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By ELMO SCOTT WATSONIME WATSON r mar ' BIE IME I was when \ hen the merchant marive ma marine mn- mn ma- ma mnrlne - - proud-1 proud 1 rine rlne rive "as as was vi " as one of Amerlcn America's Americas ' ' " , proud- proud proudest - . est boasts Those were , \ ere the dayswhen days daysvhe.n dayswhen vhe.n vhen when , . the famons famous YanJ.ee YanJee Yanl.ee Yanlee Yanl . . c clipper clipperships clipperships clipperships ' ships were carrying carrVlDg our fia flag naff : , . the theStars theStars theStars % Stars and Stripes ftrlpes ; . , Into , " .Irtually Irtually virtually virtuallyevery . virtuallyevery .Irtuallyevpry evpry every port of the world and when whenAmC'rlc't whenAmerlcq when.America whenAmerica AmC'rlc't AmCrlct Amerlcq . ' ' , , rather r'ltler rltler ' ) than Great Britain Bri-I- Bri I BriItain Bri- Bri Britain - - tain , " was "as as the "mistress mistress " of theseas theseas the ' seas , " at least le1.st le1st . , so far as merchant merchanthipping merchantthipping merchantchipping hipping chipping , was concerned concernedBut concernedBut But when steamships ste'1mshlps ste1mshlps steamshlps ' replaced sailing salIlng essels vessels \ vesselsthe , the United States began to lose her place In thecun the thesun theawn sun awn In this regard reg'1rd reg1rd ' and the Civ Cn Cis 11 II war saw the end endof endof endof of our dominance of the tIe ) seas se'lS selS ' with "fth fth ss " ith merchant merchant- merchantmen merchantmen merchantmen - men In they the 5 ears that th'lt thlt tint ' folIo\\ folIo followed folIoed \ ed various e1rorts efforts e1rortswere effortswere effortsTrore were made to re regain aln the place we } had uld lost to toother toother toother other nations , , but these efforts were not highlysuccessful highly highlysuccessful highlysuccessful successful At the opening of the ' World 'Yorld Yorld war W'1r W1r ' "o o "ohad \ " wobad , e ehad had only 17 ships carrying the American flagand flag flagand flagand and andmertcan \ American \mertcan mertcan trade to foreign poits ports pOl ts , , and Amer Amer- AmerIcan American American - - ican seamanship , as a consequence , bid h'ld hld bad ' almost almostbecome almostbecome almostbecome become a forgotten traditionBut traditionBut tradition traditionBuf Buf But recent years hive h'ne hne hale ' seen a change beIng beIngwrought beingwrought beingwrought wrought , , and today , under more recent stimulat stlmulat- stlmulat stimulat- stimulating stlmulatJDg stimulating - - ing JDg governmental government'll governmentll ' policies pollclCs supporting our ' pe'lcetime peace pe'lce- pe'lce pelce peace- peacetime peacetime ' - time navy , " the merchant marine , we h'1'fe h1fe have haveclimbed hiveclimbed h'1'fecllmbed ' ' cllmbed climbed up to second place In \ world orId tonn'1ge tonn1ge tonnage tonn'1geflnd tonnageand tonnageand ' flnd and now a total of 600 000 ships plow their "ay ay way waythrough "aythrough " waythrough through the seven sewn se , en seas scas to more than 500 portsIn ports portsJD portsIn JD In foreign landsTo landsTo lands To provide pro\Ide pro Ide \ for the Increased complement oftrained of oftrained oftrained trained desk officers and engineers to man our ourconstantly ourconstantly ourconstantly constantly Increasing peacetime peacehme navy , . Uncle UncleSam UncleGam UncleBarn Sam Gam has four tour nautical training tr\lnlng tr lnlng ' \ schools , , mostly mostlyaboard mostlyaboard mostlyaboard aboard real re'll rell ' ships , where bo bovs boss , s can study , grad gradnate gradMate graduate nate Mate and nnd stand a good chance of becoming thirdofficers third thirdofficers thirdofficers officers or assistant asslstnnt engineers In the merchant merchantlleet merchantfeet merchantfleet lleet feet at a rate of pay ranging from $125 125 $ a month monthtor monthfor monthfor tor for third mates upwards