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...line. Later the sim thinned out into a crimson wash in the west. A slight wispy fog made up. As she walked homeward along the shore around the harbor, a moon began to rise. It appeared diffused through the misty, foggy veil. Off, a little to itself, a new sloop was anchored. It rocked gently in the wash, its spar swaying a little. Above it hung a single faint star...
...official photographers went along on this conquest of the Empire of the West. But on the sloop Dale there was one William H. Meyers, a gunner who had been recommended as a "good seaman, a good Navigator and of moral worth." Gunner Meyers also had the recorder's instinct. His 28 watercolor drawings, virtually the only pictorial record of the war in California, are a favorite possession of Navy-lover Franklin D. Roosevelt. In one of them, Bombardment of Guaymas (see cut). Artist Meyers showed himself firing the middle...
...industry waits to see. With June sales totting up to the biggest total of any month in his company's history, President Chalkley went home last week to his one-acre place at Port Washington, Long Island, to enjoy a weekend's sailing in his 23-foot sloop, still trusting in partly the rum, partly the dwarf but mostly the price-the formula which so far has proved all that Philip Morris could desire...
...Charleston last week the President was piped over the side, of the Navy's sleek, light cruiser Philadelphia, about to put out on a six-day "shakedown cruise." Across the dock from the Philadelphia lay the ancient battle sloop. Hartford, which Rear Admiral Farragut comm.anded in the Civil War battle of Mobile Bay and the capture of New Orleans. Cried the President to Rear Admiral William Henry Allen, standing with his staff on the pier...
...Sultan of Muscat. In addition to reciprocal, most-favored-nation treatment of imports & exports, it provided that U. S. citizens rescued from ships wrecked on Oman's rocky coast must be entertained at the Sultan's expense. When he departed from Oman in the U. S. sloop Peacock, Envoy Roberts left behind an invitation for the Sultan to return his call in Washington...