Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1912 — School Land Ship. [ARTICLE]

School Land Ship.

One of the features of their public school training which the boys of Berlin, Germany, enjoy most is the “land ship,” on which young sailors go through a regular dally training. The litis is the name of the land ship which has been built and which has a crew of 120 boys. The larger boys act as officers. When they are at work on the land ship the boys dress In middy blouses and caps. There Is gun practice on the land ship every day, and a naval drill, and all the usual work of a ship Is done by the boys. They have the greatest fun In climbing the spHrs and hoisting the sails, and life on the litis is so popular that there are always more applicants for the crew than there are places to be filled.