical inability to pass the examination. 



We are practically isolated here, cut off from the outside world, and yet 

 thus far our duties have been far from arduous. During the day we are 

 employed around the ship, endeavoring to appear busy. Breakfast is from 

 6.30 to 7, dinner from 11 to 12, and supper from 4.30 to 5.30; at 7 P. M. the 

 bugle sounds "hammocks," and then the boys hustle to get their swinging 

 beds ready for the night. At sundown the bugle sounds, and as we respect- 

 fully salute, "Old Glory" is hauled down for the night. From 7.30 to 8.30 is 

 general recreation time, and the boys amuse themselves either at cards, at 

 the piano on the upper deck, or on the spar deck watching the sailors in their 

 jolly fistic encounters. These contests among the sailors are conducted 

 throughout in a most orderly manner, and good will seems to prevail. The 

 American sailor, as we have seen him aboard the Vermont, proves himself to 

 be a robust, good-natured and patriotic son of the sea. At 9 P. M. the salute 

 is fired, "taps" sound and in a few moments we are fast asleep, not to wake 

 until the salute and "Reveille" sound at 5 A. M. Thus you see the boys are 

 very regular in their habits, and by the time the sore arms (the result of 

 vaccination) have worn off there will be few if any who will not be found 

 improved mentally and physically by the life in this region, remote from the 

 gay Tenderloin. 



The thanks of all the boys are due to our attentive sisters, Misses Noyes 

 and Aschenbach who, were they so permitted, would be over to see us every 

 day, and never yet have they forgotten to bring a stock of choice dainties with 

 them. But alas! of late Uncle Sam has become very strict, and we now see 

 them but once a week. 



The first of the boys to leave was Winters, '99, on the "Solace"; next went 

 Pompelly, '99, on the "Sterling"; then followed Siegel on the "New Orleans," 

 and to-day we lost our dearly belovecd Vice-President Mills, who left for Phila- 

 delphia to ship on the "Justin." Our old friend Hilderbrandt has become 

 famous by the discovery of a new species— "Hammocaciae Bitehardiaeeae 



