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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-25

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SOCIETY NOTICES.
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More than one-half the men in the United States navy to-day are native Americans. This is larger percentage than has ever been in the service. In recent enlistments only native Ameri- cans have been accepted. They have always had the preference and the supply of them offering in the last three years has been larger than ever before. At the same time, many grad uates of the apprentice schools of the navy have been enlisting; and four ffths of the apprentices are native Americans. The benefits of the appren- tice system are just beginning to make themselves felt in the navy.
 The large number offering for serv- ice--nearly 29,00o men and 3,6O0 ap- prentices applied for enlistment last year-has been due in great measure to the general lack of employment. Then the changed conditions of the service have raised the standard in the navy and made life aboard ship more attrac- tive. For that reason better grade of landsmen is obtained and reinlist- ments are made in greater number.
 The life of sailor is hard even under the best conditions, but it is an inter esting life; and every day good-looking,
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hand uplifted they take oath to the statements made in their applications. Before this all of them have been stripped and examined by the surgeon to see if they are qualified physically. After the brief seanee with Capt. Miller they go to the lower deck of the old ship and draw their uniforms. Be fore night they have put aside their citizens clothes and are wearing the blue flannel uniform.
 The ratings of the men who enlist are various. Apprentices, of course, are not actively in the service, though a large proportion of the 1,6oo now at Newport, Mare Island, etc, can be used to man the ships even now. The grades above apprenticeship for which men enlist are chiefly landsmen, ordi- nary seaman, seaman and coal passer. The pay of these is SIG, $19, S24 and $22, respectively. Bremen. sailmalSers, shipwrights. etc, receive more.
 The landsman is man who has no knowledge of sea life. He must be na- tive born and between IS and 25 years of age. The ordinary seaman must have been at sea at least two years and
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deaths and assertions. Each landsman when he reports for duty is assigned to one of the four or five divisions aboard the ship. He is taken below, shown where to find his hammock and where to sling it and the locker in which to stow his clothing. He gets a ribbon with the name of the ship which he puts on his cap, and he is ready for his duties.
 These are simple at first. He assists in coaling the ship. He is assigned to q place in gun crew, and he learns all the duties of the gun, but particularly those which are to fall to him. He is told to keep certain part of the big gun clean, this being known as 'brightening. He learns all the drills, including those with side-arms, pistols and broadswords. All this drilling and breaking i'll is done by the petty off, cers, with the assistance of some of the older men, who are quick at licking a new man into shape. It is not done very gently, and the new man is made to feel the rigor of a severe discipline.
 A'ASA hS 4S eiSSi iiCu tO d bOdt, III which he is to pull specified oar; and he practices rowing until he can feath- CT and pull strong stroke without crab-catching.
 After month or six weeks of study ing the school of the sailor, the, new man is fit for general duties aboard ship. But there is much about reefng, steering, knotting, splicing and the other details of sailors work which he has to pick up in odd hours, and he is fortunate if he understands enough of it to take an ordinary seaman's rating at the end of his three years service.
 The sailors life is busy one. Here is his daily routine: He turns out at 5: 30 o'clock in the morning and lashes and slows his hammock in seven minutes. Then he eats a continental breakfast a cup of coffee, roll After this he scrubs his clothing or he cleans ship
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intelligent and well-dressed young men offer themselves as candidates for the blue uniform. With the growth of war rumors following the sinking of the Maine, the number of applications was increased very largely.
 Most of these applicants have been found unfit for service. Twenty-three thousand men and 2,600 boys were re- jected for physical disability and other causes last year--more than four-fifths of the applications. The physical de- fects which are q bar to service in the nary in time of peace include im- paired yisiorS impaired hearing, defee- tive teeth, communicable diseases and Q long catalogue of weaknesses or chronic ailments. For Jackie" is re guired by the regulations to be ''of TO- bust frame, intelligent, and of perfect ly sound and healthy constitution. It was 250 of this class of citizens. native and adopted. that went to death in Ha- yana harbor.
