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Show i " ! ! i NAUTICAL :- :-j :-j -: -: NOVELTIES The following "Nautical Novelties" are furnished by the U. S. Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting Station at Salt Lake City: Except at the instant the sun is on .the Greenwich meridian, there are al-; ways two dates in effect throughout ( the world. If a ship crosses the 180th j meridian the International Date Line traveling westward, the date is in-; creased by one; if sailing eastward, ' you subtract, one from the date. To, avoid the inconvenience of changing) the name of the day while the day is j in effect, the case is handled for the ship's time by dropping one day at midnight when the crossing is made westward bound, and repeating one day when the crossing is eastward bound. Last year a navy collier en-route en-route from Honolulu to the Philippines j had no Christmas because December 25th was dropped at the midnight prior to the vessel's crossing the 180th j meridian bound westward. ! Passengers aboard the stricken steamer Tahiti were taken off the day after she sank. The ship was disabled near the International Date Line. After Af-ter the passengers were rescued, she i drifted across the line and sank, a rday earlier. There hang in the reception room of ; 'the battleship New York two coal shovels that have a brass plate attached at-tached which announces that King George of England and King Albert of Belgium used these shovels to fire the boilers on this ship, on the occasion oc-casion of their visit to the New York when that vessel was attached to the Grand Fleet during the world war. ! The navy's sea-going tugs are all named after birds, such as Sandpiper, Teal, Woodcock and Bobolink. J The late Lieutenant Fontaine Maury, Mau-ry, United States navy, is known as j the "Pathfinder of the Seas." His- re-! markably accurate work regarding ocean currents, winds, temperatures, sea conditions and meterological subjects sub-jects brought him world renown. He was the first superintendent of the naval observatory in 1844. His genius developed not only the naval observatory observa-tory but the hydro-graphic office. The pilot charts used' today are founded upon the researches made by Maury in the early part of the nineteenth century. Navy recruiting stations in Utah, Idaho, Montana and northern and western Wyoming have been authorized author-ized to accept for enlistment fifty- eight men in November and forty-two men in December. These stations are located in Salt Lake City, Ogden, Boise, Twin Falls, Missoula, Helena, Butte, Great Falls, Billings, Miles City and Sheridan. To "box compass" is to relate the points in order around the compass" card. The points from north to east are: North; north by east; north-northeast; north-northeast; northeast by north; northeast; north-east; northeast by east; east-northeast; east by north; east. As there are thirty-two points to the compass, each point is equivalent to eleven and a quarter degrees. |