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UNITED STATES' MERCHANT SHIPPING.

AN ENGLISHMAN'S SURVEY OF ITS PRESENT-

DAY PROSPECTS.

SOME IMPORTANT FACTORS IN THE PROBLEM.

Mr. Hardy, who has contributed to Lloyd's List the article ratimber of which follows, is well known as the author of a ompurtant works on shipping and shipbuilding topies, among his pabdications being Merchant Ship Types and Huth Cargins, Al- Though he is at present resident in America, it will be seen that his standpoint in this article is that of a friendly English observer seeking to understand the realities inspiring the movement to place the American Merenatile Marine on a sound basis.

j By A. C HARDY, B.SC.. FITASI

shoe shine tett.

The world

i

It has been the fashizm of rewage standards to American for

F

HOLLAND'S 16TH INDUS- TRIES FAIR.

EXHIBITS FROM CHINA AND

JAPAN WANTED.

The Spring Fair was held at Utrecht tron the 15th to the 14th of March, 1927, when Queen Wit bina showed her continued in- The Fair by a personal

!ferest

visit, accompanied by her daughter, 1 Princess Juhana. Nearly af taon net Ministers and may fees! Sinisters attended. The 1:a

+ vistfors jing

The Fair was the most successfiti, Trole a business point of view,

1941.

RINGU

The number of exhibitors was agamist 133 in the 1930

spring fair. The Netherinxis (Hol land) took the mad with 626 ex habiturs followed by termans with 59

198, France 11, Great Britain 43.1 Beste 40, the Ended States of America 38. Thers were also ex bilts from hungary, Italy, Spar WILY Austria,

Czerbe Spark Sivakia, Sweden and Swizerland There were to exhibits from Chin

or Japan.

The mutuan fair win! be head from !

th to Eth September, 1927, and as

ta bus of an international character

The Netherland Consul Generad w be glad to put prospective es tors in contact with the Secre tury General with 11 view to ar agements either for the autum fail or the 1928 spring fair.

The following is a combined.

A study of Ani rican shipping is at one and the same tinte educative may see the results of this mass ntal bewildering. It is educative be production now, swinging as rusty eause conditions of operation im

mooring chaios. American indus. pose factors not to be found any by in a word. cannot think, nei when oder in the world: it an he ther is it onstituted to think, in wildering because of the apparent - terms of unit production, anomalies which legislation. pol That is why the American built tial wire palling, and enthusiadie & ship costs far more than the for fat misinfort fag waying have eigu built ship Also you cannot created.

apply. In all Pousrience, European cent years Bar utside nations to egy trading ships. This further treat America's efforts to establish, dls to The operating expense. a fog mercantile marine in se Many Aurrien; seamen expect what the same monet as an old and get a two berth cubin aft in dog regards the efforts of a puppy ja jump. The European prototype trying to catch its own rai!

in the same trade has a short

top- siters not acpainted well with gallet forreastle full of insears

Amerion may be excus internal

rating e-quarter as much as the ed in some measure for doing this, American and ming a wage just these wu have acquaintance as small in proportion. That's the with the earnest efforts that have big difference, and it is important heer made to place the American į to staphasize this because it is not WORK OF THE S.P.C.A. merchant marie on a firm world always realized, and it is a point. basis know that such contempt is ↑ which the Hagwayer does not under

is ill consider. as ill-mannered, as it

stand, or he would wave a modified eti.