 At convenient points along the coast, where there are naval stations, are placed receiving ships-old hulks. once serviceable in tire wooden navy, but
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the supper call is sounded. At six the men are called to evening quarters, when everything is examined to see that it is secure for the night. Then the sailors sling their hammocks and for the intervening time until nine o'clock they may amuse themselves as they like. Some of them spend the time playing cards, some in athletic games, some with concertina or violin, some in smoking and ',yarning." The sailor is great talker, and he seems to have as much to say at the end of his three-years' term as he had at the be- ginning. In this particular he is diff 'ferent from the officers of the ward room, who get heartily tired of each other before cruise is ended
 Jack is not only great talker, but a great eater, and in many cases a good share of his SIG a month goes for food to supplement his regular rations. The ration is reckoned at 30 cents a day and it consists of good, substantial food in what landsman ashore would con- sider liberal quantity. Under the regu- lations, fresh meat and fruit cannot be served oftener than four times d week unless ordered by the surgeon; but this is no privation. for the old tar, accustomed to a diet of hard tack and salt junk, often complains if he is forced to eat soft bread and fresh meat.
 On all ships some of the rations are commuted-that is, drawn in money. At one time it was in the discretion of the captain to commute any of the sailors rations, but the regulations now limit communications to one-fourth of the whole number, and require that the fresh food bought with this commuta- tion money shall be served to all. When the ship is in port, the sailor fares al- most as well as the recruits on the re- ceiving ship. He can use any of his pay for delicacies that he fancies and he is permitted to buy bottled beer and drink it in moderation. No grog has been served aboard the ships of our navy in many years.
 The discipline aboard ship is very strict and it is enforced chiefly through the "class list" Every report for de- linquency goes on the sailors record and according to the number and gray ity of his offenses, he is put in the spe- cial first, first, second, third or fourth class His privileges vary with these classes. In any case, after the indebted ness to the paymaster has been dis charged, the sailor may not draw his first months pay until the day of his discharge. If he is in the special first class, he may draw all subsequent pay as he chooses and when the ship is in port, he has no difficulty getting shore leave every day after his work is done. Privileges decrease down to the fourth class man, who can get shore leave only once in three months and can draw only one-quarter of his paw. There is a cell, known as ''the p7-;e. where the more serious offepses s~e punished by imprisonment, sometimes in single or double irons, but corporal punishment is prohibited by the repu- lations and the cat-o'-nine- tails is an almost forgotten institution.
 Shore leave Is q coveted privilege of the recruit. If his ship is on the China station or the Mediterranean, is gives
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worthless in these days of big guns. There are Il of these ships, at New York, Boston, Washington, Philadel- phia, San Francisco, etc. The busiest Of them is the Vermont, which is sta toned at New York under command of Capt. Merrill Miller. X majority of the naval recruits come from New York city.
 It is an impressive scene when seven or eight young men gather in Capt. Niiller's office, hat i'll hand, to take the oath which completes their enlistment. It is the last step which virtually cuts them off from freedom for three long years. However little they may like the service, once they have taken the oath, they stay aboard ship for 36 months or lose their citizenship and risk imprisonment at Boston. How irksome the privation of his independ- ence may be to the sailor is shown by the fact that 1,149 men gave up their citizenship actual or prospective last year rather than serve out their enlist ment.
 You do solemnly swear" says Capt. Miller, holding the Bible in both hands as he stands before the lit~ tie group of recruits; and with right
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sometimes the former, but always the latter. The ships deck must be kept as clean as sand and water will make it; and every day the paint must pc scrubbed, Every day, too, a detail ol sside-cleaners" goes over the paint on the outside of the ship and makes II clean.
 At eight o'clock the regular break fast cali is sounded. An hour is given to each meal, and in what part of tais hour he is not eating Jack can do as ne likes.
 After breakfast, which io always substantial meal, Jack, who has been working in his suit of white, puts on his blue uniform and appears in It at sick call. This call is for those who have slight ailments, who are examined by the surgeon and prescribed for and sent to the hospital.
