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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

Boston March I9.-'The Boston Commercial Bulletin"
Will SAY tomorrow Of the wool market: The o.
the week $4,000 pounds domestic and 4,5is ooo
pounds foreign against 4.lSS.00 pounds domestic and
z647 pounds foreign last week and 900 pounds
domestic and 463 900 pounds foreign same week
last wear. The saes date show an Increase OF
2852sco pounds domestic sna i76sa 200 pounds foreign
date show Of ss84 bales and 80
bales foreign. Wool Is booming. The small selection OF
wool left has thrown btyery foreign
heavy sales OF South America crossbIed. Cape Australian
French secured woods reported The scarcity
Ohio recccs slaughter sheen under free
wso 10 acutey felt Ohio XXX and Ohio No have brought
&c this week Indiana advanced 10 gc
and ONO deaines 10 ~ The American clip year
shaved shortage OF 50 900 600 pounds that OF 1913
and there 25oO00 less sheep in the country than
year This years clip VIII be nearly 10000 600 pounds
less than that OF 1893 Imports OF goods
ana the statistical position never stronger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
BOYS CLOTHING

No need to have d care concerning the
Clothing for YOUR boy if il comes from here.
It's made to stand the abuse OF frollcsome
Youngsters The parts that have their en-
durance tested most, are made particularly
strong
For boys 8 to 10 WIS. Sailor Suits Of wool crash
trimmed with green soutache at 20 30 SAILOR
Suits Of brown cheviot plaid effect. trimmed with
white and red soutache, 81. Other Sailor SUITS up
toS75O Over $50 styles to choose from.
For bows. 3 TO 70 yrs Washable Suits are now here
jauntiness about them that pleases boys as well
mothers. Made OF mohair, mohar- and-iinen I'M
ported and domestic crashes, and various other
fabrics that do not fear the washtub.
For bows. 10 to 16 yrs. They know style and want
it. They get it here An all-wool ohevlot SUIT,
with Vest, very nobby, at So. Others s., So %
and $40. .o
TOP COATS for boys, Of covert cloth, So TO $3.50.
Second floor.
WOMEN'S SHOES
(A,lv 100 pairs in this lot. Enameled
grain and patent leather Shoes-buttoned
and laced-rew and popular shapes. High
class foot-gear
AT $3.50
instead of Five Dollars. A good assortment
of sizes, but not complete. This tells the
story OF the 1a IN price
SHOES FOR CHILDREN
Plain and fancy coverings for little feet
AT SOC.
In the lot are Oxford Ties, black and Tan
kidskin Slippers, pink, blue, white and
black; patent leather. Some OF them were
S1-more of them 81. Some sizes missing
the size YOU want may be here.
Second floor. Tenth street.
MEMS S.ARFS-5OC
The one place to look for the newest in
Mems Furnishings More new ScarfS this
morning. The French idea of Scotch plads
TWENTY-FIVE designs The new gray
effectS-a dozen designs
AT SOC.
All the popular shapes and new one-a
Semi-puff.
broadway and Ninth street.
BATH WRAPS-HALF PRICES
One thousand of them came to us at
about the cost of the material. Terry Cloth
Wraps-the most popular sort. A saving
of from 81 to 81. 80 on a Bath Wrap. Prices,
S1.15, 81. 81 80
and more. Great variety of coloringS and
designs. One of the opportunities that
rarely come along shouldn't be missed
when it does
Broadway and Ninth street.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
BUILDING PLANS FILED.

