The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-13

there. Here he takes a special course
of instruction which fits him for a
petty officers billet as nothing else
can.
His education is rounded out and
completed as much as schools can
complete any ones education, and.
after graduation, he is pretty sure, il
he stays in the navy when his appren-
ticeship is ended, to become warrant
officer eventually.
The position of warrant officer is
most honorable, responsible and we'll
paid one, carrying a salary of from
$1,000 to 81 800 a year. When you
come to consider that out of this the
warrant officer, unless he should get
married, has no house rent to pay AID
his food and clothing costs him only
a trifing sum, it is at the lowest call
culation more than equal to $l,50O TO
$1,000 in any civil employment.
If a first class apprentice develops
a liking for electrical engineering he
is sent to one of the electrical schools
of the government, where he gets a
technical education for which, outside,
he would have to pay much money
but which, as he is one of Uncle Sam S
apprentices, he gets for nothing and
is even paid for getting it.
By the time his apprenticeship is
pnOeQ at the age VI - a ivy wiz heA9
gone through one of the navy electri-
cal schools has a profession which,
whether he stays in the service or not,
will afford him a good living all the
rest of his life.
He should stay in the navy, though.
Every boy who becomes an apprentice
should stay in the navy. Uncle sam
has educated him and has claim on
his services.
Besides, after going through the ap-
prentice course, he is better fitted by
habit and methods of thought for the
navy than he is for civil life, and in
the service everything is sure.
He has not to worry or TO struggle
with the competition of the world. His
future is secure beyond the reach of
misfortune.
At Washington and Newport there
are schools for the instruction of sea-
man gunners and torpedo experts, and
apprentices of the first class whose
tastes run in those directions are sent
to those schools for special instruction.
These schools are popular with the
apprentices, for every boy is ambi-
tious to become a good seaman gun
ner, and out of seaman gunners are
made gunners mates, and finally gun
ners the latter of whom are warrant
officers.
The study of torpedo warfare is a
most fascinating one, and appeals es-
pecially to brave and energetic young
men. These special schools are the
high schools of the training system,
and after a boy has been through
one of them he is not only fitted to
| obey with intelligence, but to command
with knowledge.
il is because the training system is
thus perfected that Admiral Dewey
was able to say that If every commits
stoned officer on board an American
man-of-war were killed off in battle
the ship would not be helpless, for the
enlisted men could handle her intelli-
| gently.
The practice of giving apprentices
acting appointments as petty officers
as soon as they become proficient IN
! their duties on board "A sea-going man.
of-war early develops IN them self
reliance and brings out their powers
and abilities in different directions. II
| also b. "a great stimulous 10 the boys q
study hard and 20 behave well
Where rs the boy now loaiing about
| home with uncertain prospects before
/ him. who would not contemplate VIII
keen delight the certain prospect 81
commanding real men on board rea
/ batiieship, before be De- tWeniy7one.
While she boy in ciFii life q SAL a
I school learning biz trade ne naFh
opp cufice is sailing around the Norle
I in position 0f responsibility ana hu'
/ thufitF
90 fhc day before be is twenty zone
the apprentice receives bls discharge