 After sick call the sailor has to pol Ssh the bright work of the big gun and the small arms until 9:3o, when the whole crew is called to order for ln- spection by the captain. At this ln- SIScJiOu ally S<tliOA NAAS, NtN'9 N~ ance may voice it to the captain and be sure of hearing and fair treat ment.
 After the inspection there is drill for half hour or more. It may run up to an hour and a half. and if the captains breakfast disagrees with him it is quite as likely to be the longer period. Brutality in the navy now finds it's vent in drilling the men until they are near ly dead from exhaustion, and cap tain who overworlSs his men can usual ly be told by the number of assertions from his ship.
 After gun drill, or drill with the small arms, the dinner call is sounded at 12 o'clock. An hour later the men may be ordered to man the boats. Some of them may be put at repair work, which is always going on aboard ship, or at other duties. There is always plenty to keep them busy till five o'clock, when
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1 ter or one-half this amount, but even $1o,000 per hour is a tidy sum to payfor smoke
 The arrangements for supplying powder to the big guns of the navy and the coast defenses involve great ez pense and are of vital importance in case of actual war, but they are little known to most people. While all fig ures as to the amount of powder that would be used in any sea-fght mustbe largely conjectural, it doesn't take mathematical genius to understand that if a modern battleship can use from 50 to 75 tons of powder in an hour it would require more of the explosive to last through couple of naval en- agreements than was once used to carry on an entire war. A good many per sons think of all powder as being Tn the form of fine grains such as IS used III ordinary shotguns or for blasting pul' poses. Others whose memory extenos back to the civil war recall the "canhon powder" of that time, which was Tn the form of half-inch cubes about the szs and shape of lozenges. As matter oi fact, the powder of the present day very different from this. A gram ol the kind used in the big guns IS naas in the form of hexagon about an men in diameter with a cylindrical hols through the center. The purpose oi this hole is to make the powder bu'a faster, since the fire is able to get all' from every side. It is dark brown II color, except that used for ignltng which is black. The smolzeless poWael' which is the only kind used in the rap'u. firing guns and is coming into la'oi for those of larger caliber, IS maae Il flat yellow strips about ten inches lons which look like a small paper-ruler, ,s ', in hollow cylinders for all the Woi'u like pieces of macaroni.
 In the factory the blocks of poWus, are packed into flat wooden cases ilneu with tin. Where the sides of the cass fit on, small slightly raised band VI 7. rubber runs about the edge, making the box air and water tight when l'lI closed. Thence it is shipped to one u ', the government store-houses, ot wll'eA there are eight in different parts ol 'nV country-at Portsmouth, N. H., 0lsr sea, Mass. Fort Wadsworth, in AsN York harbor, Fort Mullin on the Cnesa. peake, the Norfolk navy yard fensa cola, Fla, and Mare Island, Cal. ..
 The Dover storehouse is the prlps, pal one, and it is doubtful if all sl,. !. others put together contain as muen z. this one. It is located on the goYe1n ment's military reservation among 7r sas Dover mountains in northern New oe.. sey, eight miles from the nearest lons. A mile away from the buildings ~ every side are red signs announclns s,. United States Naval Powder Mag zine-No SmolSing". ,,. Here are stored million and q l'a., ifo1nds of powder, enough to blow e'a. ssh. the surrounding mountains into nos1 ssat ingness should any untoward accl.ss. ,.S. ever set it off. But there is little aar ger of that, for the government ress, a;. vation extends for miles in eltne. ...,,c ii, rection and the spot is careiah. .ho watched by the men on guard ss .ss carefully inspect the contents ol II building every day. - -'.''.
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must pass an examination. The sea man must have had four years experi- ence and his examination is more rigor- ous. The prentice, when he reaches the age of 21, is usually qualified for . seaman's rating. The landsman, after three years, if he reenlists, becomes an ordinary seaman and may be pro- noted a year later to the higher grade. A reenlistment at any rating brings increase of pay.
