AN ADORED ADMIRAL.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1904, Page 11

AN ADORED ADMIRAL.

Sir John Fisher, G.C.8., lately promoted from tho Commander-in-Ohicffchip of tho Chnnnel squadron to bo senior naval Lord of tho Admiralty, is tho subject of ii fine tribute in "0. H. Fry's Magazine " for June, which gives his portrait in colours. "At sixly-thrco years of age, Jacky Fisher is, as his adoring sailors would put it, "full of beans.' Ue is as vigorous, as powerful, as swift, an vigilant, us keen, and as jovinl as when ho first stepped on board the old Victory, and touched his cap to Admiral. Sir William Parker. "Admiral Fisher has many ways of enjoying himself ; ono of them is dancing, but ho finds his chief joy in the open air of tho British Navy. Ho has a real love for tho British sailor. Give mo a boy young ho once said, ' and I will mako anything out of him.' Ho believes in discipline), ho believes in law and order. The sort of ' freedom ' which is oxtolled in music-halls and tavoms, the* freedom to get drunk and go to tho devil, moves him to scorn, and he marvels that men should find satisfaction in slack nerves, foggy wits, nnd loawi habits. No ; the day should be mapped out, and every hour that is not given to tho work of one's lifo f»hould bo devoted with the same istruuuousncps to diversions that are vigorous, honest, and puie. livery game that take 3 a man into Iho opon air carries with it the blessing oi John Fisher. And nvory game which givea a man tiulh of eye, quickness of hand and foot, and swiftness of judgment counts with him as a part of tho man's natural education. He knows that tho keen-living man is a clean-living man ; and that character is braced and dovelnped by games which call for temperance and plain living. The best sailor is the man with the clear eye, the cold brow, and tho steady hand."