Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-03

! Waters, January 25.-(Correspondenct
 of The Associated Press.) .)--About as
 far up the river from here as Yonk-
 CTS is from New York is the first
 United States naval training station in Ireland. It is built along the bank under cliffs an dreminds the Ameri- cans of the Palisades of the Hudson ! Here naval recruits from all over the
 United States are being trained for the American destroyers, the most re- cent arrivals being 200 boys from Pen. sacola, Fla.
 This naval barracks which some of the older men call Cob Dock, after a part of the Brooklyn navy yard, was ! formerly commissioned with the ar- rival the other day from the United States of it's commanding officer, a commander who came to the navy from Louisiana. He has a staff of q lieu tenant, two ensigns, a paymaster and several surgeons who can take care of several thousand men. They are instl'ucting men still green to things of the sea in methods of fighting the submarines.
 To the station which covers five
 
 stations in the United States. There are regulars, reserves and state mili- tia but their identity as such is lost here and they are all alike while the war lasts. Most of them were in civil ian life few months ago. Here and there is college man; a few were secretaries to railroad presidents, the paymaster himself being the son of railway magnate who owns a 15O- mile line of railroad in North Caro- lima.
 These wartime sailors are housed in big old granary which was the home of a famous Irish regiment. When the Americans came along the soldiers cheerfully moved on, for the submarine still is regarded as the most dangerous enemy over here and men who come to fight it are welcom- ed: The granary is really four large buildings joine altogether. They are of rough stone which makes the bar racks appear not unlike some Ameri- can prisons. The walls are three feet thick and there are four Hours. The Americans have whitewashed the walls and made wonderful transformation in the place.
 The men sleep in hammocks swung from the rafters in the ceiling. They eat at long mess tables from enameled dishes and get the same food as those on the American ships which is hard to beat nowadays in this particular part of the world. At first there isn't much discipline in these new arrivals but after few days they know how to salute an officer and how to speak to him.
 Reveille is sounded at 5.3O o'clock while outside it is still dark and cold. But these new wartime sailors rise without murmur, dress, pack their hammocks out of the way and march to breakfast below as if they had been born to it. All the cooking is done outside the barracks where the Americans have set up a few field kitchens. They also use trench-stoves for cooking bean-soup and stews. The adaptability of these men is what first impresses the visitor. Many have giv- en up lives of comparative luxury and ease to submit to naval discipline which is probably is less comfortable here than in the United States.
 The station is shut in by high wall upon which armed sentries are posted. No liberty is permitted for visits in the village which boasts fifteen sal oons and a shipyard. The only time the Americans are seen in the village street is when a company of them passes through from a oss-country hike, part of their daily routine, and on Sundays when those who desire can attend services in the Prestant and Catholic churches. But the men are always under guard on these cc- casions.
 The only liberty granted the re- cruits is to the more pretntious village a few miles down the river which is the base o fthe American destroyer flotilla. A sea going tug-boat makes one round trip day with the liberty party. At the base village the re- cruits are free to visit the United States Naval clubhouse, the British r.. M. c. A. hut or the two village movie shows. The liberty men leave the barracks each afternoon at five; the curfew rings for them at II at night when they board the tug for the return voyage. For those not on lib- srty taps are sounded at the usual hour of nine.