LORD CHARLES BERESFORD.

Bush Advocate, Volume XX, Issue 939, 5 February 1908, Page 3

LORD CHARLES BERESFORD.

Inmure;; 1 ' 1 • av;> tho anecdotes isolated of i.uiil Chiirlos Ik 1 res lords oarly sou-fa: \v.£ (i.i.vs. On one occasion the v.ii v cid'C within aji ."ico ol losing him iih.x'-t'ii!!'!-, ouin«A to t lio fact that he paii k-in.-itod iji tho pulling down <>!' the Stars and Stripes ono night from tho house of an American consul, a joke which nearly causotl serious troiible. Another typical story is told of the days when luT was on tho Marlborongh, his first ship, where there was a great burly ship's corporal, a. fair boxer, whose duty it was to wake tho middies in tho morning, Ono day it so chanced that .he couldn't arouse Lord Charles. "Comb on, sir,'' said he, "or I'll make yoiu" ■ "Now, look here," sleepily retoi'ted boy, "you're a pretty big fellow and a good boxer, and so you think you're cock of the ship. Now, you say nothing about it, and I won't, "and we'll go on deck and settle this thing at once." So in the early morning, half-light, before, anyone was stirring, and with only the sentry to see fair play, these two, the great iron-fisted fellow in tho heyday of. his lusty manhood, andtho slight, delicately-nurtured youth — met ono another face to face. It was a magnificent sfet-to, but both were battered and bruised before the officer of the watch had them separated. ••...* It is just the- story one would expect to hear of a man who has three times won for himself the Humane Society's medal for -saving life at sea. "Was it not 'Charles Beresford' who jumped overboard in a heavy-shooting suit with his pockets full of cartridges to rescue a poor sailor that had fallen into tho seas that gird the sterile, ice-bound shores of the Falkland Islands ? He is always to the fore where good work has to be done, always ready to help a friend, with ever a cheering word to those who are appointed to carry out his orders. He has an eye for everything; nothing escapes him. Ho has personally Hone, everything in \ a man-p'-war that he might call upon any of His oiEccrs and men to do j including stoking and "chipping a toiler.'' He could sew a seam, rope a sail, and cut and' make a jumper and a. 'pair of trousers against any sail-maker before he was many years in tho service. When he was himself in charge of a ship lie taught aU his miadics how to do these things, and always insisted on their wearing a canvas suit when working in tho engine-room, driving, a steamboat, or for general work on seamanship days. Tho youngest had to do everything with their overalls, and work in suits made by themselves. ..■'■:.■.