The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-16
SCHOOL SHIP SABINE NEW YORK

The Boys on Board - Their Instruction
and neutrality-suspicious. OF Apprentices
that Have Entered the Naval Academy
this YeaE-Vacanc cIes-Omcers.
The United States school ship Sabine-now
upon one of her occasional cruises at sea to
give variety to the lives Of the boys under in
struction on board and increase their interest
In the vocation they have chosen-arrived in
this port late Wednesday evening, and now
lies at anchor off the Battery. Her arrival will
enable the boys whose parents reside in this
section to visit their homes, as this privilege is
one of the many allowed them. There are now
on board two hundred apprentices under in-
structioD; but the number materially varies
from month to month, as almost constant
drafts are made upon the ship to fill up the COM
plement of boys on board the many vessels of
our navy, while enlistments are rapidly
There are several vacancies at present on
board this roomy, excellent seagofng school
ship for number of boys who evince an apti-
tude for q life at sea and are anxious to undergo
system of training and instruction that Will
ht them to hold honorable positions in the
naval service or obtain admission to the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, there to receive an
education suited to the discharge of the highest
rank in the naval corps. The boys are not
alone taught the duties OF seamen, but of gem
tlemen, that they may be as well versed in the
usages Of polite intercourse as they skilled
in their profession. Under the plan pursued
there is no possible excuse for q bright boy IL
he does not succeed and progress, eventually
earning the laurel wreath Of a naval cadet.
The Sabine is now en- route to Annapolis to
facilitate the examination of several of the
most proficient boys on board to fill the vacan-
cies there, as Congress has made and provided
laws in this respect. Since the inauguration OF
this system of naval apprenticeship, only three
years ago, there have been admitted into the
Naval Academy, as cadets. forty boys from the
Sabine. ten passing successfully their examina-
tion in June last, their names being as follows,
and now for the first time published: j. e.
Roller, of New York, G. w. Brown, of CHARLES
town. ID. L. Worsley, of New York, ]: @. Mont
gomery, OF New York, s. Seabury, OF New York,
T. q. DENY, of Fredericktown, Virginia, N.
Pinckney, OF Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, H. l..
Warning, of Cleveland, Ohio. w 7. Livingston,
There have also been promoted to the rank
of mates, United States Navy. eleven OF the
boys; two receiving this position of honor
recently Their names are w. A. Failing and
e. F. Myers, New York.
The system of training, the naval duties, and
the esprit dU corps on board this vessel are finely
maintained by her commander, and officers,
and instructors, Parents who have heretofore
been disinclined to allow their children to select
q seafaring life, for fear of its degrading influ
ences, now commit their sons to the Sabine,
feeling assured that their training Will be of
character to fit them for Intelligent men and
brave seamen. Hundreds of spirited lads who
attend our public schools will in future be in
duced to adopt the life of q sailor, assured as
they are of good treatment at the beginning
and certain prospect of advancement after
thoroughly understanding their calling.-N Y.
Herald