THE UNITED STATES NAVY. Commander-in-Chief-Woodrow Wilson, March 4, 1915. Atlantic Fleet (battleships)- Admiral F. F. Fletcher, commander-in-chief. Pacific Fleet (cruisers)-Rear-Admiral Thomas B. Howard, commander-inAsiatic Fleet (cruisers and gunboats)-Rear-Admiral Walter C. Cowles, commander-in-chief. chief. STAFF DEPARTMENTS AND CHIEFS. Bureau of Navigation, Rear-Admiral Victor Blue. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Civil Engineer Homer R. Stanford. Bureau of Ordnance. Rear-Admiral Joseph Strauss. Bureau of Construction and Repair, Chief Constructor Richard M. Watts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Samuel McGowan, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Dr. William C. Braisted. Superintendent Naval Academy. Capt. William F. Fullam. Aid for Inspections. Cart. A. F. Fechteler. Aid for Personnel, Rear-Admiral Victor Blue. Aid for Material, Capt. Albert G. Winterhalter. The authorized enlisted personnel of the Navy is 51.500. The actual strength on June 30, 1914, was 51.348. The number of authorized commissioned line officers is one admiral of the navy, 18 rear-admirals, 70 captains, 112 commanders, 200 Heutenant commanders, 350 lieutenants and as many lieutenants of the junior grade and ensigns as can qualify from the graduates of the Naval Academy. APPRENTICE SEAMEN IN THE NAVY. Young men of good character and habits between 17 and 25, if American citizens, may enlist in the Navy as apprentice seamen. Applicants under the age of 18 years enlist for minority only, and must present the sworn, written consent of parent or legal guardian. Applicants over 18 enlist for four years and are not required to obtain parent's consent, but must furnish the recruiting officer with a birth certificate or verified written statement by either the parent or guardian of their age and birthplace. Every applicant must, before enlistment pass the physical examination prescribed in the medical instructions, and no man can be enlisted in the Navy unless he is pronounced fit by the recruiting and medical officers. Following is a table of minimum height and weight for minors: Minimum Height Minimum Weicht At 17 years of age. At 19 years of age. At 20 years of age. Adults will be examined according to the following table: Without Clothes. Circumference. No man convicted of any serious offense will be enlisted without special permission of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, and no minor under the age of 17 years. no Insane or intoxicated person, and no deserter from the naval or military service shall be enlisted in the Nave. Any one of the following physical conditions will be sufficient to cause the rejection of the applicant: 1. Feeble constitution, general roor rhysique, or impaired general health. 2. Any disease or deformity, either congenital or acquired, that would impair eficiency, such as: Weak or deranged Intellect, cutaneous disease not of a mild type, parasites of the skin or its appendages, deformity of the skull, abnormal APPRENTICE SEAMEN IN THE NAVY-Continued. curvature of the spine, torticollis, inequality of upper or lower extremities, inefficiency of joints or limbs, deformity of joints or bones, either congenital or the result of disease or injury, flat feet, evidence of epilepsy or other convulsions, defective vision (minimum 15-20 S. in either eye), disease of the eye, color-blindness, impaired hearing or disease of the ear, chronic nasal catarrh, ozena, polypi, great enlargement of tonsils, impediment of speech, disease of heart or lungs or predisposition to such disease, enlarged abdominal organs or evidence of cirrhosis, tumors, hernia, undescended testicle, large varicocele, sarcocele, hydrocele, strie ture, fistula, hemorrhoids, large varicose veins, disease of the genito-urinary organs, chronic ulcers, ingrowing nails, bad corns, large bunions, deformity of toes, loss of many teeth or teeth generally unsound (teeth properly filled not to be considered unsound). Every recruit must have at least 20 sound teeth, and of these not less than 4 opposed incisors and 4 opposed molars. 