The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-13

ton. The first place visited was the
immense yards at Newport News,
where three gunboats and two battle
ships are being built. A week was
spent there, and another week was
spent in the yards Of the Cramps at
Philadelphia, where a number of ships
are being constructed. The rolling mills,
foundries and other large mechanical
places in Philadelphia, were also visit
ed. Elizabethpcrt. n. J., where a gun
boat is being built in the Nixon ship
yard, was visited, and then the Ban
croft came to New York, where many
vessels of the North Atlantic squad
ron were, including the monitor Indi-
ana, the giant monitor Amphitrite and
innumerabie cruisers of all types. At
the Brooklyn navy yard may boats are
undergoing repairs, and these afforded
splendid chances for observing the de-
tails of warship construction.
The torpedo station and the war col
lege at Newport have been visited. and
after stopping at ali the principal man.
ufacturing towns along the New En-
gland coast as far north as Bath, Ne,
the return voyage to Annapolis will be
begun.
HARD WORK At ANNAPOLIS.
All over the land there are boys be-
tween the ages of IA and Is who hope
to win admission to the Annapolis
academy but these boys should real
ize that life there is not a continual
round of pleasure. 1t means four
long years of hard work, with study,
study, study, a continual diet. New
appointees will be admitted in Sep
TENDER. 1t is a difficult matter to gain
admission to the academy and a harder
thing to stay there. The young man
who fails to maintain the high stand
ard set is dropped with alarming sud-
denness.
Briefly stated, life at Annapolis
means eight hours of sleep, five and a
half hours of study, three hours of
recitations, two hours for drills and
four hours for recreation. leaving one
hour and a half for meals. Practi-
cally there are ten hours and a half
of work each day except Saturday,
which is a half holiday. In the four
hours Of recreat ton the cadet is not his
own master by any means. He can
only enjoy certain forms of amuse-
ment within certain limits, and is I'M
der system Of strict surveillance all
the time.
THE DAY BEGINS EARLY.
Reveille arouses the cadet at 6 o'clock
every morning in the gear. He can
take his time dressing if he desires, as
the roll call does not take place until
6:45. Then he marches to breakfast,
and at 1855 the studies of the day be-
gin. There is a recess from 1910 to
1920 o'clock and another at 1886 for
dinner. The afternoon studies begin at
1:5O and last until $3.50. At 4:05 there is
a drill or exercise which lasts until
$50.
These drills are pretty to look at,
but are not much fun for the cadets
They Include the general branches of
seamanship, gunnery, signalling. navi-
cation, surveying and physical exer-
eises, including boxing, swimming,
rowing, fencing and dancing.
The school room work is arduouS. In
the first year the cadet studies alge-
bra, geometry, English, history, rhet-
oric and French; second year, trigo-
nometry, descriptive geometry, analyt-
zeal geometry. English, history, the
constitution, elementary physics, chem
istry, French and mechanical drawing:
third year, marine engines and boilers,
sound, light and heat, electricity, mag
netiSm, calculus, mechanics and inter
national law; and fourth year, seaman
ship, naval construction, naval tactics,
ordnance, gunnery, astronomy, naviga-
ton, surveying and physiology and hy-
giene.
When the afternoon drills are over
the cadet does as he pleases until $50,
when supper is served, and he has an
other short rest until 7:30, when he is
supposed to put in two hours of study
From $50 until 1910 he can tinkle a
banjo or sing songs, but he must stop
everything when taps sound, put out
the light and go to bed.