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fp ) Coe Ta AT rN i VOL. 44 CLEVELAND ha TTT THT I FT TT KH OCTOBER, 1914 Is --H==--~ =. - en erm NEW YORK No. 10 'The United States Navy A Kindly Critic Shows How Its Efficiency Can Be Improved in Various Ways ©. THOSE . who - are; familar I with our various types of lake vessels, but who. have never had an opportunity of living aboard a battleship, the comparison below between the Utah, the Seeand- bee, the largest of our side-wheel passenger steamers, and the W. P. Snyder Jr. or her sister ship, the Col. Jas. M. Schoonmaker, among the largest of the bulk freighters, will give a general idea of relative size, although it must be remembered that the ships of the Utah class are now in third place as far as size is con- cerned, being surpassed by the Wy- oming and Arkansas, while they in turn have given way to the New York on her boilers than would be the case in a boat like the Snyder. When -one attempts to- draw con- clusions. from experiences, such as those I have attempted to describe, he is immediately struck by the fact that there is probably no other sub- ject in the country. on which popular opinion is so diametrically opposed to actual facts as in the consideration of the personnel making up the mod- ern navy. The old time sailor-man, with his picturesque profanity, his ability to consume rum and his va- rious other qualifications which made ° him an ideal figure for the dime novel, has passed away along with the square-rigged war vessel and in his and Texas. place has come a _ clean-cut, wide- COMPARISON OF U. S. S. UTAH WITH VARIOUS LAKE VESSELS. Seeandbee W. P. Snyder Jr. U.S. S. Utah Peal Gyr: all vii svi a EE TTS 500 ft. Oin. 617 ft. 3 in. 510 ft, 0 in. Bxtieme width. i. co icliss etter ee ves 96 ft. 8 in. 64 ft. 2 in. 88 ft. 2% in, AN ee ieee ace te 15 tt..0 in: 19 ft. 0 in. 28 ft. 6 in. HOrsepower 0c ee ae ees 11,000 2,600 28,000 tial speed ee 22 miles 13.6 miles 24.2 Bene i ales ee 6,381 (full load) 22,603 ae i i Vertical arsons fog fais leas cee see sadeacle oni compoun expansion : i 1912 and 1913 Mediterranean Coal burned per mile steamed......-.++++++ 0 tetreeee Beast NG 2 ange Mee Sedans, Perhaps the most interesting of these figures to the lake man is the big difference in draft and the tre- mendous difference in horsepower, the battleship having 11 times the horse- Power of the freighter. The compari- Son of the coal burned is interesting, although scarcely fair, inasmuch as the Utah's condensing plant and her electrical plant are far a greater drain at 11.15 miles 12 miles per hr. perhour - 1 awake, intelligent American youth, who has left the city, the farm and the prairie, drawn perhaps by a de- sire for travel and adventure, perhaps by the calling of the blood of sea- faring ancestors generations removed. Although it seems almost incredible, it is a fact that the average age of all the men on this ship was under 22 years! The sailors who are 'manning By S. W. Utley our fleet today are nothing but boys, and they are an all-around, clean-cut, well-behaved, manly crowd. The idea that the navy is a sort of a re- form. school is absolutely wrong. Only 20 per cent of those who apply for enlistment are accepted, and there is no room in it for the fellow who is bad or undesirable. If such a man succeeds in getting by the recruiting officer, it does not take long for the executive officer of the ship to which - he is assigned to find him out and get rid of him. The idea of the navy today is not to train a man into being a mere cog in a machine, but rather to develop his individuality and his thinking powers, and while he must be trained to co-ordinate and co-op- erate with others, this training is cal- culated to stimulate rather than to repress his individuality. In the fac- tory or in the store, if a man shows exceptional proficiency in one line, there is always a temptation to keep -him there because he does that work better than some one else. would. On shipboard, however, if a man shows any qualifications that in any way differentiate him from the rest of the men, every wide-awake officer and petty officer stands ready to help to push him ahead, because there is always -a cry for the best possible men for each step higher up. Of course, discipline must be pre- served, but it is certainly not any more severe than that required in many well regulated mercantile and manufacturing plants, the main dif- ference being that a ship is both a