Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-15
NAVAL APPRENTICES.
THE BOYS ON OUR WARSAIPS AND
HOW THEY ARE TRAINED.
An Experience That Tends to Make Them
Dignincd, Self Controlled Men, Well
Qualified to Make Their Way Either
Anoat or Ashore.

Apprenticeship in the United States
cavy is capable of making either a man or
| } rcprUbatC of u boy. He Is given every
! lnduccmcnt to become good solid man,
| whether for continuation us member Of
I man .ofwar's ships company or for the
'arning of livelihood ashore The officers
VI the American navy give the apprentice
! boys considerably the better Of it over the
! blucjackcts who ship as such in all that
concerns their interest and advancement,
and the boy who during the period that he
wears the apprentices figure of eight knot
IN his mastering shirt goes wrong and be-
zones rowdy and q sea lawyer has only
his innate cusscdncss to blame for it.
! The whole tendency Of the apprentices
training aboard an American man of war
makes for the conversion Of the lad into %
| digniilcd self controlled able man, a
matchlesa seaman and II tiptop gunner, to
say nothing of the substantial equipment
1t furnishes him for lucrative employ
mcnt should he elect upon the conclusion
Of his apprenticeship to settle down ashore.
IL Is the old sailors, the men who havo
/ spent about an equal number Of years in
The merchant marine and in tho United
states navy, who possess the greatest pow
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