up"ards upards up'sards upsards ' " to $300 300 $ for skippers sl\ppers sl ppers \ [ and andengineers andengineers andengineers engineers , and'Jth and \ with \'Jth 'Jth Jth ' cruises to Interesting for for- foreIgn forelgn foreign - gettingtheir eign elgn ports sprinkled sprmkled In while they are tlre gettIng gettingtheir their educationThese educationThese education educationThese These nautical schools are The New r\ew r ew \ YorkState YorkState York YorkState State StateIerchant ' \ Merchant \Ierchant Ierchant Marine academy , , now based at atthe atthe atthe the Brooklyn nm navy nay y yard aboard the U . S S S.Empire SEmpire . Empire PennsylvaniaNautical Pennsylvaniarautlcnl State and the Annex ; ; the Pennsylvania ; rautlcnl o.utlcal outlcal . school , based at Philadelphia , abo'lrd abolrd aboard abo'lrdthe aboardthe aboardthe ' the U S S Annapolis ; the Massachusetts rassachusetts Nautieal r\nu r nu Nau rnutical Nautical \ tical school , ba based ed at Boston , aboard the U S S SNantuc1.et SSNantucket STTantucket Nantuc1.et Nantuc1et TTantucket . , and tlDd on the Pacific PaCJfic coast c01St , , tlie the Callfornia CalI Calf CalIornla Calffornia ornla fornia ! Nautical r\'lutical r 'lutical lutical \ ' school , based at Callfornli CaItfornh California CIh City Citvon ' , , on San I ' Francisco I'rancisco Irancisco rancisco bay , aboard the U . . S SCalI SCalIfornla S Call Callfornia Callfornia fornla fornia State Every Lerv Eserv L\ L \ erv year YC'lr YClr ' the 500 young men , between be between between tween the ages of seventeen and twenty one oneyears oneyears oneyears years , , undergo training tr'1lnIng tr1lnIng ' In these four schoolsFor schools schoolsFor schoolsFor academylet's academylets For a bIrd birds s eye view of life at the academy , let's lets ' visit the U S 5 & Empire mplre StateAs State StateAs StateAs As one drives drhes drls es Into the Brooklyn navy yard nkhaki a akhaki akhaki khaki garbed United Stites St'1tes St1tes ' marine 1DnrIne corporal corporalsteps corporalsteps corporalBteps steps up to the vislUn visiting automobile automob11e , asks ashs thecaller the thecaUer thecaller caUer caller s business and sends for a bluejacket bluej'lcket bluejlcket ' , who whoconducts whoconducts whoconducts conducts one past p'1st p1st ' battleship gray painted de destroyers destroyers defitroyers stroyers . , cruisers and other navy nary na , y . vessels .essels essels dockedIn docked dockedin dockedIn in the yard Y'l.rd Yl.rd Ylrd ' . A couple of turns along railroad railroadtracked railroadtracked railroadtracked tracked streets fJtreets lead to the gangplank g'lngplank glngplank ' of the US U US US S S Empire StateA State St'1te St1te St'1teA StateA ' A rifle belted seaman clicks his heels , , salutes salutesand salutesand salutesand and leads lends on to the skipper's skippers shipper's shippers ' quarters forward forwardbelow , , belo\\ belo beloss belothe \ \ the bridge The skipper Is Capt L D B DGreen BGreen BGreen Green , second assistant superintendent of theacademy the theacademy theacademy academy , commanding comm'1ndIng comm1ndIng ' the training ship sblp lie ITe He Is Isfl isa Isa fl a graduate gradu'1te gradu1te ' of the United States Naval Nnv'11 Nnv11 ' academvat academy academyat at Anmpolls Ann'lpolls Annlpolls Annapolis ' AnmpollsA Ann'lpollsA AnnapolisA A shirp sh'1rp sh1rp sharp ' wind slices across the nivy n'1vy n1vy navy ' yard , , but butCapt1In butCaptain bulCaptain Capt1In Captain Green marches down dawn don n a gangway gang " fiy connecting con- con connecting connecting - necting the training ship with wltb Its auxiliary auxl1hry ves- ves yes- yes veseel yeseel veseel - eel lying lymg alongside alongside-the alongside the - - the Annex Anne.1 Anne1 . : The latter Is n a nconverted aconverted iconverted converted sailing snt1lng ship hlp IIer ner tier once towering tore fore toremast foremast foremast mast and