COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY H. G. Dresel, Sec'y and Treas., U. S. Naval Institute. PRESS OF THE FRIEDENWALD CO. CONTENTS. NAVAL APPRENTICES, INDUCEMENTS, ENLISTING, AND TRAINING. THE Rear-Admiral Stephen B. Luce, U. S. N., 295.-Lieutenant W. 265 • 323 429 447 451 THE DUDLEY POWDER-PNEUMATIC GUN. By Howard P. Elwell, Asso- DISCUSSION OF "SPEED CONTROL IN MODERN STEAMERS." (See No. 77.) Notes on the Care of Rapid-Fire Guns and Mounts.-New Device for Sailing Ships.-The Bazin Disc Wheel Steamboat.-To Prevent Collisions at Sea.-Wounds by the Bullets of Modern Rifles.Armor Tests.-Ships of War. BOOK NOTICES AND BOOKS RECEIVED, 485 527 NOTICE. Further discussions of articles in the present number are requested. They will be published in the next number of the Proceedings. MOTTO" However small thy world may be, Do thou but lead it right; Thy work for good let all men see, Although that work be slight." -[From Schiller as translated by Major E. Gunter, S. E. D., from the Militär Wochenblatt.] SUBJECT: "NAVAL APPRENTICES, INDUCEMENTS, ENLISTING, AND TRAINING. THE SEAMAN BRANCH OF THE NAVY.” By ENSIGN RYLAND D. TISDALE, U. S. Navy. INTRODUCTORY. During the last few years, several valuable essays have been written by our naval officers on the subjects of "Naval Training," "Naval Training and Discipline," "Enlistment and Training of Seamen," "The Training Service," etc., and the discussions thereon have been quite full and varied. It, however, appears that the subject of this article has been left pretty much where it stood. The main points of these essays seem to be |