3. Any acute disease. Every recruit is allowed on first enlistment an outfit of clothing amounting to $60. After this outfit of clothing is drawn, the enlisted man purchases clothing from the navy paymaster at Government cost. The pay on first enlistment of apprentice seamen is $17.60 per month. This pay continues only while the recruit is under training--a period of about four months. After passing satisfactory examinations, he is transferred to a sea-going vessel at an advance in pay and rating. In addition to apprentice seamen, men are enlisted in the Navy in various trades and branches. For example, electricians (general and radio), yeomen (clerical branch), hospital corps, machinists, shipwrights, blacksmiths, boilernakers, shipfitters, coppersmiths, firemen, coal passers, bakers, cooks, waiters, musicians, painters, etc. Pay on first enlistment ranges from $17.60 to $71.50. This pay increases with each advance in rating. Privilege of retirement is open to all men after 30 years' creditable service with three-fourths highest pay plus $15.75 in lieu of allowances. Enlistments may be made at all navy yards and stations and at the navy recruiting station, corner Baltimore and St. Paul streets, Baltimore, and in the various navy recruiting stations in other cities. HEIGHT AND WEIGHT OF MEN. Table of Average Height and Weight of Males, Based on Analysis of 74,162 Accepted Applicants for Life Insurance as Reported to the Association Height. 3 feet.. of Life Insurance Medical Directors. Age. Age. Age. Age. Age. Age. Age. Age. Age. 35-39 40-44 45-49 15-24 25-29 30-34 50-54 55-59 6461 Pounds. Pour ds. Pounds, Pounds, Pounds, Pounds. Pounds, Pounds, Pounds 120 125 128 131 133 134 134 134 131 6 feet 1 inch. 170 177 181 185 186 189 188 189 183 6 feet 2 inches. 192 194 6 feet 3 inches. 176 184 188 A Height and Weight Table compiled by a Committee of the Medical Section of the National Fraternal Congress, 1900, which is the analysis of 133.940 applications of selected risks, in a few instances differed very slightly from the above. HEIGHT AND WEIGHT OF WOMEN. The following table gives the relative height and weight of women, all ages. The weight of ordinary clothing, however, is included: Mini- Maxi Mini- Maxi Admiral.. Rear admiral, first Rear admiral, sec- $13,500.00 $1,125.00 Yearly рау. Monthly pay. After 10 Years. Yearly Monthly Yearly Monthly pay. ray. pay. pay. 8,000.00 666.67 500.00 6,000.00 4.000.00 333.33 $4,400.00 $366.67 $4.800.00 $400.00 3,500.00 291.67 3,850.00 320.80 4,200.00 350.00 3,000.00 250.00 3,300.00 275.00 3,600.00 200.00 2,400.00 200.00 2,640.00 220.00 2,880.00 340.00 2,000.00 166.67 2,200.00 183.33 2,400.00 200.00 2,600.00 216.67 1,700.00 141.67 1,870.00 155.83 2,040.00 170.00 2,210.00 184.17 $5,000.00 $416.67 4,500.00 375.00 $5,000.00 4,500.00 $416.67 375.00 3,900.00 325.00 3,120.00 260.00 Midshipmen, Warrant Officers, Pay Clerks And Mates. NOTES. Officers and enlisted men receive 10 per cent. additional for sea duty, or shore duty beyond continenta! limits The monthly pay of enlisted men in the navy ranges from a minimum of $17.60 for apprentice seamen and for lands- 2,000.00 166.67 1,625.00 135.42 1,250.00 104.17 2,000.00 166.67 1,500.00 125.00 1,125.00 93.75 875.00 72.92 875.00 72.92 625.00 52.08 Yearly Monthly pay. $50.00 -Pay of Grade. After Grade. Yearly. Monthly. 5 years' RATES OF PAY TO ARMY OFFICERS. PAY OF OFFICERS IN ACTIVE SERVICE -Monthly Pay.t- After 20 years After 15 years' service. service. service. 40 per et 333.33 $366.67 350.00 $375.00 375.00 250.00 275.00 Captain. 2,400 155.83 *Retired officers receive 75 per cent. of the pay of their grade (salary and increase.) No increase of longevity after retirement unless retired for wounds received in battle. Officers below the rank of brigadier-general receive 10 per cent. on the yearly pay of the grade for each term of 5 years' service, not to exceed 40 per cent, in all-except colonel, lieutenant-colone! and major. The maximum ray of a colonel is $5,000, that of a lieutenant-colonel $4,500 and that of a major $1,000.-Act May 11, 1908. MIDSHIPMEN OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. Appointments To The Naval Academy At Annapolis, Maryland. The minimum age for admission is 16 years; maximum, 20. Two midshipmen are allowed for each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress, two for the District of Columbia and five each year from the United States at large The appointments from the District of Columbia and five each year at large are made by the President. One midshipman is appointed by the President from Porto Rico on the recommendation of the Governor of Porto Rico. Each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress may appoint one midshipman during