The trouble with the flag. American merdhnat marine is that

Coastwise Shipping. few people understand thoroughly

These remarks apply only to as 1l position in the country's can shipping where foreign com- make up. The pale who under- stand it cont who are fighting the petition is met with. They do not apply at alt contwine shipping. it are definitely not the shippers This wings as to another import- enuse if the shippers do choose to an point which we can state in the anderstand it, their pockets are

form of the following equation:- affected. To ship goods in Ameri-

18. Merchant Marine-Crestwist Fan bottoms to overseas parts when

plus Overin, foreign hotions are available quantities is an expensive luxury where coastwise " a highly in most cases, and no site will dame protected industry, so much so that the shipper for going 115 the forms an entirely separate and cheapest transport channel avail.

special study, embraces ship able. The people who really under-ping actitally on the coast-we endl stand the situation realize this, and it roastal trafic; it includes big They recognize that the Auiericin Beets navigating bays, 'sounds and ship can only begin to compete on rivers such as the Chesapeake.

bir tusis with the foreign-ship Part Seand-Hudson. River, etc... in ein carrying when the most it is concerned with transportation enenzeal type of currying can be on immense inland waterways (the offered. Even so, complete equality Mississippi and its tributaries, the of operation cannot be attained. Clio, Monongahein, etc.), and

controls

The Conversion Programme. From this viewpoint, the fruition of the Shipping-Board's conversion

inctistrate

ELM

1

is

balk transportation of iron ore, coal and grnin' upon the largest fresh-water areas. In the world- the Great Lakes. Traffic to and from the Hawaiian islands comes entirely within the provi sions of the constwise laws.

list

i report of the work of the Inspectors |

for the past. mouth:--

TRANSPORT. Poultry, crates Poultry on

Cages of birds Dogs by rail

ریان

TO-DAY &

3

2.30, 5.10,

TO-MORROW QUEEN'S 7.15, 9.20

A Picture of Untamed Love!

with

CONRAD NAGEL RENEE ADOREE Directed by JOSEF VON STERNBERG

Scenario by Josef van Stemberg and Ale D. G. Miller, from the novel "Escape" by Alden Breakı,

The

Metro Goldwyn- Mayer

__PICTURE

HERE is the struggle of romantic love against

the chains of convention, pictured in such a way to touch your heart.

A vinge nf weich—the faces his patenta pick for him the syppy girl who holds out to no the ad- venture of low-what a riemele of

17124 thrills and surprising turma!

EXQUISITE SINNER

CLAIRE WINDSOR,

FRANK KEENAN

TO-DAY ONLY LLOYD HUGHES,

THE

DESTRUCTION

2,093

trucks

and

lorris.loads

ZIN

Poultry in jonks and

ferries, crates

179

Poultry by rail crates

Pigs in junks

1,030

Pigs on trucks and in

Jaskets

1.600

Pigs by rail

bi

Cattle in junks

390

Sheep and goats in juuks

30

Cattle ashore

150

Sheep and goats ashore

14

1

Dogs Paipo Market Cata-Paijo Markets a

Poultry, erates Pigs Cattle

8,401

0,908

2471

Sheep and goats Crickets, baskets

of

812

Cages of birds

税込

14

TROY

B

G

3

abits

IMPORTS.

Terrapins, baskets. Kites

Dog

Civit cats. Monkeys

Ponies..... Tortoise, crates Pheasants

Ponitry, artle

R

EXPORTS rates

137

55M

Sheep and goats Ponies Cages of birds

VISITS

Markets Birdshops Dogs Home Railway Stations Landing places Poultry Depots Dealers Shops Cattle Depot ......

Pig pers Yaumati

MISCELLANEOUR.

Ignorant cruelty tases

corrected

* 825557

15

Markels watched, times... Ferries watched, times..... Cases investigated on re ports received

57

46

3

Dogs admitted to Home

during month

39

Dogs claimed in Home

during month

Dogs gold in Home during

month

Duga destroyed

WORLD

FLEET PHOTOGRAPHIC STAFF.

TIES AND RESPON

SIBILITIES.

KINEMA BEING USED.

