Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 27, 1917, Page 8

' BOYS ARI Three Hundred Ars Being Fitted for Coast Guard Patrols. The United States government has established at Fort Trumbull the. only training school for enlisted.men of the coast guard service in the history of that service. Already 300 recruits from all parts of the United States and all walks of life who have heard the call of their country are being put through intensive training preparatory to manning the coast cutters to patrdl the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Although the coast guard service, formerly the revenue cutter service, is older than the Unitel States navy, it has never before had a training school for its enlisted men. Recruits upon enlisting were detailed immediate’y to cutters and gained their knowledge through practice. The naval training station at Newport, where recruits are trained for the navy, has demonstraty ed what training will do for the “land- lubber” who_enlists, to such an extent that when the time of need has come and the order has been issued for double manning of every coast guard cutter, that branch of the service has been forced to adopt a plan by which every one of its men will know what to do and how to do it at the right moment, from the minute he reaches the ship. In war time there is no time to_waste in explanations. The school, similar, therefore, in its seneral purposes to the training school at Newport, is facing in the first three months of its infancy a future similar in scops to the Newport school. The coast guard service being a smaller service than the navy, the school will of course never become as large as the one at Newport, but it will hold the same relative importance to the coast guard service as the Newport school does to the navy. Located just above the mouth of the harbor, at the histor- ic Fort Trumbull, which served as a temporary shelter for the patriots of *76 who attempted to defend New Lon- don against the advance of Benedict Arnoid and the British troops, the site offers unusual advantages for land and water drills. In addition to the natural resources, the department has put the cutter Onondaga at the command of Capt..F. C. Billard, commandant of the school, for use as a training ship. Short cruises are ‘being made every few daye, about 100 men going aboard ship to serve in trial capacities in po- sitions which they will be expected to hold at the completion of the course. Even the training school at. Newport, with its wealth of resources, does not have the advantage of a battleship for giving its recruits practical training. The period of training has not yet been definitely determined. It was expected to be six weeks or two months, but some of the recruits have already been there for that period and have.not vet been detached, so that it will probably be lengthened to three months at least. Daily the recruits go through an intensive routine of work and recreation. Reveille sounds every morning at 6 o'clock, and from that time on the 300 men are kept busy until 4 o'clock with setting up exer- clses, infantry and artillery drills, drilling at rapid fire guns, signaling, rowing and resuscitation drill. A large proportion of the time is devoted to rowing because manning small boats plays an integral part In the service of a coast guardsman. Coast guard cut- ters are the ralief ships of the coasts. In time of peace their duty lies in the midst of storm, when all other ships | are coming into port for shelter the coast guard cutter goes out to patrol its district, ever on the alert for S. O. S. calls and distress signals. When a ship founders it is the business of the coast guardsmen to.take the passen- gers and crew from the wreck and to remove and save whatever portion of | the cargo it is possible to rescue. When conditions permit, the cutter must tow the wreck back to port. In the high | seas during the winter' months and the | bitter cold along the coast such work requires the most skilful seamanship. And not seamanship alone but a man- | hood of the tvpe most worthy to wear the uniform of the United States. In | this respect the recruits at Fort Trum- | bull are not rookies. At first glance at the -towering rows of stalwgrt young | Ame: marching and counter c on the parade grounds. climbing to the crow’s nest, manning e boats and going through the var | ties of strenuous setting up exercises, | the spectator immediately recognizes rat the men who have enlisted in the | coast guard service are of the highest | . physicaly and mentally. Military and naval officers are deep- ly impressed with the st i teresting fact of the rapidity which the new men acquire militar: bearing and adapt themselves to con- | ditions "and circumstances. Many of the men are college graduates and many come with the degree of nauti- cal knowledge they have acquired on their own mator boats and vachts. After watching the 300 men perfor their drills and exercises on an afier: noon, and revel in the recreation pe- riod from 4 to 3.30, tumbling about the parade ground with a football like a crowd of schoo’boys during recess, the visitor hears the bugle call for mess and immediately wonders whera and how all those men are fed and duartered on a reservation only a few months ago devoted exclusively to the training of some-12 or 15 cadets. 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Prices $2.95 to $8.50 Cliosing Out Suits and Coats The woman or miss who will act quickly will pro- cure a wonderful bargain in either Suit or Coat, as we offer some most unusual opportunities in Sizes and assortment broken, but Manhaltan 121-125 Main Street plank tables, crowded close’y to h. to be sure. but food is ganer‘?uslf‘;?ei tiful and the recruit forgets the incon- venience of being crowded in the joy of satisfying his healthy hunger, bred of strenuous work in the outdoors. The drill hall overhead, on the first floor of the building. has been trans- formed into a barracks. Not a bar- racks in the army sense, however. There are only beds and in the day time when a visitor looks into the hall e sees onlv long rows of big canvas bags suspended from wooden pegs and ng the walls. Overhead, about six | teet from the foor, is a trellis of nar. row three-inch wood boards dotted every few feet with strong hooks, each of which is numbered. The numbers correspond to the numbers stamped rather, his hammock, for that.is what | he sleeps on whether on board ship = in barracks. Each hammock is an ob- long sheet of canvas punched at each ond with eight holes in which the ropes are fastened which suspend the ham- mock upon the hooks. On top of the canvas the sailor places a thin mat- tress and his bed Is “made.” __Although the school is utilzing tie drill