New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-15
Will Start Cruise To-day If
Tide Conditions Are
Favorable.
MANY UNIVERSITIES
ARE REPRESENTED
Daniels Expects to Visit
Vessels Some Time
This Month.

Two pots of paint, one black. and
one white, two brushes and block
stencil bearing the recipients name
kept many rookie sailors busy at the
Navy Yard yesterday afternoon. Sit
ting on the quarterback Of the Maine
which, with the Kentucky and New
Jersey, will carry more than thousand
men on the civilians training cruise
that begins to-day the rockies spent
several hours marking their seamens
clothing and equipment. They learned
more about clothes, stops. watch caps,
Gitty bags and deck buckets than many
months perusal of the prospectus OF
the cruise had taught them
As a next step the rockies inspected
the ship. The occupations of the en-
listed men, in which they themselves
would soon be engaged, proved even
greater novelty than the ships guns
and apparatus. At one point where
several bare-footed regulars were en-
gagged in sweeping the decks. they
paused the longest. 1t was rather
herd to adjust the mind to the
prospect of such service when one is
used to sitting in an Office chair.
Many College Men Enrolled.
Although the age limit for enroll
ment ranges from eighteen TO forty
five. the majority of the men on the
lists are Young. many Of them still IN
college. a majority of the universl-
ties are represented. A large con-
tingent and men from the same schools
have been assigned, as a general rule.
TO the same ship. The New Jersey
will carry large group of men from
Cornell and Union College. in addition
to men from smaller towns in the
vicinity Of New York City. The
Maine will have large contingents from
Yale. Harvard and Princeton, and will
also carry the New York section.
Aboard the Kentucky will be the men
from Connecticut and New York State:
Among the New Workers who will
make the cruise are: Frank McAdoo.
son of the Secretary Of the Treasury;
Junius Morgan, son of J. P. Morgan;
Paul Nevin. son Of the late Ethelbert
Nevin: Oliver Iselin. Robert X. Mckim,
Paul l.. Hammond. De Forest Bishop,
Morgan Olcott. Douglas Gibbons. Amor
L. Smith and Frederick B. Duncan.
Secretary Daniels is planning to
visit the men sometime this month,
and his assistant, Franklin d. Roose-
welt may join in some part Of 1t.
/ Beekman Winthrop. former assistant
ecretary of the Navy. may enroll.
Good Results Excited.
Naval officers consider the cruise as
en- experiment of great Importance.
! In addition to the training which the
men will receive, the new interest
which the cruise will arouse in naval
service is counted on TO have GOOD re-
, suits. The training schedule calls for
instruction in small arms, drills,
engine room duty, the firing OF twelve
inch guns and the fire control system.
In contrast TO these duties the men viii
be required to scrub decks, polish
brass and perform other work in the
general care of the ships.
Although the "rookies" must report
at the Navy Yard BY noon to-day. it is
probable. because of tidal conditions,
that the ships will not leave before
early Wednesday morning.
The Kentucky, New Jersey and
Maine will proceed to Gardeners Bay
where they will meet the Virginia,
Louisiana. Alabama. Illinois and kear-
sarge, carrying men from other dis
tricts, and where they will engage in a
week of drills before departing for
Tangier Sound for target practice