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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (THE ARMY AND NAVY PENSIONS.) 



emies, 558,740; private academies, 177,260; State 

 universities and colleges, 36,201 ; private univer- 

 sities and colleges, 79,070; public professional 

 schools, 10,360; private professional schools, 50,- 

 804; State normal schools, 43,3/2; private train- 

 ing-schools for teachers, 20,030; city evening 

 schools, 203,000; private business colleges, 110,- 

 031; reform schools, 25,327; public deaf and 

 dumb schools, 10,849 ; private schools for deaf and 

 dumb, 494; public schools for feeble-minded, 11,- 

 149; private schools for feeble-minded, 468; Gov- 

 ernment Indian schools, 23,077; schools in 

 Alaska, 3,356; private orphan asylums and other 

 benevolent institutions, about 15,000; private 

 kindergartens, about 95,000; art, music, elocu- 

 tion, cookery, etc., about 50,000. In both private 

 and public graded schools and universities the 

 total number of persons receiving instruction was 

 17,841,560; in special educational institutions, 

 17,862,780. The professional schools comprised 

 150 theological seminaries, with 988 professors 

 and 7,567 students, of whom 181 were women; 

 100 law schools, with 1,106 professors and tutors 

 and 13,642 students, of whom 170 were women; 

 123 medical schools, with 3,876 lecturers and in- 

 structors and 24,199 students, besides 21 homeo- 

 pathic colleges, with 639 professors and 1,812 

 students; 57 dental colleges, with 1,184 instruct- 

 ors and 8,308 students; 58 schools of pharmacy, 

 with 522 instructors and 4,429 students; 448 

 training-schools for nurses, with 11,599 students; 

 and 12 veterinary schools, with 189 instructors 

 and 461 students. An order was issued by the 

 War Department in August providing for mili- 

 tary instruction in the colleges and schools. Any 

 school, college, or university that will undertake 

 to maintain 100 of its scholars under military in- 

 struction will have one of the 100 officers of the 

 United States army detailed for the purpose to 

 instruct the students in the same way as soldiers 

 of the regular army, and the Government will 

 furnish rines and ammunition and a limited num- 

 ber of field-guns for practise in firing. 



The Army. The legal strength of the United 

 States army as fixed by the act of Congress ap- 

 proved on Feb. 2, 1901, is 15 regiments of cavalry, 

 750 officers and 12,620 enlisted men; 30 batteries 

 of field and 126 companies of coast-artillery, 651 

 officers and 17,742 enlisted men; 30 regiments of 

 infantry, 1,500 officers and 25,345 enlisted men; 

 3 battalions of engineers, 1,282 enlisted men 

 commanded by officers detailed from the corps 

 of engineers; and the staff corps, Military Acad- 

 emy, Indian scouts, recruits, etc., 2,877 enlisted 

 men. The total enlisted strength is 59,866 and 

 the number of officers on the active list is 3,820. 

 There were 100 officers and about 5,000 men in 

 the Philippine native scouts and a Porto Rican 

 regiment with 31 officers and 554 men, both bod- 

 ies since disbanded. The army in the Philippines 

 has been reduced from 40,000 to 17,000 men. The 

 army act limits the enlisted strength of the Uni- 

 ted States army to 100,000 men. Recruits must 

 be between eighteen and thirty-five years of age, 

 of good physique, of good character, temperate, 

 not less than 5 feet 4 inches in height, between 

 120 and 190 pounds in weight for infantry and 

 under 165 pounds for cavalry and field-artillery, 

 and able to speak and write English. 



The National Guard of the States and Terri- 

 tories at the end of 1902 had 1.791 general and 

 staff officers, 4,951 cavalry, 6,671 artillery, and 

 96,808 infantry. These numbers include 151 In- 

 dian Territory militia, 495 Hawaiian National 

 Guards, 48 Guam volunteers, 600 Porto Ricnn 

 militia, and 73 Samoan volunteers. The State 

 appropriations amount to the annual sum of 



$2,639,150. The number of militia authorized is 

 183,596. The total population liable to military 

 service is 8,727,500. 



