... Exciting Experiences in Our Wars With Spain, And the Filipinos
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It was received with cheers by the men, and the volunteer band struck up "Yankee Doodle" and "Hail Columbia." At Kio a bare bulletin of Dewey's victory was received, and that set the Oregon's crew crazy with enthusiasm. Every "jackie" was wearing on his cap, in addition to the' regular ship's ribbon, a ribbon inscribed in ink, "Remember the Maine." These supplementary ribbons had been made on shipboard, and when the news of actual war and the victory of Manila was received every cap came off an...d nearly 500 throats gave utterance tb the slogan attached thereto. The coal bunkers were replenished at Rio and anchor was weighed there on the morning of May 4th for a run up the coast as far as Cape Trio. There the Oregon left the Marietta and returned to Rio to get the Mctheroy, the cruiser bought from the Brazilian Government. But here the neutrality laws offered interference. The Brazilian Govern- ment feared complications if the Nictheroy left at the same time as the Oregon, and the latter was forced to depart without her.
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