New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-04
NEWPORT CADETS
ALL SNAPPED UP
December Class Already
Placed by American
Steamship Companies.

For.v-Avc pairs Of sca legs. support
ing A. many cadets aboard the No"
York state schoolsbip Newport arc go
be tried out on land here to-day.
Weatherbeateu and toughcrcd hy their
eight months cruise .a the Pacific a"A
Atlantic. the boys future otfcer- m
the American merchant marine docH"d
their craft az the East I"onty-iour.h
Street pier yesterday afternoon. Brass
was polished, sails slowed and decks
scrubbed in the twirkling of an eye
and to-day the vacation begins.
I. was wonderful trip. The boys
are certain Of that. They are also GER
tain that they viii DO more than JUS
,.co % a home cooked dinner just rs
soon a. Captain 7. s NcMurray gives
.5em the word they are free. Sea
cooking is all right as far as it goes
hut family dinner served or able
that stands still has It's good points.
The Newport left New York on Mat
+ and since then has covered l5'a''
miles through all sorts OF weather 20
Hawaii and back. Eighty-eight cadets
started on the trip, but when it came
,ime for forty-three Of them 10 be
Graduated I'm December the Newport
was held up at Balboa by the slides IN
tho Panama Canal, so the senior class
was sent up on another BOAT. The
"new mugs" as the juniors are called
navigated the schoolship back.
BELIEVE me" said ono Of the cadets
yesterday. at was some trip. ! don't
l,ow what was the best part Of il. On
the Fourth Of July we were at Mount
Kilauea. and you couldn't want m''"
botter fireworks than that. We had
Thanksgiving at Balboa, Christmas al
sea. lust off Colon, and Ne" Year 5
heating it up through a storm down
bera on the coast Perhaps up mere
You had a more hilarious time, but you
couIdn't beat US for excitement. We
are regular sailors now.
The Newport is a trim little ship that
was originally a gunboat. She looked
snotless in her white paint yesterday
as she lay in her berth at East twenty
fourth street. Ii was hard TO rcalize
that she had just finished eight months
at sea. - L.1 .bo sort of a cruise
that makes the boys into good sailors
said CAPTAIN McMurray. They an en-
ioved II. even if some OF them ala h@Ee
hard time getting into the s"lhs ~
The disciplinc. ! suppose That some o.
hon still think that I'm the Creates
oId slave driver since Simon Lesree' p"L
il is lust hard work and rgid routine
that will make them good seaIhrS'1ii, ~.
"AlI the class We graduated az baiood
bevc becn snapped up by the AmefICa."
"t,o,rebin comDauies, and all OF inns
80 yiil be placed just as soon a.
H.. orc ready. What we need IS DIX
,,a, chin Then we could take care
1vice as many boys, with just ABOUT inc
same expenditure of money. ihe "1-
c%ant marine is bound TO grow e7pc-
ciaIlv since the war, and u Us up 10 "'
"a turn out men 90 ofhcer our Shlps'
American boys who are compt'c5' o.
officers. but who have not rea0"yu
ace Of tgenty-onc, are uhuet r..
ase a.cording 10 the captain. me;
cannot get an officers certificate uat !,
they have attained thef mo- !.
u yries English boys can acquire ,helr
Srst certificate at the age OF seVehleJt'',
The average age Of graduation rom ., ;ns
Newport Is eighteen and nal T .,,.,.
forces the boys to serve As m'u ....., y,
men or before the mast Tor TWO ye" n.
and half more before they are IL
coused officers.