Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-19
Several Leea1 Boys Leave for Nav,
 Yards and Training Stations.

Chief Signal ouartermaster Edward Stohan, who Is recruiting for the United States navy in this city for a few days, reports that the recruits are coming and that today (Thursday) Richard C. Moran, who has enlisted, leaves for the Brooklyn navy yard, where he will train as an electrician Frederick E. Sase and Edward F. Sage leave also today for New Haven and from there they will be transferred to the navay training station at Newport Out of the 14 applications Quartermas- ter Stoflan has received, four have been rejected for defective vision.
 A young man who takes the cleo trical course for the navy spends SIX
 months at the navy yard, and when
 his course is completed he is a finished
 electrician and in the course Of four
 years he will be elegible as a warrant
 gunner, which brings salary of $2,4o0 a year. The authorized strength Of the
 ravy is ST,0e6 men and the total en- listment up to last Sunday was I1,Ss6, and it is expected that the full quota
 will be secured during the month of May, and Quartermaster Stohan says the number will be secured if the pres ent daily average of ST eniistmentS is kept up. All men who make appu- cations here are physically examined by Quartermaster Stehan and then sent to New Haven. The carfare to New Haven Is paid by the government and in case the applicant is rejected at New Haven the applicants carfare Is
 paid back to his home town Out of the 135 men that Quartermaster Sto- han has enlisted during the past four weeks, only one has been rejected at the New Haven office.
 During the week ending April 7th the New York -New Jersey office en- listed 104, Boston office 116 and the New Haven s1 and the total enlist ments for that week were unusually aA fIae ffr1HA offers special Inducements to machin ists and there is also a need of musf- clans, moulders, blaeksnaiths, plumb CTS, steam filters. coppersmiths as listment calls for service for four years providing the man is over IS years, and those who enlist under that age will serve until they become 21 years of age.
 When a man enlists he is given his uniform, which amounts to about $S5 in money Men enlisting in the sea- mems branch go to Newport. where they are trained, and at the termina- ton of their training period they are they are sent on some ship. Quarter master Stohan states that the men who enlist now will get a better chance for promotion, as they will be given the chance to fill the present vacancies, while on the other hand If they wait until the required strength is secured their chances will not be so good.
 Men who enlist as musicians are sent direct to Newport, where they receive a course of instruction, and all he has to do is play music. The musician plays at noon and plays dur ing the concert in the evening and at the moving picture shows. Men who enlist in the seaman branch have chances to take examinations for first class gunners, who receive extra pay, and they also have a chance to become signal quartermasters-
 Quartermaster Stohan also states that anyone having any knowledge of radio has an excellent chance, as there are steady promotions in the radio department
 The Sage brothers who enlisted were pleasantly surprised by their shop mates in the tool room at the Hopkins 6 Allen plant on Wednesday, when they were given purse of gold for a send-o off.