each Congress. Graduates are appointed to fill vacancies in the lower grades of the line of the Navy, and of the Marine Corps, in the order of merit. Candidates must enter the Academy immediately after examination. Candidates are examined mentally in reading, writing, punctuation, spelling, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, United States history, world's history, algebra through quadratic equations, and plane geometry (five books of Chauvenet's geometry, or an equivalent). On entering the Academy the appointee signs an agreement to serve in the Navy eight years, including his time of probation at the Naval Academy. A midshipman's pay is $600 a year, commencing from the date of admission. The expenses for equipment at entrance are $226.35. A preliminary deposit of $50 for clothing is required. MAKING THE NAVY POPULAR Secretary Daniels' policy of making the navy a real training school, with larger opportunities for enlisted men, has resulted in so many enlistments that the navy has been recruited to its full strength and has a "waiting list" of applicants. The cruise to European waters last winter gave the men an opportunity 10 visit foreign cities and see something of the world. The opportunity for action al Vera Cruz and the service in Mexican waters stimulated interest. The high stand ard insisted upon has brought a fine class of young men into the navy and probably the personnel of the enlisted men was never of a higher standard than it is today. THE UNITED STATES NAVY. Commander-in-Chief-Woodrow Wilson, March 4, 1915. Atlantic Fleet (battleships)-Admiral F. F. Fletcher, commander-in-chief. Pacific Fleet (cruisers)-Rear-Admiral Thomas B. Howard, commander-inAsiatic Fleet (cruisers and gunboats)-Rear-Admiral Walter C. Cowles, commander-in-chief. chief. STAFF DEPARTMENTS AND CHIEFS. Bureau of Navigation, Rear-Admiral Victor Blue. Bureau of Yards and Docks, Civil Engineer Homer R. Stanford. Bureau of Ordnance, Rear-Admiral Joseph Strauss. Bureau of Construction and Repair, Chief Constructor Richard M. Watts. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Samuel McGowan, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Dr. William C. Braisted, Superintendent Naval Academy, Capt. William F. Fullam. Aid for Inspections. Cart. A. F. Fechteler. Aid for Personnel, Rear-Admiral Victor Blue. Aid for Material, Capt. Albert G. Winterhalter. The authorized enlisted personnel of the Navy is 51.500. The actual strength on June 30, 1914, was 51.348. The number of authorized commissioned line officers is one admiral of the navy, 18 rear-admirals, 70 captains, 112 commanders, 200 Heutenant commanders, 350 lieutenants and as many lieutenants of the junior grade and ensigns as can qualify from the graduates of the Naval Academy. APPRENTICE SEAMEN IN THE NAVY. Young men of good character and habits between 17 and 25, if American citizens, may enlist in the Navy as apprentice seamen. Applicants under the age of 18 years enlist for minority only, and must present the sworn, written consent of parent or legal guardian. Applicants over 18 enlist for four years and are not required to obtain parent's consent, but must furnish the recruiting officer with a birth certificate or verified written statement by either the parent or guardian of their age and birthplace. Every applicant must, before enlistment pass the physical examination prescribed in the medical instructions, and no man can be enlisted in the Navy unless he is pronounced fit by the recruiting and medical officers. Following is a table of minimum height and weight for minors: Minimum Height Minimum Weicht At 17 years of age. Adults will be examined according to the following table: 34/2 No man convicted of any serious offense will be enlisted without special permission of the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, and no minor under the age of 17 years. no Insane or intoxicated person, and no deserter from the naval or military service shall be enlisted in the Navy. Any one of the following physical conditions will be sufficient to cause the rejection of the applicant: 1. Feeble constitution, general roor physione, or impaired general health. 2. Any disease or deformity, either congenital or acquired, that would impair efficiency, such as: Weak or deranged intellect, cutaneous disease not of a mild type, parasites of the skin or its appendages, deformity of the skull, abnormal |