Popular Science Monthly 



213 



progress in 

 will be as 



naval affairs, for the Recruit 

 much of a training ship as 

 it is a recruiting center. On the other 

 hand, citizens may visit the ship and ac- 

 quaint themselves with the makeup and 

 organization of a modern sea-fighter. 



Under Acting Captain C. F. Pierce, life 

 aboard the Recruit is one of ordinary naval 

 routine. The land sailors arise at six o'clock, 



scrub the decks, wash their clothes, attend 

 instruction classes, and then stand guard 

 and answer questions for the remainder of 

 the day. There is a night as well as a day- 

 guard. From sundown to eleven o'clock 

 all lights of the ship are turned on, including 

 a series of searchlight projectors. 



Within the ship are spacious waiting 

 rooms for recruits and applicants, physical 

 examination rooms both fore and aft, 

 doctors' quarters, officers' quarters, shower 

 baths, a big air washer and ventilating de- 

 vice which changes the temperature ten 

 times every sixty minutes, and numerous 

 other accommodations for officers and men. 

 The superstructure of the vessel con- 

 sists of a forward cabin, main bridge, 

 flying bridge, conning tower, two masts 

 fifty feet above the quarterdeck', and a 

 single smokestack eighteen feet above 

 the cabin top. Six 

 wooden guns, repre- 

 senting fourteen-inch 

 naval guns, extend 

 seventeen and a half 

 feet beyond the turrets 

 and make up the main 

 battery. The second- 

 ary battery consists of 

 ten wooden five-inch 

 guns and two models 

 of one-pound breech- 

 loading rifles. 



The Recruit 

 measures two 

 hundred feet 

 from stem to 

 stern, with a 

 forty-foot beam 



The equipment is that of the up-to-the-minute dreadnought with accommodations on board 

 for day and night life of officers and men. Searchlight projectors illuminate the ship at night 



