Show NAUTICAL NOVELTIES furnished by the II 11 S navy recruiting station salt lake city cit old time sailors or of early navy days served under very strict regulations and were subject to drastic punishments tor lor any infractions I 1 for instance on the fourth ottense offense ot of a man sleeping on watch the following f 0 1 punishment was ordered taken asleep he shall be hanged to the bowsprit end of 0 the ship in a basket with a can call ot of beer a loaf of bread and a sharp knife and choose to hang there until he aarie or cut himself into the sea swearing and blasphemy had its punishments for or in the early century the man accused of 0 blasphemy was gagged and his tongue scraped the inhuman practice 01 logging flogging was exercised on the slightest pretext every midshipman at the united states naval academy must participate in one ot of the forms of 0 athletics the pay 0 of an enlisted man mail il the united states navy is automatically increased by 70 per cent at ater his first four our months service the recent authorized increase in enlisted personnel ot of the united states navy will enable approximately 1900 young unmarried men between the ages ot of 17 and 25 to enlist each month during the fiscal year beginning july qualifications for enlistment will remain the same that is applicants must pass a rigid physical examination be of 0 excellent character mentally qualified have no juvenile or police record and furn furnish 1311 r references ferencek feren ces from responsible persons the old texas was a sis ter ship cc the ill fated mains maine which was blown up in havana harbor in 1898 she was rated a second class battleship displacing G tons and mounted two 12 inch and six 6 inch guns later her name was changed to the san marcos and worn out and obsolete she was used as a target and sunk in chesapeake Chese peake bay in 1911 it was on the old texas that captain john phillip gave the order dont cheer boys the poor devils are dying as his ship passed the stricken spanish flagship at the battle of santiago |