The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1910-01-21
III HE ocean liners are not the
only ships to have floating
newspapers and periodicals
nowadays. Some of Uncle
Sans hattleships which lust


completed their globe cir
cling voyage have their own maya
zines, and not few of the magazines
are so we'll got up as to look as if they
were published ashore instead of
afloat.
Of course they are not regularly rec
ogn1zed as official journals by the
navy department and are published
under a strict censorship exercised by
the executive officers Of the ship, but
this extra work on the part of the
printers is generally encouraged be-
cause 1t brightens up life CT battle
ship, gives a lot of amusement t. all
hands and makes the printer a popu-
lar fellow. There Is regular grade
now for printers in the navy. They
rank as second-class petty officers. get
$38.5O a month, and some of them
have lot of time to themselves as
compared with the regular enlisted
men.
The printer does not have anything
else to do but attend to the ships
printing, but If his ship be flagship
this may keep him busy On some of
the fagships two printers are en-
ployed.
When the grade was first estab-
l1shed about ten years ago the printers
were employed on flagships, + It now
other ships have them as we'll, and on
these the printers have a lot of time
on their hands. Publishing a paper
and selling it for ten cents a COPY adds
quite bit to their pay. they have
found.
The printers are generally the pub
fishers and editors as we'll, and with
lAe1r departure from the ship the pub
ication dies. Consequently there ere
frequent changes in man-o-war lou
nalism. 1t is only In the last six or
seven years that these ships maya
zines have come into vogue, but there
Is quite list of them, and their names
are ( -erally suggestive of the ships
on which they are published. For T.
stance, the Wisconsin pa2e is the
RaIgc-, the Washington has the
Cherry Tree and Ratchet. the Colo
RADIO lad the Big Stick and the Penn
sylvania the Liberty Bell.
One Of the first of these magazines
to mike its appearance and one which
had the longest life was the Kentucky
Budget, published on the battleship
Kentucky. Its first issue was in Ie
ceClber, 1904, and it wound up its
career last June, after the fleet en-
tered San Francisco bay, with a SOD
venir number in blue and gold. con-
tanning many half-tone illustration,
and a complete account of the cruise
around South America.
1t meant lot of hard work for Louis
Kline the Kentucky's printer, getting
out the Budget so as not to ,i;cappofrt
its subscribers and contributors. but
he kept at it for three years and a
half, and it never missed an issue. i
began, to be sure, as semi-monthly.
p wound up as monthly, but the
ch:nge was more than compensated
for by the adding of several pages and
new features. one of these being illus
trations. In fact, the Budget set the
pace for deep sea journalism pretty
much, for until the appearance of the
Budget not much had been attempted
in this line.
Besides having first-class printer.
up to all the tricks of the trade, for its
publisher. the Budget had an editor-in-
chief who was poet and paragraph
er. He was w. r. Mcleod, the Ken
tucky's electrician. Its title page was
a picture Of the Kentucky shooting at
a target and was done in colors. This
was the work of another electrician
on the ship.
1T will always be our aim," said the
Budget in it's first issue, Ito produce a
clean, wholesome and interesting little
sheet, ever looking to Improvement.
and at no time will any article be al
lowed in these columns which would