Arizona republican., 1918-03-03
NAVAL RECRUITS IF
 UNITED STATES ARE TRAINED IN IRELAND


 BASE OF AMERICAN FLOTILLA IN BRITISH WATERS, January 25. -(Correspondence of the Associated Press).-About as far up the river from here as Yonkers is from New York is the first United States naval training station in Ireland. It IS built along the banks under cliffs and reminds the Americans of the Palisades of the Hudson. Here naval recruits from all over the United States are being trained for the American destroyers, the most recent arrivals being 200 boys from Pensa- cola, Florida.
 This naval barracks which some of the older men call Cob Dock, after a part of the Brooklyn navy yard, was formally commissioned with the arrival the other day from the United States of its commanding officer, l commander who came to the navy from Louisiana. He has a staff of lieutenant, two ensigns, a pay master and several surgeons who can take care of several thousand men. They are instructihg men still green to things Of the sea in methods of fighting the submarines.
 To the station which covers five acres, come the recruits from train ing stations in the United States. There are regulars, reserves and state militia but their identity as such is lost here and they are all alike while the war lasts. Most of them were in civilian life a few months ago Here and there is college man; a | few scattered secretaries to railroad presidents, the paymaster himself be- | ing the son of a railway magnate who owns a 15O-mile line of railroad | in North Carolina.
 These wartime sailors are housed l in a big old granary which was tn, home of a famous Irish regiment | When the Americans came along the soldiers cheerfully moved on, for the submarine still is regarded as tht most dangerous enemy over here ant men who come to fight it are wei. 1 comed. The granary is really foul large buildings joined together They are of rough stone which makes tn, barracks appear not unlike som, American prisons. The walls ar, three feet thick and there are fou floors. The Americans have white washed the walls and made a won derful transformation in the place.
 The men sleep in hammocks swun; from the rafters in the ceiling. The, eat at long mess tables from enam eled dishes and get the same food a those on the American ships whicl is hard to beat nowadays in thi
 particular part of the world. A first there isn't much discipline il these new arrivals but after feV
 days they know how to salute a
 officer and how to speak to him.
 Reveille is sounded at 5:30 o'cloc
 while outside it is still dark an
 cold. But these new war-t time sail
 ors rise without a murmur, dres!
 pack their hammocks out of the wa and march to breakfast below as
 they had been born to it. All tn
 cooking is done outside the barrack
 where the Americans have set up ; few field kitchens. They also us , trench stoves for cooking bean sou and stews. The adaptability of thes
 men is what first impresses the wis
 itor. Many have given up lives ( comparative luxury and ease to sut , init to naval discipline which prot ably is less comfortable here tha
 in the United States.
 The station is shut in by hig wall upon which armed sentries al posted. No liberty is permitted fC visits in the village which boas
 fifteen saloons and a shipyard. IT , only time the Americans are see < in the village streets is when . company of them passes throue from a cross country hike, a pa l.;1 Cy,,~
 days when those who desire can a
 tend services in the Protestant ar a Catholic churches. But the men a 1 always under guard on these O. I casions.
 l The only liberty granted the r p cruits is to the more pretentious vi Q lage a few miles down the riv which is the base of the America l destroyer flotilla. A sea- going tul boat makes one round trip a d.
 with the liberty party. At the ba
 village the recruits are free to wis
 the United States naval club hous
 the British Y. NJ. c. A. hut or u
 two village movie shows. The lii
 erty men leave the barracks eat
 afternoon at five; the curfew rin
 for them at Il at night when tn
 board the tug for the return voyas
 For those not on liberty, taps a
 sounded at the usual hour of mir The state of health of the m continues excellent, despite the "a damp climate peculiar to this pa of Ireland and the sick-bay does
 small business. The drudgery of t
 daily routine of training and t F swabbing down the decks of the ba racks over, the men retire to thu 10 dormitories for quiet reading or r of hearsal of some of the latest Broa f way melodies. Once a week of brass band from the flotilla flagsl of comes up to entertain the recru