32 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, polyp great enlargement of tonsils, impediment of speech, disease of heart or lungs or predisposition to such discase, 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, joss 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 For example, electricians (general and radio), yeomen trades and branches. (clerical branch), hospital corps, machinists, shipwrights, blacksmiths, boilermakers, 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 op n to all men after 30 years' creditable service with three-fourths highest pay plus Enlistments may be made at all navy yards and $15.75 in lieu of allowances. 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 of Life Insurance Medical Directors. Age. Age. Age. 50-54 Age. Age. 55-59 64-61 Age. Age. 15-24 25-29 Pounds. Pounds. Pounds. Pounds, Pounds, Pounds, Pounds, Pounds, Pounds Height. 5 feet... 120 125 133 134 134 134 131 5 feet 1 inch. 122 126 129 131 134 136 136 136 134 5 feet 2 inches. 124 128 131 133 136 158 138 138 137 5 feet 3 inches. 127 131 134 136 139 141 140 5 feet 4 inches. 131 135 138 140 143 144 145 145 144 5 feet 5 inches. 134 138 141 143 146 147 149 149 148 5 feet 6 inches. 138 142 145 147 150 151 153 153 153 5 feet 7 inches. 142 147 150 152 155 156 158 158 158 5 feet 8 inches. 146 151 154 157 160 161 163 163 143 5 feet 9 inches. 150 155 159 162 165 166 167 168 168 5 feet 10 inches. 154 159 164 167 171 170 172 173 174 5 feet 11 inches. 159 164 169 173 177 175 177 178 180 6 feet. 165 170 175 179 180 183 182 183 183 6 feet 1 inch. 170 177 181 185 186 189 189 188 183 6 feet 2 inches. 176 184 188 192 194 196 192 181 190 195 200 203 204 6 feet 3 inches. 194 194 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 applicstions 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: $366.67 6,000.00 500.00 4.000.00 333.33 $4,400.00 $400.00 3,500.00 291.67 $,850.00 350.00 4,500.00 375.00 3,000.00 250.00 3,300.00 275.00 3,600.00 200.00 3,900.00 2,400.00 325.00 200.00 2,640.00 220.00 2,880.00 340.00 3,120.00 260.00 2,000.00 166.67 2,200.00 183.33 2,400.00 200.00 2,600.00 1,700.00 216.67 141.67 1,870.00 155.83 2,040.00 170.00 2,210.00 184.17 $4,800.00 $5,000.00 $416.67 320.80 4,200.00 Midshipmen, Warrant Officers, Pay Clerks And Mates. $600.00 $50.00 Midshipmen of the United States, except Porto Rico and Hawaii. NOTES.-Officers and enlisted men receive 10 per cent. additional for sea duty, or shore duty beyond continenta! limits active pay when placed on the retired list. Officers and enlisted men receive 75 per cent. of the highest men to $71.50 for chief master-at-arms. The monthly pay of enlisted men in the navy ranges from a minimum of $17.60 for apprentice seamen and for landsThey receive 75 cents extra per month for each good conduct bar or medal; $5 extra per month if detailed as coxswain, Jack-of-the-dust. lamplighters or crew messmen, and for service on submarine vessels; from $3 to $1 if detai'ed as signalmen; from $10 to $2 as gunpointers. according to expertness, or as cooks ashore, years, $1.36 per month is added to pay. $3 if qualified as expert riflemen; $2 as sharpshooters, and $1 as marksmen. For each consecutive re-enlistment for four UNITED STATES REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE Headquarters at Washington and is under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury, with Captain Commandant E. P. Betholf in charge of the division and the following staff: Superintendent Construction and Repair-Senior Captain Howard Emery. In Charge of Personnel-Captain C. E. Johnston, Ordnance Officer-First Lieutenant H. H. Wolf. Assistant Engineer-in-Chief-First Lieutenant of Engineers Urban Harvey. In Charge of Supplies-First Lieutenant C W. Cairnes. Constructor for Engineering--John Q. Walton. Constructor for Hulls-Frederick A. Hunnewell. Assistant to Engineering Constructor-Second Lieutenant of Engineers W. M. Prall. Assistant to Personnel-Second Lieutenant William Williams. The Service is at present divided into four divisions, as follows: Eastern Division, Headquarters, Boston, Mass., Senior Captain H. M. Broadbent; New York Division, Headquarters, New York City, Senior Captain John F. Wild; Northern Division, Pacific Coast, Headquarters, Seattle, Wash., Senior Captain F. M. Dunwoody; Southern Division, Pacific Coast, Headquarters, San Francisco, Cal., Senior Captain William E. Reynolds. There are 242 commissioned officers and 1,576 warrant officers, petty officers and enlisted men. There are 36 revenue cutters in all; 21 of the first class, 4 of the second class and 11 of the third class. In addition there are 8 small launches in harbors and rivers, together with the Colfax, used as a station ship at the Revenue Cutter Service Depot, Arundel Cove, Paltimore. Two new vessels (Nos. 26 and 27) are under construction at Newport News, Va. CHANGES MADE BY NEW OYSTER LAWS. Several important changes were made in the laws relating to oyster culture in the 1914 session of the Maryland Legislature. Of these changes two are of special importance. The old law had contained no definition of a natural bar, and the definition adopted by the Shellfish Commissioners had turned solely upon the question as to whether there were or were not, as shown by an actual test at the time of the survey, sufficient oysters or oyster spat upon the ground in question to indicate that the bottom was then or would be in the near future sufficiently prolific to be profitably worked. Under this law the character of a given piece of bottom once determined was not thereafter subject to review. The Act of 1914 makes the definition of the bar turn upon the question as to whether it has actually been successfully worked by the oystermen at any time within five years of the date at which the question is raised. The effect of the change is to make the deter mination depend not upon an actual examination upon the spot, but upon testimony in a Court proceeding, and further to make the character of any particular piece of bottom subject to review by the Shellfish Commissioners at any time prior to its actual lease. The second important change made by the Act of 1914 was in the creation of a neutral zone, 200 yards wide in the Chesapeake Bay and 50 yards wide in the tributaries, surrounding all natural beds. How To Secure A Lease. The process of securing a lease under the new law remains practically the same as under the old, except that the Board of Shellfish Commissioners is required to advertise all applications in the local county papers for four consecutive weeks in order that protests may be filed in the Circuit Court of the county, under which protest the question as to whether the ground applied for is or is not natural har is determined. The process of securing a lease is as follows: The person desiring to lease forwards an application to the Board of Shellfish Commissioners, describing the ground which he desires to take up, and accompanies this with an application fee of $5. Notice is given of this application in the county papers for four weeks, and if no protest is received within 30 days from the date of the last notice. the Commissioners notify the applicant that they are ready to issue a lease to him, and upon receipt of his application and survey fees and first year's rental, the lease is issued. A lease so issued after advertisement is not again subject to attack. 1 *Senator Curran was elected in 1913 to fill the unexpired term of Senator Coady. His term expires in 1915. GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND-Continued. Harford. D. Charles H. McNabb, Cardiff. Wicomico. D. Charles R. Disharoon, Salisbury. D. Thomas C. Hopkins, Havre de Grace. D. Roscoe Jones, Allen, Howard. D. Mortimer Crapster, Woodbine. Worcester. D. Milton L. Veasey, Pocomoke. House Democrats, 79. |