Show ANXIOUS TO BE NAVAL C Boy Appears App ars at Recruiting Sta Station Station tion For Enlistment C APPLICANTS ARE MANY WORD RECEIVED OP OF PERILOUS TRIP OF OP THE OREGON fl I would like to apply appl for a position in ia thenny the navy I want to leave the th city because I make only 20 a week here and in the navy nav I would have 9 a rs month velvet while here I have haye to toS spend S alt air I make And I would like to wear a B suit the kind you I wear and an be an on a battle I boat wrote a 11 applicant for enlistment In the United States navy at the local recruiting station yesterday I The lad is employed eni led in IiI the city at ata ata ata a small stipend it is said but ut has un j limited ambitions in the of ot way pro promotion promotion motion and opportunities s in a sailors I life He applied in person but hut was as made to write his bis application for reference I I 1 would like to go to sea and want to enlist said s id another ano her lad who had been bee attracted to the station by the gloriously glorio sl flaring posters which Adorn dorn the th billboards throughput the city I want to go but my iy mother wont give her consent for she is afraid she will never see me sue again agair She Is afraid of ot pIrates Both lads were told to return when l they will be admitted to a naval ap apprenticeship apprenticeship apprenticeship provided they secure the I consent of their parents and l pass the required d physical examinations I Applicants Are Many One hundred hun red and twenty applicants appeared appear at the station yesterday and andall ark andall all aU left len their names and addresses No 10 examinations have been made and con consequently consequently no enlistments have hae been se so secured secured cured None can be taken until a government surgeon arrives to conduct the physical examinations that are ale necessary Dr H C Curl the surgeon for the th party of recruiting officers now located in this city was taken taRen ill in Denver and has been sent bent to the hos hospital hospital pital at Mare Island No one appointed in his place but one is ex cx expected expected to arrive from Washington at any time Boys and men of various ages ages and varied characteristics thronged the station yesterday Men en who are weary wear of the battles of are seeking a life lire on the sea preferring untried naval fights to those they have experienced Boys who live only in inthe Inthe inthe the future and dream of ot the chevrons and epaulets of ot a commodore or ad admiral i mimi miral seek admittance Criminals i iwho who shift from city to city in Ic the hope j of or escaping penalty for their thair crimes beg enlistment in the hope of living livingway away way from detection The especial ban of disfavor and con contumely contumely is placed by all naval officers i ion on men who have deserted the service j One Ous deserter applied for reenlistment and land was promptly turned over to the th police officers Others who hope to find shelter helter on board a are re refused refused refused fused and every effort is made to free freehe the he Service of ot the undesirable elements No Xo men Inen have been enlisted up to this time at the local station and none will willbe willbe willbe be until the arrival of a government surgeon sur eon It is believed by the officers I in charge that t X t tie be wUl w I arrive arT in at any time I I Oregon regon in Great Peril j I Coxswain eo Lea Ice of ot trie tJi th recruiting party received a letter yesterday from I i I I a 8 comrade on board the battleship Ore gon The letter was woe written from Yoko Yok I hams hama Japan where the Oregon and gives the story tor of a terric gle with wih a sate gals which the Oregon Or Oft suf Sat te fer d As a result of the injuries l the hb reached h Asiatic i Uc waters in a dis din I abed ed concU condition with turrets battered t away aay and antl stripped of or lifeboats and aDd pilot ilot houses boast Leaving Honolulu twenty days were ere required for the trip tl p to the Ue Japan J city elt in the face of or I the terrific squall Twelve days are usually required and never more snore than t ta thirteen The Tle boat shipped two heavy Ae seas sans in lit one night which d the whole boat and demolished the lighting plant The TH sea s ea according to Mate Hollo well who wha wrote the letter ietter rolled roiled d higher than the pilot house bOuse and ami at last smashed away aay the house hou Two ts were elE s swept ot I loose from rum their thir fastenings and lost Two cutters suffered a similar fate One skid and two other boats which I I j I were vero fastened te tr the Oregon c j loose by the storm and ana lost ia ocean K n The crew ere w vas ss as placed d Jn In n Har i antine annne for tor nine niU dy days after arriving in inI j I Yokohama where w the Oregon O was i II 1 forced to undergo a series of repairs |