 Above the grade of seaman is that of petty officer, to which the seaman may be promoted. He has no hope, as the soldier has, of earning a eomfnis- sion in time of peace; though in war anything is possible.
 The man who enlists is usually with out dollar in the world. Within a few mnutes after he has left the captains office he is in debt to the navy depart ment S4o.o3, the price of his outfit. This outfit is delivered to him by the pay masters clerk or yeoman, after the re- cruit has been measured by the Der
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tillon system, and he proceeds imme- diately to put on his new togs. His blue uniform he finds lacks one fea- ture. There is no ribbon around the cap showing in gilt letters the name of the ship to which he belongs. That will not come until he is assigned. Mean time he need not worry about the fig ure he will cut with his friends, for he will not have shore leave until he has worked out the price of his outfit. That may be in four months, ans it may not be in five or six. Forty dol lars is a big debt when your pay is only SIG month.
 Breaking the landsman in to sea duty on receiving ship is not dis agreeable business on either side. The men. as rule, are enthusiastic about the service, and though the old-timers may guy them little no hazing is permitted The fare they get is quite good-better, in fact, than they can ex- pect to get when they are away from land. Here are two sample days from Capt. Miller's printed menu:
 SUNDAY.
 BREAKFAST. Baked Beans or Eggs, Fresh Bread,
 Butter, Coffee.
 DINNER. Roast Meat, Potatoes Sweet and Irish), Vegetables, Pie or Fruit. (according to season.. Fresh
 Bread, Coffee.
 SUPPER. Cold Roast Meat, Potatoes, Pickles. etc..
 Fresh Bread. Butter. Tea.
 FRIDAY.
 BREAKFAST
 Fresh Bread, Butter, Coffee Fish or Eggs (according to marlzeD.
 DINNER Fish, Roast Beef. Peas. Beans. Potatoes.
 Fresh Bread, Coffee.
 SUPPER Cheese, Rice Pudding. Fruit or yege- tables (according to market)). Fresh
 Bread. Butter. Tea. The raw recruit has to earn this food and his SIG pay by cleaning the decks,
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polishing the brasses and doing other plain work about the ship, and by practicing the infantry drill and the settihg-up drill every day. But for the most part the period just after enlist ment is period of idleness. The lands man learns to sling his hammock and is educated in the language of the bells, the boatswain's whistle and the bugle; but beyond that he is. not kept very busy. If he is an enthusiast, though, as most raw recruits are, he welcomes the day when he is assigned to duty, and, singing his "ditty bag' over his shoulder, he starts away with squad of bluejackets to take the train for Norfolk or whatever the point may be at which his ship is waiting. There he goes aboard, reports and is entered on the list of the ships crew.
 A fixed number of men is assigned to each ship-so many landsmen, so many ordinary seamen, so many seamen, and so on through all ratings. There is always a small shortage, due to
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UNCLE sAM's POWDER s,,..
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T It takes $50 pounds of powdar : q charge from a 13-inch gun. fbeIa Y a's carried by any of the shins of navy. The Indiana, Oregon and dr " each have an armament of fonr 1s' la0sl| eight eight-inch and four six.inob ,.ea besides small rapid-fire rifles TS1 ua fore every time the heaviest euns lsa' os ' of these big ships speak toeetbas v ~ uas ton of powder is turned into not6;s ness. It takes 114 pounds to snaed ! eight-inch shells and 50 pounds a9 s those of the six-inch guns. At twa,s ~ seven cents per pound, the ordinss, contract price which Uncle Sam s' nssl for his powder, a single round from sl' ss' Indiana costs him almost 5000. Y The 13-inch guns can be fired A.. every six minutes, while those of N six-inch caliber can be discharged nass ~ ly thirty times as fast. Figuripg s E, this capacity, the Indiana is eapaF < consuming so tons of powder in m bos, at cost of $4o,ooo It is probable Ss tSs in an engagement the actual consum. ton would not be more than one-m.,