The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-08-16
CULVER SAILOR BOYS.
How Young Cadets Develop in Sum
mer on Land and Water-Drills
and Education.

A snowy stretch of canvass on one
of the inviting shores of Winona
Lake, the newspaper workers who
attended the allied editorial rally
found pleasing diversion, now shell
tiers 200 young sailors of the Culver
Naval School, who had been invited
by the editorial associations of In
diana to participate in the features
of the week, gave an insight into one
of the extraordinary military schools
of the country. The sailors took six
cutters to Winona Lake from their
own waters at Lake Maxinkuckee
and with the white sails hoisled gave
some picturesque drills on the waves
ed upon one of the long shady
shores, and found awaiting them a
division of cadets who were armed
with rifles and supported by cannon
and gatling guns, and a stirring
sham battle was fought to the blood
less finish. The editors, too, found
enjoyment in using the large cutters
which the u. S. Government gave
the Culver institution, the newspaper
workers utilizinz the craft for races:
Outside of West Point, the Gov
eminent training school from which
| it replenishes its army, one will not
in the United States find duplicate
of the Culver Academy. Through
the winter it is a military and pre-
paratory school for boys, and
through the summer period of relax
alton it is a naval school for the de-
velopment of growing, active boys
The naval course is attractive to
hundreds of boys from cultured fam
lies, and it has so expanded that il
| has become international in charac-
| ter. Among the sailors who were al
| Winona Lake was a Chinese boy
who was sent to the school by the
Chinese legation at Washington. An
other sailor was from Ecuador
whose expenses were paid by his
government, and five were Mexicans
Twenty-seven states of the Unior
were also represented.
1t is at Lake Maxinkuckee thai
we find these sailors at home While
they are in the summer school fol
only eight weeks, they develop re-
markable talent in their water ane
land drills. They follow rigid regu
lations and the cadets, while younf
in years, within four or five week.
take on the high polish which mark.
well-mannered youth. They seen
perfect in discipline By the tim.
one of them gets out of the summer
naval school he has coat OF tan
has had fine summer on and in thu
water, and he is more than a sailor
he is boy who shows the influence
of healthy, moral atmosphere.
The naval school has had remark
able growth. 1t began four year
ago with twenty-five cadets, and it
future seems under the glowing sun
for its enrollments are now to b.
measured by hundreds. The academ,
was founded in 1894 by H. H. Culve
a philanthropic citizen of ST.. Louis
with a view of helping boys of tn
present day to obtain an education
which would best fit them for colleg
or for business. The school is OF
the north shore OF beautiful LAX
Maxinkuckee, which covers an are
of about twelve square miles, rest
ing in an amphitheatre of fnel
wooded, rolling country. The acad
envy is in a park of forty acres, wit
EGO acres more available as occasion
may demand. The shore is dott
with charming summer homes an
hotels, and 1t is a delightful plac
for learning and recreation for q
| American youth. While Culver is M
a religious institution so far as sup
port from a denomination goes, tn
faculty is made up of Christian me-
who do what they can to keep TIL
school in Christian atmosphere.