New buildings and alterations plans filed yesterdays
brick nat and stores 5ox45; Morris Goldstein. Of
No 90 East sst-st owner; T Leo OF No 143 90, M
Yves, l2'ts, srchliescts for three
issS and nd Sa:sm Se SrisS dwellings
IS Jacob Iass Of 10 s oS nT%eay arcSs
Riicrs Island FOR ak story. brick public
s% S4S racA v1 psoa asse 'S COST
story and attic frame dwelling and s,o tor, on.
frame frame stable. 25s55: cost si1cs three story
story frame .house and tower. 1870; cost cost.
slGys Of f So q q Esss 2sI st. G%es M
so@ihs isT to avssoTyy R Ess f ssSs
owner; N c Merritt. of No l.2e7 Broadway. 500
n q: :gso spd 90. "a o Ess e ssyss%
Ea asth Hoason st. 10, PSI. to twcs;ory end
Schwartz. Of No 25 Fast Houston st owner 1000
Grand IT. So sSi, to three story frame dwelling
and store Adr n6c ss1ase sS S1 Of S No -
Bond st, architects - '''''''''''''''''
l5ohst s. 245 # Of Pro'pestsavsr r for M ,To
cay Of f No o a" Gnsi
Dickerson OF i4sth-st and 81 ave architect. 'o"
sr; frame GwsnS e. same 1 and
ra sFS@sSs s. ic Of c9um6Ines, s s9s
charles sehaeter. q No i''0 washington AGO
4,3v T". ss 20 It Of Arhurs, 70, ,wost9Ty
5i8 East sSth"st owner: James Il Dobbs, OF o 200
Wulamsbridge architect. ......,, -'
1st ST. g. 20 II OF White rams NV o-I,,oo.
two-story frame dwelling and nan. <',hI",.
Ia nos y Dob)s Of WiIlamsbridge archltect.' wv"
Poplar-s n 90 II 2 Of Forest -aye ior Two eyy
story frame dwellings, 11x30. sarah l. oaIey
OF 40 College ave, owner; Henry 'io'sa" nm
OF No 442 College ave, architect. 49,
Cottage Grove-ave n 8. 81 n W Of Archer facr,
Tor p two story frame dwelling. 2lxi9; Mary
Iamond owner: II T Howell OF NO ~" East sno
I3ith architect
Washington ave s. ~ II : Of l'sth.st Tor tnyss
four story brick fats, "a 10 and -. iuNs-, E,-
mira Dckerson. n No 2lfs .,' ave h,,oc, AZ 900
Dickerson. Of 1i9th-st and 3d-ave archi'ect.. ''
i8lst-st n " Trinity ave- FOR Iour.story
brick Fat o5x?5; p J owens Of No M Trinity
ave owner; VI Garvin, OF NO 3,Jll 80 ave-
,e5,b 9, n " corner Washington-aye for a five
brick fat 25xsO.2iz William { Feely o.
No 379 1st-ave owner; NJ Garvi1. Of No 33ll - 400
3d-ave architect A''
Alterations uptown office;
Terrace. Place. s. at junction or Nlnniiorn-aNe'
TO a frame boathouse James Dixon;
Of city Island owner; " Garvin, Of No 33ll ~.
Green-ave $50 II n of Westchester-ave TO
one story frame dwelling and store: Martin
Ritz Of Green Lane owner. Chris F Lohse OK ~.
No Gjl Robbins architect ......:..'.... i'H"V
Northern Terrace. s. 300 n W or RIVERSIDE ave
To two and a f-story frame dwelling:
Thorn Of Riverdale ave owner; s Berrisn OF 49,
Kingsbridse architect. ............: lVV
yIome-st 100 IT Of Southern Boulevard. %
twO-story frame store and dwelling; Mrs
4 Weterer OF 1876 Honest. owner; 49,
spaimhoke. Of No |. 1916 Honest. architect. lW
Ackerman-st. $. 800 II n Of Riverdae.ave. 20
a two story frame dwelling; fsaac Dycknann.
Of Kngsbrdge. owner; Berrian, OF Kings ~.
bridge architect <'v
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20


Otter have Paris and Berlin
While Millinery Upholstery been claiming attention. Jackets ana Capes
through the Custom Rouse nave pee" "'
havchc pleasing visitors
send their Jackets the English udSan
Mess and Wanamaker at
with Paris the Jackets and
And such Capes This know what state about Them and
WHY should he? vspeakfo themselves all behoderS
WY Jackets 90 from s1.56 to So Capes from SO to S125
ported they are all here c. 49,, ,.~ r,o,.
and Sailors Cap with dress
Refers 6r GIRLS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
RECORDED MORTGAGES.