-im

THE DIXIE

HANDICAP

STAR

account of the vessel concerned, details of the photographs soldi ring quoted on de supporting youcher, together with a reference to the number of this order,

No payment is to be allowed the official photographer for such work, Every copy so sold is to show on the margin the words "Oteini photograph-not to be published or communicated to the Press without Admiralty authority," which should be written or stamped on the nyga- Kinematograph films are not to

A Fleet Order states that the photographic staffs of the various fleets are to work under the dire tion of the commanding officers of-tive or print. the photographic sloops, or, on

Private Work,

stations where no ship is specially be sold under this clause. fitted for photography, as may be arranged by the senior officer can- sistently with this order,

The official photograpliers may be The primary duty of the photo. given facilities for using arvien graphic staff is to carry out the dark rooms out of working hours, photographic.record of target prae- as it is desirable to encourage naval tives, but as far as possible the photographers to develop their in- photographic duties of the officers dividual ability by doing private and ratings concerned are to work with their own apparatus and materials, but proper precautions ordinary ship

are to be taken to ensure that no

chemicals, The following work may also be service

plates, films, carried out at Government ex paper, etc., are expended on private pense, but prior approval istments the stocks of plates, films, work. In ships and shore establish-

combined duties.

with

whereby semi-onsole. PROGERIA,

vart steain cargo ships were med Red to up-to-date: motor freighters, is tremendously signifie-

From New York 10 Key West is the ant. This and this alone

is 1,128 miles by recognized ship first serious attempt to establish a

mate. From Honolulu to San real 1927 type all-American iner-

Francisco in 2,112 miles. The Great i chant marine. And yet what triliu-

Lakes system has a total estimated lations, what wire pullings, what

area of about 95,000 square miles. villications there were before the St. Louis, principal river port of areomplishment. We, who are eat the vaar Mississippi system,” is

dis- siders, can perhaps afford te betat some 1,100 miles above New superior the apparently ferble Orleans at the head of the delta. struggles of the commercial Colossus my seem that the term "coast- of the age to produce a fleet rom wise is a wide one to apply to

with

industrial such a collection of ship types and greatness; we may affect contempi: duties, but one uses it advisedly. at the fact that nearly ten gears: All this shipping, which includes, after the Armistice of 1915 there is by the way, to less than 6 distinct but one, American mammoth of the ship types, by law a closed in- on-the much vaunted Leviathan, dustry. ter the provisions of We may express surprise that sound the coast wise law ships trading shipping we should propose between American ports and en- take 20-year-old ex-transatlantis

gaged in American Jusinees must "Ayers, fitted with some of the be American-hailt, manned; and---| hest designed reciprocating pro-owned. The one exception to the pelling machinery of the age, gut is trade between American them, re-build everything but the ports and ports in the Philippine ul. and fit thea with turbines. Ishands, these latter being calling When we really appreciate what plures for most Britash ng ships the Shipping Board has been up engaged in round the world services against and how the Bag-wavers from New York. There are special have waved the flag of ignoranev

reasons for this.

Vast coastlines, long ocean hauls, en the pole of misunderstanding. hindering rather than helping, we

inland junease

waterways, All -Inust inevitably moderate

our served by American, ships for the criticisin and then our mockery carriage of American goods. Here ! tato admiration for what has been surely is the American merchant accomplished. If the ramifications, marine, her own natural industry. of American shipping policies and her special business, barred to the reactions are misunderstood and foreigner and of the significance of misinterpreted, it is because they which the foreigner enn have no are not easy of interpretation. The

conception. We have no coastwise Americus themselves do not realize traffic. It is all coastal traffic and

obtained iLy indicated: the situation fully.

open to the flags of all nations. incorrect, comparatively, and with sulting from accidents, with ap

() Photographs of damage reprinting paper, mounts, and the more expensive chemicals are to be Our local shipping problems are en-

reservations. The seaboard Ameriprocal of commanding officers; kept under lock and key, in the The keynote to the situation aptirely different from those of the can shows considerable interest in Photogrpahs of machinery, fittings, custody of a responsible ofheer. pears to be in the constitution of Americans and the ships are main shipping, and shipping reports in American industrial organization.y auxiliaries to the railroads. American dailies are far more deflioiai reperta, with approval of each year a return is to be forward.

