The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-09
Big SHIP TO BIZ ABOYS' SCHOOL.
pennsylvania IN YACHT TRIM
READY FOR STUDY CRUISE.
Liner Chartered In Place OF Unfinished
Young AmeriCa-Nayy Man al the Helm
Harvard Man for Pilot I'm Learning
Ports That 40 Boys VIII VISIT


The transformed American liner Penn
sylvania looking yacht-like in her spo tless
garb OF white, arrived yesterday from
Philadelphia and anchored of the foot OF
West Thirty-fifth street, with Lieutenant
Commander c. II. Harlow Of the navy at
the helm. She is not so handsome as some
OF the later twin screws Of Yankee con-
struction, but she Is just as stanch as In
the days when she piled between Phia-
delphia and Liverpool, and more modern
In equipment even than she was few years
ago when she was a breezy transport plying
| between Manila and San Francisco. She
has the distinction Of being the first ocean
steamship that will be a boys school ahoat.
1t was the intention OF the originators
Of the unique institution to have in COM
mission this fall a ship-rigged, ocean going
steamship, the Young America, to take
25O boys into the most interesting ports Of
the world, giving them, incidentally, the
instruction that all boys in preparatory
schools receive, with the addition OF nautical
teaching that cannot be obtained ashore.
But the depression in shipbuilding and
labor troubles made it impossible to finish
the Young America this year, 30 the "Nau-
teal Preparatory School, which is iucor-
porated under the laws Of Rhode Island,
decided, in order to fulfil its promise, to
charter the Pennsylvania for the current
school year.
The head master Of the ocean school is
John Fuller Kent, famous first baseman
OF the Harvard ball team in the days when
Harvard had habit of winning things
His assistants are among the best Of New
England teachers in all branches OF the
classics and instructors of reputation in
the languages and sciences. Prof. Kent
and several Of his assistants were aboard
the Pennsylvania yesterday and showed
over the ship a throng OF visitors, includ-.
ing some friends of 2l0 students who will
take the trip.
Every boy who takes passage aboard
the Pennsylvania, Lieutenant-I commander
Harlow said. will be just as safe as If he
were in port above foundation of stone
and brick She will never go from haven
when storm signals are displayed, and she
may never meet any weather worth noting
except in the period of ten or twelve days
Weather Bureau.
Then the boys must take chances which
are mighty small aboard a sturdy ship
Like the Pennsylvania. Every boy has
decks and locker in which he may stow
the journal ofhis cruise, provided the journal
Is not Of undue proportions. The former
saloon Of the ship has been changed into |
an airy dining room that will make the |
heart Of any boyglad If he has not tendency |
to seasickness.
The boys will all be called cadets" and |
will wear uniforms furnished by the school |
that will make them feel as il they were
real sea rovers who can box the compass
with their left hands tied behind them.
Old navigators who used to think that
merely crossing the Western Ocean was
worth writing a two volume |
history about, might be surprised If they
could get up in their clinging SEQ cere-
ments and see the Yankee youngsters
from every part Of the republic going al
most around the world in nine months
and civilized ports to see how the multi
form business of the planet are conducted
and to practice the languages that they
have learned afioat on folks who have
lisped them as babies.
The Pennsylvania will be in port several
days. Then she will sail for Providence,
where she will take aboard more than 200
pupils. Departing from Providence on
Sept Is, the Pennsylvania will go to Hall
fax. Thence she will proceed to the
and Orkneys. Some other places
that she will touch will be Copenhagen.
Havre, London, Lisbon, Cadiz,
Barcelona. Marseilles, Genoa.
Naples, Algiers. and all heimportant islands
Of the West Indies.
There will be weekly lectures by the
experts aboard ship, and all the visits to
places famous in history will be under the
supervision Of instructors who have made
he places study.