Evening star., 1918-08-11

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deck boy $50 each. All of these wages
are increased by one-half while In the
war zone.
These sea- training schools OF Uncle
Sam are to be found along all the
coasts of the United States. They are
divided into three departments. First.
those teaching navigational training.
which are for the making of officers
experience at sea Second. are the
schools for training engineers, and
third. those for the schooling OF the
sailors and the rank and file OF men
who man the vessels Navigational
schools have been established hes, on mn. tne
and also on the great lakes. They are
forty-one in all, and the largest is
carried on here at Boston in the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Tech
nology. The dean of this branch OF
practical navigator of wide scien-
tifc knowledge, who was formerly
connected with the United States
coast and geodetlc survey. Prof. Bur-
ton has selected as his instructors
astronomers. explorers and former sea
captains. many OF whom stand high
as teachers. The students are given
a six-week course In the theory and
practice Of navigation. and II they
pass they are entitled to license as
licensed they go to sea for two months
to learn the ropes. and during this
time receive $75 a month. After that
they get the usual pay for their grade
in the merchant service. These schools
have many applications. From the be-
ginning Of the war until April 1 they
had graduated 1900 men.
The engineering schools are under
Prof. Edward f. Miller Of the Boston
Tech. They are open to men who have
had service as firemen, oilers. water
tenders or assistant engineers on
ocean. lake or river steamers; and
also to locomotive engineers who
have had six months sea service, as
well as to stationary engineers. ex-
pert machinists and others who have
had Six months sea service and to the
graduates of nautical school ships.
About 100 such engineers had been
graduated within ten months after
the war opened, and we have now
over 5000 licensed engineers in the
service. Some of the principal en-
chusetts Institute Of Technology, the
Seaman's Church Institute, New York:
the Johns Hopkins Institute, Balti-
more, and the University of Washing
ton at Seattle. There are schools also
connected with the Tulane University.
Chicago; the Case School of Science,
Cleveland. and the Bourse building.
Philadelphia. The course at these
schools lasts one month. and the stu
dents must have had six months sea
training before they receive their IL
censeS.
The most interesting schools of all
are those for training the crews for
the merchant marine. Crews include
all sorts Of sailors below the officers.
and tens of thousands of students are
needed to enter them. The plans for
the schools were approved only last
December. when an announcement was
made that the recruiting service was
young Americans between twenty-one
and thirty years Of age who wished
to be trained for service on merchant
ships as sailors, fremen, coal passers,
oilers, water tenders. stewards and
cooks. Within three months after
that applications had been received
for more than $500 young men, and
many thousands are now undergoing
instruction.
The recruiting of men for these
schools has been carried on at prac-
tically no expense to the government
and that in a most efficient way. The
originator of the idea Is Mr.. Henry
Howard, who has organized the mer-
chant marine sea training service, and
who is now its director, at the usual
patriotic pay of 81 year. Mr.. How
ard is not professional seaman in
the practical sense of the word but
he comes of long line of sea cap
tains, his great-grandfather having
been on a privateer in the war Of the
revolution, and his grandfather hav-
ing owned ships and sailed them.
His sea training has been largely on
his own yacht and as a student of the
merchant marine. He has long been
interested in the building up Of our
commerce, and his work is a labor Of
love. BY profession Mr.. Howard is a
chemist, being at the head of one of
the largest chemical institutes of the
United States and as such largely