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Show NAUTICALN0VELT1ES Large ships of the Navy, such us linttleships, operate six niesseH namely, the Captain's mess where the commanding officer nits alone, the ward room mess where the executive officer and all officers above the rank of ensign eat, the junior officer's offi-cer's mess for ensigns, the wiirrunt officer's mess for all warrant officers the chief petty officer's mess, and the general mess. I'etty officers and men of lower ratings ent in the general gen-eral mess. All huge naval vessels which pass under lirooklin bridge have to lower their topmasts to'go under the bridge. The height of the bridge is 127 feet 1 1 inches. Only young men betwen the ages of seventeen and twenty-five are oc-cepted oc-cepted for first enlistments in tho navy. All recruits are sent to a naval training station for twclvo weeks instruction before being ordered order-ed to sea. Training- stations are located loc-ated at San Diego, Calif., Hampton Koads, Virginia and Newport, Khode Island. On May !', 1!''J!, the U. S. Naval observatory eclipse expedition at I.apus, Fhilipine Islands, suceeded in obtaining the only completely satisfactory satis-factory set of observations and photographs photo-graphs of the total solar eclip-e which occured on that day. No less than ten expeditions representing American. Australian, British, (ler-man (ler-man and Japanese observatories were sent to observe the eclipse. The Navy's share of the federal appropriations for the fiscal year 10.13 is slightly less than eight percent per-cent of the total appropriations. The citizens of this country spend yearlv more for perfume than the sum spent for the maintenance, upbulding and operation of the Navy. The income derived from the tax upon tobacco would easily build and maintain our Naw. A quartermaster in the navy is a potty officer who acts as an assistant assist-ant to the navigator or to the offirer-of-the-diH'k who represents the captain. cap-tain. The navy's sea-going tugs all are named after birds, such as Sandpiper, Teal. I-ark, Woodcock, and Bobolink. Pecks of navy ships are named as follows: The "main deck" is the highest high-est deck that runs the full length of the ship. Pecending from the "main I deck" the names of the other decks in i order downward are: "second" deck, ! "first platform" deck, and "second ! platform" deck. The "berth" deck is 'an additional name given to any deck i where the sleeping quarters of the 'crew are located; in many ships the : "berth" deck is the "second" deck. ; The chief of police on a Naval ship ' is known as chief master-at-arms. ; Usually he is a chief petty officer, i o |