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Title: Curious schools
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Schools
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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boys; here they swing their hammocks, bringingthem down from the spar deck where they have beenairing all day. The berth deck is distinguished by the officersquarters, their dainty state-rooms and fine dining-room, the library, the paymasters quarters, apothe-cary shop, paymasters office, etc. Here also are the great ranges or galleys forcooking, with huge boilers, bake-pans and other ap-pointments ; and here the boys eat. Seventeen boys mess together, and each mess has its own chest,with plates, spoons, forks — in short, everything whichthey use on their table. This table is composed of a number of boardswhich between meals are folded together and fast-ened up to the ceiling, and are easily fitted together foruse, swinging on ropes exactly as the hammock isfixed for sleeping. This folding up of the board is togive room between meals. Forward, on the same deck, is the sick bay,the Hospital — a gloomy, dark place — where attendants are always ready to coddle the ailing lads. 360
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The Training School-Skip Minnesota. Each boy has a box called a ditty in which tokeep his little treasures ; these are numbered and havekeys. Close to the Hospital, on either side of the en-trance, is a dark closet or cell for punishment whensolitary confinement is ordered. There is nothingin these dark cells — no furniture, and they are un-speakably dismal even to look at. The Orlop is a deck of many uses, and hasstore-rooms. Here, too, boys are punished forgrave offences — desertion, for instance; for sucha crime they are put in irons. The boys all are of American birth. They enterthis service at the age of fifteen; and without theexpress permission of the Secretary of the Navy aboy once in is not allowed to leave until he is of age.He must be able to read and write, and be of soundphysical condition. On enlisting, a bath is re-quired, the thorough examination by a physician, andvaccination. Each boy is required to take care ofhis own clothing, and to learn how to cook for his m

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