The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-31
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amazing price, and for chapel TO cost an
equal sum. \ fine new building for mid
shipments quarters is almost under roof.
and Will be completed by october OF next
year A $4,000 stable has been let 10 con-
tractors, and workuen are now engaged IN
tearing down the dozen houses facing the
campus, which have been used for quarters
by the officers and professors. They are TO
be replaced by fine stone buildings OF the
most modern type. A long seawall has been
started. and a number OF acres or water
front have been acquired for the use OF the
academy.
Even now the academy has outgrown its
chapel. During the summer. while the three
upper classes were absent on cruise. the
members OF the new class attended services
in the regular chapel, but since the return
Of the rest OF the midshipmen. last month,
armory, which will seat nearly ten thousand
people. In the dormitories the boys are
sleeping two in room, and they are dining
in temporary frame buildings CONSTRUCTED
for the purpose.
WHAT THE FRESHMAN LEARNS
The members of the new class have been
at the academy since the final results OF
the examinations were announced In June.
The successful candidate Immediately be-
comes a member OF the school. and an en-
listed man in the naval service of the
United States. He is generally surprised TO
learn that there are no vacations. and that
family for fifteen months. Not even ar
Christmas can he go, for then there Is but
one day. In place of his summer holiday
he remains at Annapolis 10 get his first
clicking into shape There is not much
study: but there Is vast amount OF
physical exercise, beginning at o'clock
i'm the morning when the "bugle busts
and lasting until the same bugle sounds.
taps, and he must be in bed with lights
out. And at $50 he is apt to be ready for
bed He has been drilling, and rowing.
ar,aiu lQ1 rn knots
under the eye OF an instructor, running
steam launch. sailing. pulling in cutter.
racing in scull shouldering hrag-
Jorgensen, dragging around small ord
nance piece. and doing other strenuous
things too numerous TO recite.
The first week or two finds the new mid
die with eight blisters on each hand and
every muscle i'm his body stin and sore.
Unless he is rather strong he probably has
tainted while standing attention. This
standing at attention. which means as stiff
as a ramrod and as still as a stone. he finds
harder than he had imagined And faint
ing brings him no sympathy. He gets a
dash of water in the face, and when he
comes to he is stood up I'm the line again
to stand out his time.
And the meals are not as good as he had
at home. For breakfast he gets rolls, cof-
fee, boiled meat which he often does not
eat. blush milk and oatmeal, all the year
around. He fares better at dinner, but the
supper is like breakfast; These meals are
provided at a cost OF about 10 cents each,
and this is deducted from the salary or
$500. which he is paid by the government
while at the academy. His clothes also.
which are all prescribed, are furnished by
the government and the cost deducted from
the annual allowance.
BY autumn the members of the new class
have learned 10 drill. and have become
familiar with the discipline and customs OF
the academy. They have all been fitted
with their uniforms, and have learned TO
brace" that is TO square up their
shoulders until they can scarcely be dis
tinguished from the upper classmen. The
blisters have turned TO callouses. and they
no longer feel stiff. In fact they begin 10
feel too strong for comfort They want TO
be doing something strenuous all the time.