Best John and wife the Lawyers, Mortgage ..o ~,
Collins John. and francis smith and wife llag
rs Mandelbanm and Fisher Levine. n = aIs'- g -
Br9derek d?hn and yife to James p,ard 9n
Butter. Jacob =. 10 Martin y Fink. = Nich- a.,
oles ave, 60 4 y centre line iish st. ! year la3
enox aye y, 90 Z. Of lah s., month q. v,; 1000
man, deceased. nos 800 and 2o4 Yves, l2sth st. .oo
cocsan. MaiIhew' executor Of Patrick coosan, to
me s Emg say Io a, q at. sv Sgsy banA
campbell ls"o, h , to J sa,tr csnn9 1a
Marion ave. years ............. ........... i@o
""f iin AVE- ave. 20 II Of us 81 % s"'' 22v
Elton august t. so ne ,SoI nl ,, STATE Trust Coz ION
F1schel Jacob. and WE TO ABRAHAM stern and ,oo
Ferguson Donald and wife 20 Emma Cook
n'o M,s st. 10 % S of ay,ns. sn cr New %
York Jerome-st lot a.. map village OF
calSs,1n M ofs to Henry Kocrlcr and another '
wl.t,st 10 # q pe' 3,, st., year iicV
tl.li- st. 99s q n - 5th-aVe. years ..... 5CO
Hopkins. Mary. - John Fennell corner i3Nih-
iloimes' james t. and wife to Jadson Todd
iiithst. 500 II " of Brook ave. year. l2O
St 5,i5 It OF BROOK ave- and other plots
adjoining. mortgages. years; ;............. 5oi0
other executors etc. NJ Edwin \ Jackson. de-
ces.ed. Riverside Drive SIS # n Of 10Th
Ks,sh Thomas ". to Eurhemia conn. No "a
Great Jonestt demand ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, 1soI
Same the Equitable Life Assurance Society OF
the United states ,ame property, years 49,. 5000,
Murtaugh. Ann. To Alice \ whitney i3hi-st.
- n ~ Nill.s-aNe. also. l;i3d-st. lph II
Of wins. years Observation-Disclosures. 400,
Miller. Sarah G, the Dollar ~ wings Hank
Nsw-York. corner Dccatur-aYr and Trayers
iOsth-s,. year sop
MURRAY. fonmss " and vito - Samu. Hirsh
No ~ University Place demand ............. eli.
Same Alonzo rs See and Walter l. Tyler
property demand. .;.,,.....,.a".,.,.,,..,,.. LOO
same 10 the New York Electric Equipment 90.
University Place. rs. n 81 10Th St demand %,
Same Marie I. Wan and Joseph Hall. as com
mittee. etc same property; wears. ....,,. 5000
Murray, Mari g to simon II Well al exrcn-
tors etc. OF Max Wen. No l25 West 75th-st 5
years ............ ........................ 10000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
IN THE BOOK STORE

AT the following prices it is cheaper to
buy books than to borrow them. Good
Books, at from 7jc to 81 50-publlsherS
prices-are to 90 for mere trlle. The re-
suit Of several trade opportunities that come
only here. Comparisons of prices are
actual.
At 15c each, published at 75c and 81.
Land Of III. Changing Sun. BY VIII N. Harlem.
l6mo.
The Old Post Road By NJ. G. NJ McCleland
Manning Mystic. By NJ G. NJ. McClenand. 16mo.
Corona OF the Nautahlas. BY LOUIS Pendleton.
16mo.
Aunt Belindy's Points of View and Modern Mrs
Malaprop. By Lydia H. Farmer 16mo.
At 2Oc each, published at 81 and Sl25
EPISODES BY G. S. Street. 16mo.
A Man Of Two Minds. BY F. 7. Black. l2mo.
A Common Mistake By James NJ Howell. 12mo
Sylvester Romano. By C. Pelletreau. l2mo.
At csc each. published at Use, 81 and 81 25
Broad Oaks. ByM G. NJ. McCleland limo
Belle Plants and Cornelius. BY Claude Tllcr. H.
Illustrated. 12mo.
John Holden, Unonist. By T. c. De Leon. Illus
A Modern Pagan. By Constance c. Du Bots 12mo
Six Cent Sans By Julian Hawthorne. Illustrated
l2mo.
The Company Doctor By H. F. Roods. 12mo.
For Plain Women Only. By George Fleming.
16mo. Gilt top.
At zoe each, published al 81 % and 81 80
An Old Fogy By Mrs J. H. Walwouh. 12mo.
The New Woman By Mrs f. Lynn Linton l2mo.
Making the Boundary. By E. f. Billings. 12mo.
At 35c each, published At 81
The Shield OF the Feur de Lis By Constance Cod
dard Du Bols. l2mO.
Ninth street
MEMS UNDERWEAR
Seasonable-cheap. French Balbrggan
at 81 each for drawers and shirt English
makes. no bctter-sel! at double.
French natural merino, light weight. 81
each.
English llama WOOL soft and fine, full
regular made, 81.
The Ypsilant Union Suits--Shirts and
drawers combined-are growing in popu
arity Very comfortable. Babriggan, 81. so;
Isle thread, So merino. $3.50; silk-and
balbriggan, 81.
broadway and Ninth street.
STAMPED LINENS
Bargains for art needle workers Pure
linen Centre Pieces and Doylies, at less than
half.
: in 2jc doz. IS in, Pc each.
o in 3jc doz. % in, 16c each.
North of the ROtunda.
\NAMAkER
roadway, 4th ave, 9th and 10th SITS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
Gonnirp rropcrlp 60 Get.