hall and the casemates in the old fort, there is still not enough room to sling the requisite number of ham. mocks, so that heavy mattresses have been provided for a group of the men who must sleep on the fleor. But the number of recruits is daily increasing and Captain Billard believes they will have recourse to tents before the summer is over. Sleeping on the floor beneath a raw recruit who isn't yet proficient in the art of balancing in a hammock seems a more perilous posi- tion than one in the hammock, but the visitors learns that falling from a ham- mock is a disgrace so into’erable to the recruit that even in his sleep he is not unconscious of it and that as yet onl one sleeper has so far forgotten him self as to tumble from the ‘rigging. The instruction of the recruits is being conducted by the regular st: of officers attached to the coast gualr"dr academy, the school for future officers of the service which has for the past six years been located at Fort Trum- bull, having been moved there from Balfimore, Md. The cadets have re- cently completed their scholastic year and have formerly sailed on their an- nual cruise some time in June. This vear the cruise b been abandoned and instead the cadets wili remain at the fort to aseist in the instruction of No formal graduation of ss men was held this pring, but the class was simply de- tached from the school and ordered to various cutters and will undoubtedly receive their commissions in a short time. It is possible that the gradua- tion of the next class may be hastened on account of the demand for officers. An examination for entrance to the enlisted men will be permitted to take examinations for commissions. and, ac- cording to a ruling of the department, eight men making the best records will receive commissions. The cadet academy and _enlisted men's training school are particularly fortunate in their commandant. Capt F. C. Billard. Captain Billard is a progressive, broad minded officer, typ- ical of the best type of leader to be found in the United States service. Since his taking charge of the acad- emy three vears ago the service has already felt the beneficial results of his wise, steadfast control of the helm, and his assistance and co-operation in civic movements has been of inestima- ble value. CONN. PATENTS. Many Useful Inventions Are Included In the Latest List. List of patents issued by the United States patent office to citizens of Con- necticut, as contained in the Official Gazette, dated Tuesday, June 19, 1917, follows: Carl E. Anderson, Bridgeport, cover plate for flush receptaclez. Henry P. Arndt, Amston, New an\:n\' shaft coupling. Carlton W. Brown, Groton, machine for affixing and printing tags. Gregory C. Davison, New London, re- versible internal combustion engine. Cornelius B. Forbes, Guilford, handle. James C. Gourley, Hartford, machine for shaping the backs of book covers. Monroe Guett, Hartford, push-button connection for snap switches. George D. Hartlett, Glenbrook, signor of one- half to E. C. Belling and one half to Hart-Bell Carbon Remover Co., New York city, attachment for gasoline en- gines. John Hilderbrand, Bridgeport, automatic boiler. Earl L. Klinch, Wa- terbury, market ticket. William A. Lorenz, Hartford, coffee substitute. Reginald W. Millard, Meriden, caster. Aloysius W. Mozdzierz, New Haven, figure wheeled toy. Charles E. Sackett, Bridgeport, luminous pendant. Designs: Thomas A. Shanley, Meri- den, glass vessel or similar article. Trade-Marks: Celluloid Starch Co., New Haven and New York city, scour- ing powder. Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, certain named electrical apparatus and supplies. INTEREST IN NATIONAL GUARD TRAINING CAMP. Intensive Work Will Fit Men for Offi- cers’ Commissions. Much Interest is aroused in the re- port that Adjutant General George M. Cole is planning to establish a Na- tional guard training camp in Con- necticut, where members of the Na- tional guard will recelve training to fit them for commissions as officers in the guard and in the new national army. This proposed camp will be much like the Plattsburgh camp and the result will haye the opportunity to qualify as officers. “There is no reason why men of the National guard who show particular aptitude for the military life and mili- tary work should not benefit by the training they will have and qualify to be officers in this great national army said General Cole. “Plans are now being perfected for the establishment of training camps in which these Na- tional guard recruits will g0 and where they will recefve instructions in mili- tary work that will be practically on par with Plattsburgh. “Though I speak with mo official authority, I personally belleve that the young men who enter the, National guard now and show themselves to be qualified for it will be selected when the time comes that the officers are to be picked for the army which soon will be drafted. The man who enters the service now will have a distinct advantage over the man who comes in later or who is taken for the hew cruits from now on.” Farewell At the close of the school year Mi Elizat sixth presented two pupils, a: closing exercises of the were Gifts For Teachers. beth T. Hayes, teacher of grade in the Falls school gold hat pins by t a farewell g At the grade the solos, and re vocal and violin freshments were served Monday Green Jennings a cameo brooch as a tol evening the presented teachers of eviile Miss Rache of frienship. Miss Jennings has resign ed an wich is Greenwich, purch, bonds. she ha a s leaving the schools of Nor The efficlent and lengthy rendered the comm ued and appreciated ‘Women in Greenwich ased Liberty bonds to the ame on the bags and the bag is virtually | cadet academy will be held in August, | Danbury, soil pulverizing wheel. Kal- [army because of the fact that he has|of $324.150; women of New Canaan ! 5 the sailor’s trunk. In it he packs all | when 30 successful candidates will be (yran F. Sentivany, Hartford. puttee- |had additional training of the intensive 4.000; of Darien, $30,000, and o of his belongings, even his bed, or,|admitted to the school. At that time |shaping appartus. George B. Thomas, [ variety which we plan to give all re- | woman in Stamford took $40,000 8 Relieve Your Liver When bile an our liver is out of order, your head, stomach, bowels suffer with it. That is why a bilious attack is often serious. Ward it off with a few doses of BEECHAM'S PILLS ‘which gently arouse a sluggish liver, and renew the activities so necessary to good health. They never produce any disagreeable after-effects. Their prompt use is beneficial to the system, and will Prevent Bilious Attacks Directions of Sold by druggists Value to Women are with E: Box out the world. ; In bozes, 10c, 28a.