Show r s f I EIGHT EICHI BELLS FOR FORTHE FORTHE I THE SCHOOL SHIP i iI I Newport Is Doomed by Education Education tion lion Boards Board's Order LEGISLATURE MAY HAY SAVE SAVE IT New York Is la Tired of Paying a Year For Benefit of Lets Less Than a- a Hundred Hundred Students Tillman Tillman's Tillmans Strong Plea For Its Ita Continuance Was Continuance Was Start ed Forty Years Year Ago New Xe ork lt York If the order of the tho board boan if tf education discontinuing the New Sew NewYork York urk ul Nautical school I is fH final it means mean that tilt tl nual chapter r has been written In the history of ff almost the sole re re- link Iluk between the present day and the vanished 1 age of the American America mer I halt hUllt service r 1 e that has been the model I for tor similar Institutions abroad and nud was almost unique In this country Before the school c can nn an be ra- ra ns liS abolished however the action action ac ac- tion lieu of or the he board mu must t be confirmed by n vote ote of the le legislature l lature The reasons given ven by the board for tor Its ac action tiou eau can 1111 be summed up In the statement that the school 1 was not giving big ing the city r Ity a II return for the mone money expended It Is said Maid that the school chool linn haM been costing the city efty upward upward up up- ward of or a year for the benefit of less than a II hundred students It bus baa been said laid that out of or several j hundred bundred pupils graduated records can I be found of only n hundred or so who are following the sea sc To this Commander Corn Com mander wander E E. n H n. n Tillman U U U. S S. N N. superIntendent superintendent superintendent super super- com I of the school retorts that there is no method provided of or keeping track of or the students after graduation and that therefore the records do not prove anything In his annual report to the board of education the superintendent super super- superintendent made a strong plea for tor tho the continuance of or the school The New York Nautical school was instituted in 1873 Its object being In Inthe tho the words of the statute establishing d l ji tY tYr r r a rv t r Photo by American Press Presa Association COMMANDER I E. E IL U. TILLMAN TILLMA U U. 8 S. N. N i I I I I It I for tor the Instruction of youths In navigation seamanship marine engineering engi engl- engineering and all aU matters pertaining to to tho the construction equipment and sailing sail sail- sailing ing of esse vessels Is or any particular branch thereof For many years tho the schools school's training ship was the old frigate St Marys A few years yeatS ago she shoo was replaced replaced re placed by the gunboat Newport fur furnished 1 by the tho navy pavy department i While the school Is under the control con control con of the tho board of education the su superintendent an officer of the line Unc of the navy selects Its own assistants usually retired naval officers or at least graduates of or the Naval academy The boys are quartered on board ship during the winter term but she remains remains remains re re- re- re mains snug alongside the pier which Is fitted up with class rooms a n gymnasium gym and a rigging loft lort Their whole life Ufo Is regulated with a n view to pro pro- paring them for ship discipline About April 1 each year the winter term ends and the youngsters are sent are sent away Vay on vacation The Tho Newport is la lathen then sent to the Brooklyn rooklyn navy yan yard to be bo overhauled for Cor her ber summer cruise Tho The cruise lasts from May until nearly October The boys boya are divided Into late watches and under the supervision sion alon of the tho officers and the tho crew of old experienced seamen camen they do tho the bulk of tho the actual work of tho the ship As soon as the tho Newport reaches rench the open sea tho engines are arc dispensed with and and from th then n until the end of the tho cruise the tho young mariners handle reef reet and steer learn to tack wear and box haul baul send up and cross Ugh light yards yanIs make and take In sail heave the lead and perform every ery part of a n seamans seaman's dudes duties du- du ties des not forgetting the holystoning of tho the decks deck In the morning The cruise usually takes In Stockholm Stock Stock- holm bolm Copenhagen and theother theother the tho other famous seaports f of ot northern Europe Europe Eu Eu- Europe rope and sometimes also Madeira th the Azores and nearly every ery other port OB Pt the Atlantic that has bred l stout sea seamen seamen men In the past On their return home in the autumn the tho boys under undergo Inspection In tn- by the board of education and those deserving of ot It who have bave completed completed com com- l their two years' years course with credit receive the diplomas setting forth that they arc are genuine every o hair a n ropo rope yarn and blood I Stockholm tar |