are: Bainbridge, Barry, Chauncey, Dale, Hopkins, Hull, Lawrence, Macdonough, Paul Jones, Perry, Preble, Stewart, Truxtun, Whipple and Worden. In commission with displacement of 700 tons and speed of 29% knots: Flusser. Under construction with displacements of from 700 Torpedo Boats,

Torpedo boats of displacement below 400 tons and speed of 30 knots and under are: Bagley, Bailey, Barney, Biddle, Blakeley, Cushing, Dahlgren, Davis, De Long, Du Pont, Ericsson, Farragut, Foote, Fox, Goldsborough, Gwin, Mackenzie, McKee, Manly, Morris, Porter, Rodgers, Rowan, Shubrick, Stiletto, Somers, Stockton, Stringham, Talbot, T. A. M. Craven, Thornton, Tingey, Wilkes and Winslow. Submarine Boats.

The submarine boats in service and SUMMARY OF VESSELS IN UNITED Fit for Service or Under Repair. First class battleships.

25

Convertetd yachts..

21

Second class battleship.

1

Colliers

15

Armored cruisers..

248248

Superintendent, Captain John M. Bowyer, U. S. N.

Nomination.-The students of the Naval Academy are styled midshipmen. 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 allowed from Porto Rico, who must be a native of that island. The appointment is made by the President, on the recommendation of the Governor of Porto Rico.

The Congressional appointments are equitably distributed, so that in regular course each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress may appoint one midshipman during each Congress. After June 30, 1913, each Senator, Representative and Delegate in Congress will be allowed to appoint only one midshipman instead of two.

The course for midshipmen is six years-four years at the academy, when the succeeding appointment is made, and two years at sea, at the expiration of which time the examination for final graduation takes place. Midshipmen who pass the examination for final graduation 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 as determined by the Academic Board of the Naval Academy. At least fifteen appointments from such graduates will be made each year. To surplus graduates who do not receive such appointments will be given certificates of graduation, honorable discharges and one year's sea pay, as provided for midshipmen.

Candidates allowed for Congressional districts, for territories and for the District of Columbia must be actual residents of the districts or territories, respectively, from which they are nominated. All candidates must, at the time of their examination for admission, be between sixteen and twenty years old.

To be accepted applicants must be free from infectious or moral disorder and, generally, from any deformity disease, or infirmity. No one will be admitted manifestly under size for his age.

UNITED STATES

REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. (Under the Treasury Department.)

CHARLES D. HILLES, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, having supervision. WORTH G. ROSS, Chief Division Revenue Cutter Service and Captain Commandant .Commissioned April 25, 1908 CHARLES A. M'ALLISTER, Engineer in Chief. ..........Commissioned April 25, 1908 The U. S. Revenue Cutter Service is a military arm of the government attached to and under the direction of the Treasury Department. Its duties are to enforce the navigation and customs laws of the United States, assist vessels in distress, protect the seal industry in Alaska, enforce the quarantine laws and co-operate. The officers of the service are commissioned by the President and hold rank by law with officers of the army and navy, as follows: Captain commandant with colonel in the army and captain in the navy; senior captains with lieutenant colonels and commanders: engineers in chief with lieutenant colonels and commanders; senior engineers with majors and lieutenant commanders; captains with majors and lieutenant commanders; first lieutenants with captains and lieutenants; second lieutenants with first lieutenants and lieutenants (Junior grade); third lieutenants with second lieutenants and ensigns. The service consists of 291 commissioned officers and cadets on the active list, and 1,250 petty officers and enlisted men. Commissioned officers of the lire are appointed from cadet graduates of the School of Instruction, at South Baltimore, Md. The cadet course covers three years. Second assistant engineers are appointed from civil life by competitive examination.

PRINCIPAL LINE OFFICERS AND ENGINEERS.

Senior Captains.
Munger, Fred. M.
Hamlet, Oscar C.
Newcomb, F. H.
Wild, J. F.
Hanks, A. W. P.
Foley, D. P.

Captains.

Reynolds, W. E.
Dunwoody, F. M.
Emery, Howard
Broadbent, H. M.

West, H. B.
Cantwell, J. C.

Sill, J. L.
Reed, B. L.
Quinan, J. H.
Perry, K. W.
Brown, J. H.
Reinburg, J. E.
Moore, J. M.
Jacobs, W. V. E.
Uberroth, P. H.

Henderson, A. J.

Landrey, S. M.
Bertholf, E. P.
Crisp, R. O.
Carden, G. L.
Dodge, F. G.
Carmine, R. G.
Haake, J. H.
Daniels, G. M.
De Otte, D. F. A.

Van Boskerk, F. S.
Levis, F. A.
Winram, S. B.

Ballinger, J. G.
Johnston, C. E.
Captains of
Engineers.
Schwartz, E. G.
French, D. McC.

Munroe, Charles W.
Owen, Fred. E.
Pedrick, William
Webber, E. P.

The revenue cutter fleet includes seventeen first rate, nine second and eleven third rate vessels. In the first class are the Seneca, 1,480 tons; the Androscoggin, 1,270; the McCulloch, 1,280; the Bear and the Thetis, 1,200; the Tahoma, 1,050; the Yamacraw, 1,006; the Mohawk, 980; the Manning, 962; the Algonquin, the Gresham and the Onondaga, 936; the Itasca, 839; the Seminole, 785; the Tuscarora, 670; the Apache, 664, and the Rush, 550. The McCulloch carries six guns, the Itasca fifteen, the Algonquin five, the others from one to four guns.

State or Territory

Enlisted

Enlisted

1907.

Enlisted

1908.

Enlisted

Officers. men. Officers. men. Officers. men. Officers. men.

Midshipmen, Warrant Officers, Pay Clerks and Mates.

NOTES.-Officers and enlisted men receive 10 per cent additional for sea duty, or shore duty beyond continental limits of the United States, except Porto Rico and Hawaii. Officers and enlisted men receive 75 per cent of their highest active pay when placed on the retired list.

The monthly pay of enlisted men in the navy ranges from a minimum of $17 60 for apprentice seamen and for landsmen to $71 50 for chief master-at-arms. They receive 75 cents extra per month for each good conduct bar or medal; $5 extra per month if detailed as coxswains, jacks-of-the-dust, lamplighters or crew messmen, and for service on submarine vessels; from $3 to $1 if detailed as signalmen; from $10 to $2 as gunpointers, according to expertness, or as cooks ashore, $3 if qualified as expert riflemen: $2 as sharpshooters, and $1 as marksmen. For each consecutive re-enlistment for four years, $1 36 per month is added to

pay.

Second secretary.... Vienna..

Second secretary.... Rio de Janeiro.. M. Marshall Langhorne.. Va.

1Also Envoy Extraordinary to Rumania and Servia. 2 Also Consul General.