Cascade (AD 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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Down Mexico ay THAT STICKKK on the windsliifld of the row car (renieml)er? I wasn ' t there just to be stared at. V»u took to heart what it said and held her down lo thirty-five for the first five hundred mile: easing her in praduallv. w i h an car cocked for strange squeaks and u accustomed r:;tlle . It is the same way with a ship. Vou don ' t just pile in the crew, pull up the Jacob ' s Ladder, and put out for China witli all the steam you can rowd in the boilers. You let the old girl take it easy for a spell, letting her kind of get set for tlie jar of those long Pacific rollers smacking up against her bow. In case you ever build a ship on your own — just in case — vou will do well to sail her around the lake orce or twice to see if you remembered to weld the right places. We took just sucii a trij) in A.I). 16 — sliding down the coast to put in at another sunny i ' i I California port. San Diego. Letting down the hook in the harbor there made it a kind of homecoming for some of the fellows, for it was in San Diego they had had their boot training. Dago they called it — and the way they said it was crusted with salt. Aboard the I .S.S. CA.SCADK they were already mariners from away back. We had made the home port, also, of Dr. Odiornc. our senior Denial Officer. It was in the waters oflT San Diego he had so firmly established his reputation as a baiter-of-hooks and a puller-in of borito. There was quite a lot to see in San Diego. And a couple of hundred thousand other sailors and marines were there before us. seeing it. ou could make fair headwav in anv selected direction, though, if vou gave up the sidewalk and took to the middle of the street. One of the items on mv list of thir -s lo be done was to go oul lo iKilloa Park and pav mv warm respects to Ngagi. the gorilla. Hut the trolley took a little longer than I had bargained for. and when I arrived the zoo-keeper had gone home for su|)per. I did? ' l even hiive a chance lo leave my card. I ' ve bee i sorrv about that part since, because the papers say iNgagi has only recently gone to be with his honorable ancestors. My own private undertaking was an e.xpedilion lo Tia Juana, Republic of Mexico. They told us on the ship that the hills we could see lo the south were the hills of Mexico. One doesn ' t jusi stand still when some one says, Those are the hills of Mexico. The international bus schedule was a bit uncertain, and quite a number of the men reported best results had been obtained by standing demurely on the highway. Hul I chose the bus, and was rewarded bv ihe privilege of giving my seat lo a lady both coming and going. If I had been holding an anvil in ea li band I am sure I would have bounced up just the same. She was really |)relty — the second one. I mean. The was ill Tia Juana it was i|iiilc IkiI. Tia Juana probably ne er really has had a chance to be an ordinary town. Il has had no choice but to go through its act of being difTerent. just lo satisfy the acres of people who would be disappointed if it turned out lo be an ordii ary town with drug stores an l barber shops. It was hot the day I was there, cry ibals ub.il ibc poster sai l. Willi I was cry sorry aboul llic biiJKlL ' lil. riir were going to have oiu real bull. Ihil it was going lo begin m VMck Irom Tuesday. This inlelligciicc was har l lo take because Iin a matador a heart. Al least a jiicador. iiil I v oiild like lo have befii there lo throw my mantilla in ihe ring and gii zlc hot tamales in the grand slaml. I wish now ' had had my pinmc taken silling in one of llio c painted carls willi llic buiro . and llie back- drop of,jj... acti. As il stands now, I realize all I have lo oiler by way of proof ihat I was reallv llierc is this, my sworn . ervi ' ind the sketch appended above which shows me taking il easy on my hnrifniia. Mister, il -viis hnl ihe dav I was in Tia Jiiana. ' « ' - 7V I

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:Ji w Around the Island TTK CAI.I.Kl) THKM ai..iiii l-tlii--l?laii»l U ». hut llic routi- lakcn. tliou :h ruutitlulxiut. was hardly circular. There was one place the l)us wduld have to have Ijeen part mountain goal to get around, and at that point we prudently made a detour. Four trips were made all together, with about 250 men of the ship getting a chatiie to see the sights. Each section had a turn at it. and then there was one final expedition to take care of those who may not have been able to go when their sections rated liberty. The Pearl Harbor Mus Drivers ' Association provided the busses, some of which had springs. This was the route which took us perhaps a hundred miles in the day: into town, up .Nuuanu Valley, to the Pali, back through the I niversity grounds, a slop at The Breakers for a coke, around Diamond and Koko Heads. W aimea IJeach for a swim and lunch, then on out in the afternoon along the windward side to the Mormon Temple, through Haleiwa and Wahiawa to Richardson Landing, and back to the ship on No. I motor launch. There were two high |)laces that were high spots on tlie trip — -the Pali (1700 ' 1 and VXaliiawa. And there were two low places that were high spots — the beach and the Blowhole. Is that quite clear? The Blowhole, lo speak of that, entered into the spirit of the thing by showing off each time we stopped. Of course there are always those who insist upon a demonstration. Dr. Smisek, for example, was politely sceptical as to its spoul- abiiily, and like a true dentist was not content until he could stoop over and gaze into the very mouth of it. We are delighted to report the good doctor got an eyefuU. In point of fad. he got an earfull, a shirt full, and his shoes full. It was. as some- one truly said, worth the price of admission. It was withal pleasing to the eye. Well, we wrung him out and fluttered his shorts from one of the windshield gadgets for a while, and toward noon he was ])retty well dried out. Thcv say that after that the Chaplain tried to hire Dr. Smisek to make the trip each time on a fixed-fee basis, to show the men just how the Blowhole worked, but when the lime for subse(|uent trips approached the Lieutenant was always unaccountably busy pulling teeth. The view from the Pali was quite a thing, too. It was rather windy when the lour conductor was describing the battle which had taken place there when King Kamehameha pushed the army over ihe cliff, but as near as I get it. it was this way: The king on Maui was having to take a lot of guff and innuendo from the king on Oahu. And so the king on Maui got his gang of spear-toting liolohus together and came over to Oahu to dust off the king of Oahu. Well, the king of Oahu got wind of it and took a powder up the valley, and they were laying for him and simply rubbed him out. So that made the king from Maui a big shot, and he figured the concession on bath towels at Waikiki was a good proposition, and just muscled in. That ' s the way 1 got it. But as 1 say. it was windy. I ' ve been trying to figure out several things aboul the round-lhe-Island trip since the time I went on it, and these are ihev : 1. Who was il forgot lo bring along the (i|iiMicr for the Coca-liola bottles? 2. Why was one of ihc ship ' s dentists bu ulicn it was suggested he come along and show us ihe Blowhole? ' .i. Why did those young men in seats three, four, five, six and seven whistle when we drove through the grounds of the I niversilv? All 1 could see was just some of the young ladij-s of the establishment. 4. When we came around the southwest corner of the Mormon Temple lo thai big banyan tree, why did everybody take it into his head to sit down an l rest? .S. Why was it so hard to find any pla -e selling pineapples when all along were fields of such fine ones? (). Where do vou get a recpic-l lilaiik for | cinKincnl dul at the Wainici itcinh I SO Club? In answering ihcsc cpicsti may write in some dclail rc Is please write on one sidi- (ling qui-stiori Number Si . f II It |iaper oiiIn In. V ' ( ( ' Tni ' hi