The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-12-11
PLAN FOR SCHOOL.
Government Will Expend Vast Sum
in the Construction of Training
School on Lakes.
TO BE A WESTERN ANNAPOLIS
City Named for the Site of the Proposed In
stitution Will Receive Much Govern
ment Patronage.

AS kenOShd is taxing al dCtlVS III
terest in the fight for the Training
Station on the lakes the people of the
city will be greatly interested IN the
plans for the station which Washing
ton dispatch gives out in the following:
If the people of the Northwest were
as much interested in the plan for the
Establishment of Naval framing
station IL the Great Lakes region as
are the officials IN the department here
there would be much greater rivalry
among the towns offering sites for
such station. The enterprise is one
not only of National importance, but
the station will be of such magnitude
as to be of special interest and value to
a wide range of country that may be
tributary to it. In many respects
Naval Training station IS OF mitch
more local interest and commercial
value to the community than IS the Ma
val academy at Annapolis.
There is every reason to believe that
when the decision is made regarding
the location of the Naval training
station on the Great Lakes Secretary
Moody of the Navy department., will
urge upon Congress the most liberal
appropria tons for grounds, buildings
and equipments in order that the sta
| ton shall be not only a credit to the
Government, but an attractive feature
in that great enterprise which keeps
Uncle Sam busy a large part of the
year, namely the supplying of young
men for service in the Naval army of
| this great Government at sea. The
| United States now has two Naval
Training stations, one at Newport, r.
T., and the other at San Francisco.
Naval officers have long been ifa-
| pressed with the idea that hundreds of
bright, ambitious and physically
capable young men could be obtained
for the Navy in the Northwest. This
| fact has been demonstrated IN many
ways. Some of the best officers in
the United States Navy came from the
cities and towns on the Great Lakes
region. Hundreds of young men an
nually find their way from the Middle
West to the Naval Training stations
on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts or
are sent from recruiting stations IN the
inland towns to receiving ships that
are sent to sea to give the ambitious
youngsters actual and practical train
ing in the life of an American seaman.
1t is the opinion of Secretary Moody,
which is Endorsed by Admiral Taylor,
the technical officer of the Navy de-
partment, who is at the head of the
bureau Of navigation, that's Congress
will be liberal in the purchase of
ground and the erection of buildings
and equipment for the training station
on the lakes. 1t will require for this
station probably $50 acres of land bor-
| dering GA the lake, at point accessl-
| bic to vessels of reasonable draught
and within a radius of few miles
| from transportation facilities to the
Interior country. The buildings will
| include home for the commandant of
the station, who is invariably com
missioned officer in the United States
| Navy, and whose abode must befit the
dignity of such an officer. In addition
there will be dormitories, supply ware
houses, sail lofts, sleeping apartments
and all the necessary out buildings to
accommodate little village, in the
matter of population, as probably 1000
Naval apprentices will be housed dur
ing a season at the training station.
In addition there will be supplied large
vessels with rigging outfit suited for
instruction in sail equipment and APP
planes. Other boats to be provided
include launches and smaller sailing
craft and rowboats in which the young
men will receive instructions TO be.
come oarsmen. In addition to this
equipment there is to be supplied the
gunnery outfit in which the rudiments
of the use of Streams, of large and
small ca1iber, will be part of the Ma
val instructions.