mainmast are stubbed She carrIc carrIes carrIesDO carriesno ; DO no rigging , but Ins h'1S h1S has ' a broad deck for boat and andother andother amother other drm drillb drills Belo Below , " decks she is laid out tor for tors to forschool : school s < : hool rooms , dormitories , electrical and mechanlcal me mechanlcal chanlcal mechanlcal work shopsCadets shopsCadets shops shopsCadets Cadets in the Annex ADnex are nominal nomIn'll nomInll ' newcomers newcomersHere Here newcomersHere they arc nre are taught mathematics , n'1\"lgatlon n'1 n1 "lgatlon lgatlon navigation ' \ " , nivlgatlonhygiene byglene hygiene , , rope and " wire "ire ire cable use and splicing splicingsignalling , signaIllng signalling ( fire prevention pre\"entIoD pre "entIoD entIoD \ " , launching and han ban hanclUng bandung bandling clUng dung of boats and a hundred other m'1rltIme m1rltIme maritime m'1rltImeduties maritimeduties marltimduties ' duties Here , too , they have their first tiste t'1ste t1ste taste ' odiscipline of ofdlcclpllne ofdiscipline dlcclpllne discipline : aboard shipThe ship shipThe . The Tbe cadfts cadpts cadets are hard at work worh In one room roonequipped , eqUIpped " with Ith regulation school deslc dcskq deslcq , they are nrdeep deep aredeep In trigonometry trigonometr ; } Below , In the hold of the theAnnex theAnnex tbAnnet Annex fchoiOthers r.hopOthers shopOthers , they arc are worl working lng In the machine r.hop rhop shop . Others are hen bending lDg and aod we1\ we1 wciving we1Ing weasing ' ' \ Ing he heavy n y "Ire Ire 'sire sire "Irecable 'sirecable " ' wircable cable ends around an oval 0al oral 0\ 0 \ al eye Still SUll anothegroup another anothergroup anothergroup group has tiken t'l1.en tl1.en tl1en taken ' . a heavy hea\y hea y \ water pump apart and andJ.s andi8 anIs J.s Js i8 . bu'llli bullli bul1J bu5113 ' . , at work , \ ork putting puttJng It together again . , Captain agaliCaptain Green proceeds procec.ds procecds . through the passage passages passage.s passages . , , Y . . / /5hooti 5hooti -"Shoot "Shoot Shoot - " "Shootnq ' nq nq the Sun " with 5extants Sextants a , " ' ' 1 4w 3 ' 1 1rf rf rfJI : JI\\ JI JIab ab , \ \ t i is iS S l X Xt s t ti & 4 t'4 t4 t'4r ' 1wI f r ewe r " " ' . .i i . ; Furlinq Furling the Sails Sailspast Sai Sailspast Is past blue uniformed lads Each group smps sn'lps snlps snaps ' to"attention toattention to to"attention to"attention "attention attention " ' and holds It until the senior seDlor officer officersays officersays officersays says "carry carry "carryon carryon " on " ' ' Topside " are tlre several se\"er'11 se "er'11 er11 \ " ' groupsengaged groups groupsengaged groupsengaged engaged In boat drills drllls , launching launchmg , handling long longsweeping longsweeping longsweeping sweeping oars in heavy heiv he'1v he1v ' life boats-coxswains boats coxswains boats--coxswains boatscoxswainsstanding boatscoxswainsstanding boats - - - coxswainsstanding standing up . , astein astem astern In each boit bO'lt bOlt boat ' , giving gls'Ing glsIng ' orders ordersIt's ordersIt's ordersIt's ordersIts It's Its ' a cold and " windy "Indy Indy day but tlie the boys bend to to"lth towith towith "lth lth with " a will wl11 and send their boats cleaving thenavy the thenavy thenavy navy yard waters , ' Below Belo\ Belo BeloIs Belo , \ " " is the re'llufeel rcil re'll rell real ' "feel feel ufeel " ' of ot the ship Not a aqUick aquick aquick qUick rush to the side to unburden nn an upset upsetstomach upsetstomach upsetstomach stomach . . . , . but the atmosphere of being at atsea atsea atsea sea It Is quiet but bute1cltlng exciting : The only tbing thing thinglacking tbinglachlng lachlng lacking Is the throb of turning engines . . . , . the thegentle thegentle thegentle gentle lift Uft of long ground swells swellsCiptiin swellsC'1pt'lln swellsCaptain plintlockers p'1lntlocl.ers paintlockers Ciptiin C'1pt'lln C1ptlln Captain ' ' |