Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-09
REVENUE CUTTER
 SCHOOL STARTED.
Schoolship Itasea Comes to Fort Trur-
 buii, at New London.

With the arrival at New London on Saturday of the schoolship Itasca of the revenue cutter service from an ex- tended foreign cruise, the headquarters of the revenue cutter training school for cadets was established in New London.
 The former location of the school, at Arundel, near Baltimore, Md. has been abandoned, and Fort Trumbull now be- comes the barracks.
 The Itasca on its foreign cruise car ried 51 cadets and visited England and ports in the Mediterra and the Azores. As New London was the first American port visited after the trip from foreign waters the ship had to pass through quarantine. Health Off, cer Dr. J. T. Black went aboard the Itasca and gave her a clean bill of health and she came in early Monday morning.
 There is satisfaction in the location at Fort Trumbull of the revenue school. It is the continuation of more than a years effort to get the depart Forbes of the W. D. Forbes company led the movement. With the location of the marine school at the navy yard and the revenue school at Fort Trum- bull New London is coming into naval prominence again.
 Already it has been figured out that the school will mean at least Sl00,ooo annually to New London merchants. It
 
 greater prestige, besides adding one more to the various institutions the government has seen fit to establish in this district. With it's coming and with the recent opening of a school for marines at the New London navy yard, the section of the Atlantic coast from Narrasansett bay to New York looms large in training facilities Tor Uncle Sam's- soldiers. sailors and all- round handy men.
 The United States revenue service school is to the treasury department what West Point and Annapolis are, respectively, to the war and navy de- partments.. In it are trained all ofh- cers for the service, which is said to be more attractive than either the army or the navy. At present the school at Arundel Cove numbers about sixty cadets, with a faculty of ten offi- cers.
 The requirements for entrance are that all applicants shall be American citizens from IS to A years of age They must have a high school educa- tion and must attain a satisfactory mark in all the entrance examinations Applicants for the engineering depart ment must be graduates of a technical school. not under 21 nor over 27 years old.
 The course. both regular and engi- neering, covers a period of three years. The studies are quite similar to those at Anna polls and are as dimcult- Upon the successful completion Of their work all the line graduates are com n1issioned third lieutenants. which cor = responds to the rank Of second lieu tenant in the army. The pay for the first year is $2.000. with an increase of 10 per cent. every five years, dating from entrance into the service
 The rank of first lieutenant in the revenue cutter service is equal to that of a captain in the army. A first lieu tenant receives salary of $2.4eo year, while a captain gets $3.0oo his first year, with gradual increases until he reaches the maximum of $4.000.
 When stationed ashore officers are allowed from S7OO to $1,200 in addition to their regular salaries. The engineer cadets after graduation serve for the first six months at salary of SIS a month with one ration, equivalent to 30 cents a day. If they measure up to the reqired standard drinE those six months they are eligible to become third lieutenants, with the same pay third lieutenant of the line receives. The different ranks for engineers ex- tend up as far as captain.
 It is estimated that it will cost be-