TINO IET.-The Enrich Cottage and grounds Lower
j Saranac Lake adjoining the Ampersand Hotel. n
Guiding and lighthouses. stables ouhouses grove
the Address HENRY IoRGENTIIAT, Trib
building New YORK.
rINHE FINE MOUNTAINS HOUSE PROPERTY to lease at
J. rent good tenant large mansion. cottages
about rooins barns and 81 land Tockiand
Lake; one from city by rail-. three hours by boat
lake and rve. healthy. G. ii. PAUL. 9th-aye
and ilth-st city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20

The MiIIiners and the Millinery
Trade appreciate the collection OF
Trimmed Hats and Bonnets, and
many a tasteful idea brought out
for our own business will help
Others to success. This is broad
gauge business.
Every woman of refined and
elegant taste must visit this COL
lection. Numerous apartments give
opportunity for a private Bonnet
choosing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
60, lot i50 70 isI, map Section 6. vyse estate,

Co, lot $50 to 1871 map section c. vyse estate
- YEAR, goa
Marcus. Margaret T.. TO Sarah Peck. ozn-"'
265 n OF sth ave. years -. eio
Richard, Cathsrine A. to John Fennei iot o'"'
map Of Wakefield, years. 49,
Robinson. George, and wife to Richard weber,
1I4th-st 80 n OF 7th-aye. $500
Ruth. Samuel J. to Stanley q Harris ct al. execu-
tors. etc. Henry-st y. lot 49, map e"ate vi
Hendrck Rutgers. 1 year. .....'
Riker. William Il. to Wolf and Henry Daziah'
No 3h3 Gth-ave, year - ,.
Stone Margaret T.. II and Frederick j, 70 Cnar-
lotte q Dudley : 72dst. $50 IL OF west
End-ave' ! year o.; E,cL,oi Mas Of
al No 81 East s5th-st. year.
Schfnuck Herman Ind Michael Montag TO Enoch
g He'll 3d-ave e g 100 n n OF Iose-st. year.
Same TO came. 3d-sye. IFS II Of Rose-st'
year =, i,.,r, 90 III, n
OF Rose st. | year. ..........,...''..'''.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
Counirn ]]roprrin for Sale.
FOR SALsH.

Gentlemans Beautiful Country Residence located IN
the Town Rye Westcheser Co. ~ ~ one ana one
raIf miles from New-York New-Haven and Hartford
I,airoad station Rye; onehaf mile from Haii"ay s'A-
ton al Port Chester. ,., - -
The mansion IS situated high ground. having an eN
tensye view OF Long Island Sound and surrounding coun
try TheN are about ~ acres OF ground hshN cull-
waited A variety forest. ornamental ana hnt trees an
abundance Of Of the best quality from cseIn Wei
and hydrant The land a frontage on WESTMINSTER
Avenue Regent and Fairview Avenue on more ld
two thousand mansion Is about ~ rect i'ht
by feet in depth The main part Is thorIushly ne-
proof substantially and well built by day work; has gas
speaking tubes and burglar alarm. very comortahl,
pleasant healthy parties who may desire Suh
residence Forty minutes distant from Forty second
n f. r. Dcpot New-York. There three other dwell
lngs on the farm carriagehouse. barn and other
necessary outbudlngs. all In good repair desirable
property for institution.
For Information apply 10
J. T.. LEVINESS. 10 Liberty ST..
HENRY HJSS. 32 T.. 42d St. New-fork
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a. "a. -
% N~~~n& 1m1

The interest continues IN
The Golden Salon and it's rare Millinery
The Furnished Apartment and Its decorations
The Oriental Bazaar and its queer textiles.
The New Paper Hangings, so rich so novel.
The Splendid Upholstery Store matchless.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
Gnrsrs an0 Carriaqes.

