Page's Weekly, Vol. 8

Excerpt from Page's Weekly, Vol. 8: A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Engineering, Shipbuilding, Iron and Steel Trades; March 9, 1906 Until 1899 in the American Navy there had always been two separate corps of officers employed, the line and the engineer corps. By that date, however, the clamour for something better had become so persistent among the more progressive officers of the navy (headed by the then Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt) that the old conservative element was routed, and the Personnel Bill, under which it is now organised, became law, amalgamating the line and engineer corps, and making all officers of the new line (subject to certain well-known and important, but temporary exceptions) subject to duty on deck or below as the exigencies of the service might demand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.