The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-25
HULLS AND BOILERS.
Supervising Inspector of the
District Here.
COMBINE ON VICTORIA ROUTE.
North Pacific to Be Taken Of-state of
Washington Wins n Race From
the Greyhound.

H. s. Lubbock, of San Francisco, super
vising inspector of hulls and boilers ior
the First district of the United states, Is
at the Grand hotel. There are ten lnspec-
ton districts in this country, and MI.
Lubbock's, which is numbered one, IN
cludes the stretch of country west OF the
Rocky mountains and from the Mexican 10
the Canadian boundaries. Alaska Is also
in the district. Three local boards attend
TO the work. one at Seattle, consist
ing of an inspector of hulls, an
inspector of boilers, and one clerk; one at
Portland constituted in the same manner,
and one at San Francisco, composed OF an
insnector of bulls, an inspector of boilers,
an assistant for each branch, and clerk.
The San Francisco board covers all the
territory in California and attends to two
or three vessels on the Colorado river as
well. The Portland board looks after
Oregon and even goes up into the upper
Columbia and Idaho, while the Seattle
board has charge of Puget sound anu
makes tour of inspection to Alaska once
a year. Mr. Lubbock himself visits the
different ports of his big district one year
at least, and when occasion requires MS
presence he comes oftener
A few days ago he forwarded to the local
board a decision sustaining its action
touching the incipient mutiny on the
OIympian last October. The local board
deprived the engineer, II. f. Smith, OF ms
license, and he appealed the case to the
supervising inspector, who approved the
course of the board. Last night he SAID
In regard to this matter: "Mr. Smith can
come before the board for new license
at the time when the one of which he has
been deprived would have expired. If he
can then satisfy the board that
he is entitled to license he
will receive one. In the meantime
his conduct must be such that he will be
open to criticism. One of the require
ments of the law is that 4 man receiving
license must be of good moral character.
So his behavior off duty as well as on is
taken into consideration. 1t is a mistake
for an engineer to think that he need look
10 his actions only while he is on duty"
In regard to salaries of local inspectors
Mr.. Lubbock declared: 81 don't want to
be understood as favoring gen.
eral increase OF salaries, but l
believe in equalizing salaries. There
is bill now before the Senate,
No. 744, equalizing the salaries of in
spectors all over the United States. When
the salaries were last filed the members of
the boards in some Eastern ports had
many vessels to look after, and their pay
was arranged accordingly. At that time
the inspectors ont here had only g few
vessels under their supervision, and their
salaries were fixed at $500 year each-a
sum which was probably large enough.
But now the inspectors at Seattle have up
wards of 200 vessels, while the inspectors in
some Eastern ports with only seventy ves-
sells receive $1,000. There is a manifest in
justice which the bill aims to correct.
am heartily in favor of the measure, and 1
believe it will pass. 1t would probably
give the local inspectors about s., co.,
Mr.. Lubbock himself is one of the pion-
eer steamboatmen of the Coast. He came
10 California in 1851, and in 1857 he was
appointed to his present position.