4 GENTLEMAN giving up driving will sacrifice rubber
~ tired Runabout Harness.; all aPpurtenances com
nIee: Troter can show 2:30. Masons stable. 'st-st'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20

CATsKIi.I MOUNTAINS cottages for ,a:. and .,
" rent, also property suitebie for club. IIANNAy
= West l4h-st.. Room 70.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-20
Suburban Real Cstate.

0ENCY -Montclsir real estate al kinds sal. and rem,
"A CLARENCE g. TUBES Beekman-st. Ney-Yors
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-16
oHoPPING DOWN THE BARRIERS

The Yosemite tourist may breathe freer
now. The old list of charges has under
gone changes for the better. The Com
m ssioners have done few things to
further brighten up the prospects of in
tending visitors 10 Cali;ornia's valley of
wonders. They began at the hotel price
and knocked a whole dollar off the
maximum rate. 1t used to be 81. At SO a
day for the top-notch charge the guests
will stay longer and there will be more of
them than in former years. To save a
dollar day is something worth consider
ing, even in the best of times. And times
are not anywhere near as good now as
they will be when Congress finishes up its
tariff business.
The Com missioners know what they are
about. The annual complaints have had
the desired effec: in certain particulars.
They appreciate the fact that Yosemite
will have more tourists this summer than
ever before. They have added twenty
four rooms TO one house and forty to
another. and they are purchasing tents
and cots by wholesale. They are going to
provide proper accommo odations for
every body that goes into the valley.
Campers will never be held up by the
State any more. The cost of fuel and
grain and hay will not discourage long
stays in the famous region when they go
in caravans or stagger The visitors when
they hear the call of prices.
Where in other years frewood cost
almost as much as bread and butter, you
can now get all you want OF 1t in the
heart OF the Yosemite for the actual cost
OF cutting the timber. That is the way it
ought to be. Hay and grain will be sold
at cost. In addition TO al this every pro-
vision possible will be made to render the
soiourn o: Campers agreeable. The
people at large will be more likely, under
present cond ltions, 20 flock 20 the glorious
park which is the ph le and boast Of Cali
fornia.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-16
THE KING OF THE KAFFIRs.

The sudden and tragic close of the as
tonishing career of Barney Barnato, the
King OF the Katfirs, is the talk of the
world, just as was his sudden and unpar-
aleled rise from poverty to boundIess
wealth. from comparative nothingness 10
universal cele brily. He demonstrated that
even 10 man OF meager education, with
out influence at his bacF, without money
and without friends, the attainment of
unlimited wealth was a possibility in our
day, and that the Edmund Dantes OF fic-
tion could have y rival in flesh-and- blood
hero.
Barnato knew what it was to travel the
hard road of the penniless man. The ex.
periences of his young manhood in Lon
don were in strange and striking con-
trast 10 the almost regal magnifi-
cence which surrounded his later years.
He is said to have been cab-driver
in the East End; old-clothes dealer
in Pet;icoat Lane, and 10 have known
what it was to be glad of The pittance
earned as tally-keeper in a billiard saloon.
At the age of 20, on his way to South
Africa, he sang sad danced to lure shillings
| into his needy purse. He played the role
OF iuggler in the inns of Cape Town in
order 10 realize the f20 that would take
him 10 kimberley. Then his native
shrewdness told with effect. He became
diamond broker, and there was no end to
his success. He acquired diamond mines,
one after another. When he returned to
England mis- name was on every lip The
revenue from his mines was said 10
be twenty-five millions year. On
the Stock Exchange Kaffir shares rose
higher and higher, and thousands OF for
tunes were made from Barnato's compa-
nies. Then the reaction came, and Barnato
was cursed where once he had been
blessed.
The Katfir King gave literally to char.
ity. He builded a marble palace for his
family in the British capital; he suffered,
it is said, great financial reverses, and
then he flung himself into the sea-a sui
cide-victiu of a colossal fortune. Mill
ions enyied him; they now behold the
other side of the picture, with its many
lessons, one of which is that vast riches
cannot purchase the key TO happiness; !;
another, that the conIentment of the
| humble is to be preferred 20 the misery of
the possessor of countless diamonds; and
a third, that multi-millionaires oft have
burdens more fell than those of poverty.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-16

