The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-16
More Men Wanted For the Navy.

Washington, July I3.-Uncle Sam
will soon call upon South Carolina TO
aid him in recruiting the 5000 men
that comprise the addition to the en-
listed branch Of the service author
lied by congress in the recent naval
appropriation law. Instructions have
been issued to D. G.. Hanrahan, now
stationed at the Brooklyn navy yard
to make tour of The south this sum
mer with recruiting party to make
enlistments Ensign Hanrahan ex-
poets to reach Columbia about the
latter part of this month and will
spend at least week in the capital
city where he will open recruiting
station. The party will first go to
Lynchburg, Va, where they will es-
tablish station on July 10. From
th ere they 60 to North Carolina, stop
ping at Charlotte and Raleigh and
thence to Columbia. After making
enlistments at the latter point the
programme calls for a stop in Char
lesion Aug. 4, remaining there until
Aug. 8, when they cross the line and
spend some time in Georgia. Ala
bama will be the next State visited
and thence Ensign HanTahan aud his
party will open rendezvouses in Mis-.
sissippi, Louisiana and Tennessee.
So successful was tte party which
visited Columbia last summer in charge
of Lieut.. George G. Mitchell in max
ing enlistments for the navy that it is
expected Ensign Hanrahan will find
South Carolina fertile field for work
ing, and should the number of enlist
ments guarantee it he will prolong bis
stay in Columbia IN order to give as
many as desire it an opportunity to
enlist.
All applicants will be required to
stand physical. examination and if
successful they will be immediately
enlisted in the service and dispatched
to training station, possibly Port
Royal, which the navy department has
been using for that purpose recently.
The new ships for which men will
be required are the battleship Maine,
now nearing completion at the sorks
of Cramp Il Sons, Philadelphia, and
the monitors Arkansas, under con.
struction at Newport News, Va, the
Nevada: which the Bath Iron Works
are building at Bath, Me-, the Florida,
ready for her preliminary trials, built
by Lewis Nixon. at Elizabethport, n.
D., and the Wyoming, building at
San Francisco. Besides the torpedo
boat destroyers already accepted, there
are thirteen which will shortly be
turned over to the government. Seven
torpedo boats are also soon to be de-
livered to the government and it is a
problem where sufficient men are to be
obtained to enable the placing in com.
mission of all these new vessels. It
is estimated that there are $4,000
Inhabitants in the cities which Ensign
Hanrahau will visit and the depart
ment hopes 60 obtain from this num-
her fair percentage Of recruits.
Formerly it was the policy of the
navy department to work only the sea.
faring population Of the United States
for recruits but all idea that such re-
cruits are better suited to the service
was abandoned some time ago aud now
the department scours the country,
sea coast and inland, to obtain men
for the navy. That the service may
be made as attractive as possible steps
have been taken to improve the status
of the blue jackets. Gun captains
are hereafter to be eligible to advance.
ment which will be quite an induce.
ment for enli liatmapf in tba ear,;oo