If physically fit they are permitted to enlist as machinists and electricians.

The Navy has opened a school for machinists at Charleston, S.C., and a school for electricians at Hampton Roads, Va.
Men for the machinists' school are enlisted as firemen 3rd class.

While in training they are paid $30 a month.

They also receive their clothing allotment, their food, dry comfortable quarters in which to live, and all text books and practical working tools.

In return for this chance to become proficient in a very necessary trade, all that is required of those enlisting is a knowledge of common fractions, ambition to learn the trade, energy and a strict attention to the instruction given them.
Subjects taught in the course are arithmetic, note book sketching, practical engineering, theoretical engineering, clipping and filing, drilling, pipe fitting, repair work, rebabbiting, brazing, tin smithing, lathes, shapers, milling machines and grinders.