Yet thy true lovers more admire by far
Thy naked beauties—Give me a cigar!”
Boatswain’s Mate Byron, “The Island,” II.
Two hours were passed “Off Yarnland.” Governor Roberts brought the division men to their feet when he told them that he intended to order out the battalion when the presentation took place of the silver service voted by the General Assembly for the new battleship Connecticut. Senator Bulkeley told the familiar and always stirring story of Admiral Bunce’s splendid work in taking a monitor around Cape Horn.
LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ROBERT D. CHAPIN
In the early spring Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Robert D. Chapin succeeded to the command of the division. In the nine years he had been in the division he had ascended the ladder, round by round, as seaman, coxswain, gunner’s mate, second and first class, and boatswain’s mate, first class. He had served on about every brand of standing committee which the organization had utilized. Later he was appointed naval aide with the rank of lieutenant-commander.
Again in the early summer a racing crew was essayed, with Boatswain’s Mate Hogan in charge of the training, the course extending from an imaginary line off the old pumping station below Riverside Park to a point off the East Hartford bank about a quarter of a mile above the railroad bridge. Training was punctuated by swims and dives from a spring plank in the meadow bank a short distance from the bridge.
