Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . s, orarmored vessels, mostly laid up since their use in the Civil War, butkept in good condition. In the service at sea and on shore there areover eighteen hundred naval officers, and there are also over threehundred officers on the retired list. The seamen number over seventhousand, and the apprentices 950. The marine corps has 2,077officers and enlisted men. The pay of the Admir
Picturesque Washington: pen and pencil sketches of its scenery, history, traditions, public and social life, with graphic descriptions of the Capitol and Congress, the White House, and the government departments .. . s, orarmored vessels, mostly laid up since their use in the Civil War, butkept in good condition. In the service at sea and on shore there areover eighteen hundred naval officers, and there are also over threehundred officers on the retired list. The seamen number over seventhousand, and the apprentices 950. The marine corps has 2,077officers and enlisted men. The pay of the Admiral of the Navy is$13,000 per year, and of the Vice-Admiral, $9,000. Rear-admiralsare paid $6,000, commodores $5,000, captains $4,500, commanders$3,500, and lieutenant-commanders from $2,800 to $3,000. Lieu-tenants are paid from $2,000 to $2,600, and masters from $1,800 to$2,000. The pay of seamen is $258, and of ordinary seamen $ seven million dollars are annually paid to the naval force. The maintenance of the Navy Department requires the yearlyexpenditure of from fifteen to twenty million dollars, the amount de-pending very much on the construction of new vessels. Provisions THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. 20I. THE NAVAL OBSERVATORY. for the navy cost $2,200,000 per year; coaland various articles ofequipment, $1,000,000, and the expenses of the bureaus of the de-partment are $250,000. The hydrographic office, under the direction of the Bureau ofNavigation, supplies the navy with charts, its surveying work cover-ing all the navigable waters of the globe, with the exception of thoseof the United States, which are surveyed and chartered by the UnitedStates Coast Survey, a bureau of the Treasury Department. It pub-lishes a series of charts for the benefit of navigators, and also numer-ous volumes of sailing directions, and other information of great valueto those whose business is on the mighty deep. A large force ofdraughtsmen, engravers, and copper-plate printers is employed inpro
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