. India rubber world. engaged in target practice at the other end of the island, andthose of the party who were not so deeply interested in base-ball proceeded over the hill to points of vantage where theycould observe the modti.! operandi of attacking an invading navy in time of war. Tlie observation station was filled with men,sonic with fine telescopes, mounted like theodolites, and otherswith telephones clainped to both ears, while down below in thecharting rooms were others bending over a big table, plotting outlocations by means of quadrants, rules and angles. Away downbelow in a hollowe
. India rubber world. engaged in target practice at the other end of the island, andthose of the party who were not so deeply interested in base-ball proceeded over the hill to points of vantage where theycould observe the modti.! operandi of attacking an invading navy in time of war. Tlie observation station was filled with men,sonic with fine telescopes, mounted like theodolites, and otherswith telephones clainped to both ears, while down below in thecharting rooms were others bending over a big table, plotting outlocations by means of quadrants, rules and angles. Away downbelow in a hollowed semi-circle were the men at the big guns,which they were ready to dellect to any angle to right or left, upor down, as the word came by telephone from the conning then a tug at the rope, a lioom, a roar which echoed fromthe shore and the distant islands, the sound of the thousand-pound projectile piercing the atmosphere, and miles away a splashwhich raised a white column of water to show that the shell had. James J. CLUi-oku, Married Men. I-einburc. PitcherFOR Single Mex fallen near enough to the moving scarlet pyramidal target toscore a clean hit. So absorbed were the spectators of these evolutions that specialmessengers were dispatched from the Griswold to warn themthey would be marooned on the Island unless they hurried. Theywere loth to go, for no firing had taken place during the lasthour, as the moving target had not been sighted. Hardly hadthe boat got under way again when the cannons thundered outonce more, liut the target was invisible to the passengers on theboat. .Arriving at Point Shirley the party was welcomed by manymembers wdio for one reason or another could not avail them-selves of the afternoon programme. Here the excursionists foundthe space in front of the club house arranged for the quoit touriia-n cnt, which was at once started. Over half a hundred contestantsparticipated and liy eliminatioij the number gradually narroweddown un
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