The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-27
CITY NEWS
SEEING The WORLD.
Letters from Cruising Naval APP
prentices Indicate That They
Like the Service.
Their Lot in Striking Contrast With
That Of the 0ld-Time
Apprentices.

Training Ship Hartford, Algiers, AZ.
RIGA. Nov. %. 1902.-Dear Father and
Mother--I am having fine time seeing
the many wonderful sights and taking in
some mighty funny things. too Algiers
is a very interesting place as the pictures
I send"
So begins letter written by one Of the
appretices or boy beginners who enlisted
few months go in Chicago just many
boys are now enllst1ng in Minneapolis
through the naval recruiting station at
the federal building.
The little tars are much more fortunate
than was the wicked lad "of yesterday.
Once it was the juvenile fashion to put
an overcoat, a suit of Clothes a Bible and
a fshline inside a pocket handkerchief
and then set sail as cabin boy upon a
brigantine. When far from land the boy
was addressed with profanity and boat
hooks and was struck carelessly with
marlinspikes.
He would share his hammock with gray
rats, would. drink bilge water to the health
of the loud and red-nosed bosn and would
dine upon salt horse" and ships biscuit,
after he had caught them in a corner
Nowadays. however, every ships
lormen. both little and big, are as happy
as they're brave and as brave as they are
blue.
"They never do bow down
TO a don1ineering frown
Or the tang of a tyrant tongue.
Not, at least. if we are to believe Our
Naval Apprentice twenty-page month
ly devoted to the interests OF appren,
tees and ex-apprentices Of the United
States navy and published at the ma
val station. Newport. R. I. On the first
page is seen the portrait Of a small boy
clinging to a rope and saying. with
smile, 'Sai oh!'' Below this pictorial
affidavit one reads a letter from Appren-
tice B. j. Buckly. He takes his pen in
hand" at Athens, Greece. He writes, We
are having a fine time on this ship ana the
best of treatment. On Thanksgiving
Day we had a dinner of small chicken
for each boy, a bowl of cocoa, plum dun,
etc., all we could wish for The best OF II
is, we've got a fine lot of fellows on board
this Ship
the editor what happiness the writers
sons now find in learning to brandish
cutlass above the salty wave. In his
last letter." declares this father OF Walter
L. Studd 'Walter tells us of his delight
full cruise of the beautiful climate upon
the Mediterranean. and Of the many for
eign sights He has never written home
one discontented word, but his letters al
ways contain indication of great content
and happiness. of the good food, the abso-
lutte cleanliness Of everything, and the
kindness of the officers
Even the mothers of the boys are more
than satisfed-and mothers are not easily
pleased ."I am so happy" writes Mrs.
Mary V. O'Connor of Washington, D. c.
II am so delighted to know that my boy
is cont ented, and that he enjoyed SO much
his cruise abroad. He speaks in the high
est terms Of his officers
Young Minneapolitans who yearn to
present arms with a ten-inch gun and
ol.o t,,1,, fc md bn nj GRO
informed at the federal building that they
cannot enlist if they are less that Is years
old or more than 16. If they feel that
they are insane of Intoxicated, they need
not apply. They should not have torti-
coils or -four decayed molar teeth They
must read and write, they must be intelli-
gent and sound; they must present the
consent of parents or guardians, and must
agree to serve until they are each q years
old.
If accepted. the boy will be styled a
third class apprentice, and will be paid 50
a month. He will be put to no expense,
of course, for his lodging or his food. He
will receive medical attendance free. At
ter the first year he will pay for his
clothing. But on entering the service he
will obtain $45 worth of clothes, or enough
to last twelve months.
From Minneapolis the apprentices will
go to Newport or some other receiving
Indies Europe. or some other faro off
place, upon a training ship. Then, per-
haps, he will write letters home insisting
that he could pass his lifetime in the
crows nest
Afterwards he will be promoted to the
rank or rating" Of second-class appren-
tice. and will be assigned to cruiser or
a battleship.
Thenceforth, as he prospers, he may
hold, in succession, numerous posts, and
he may learn to draw $40 a month as chief
machinist or chief commissary steward.
He can have little hope of securing a
commission although, under the new ma
val regulations, this is no longer an impos-
sibility.
The recruiting station now adorns the
federal building with the gold lace. the
mapping collars, of Lieutenant j. P. J.
Ryan, Assistant Surgeon Donald McCord,
Chief Master at-Arms John Collins Chief
Machinist Walter Scott, Electrician ]. 3.
Mcintyre, Hospital Steward Frank Card
ner, Yeomen III. r. Burk and F. E. Adams.
and Hospital Apitnerp d-ahESnagegiu tn
and Hospital Apprentice p H. Minard.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Emily Kopesky and husband to Frank Zrust.
IN section 2. township 116 range % S4OO