new designs, etc., to

On January 1st and July 1st in accompany High tariffs with high wages, the Our destiny is upon the High failed and accurate than you will

Photo from each ship or establishment best living conditions in the world, Seas. So that although the efforts ever find in our own duilies. But commanding officer; (e)

graphic or kinematographie record bearing photographic personnel, to the commanding officer, H.M.S. the sledge hammer mechanic, as op posed to the European watch maker and even futile, let us never forget be shipminded. He has never seen mechanic, and mass production, all that she has already a big domestic, the sex, and it does not enter into aner, with the approval of the School), showing, in respect of the combine to make American pro or home, merchant marine ranging his scheme of things. Cu the other senior naval officer present. the preceding half-year, details ducts saletitle the world over. The all the way from the Maldo of the hand, there are people living with length of film used to be at his dis official photographs taken and nuin- bers of copies sold; details of kine- key word to the key note is uass Matson Line, one of the biggest in a 20-mile radius of London who

films used reasons for the sea. production, and shipping is an in- and finest passenger carriers in the have never seen

Official Photographs. dustry to which the pent up force world; to a fleet of some 700 tow-a senator from somewhere in the

In order to safeguard the prin The RN. Photographic School, of mass production cannot be up-oats in New York harbour alone. Middle-West United States votes ciple of Crown copyright in offiat 7p, will scrutinize the returns plied. The high wages which There is food for thought in this against an appropriation from Con photographs, all official

Fact, and the difference in outlook gress for a merchant marine, he graphs, that is, photographs and any remarks and any recommenda- [photo- | render 1 and forward them with motor car building mechanic earns for turning one aut per minute per brought about by a geographical cannot in all conscience be blamed, kinematograph films produced by tions desirable to the Admiralty, LIF enables the car to be marketed difference is illuminating also.

especially too, as many senators are official photographers for official Service materials which are be at a price with which the world

"Ship-mindedness."

noted for their verbosity rather purposes, which it is considered coming stale should be returned to outside cannot hope to compete. Japan's position with regard to than for their vision. The whole desirable to publish, are to be sub-the Naval Store Officer at the There are hundreds of thousands of local shipping conditions is some problem is vast and complicated. {itted to the Admiralty before pub jucarest Dockyard, for disposal by cars, but for every hundred thou-what similar to ours, because she is In the meanwhile, however, let us lication.

public auction in the usual way. sand cars there are but ten ships an island country with shorter remember that some 4,000,000 tons Official photographs of general | Great care is to be taken when de- no mass production, in other words.

scatoards than those of America, of shipping is engaged in American Fleet interest may be supplied to manding supplies so to regulate America showed the world muss Australia, on the other hand, is coastwise trade proper, and that officers and men on repayment at stocks that wastage from materials production of ships during the faced with similar problems to the Sault Ste. Maria Canal handles the prices quoted in Schedule I,becoming atale is reduced to B world war, and there is no finer

in eight months considerably more which will be revised from time to minimum. epic than that of shipyards appear

tonnage than Panama and Suez in ing in a night of ships fabricated

twelve months. by the hundred, miles away from the sen coast, assembled by soda fountain attendanta, riveted by

The Kaynote.

Dogs died in Home dur-

- ing month

in

and generally contented workers, of America to establish a world you cannot expect a prospector of evente of definite naval interest Exellent (for RN. Photographic merchant marine may seem strange Arizona, or farmer in laws to or of unusual historical import-

those of America. It has been urged by those who disparage the efforts of America to secure a world merchant marine that the Ameri- cans are not shipminded. This is (Continued an nræt Column).

cretion.

If

*Bee the Author's "American Ship Types" (Chapman & Hall, Ltd.).

time,

matopenditure.

of

The term "official photographer" Payment for these photographs is as used in this order includes to be made to the accountant officer.officers and ratings appointed for The amounts received are to be photographic duties, whether paid taken on charge in the current cash for qualibed as such or not.