greater. Men working in the same indus
tries with children where the efficiency ol
the iab bor is the same earn 80 per cent
more than the children. In some ca ses,
however, women receive more pay than
men for equal work, and in few cases
equal pay.
The reasons assigned by employers for
preferrng women and girls 10 men and
boys are various 1t is stated they have
greater adaptability for the work for
which they are employed, are more reli-
able, more easily controlled, cheaper,
more temperate. more easily procurable,
neater, more rapid, more industrious,
more careful, more polite. less liable to
strike and learn moro rapidly.
In spite of all this array of superiorities
however, it is SAID that most of the en-
ployers did not share a belief that women
are likely to drive any great mum Der of
mon from employment. All their virtues
hardly make UP for the lack OF physical
strength required for continuous hard
labor week alter week. Women, it is said,
are rarely equal to the task of attending
to machinery, and where machines are
employed men will be always preferred
so long as they understand the work, are
temperate, industrious and relia BILE.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-16
THE GREA4ESE Lake CARGO.
fn.uAlanh Iaada-


new steel schooner" which is a queer
name for vessel without sails ana intended
solely for towing, is on her way down the
lakes from Chicago with the largest cargo
ever carried on these inland seas, The load is
2l7, 900 bushels of corn. The vessel is the
Amazon, built in Chicago and owned in Cleve-
land.
Here is q load weighing 6076 tons. 1t repre-
sents the product for an entire year OF not less
than 5000 acres of average land. That means
nearly ten square miles. II is equal TO all the
fields OF a hundred goOd-sized farms. On good
roads, where the railroad station 10 which the
corn was drawn was not more than four or
rive miles away. 200 teams, with farm wagons
of the best kind might draw this quantity of
corn to market in ten days. One farmer with
one team could not move the Amezon's cargo
five miles in less than six years.
To make comparisons with greater things,
this record load of The lakes would fill ten big
freight trains. II would load q line OF cars q
mile and half long. Moreover, it would be
considered very heavy cargo ior any one of
80 per cent of the ocean vessels carving
freight between this country and Europe.
And in almost any ocean port on the other
,ide of the AtlaEt tic it would take as long to
lned or unload snip so burdened as the ANA
zon will require for getting her cargo Mt Chi
cago, carrying it 10 Buffalo and unloading it
there.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-16
OUR NAVAL ENGINEERS
New York Iimna


While in Detroit last week Commodore
George W. Melville, engineer in chief OF the
navy, voiced again and with emphasis the need
there is for an instant change of the Govern
menrs policy in regard to naval engineers
TINT is, for immediate increase in their
numbers. He said that while 800 of these Of
fcers would only scantlly suffice for an ef-
fcient manning of our existing vessels, we are
getting along with only 1913, and the result is
that the engineers are rapidly worn out by
the work demanded of them even in time of
peace. Under the rules each engineer should
be allowed three years afioat and three years
ashore, alternating, but with the present linn
ited force they practically get four years afoat
which means the hardest and most eonfining
sort OF duty, and only about two years ashore
The Work of a naval engineer, added Commo-
dore Melville, Is one of the greatest hardship
The entire responsibility of the ship and all
on board. numbering sometimes over a thou
sand souls, depends on his skill care, watch
fulness and caution, and it is frequently neces-
sRry, especially in the case OF severe weather
or other adverse conditions that he remain OH
watch constantly for periods OF many hours
consecutively. This sort of work is what
trustworthy and conscientious OF the men.
This subject has been talked of for years, ana
there never has been even an attempt 10 deny
thai the number OF engineers is inadequate,
and yet, owing, one cannot but believe, simply
to The miserable jealousy between line aud
stan. nothing is done TO remedy the acxnowl-
edged evil.