The Navy. The United States navy, comple- 

 ted and building or authorized, consists of 19 

 first-class battle-ships, 1 of the second class, 10 

 armored cruisers, 6 double-turret monitors, 4 

 single-turret monitors for harbor defense, 5 old 

 monitors with low freeboard, 1 ram for port de- 

 fense, 23 protected steel cruisers, 4 unprotected 

 steel cruisers, 12 unarmored steel gunboats, 5 

 light-draft gunboats, 6 unarmored composite 

 gunboats, 1 despatch boat, 1 dynamite cruiser, 1 

 training-ship, 16 destroyers, 36 twin-screw tor- 

 pedo-boats, 8 submarine boats, 22 steam-vessels 

 of the old navy, 13 wooden sailing vessels, 40 

 steam-propellers, 21 gunboats under 500 tons cap- 

 tured from Spain, and 5 auxiliary cruisers, 23 

 yachts, 16 colliers, and 11 special vessels pur- 

 chased during the Spanish War; total number of 

 vessels, 310, of which 223 were fit for service at 

 the end of 1902, while 24 were not fit for sea 

 service and 63 were not yet built or not com- 

 pleted. The newest battle-ships, costing from 

 $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 apiece, have a displace- 

 ment of 15,000 or 16,000 tons, engines of 16,000 

 to 19,000 horse-power, a speed of 18 or 19 knots, 

 and carry 4 12-inch, 8 8-inch, and 12 6-inch 

 guns in the main battery, the last rapid-firing, 

 and in the secondary battery 12 3-inch, 12 three- 

 pounder, 8 one-pounder, and 2 3-inch field, 2 ma- 

 chine, and 6 automatic quick-firers. The Con- 

 necticut and Louisiana, of 16,000 tons, will have 

 7-inch breech-loaders instead of 6-inch rapid-fire 

 guns in the main battery and the auxiliary arma- 

 ment will consist of 20 3-inch rapid-fire, 12 semi- 

 automatic three-pounder, 2 field, and 8 machine 

 guns. The armored cruisers, which cost as much 

 as the battle-ships, have been increased in size to 

 14,500 tons in the latest development, with en- 

 gines of 23,000 horse-power, giving a minimum 

 speed of 22 knots, and their armament has usu- 

 ally been 4 8-inch breech-loaders and 14 6-inch 

 quick-firers in the main battery and 18 3-inch, 

 12 three-pounder, and numerous smaller guns. 

 The Tennessee and Washington, authorized by 

 Congress on July 1, 1902, will have the most pow- 

 erful armaments of any cruisers, with the best 

 protection, and a cruising radius of 6,500 miles 

 at 10 knots and 3,100 miles at 22 knots. The 

 hull will be protected by a 5-inch belt tapering 

 at stem and stern to 3-inch thickness and extend- 

 ing from 5 feet below the water-line to the upper 

 deck, while the guns will be protected at the l>;i-e 

 with 5-inch bulkheads uniting with the barbette* 

 to form a citadel. The armored deck will be li 

 inch on top and 3 and 4 inches on the slo]>e>. 

 The armament will consist of 4 10-inch guns in 

 balanced turrets within 7-inch barbettes, 16 6-ineli 

 quick-firers, four of them on the main deck in 

 armored casemates, the others in a broadside 

 battery on the gun-deck, 22 3-inch quick -lirer> on 

 the broadside of both decks, 12 semiautomatic 

 three-pounders and 2 one-pounders, 2 quick-firing 

 one-pounders, 3 field-guns, and 8 machine and 

 automatic guns. For the quick-firing battery 7 

 rounds can be served every minute. 



The United States navy is manned by }.'.' W 

 commissioned officers. 461 warrant officers, ami 

 25,258 men. The marine corps consists of Jl- 

 officers and 6,000 men. 



Pensions. There were drawing pensions on 

 July 1, 1902, 4 widows and 4 daughters of sol- 

 diers of the Revolutionary War; 1 survivor and 

 1.317 widows of soldiers of the War of 1812; 903 

 survivors and 3,320 widows of soldiers who fought 

 in the early Indian wars; 6,828 survivors and 



