The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-26
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none is obliged to. but he should. The oe-
mand of a doctor al sea is in no wise diff
1erent from that demand on land. The
steamship companies give passen ger
board, lodging and transportation at a cost
that could not be eqUaled on any railroad
OF the EARTH when distance accommoda-
ton and attention are considered. The
luxury of a doctor. while generally forced,
Is at the same time an auxiliary of sea
travel for which the company receives
nothing, and which, when free medicines
are included, as they invariably are, costs
quite good deal. Experienced ocean
travellers seldom forget the surgeon when
necessity makes them cali for his atten-
ton during trip. But these experienced
tourists are few and far between. The
majority of patients troop ashore at the
END OF passage without so much as
flourish of an empty hand TO the saw
bones OF the good ship that brought them
over.
On many of the big liners the chef re-
ceives as compensation more than any
two of the gold lace brigade. The truth
OF the old saying that the easiest way to
reach mans heart is through his stom>
ach, is just as applicable to the genter
sex, at least 1t is on shipboard. "A supe-
rior table with all other conditions equal
means the superiority of any or every
steamship line. For that reason the king
pin of the cuisine controls the biggest
salary, which not infrequently equals, If
1t does not exceed, those paid to the cap
tain and his chief officer. Economy is
rarely applied TO the head of a floating
culinary establishment, even though il
does attack Mr.. Gold Lace Yet If more
hberaI salaries were paid these sea dogs
1t is doubtful if their standard of etfiCi-
ency could be improved. for those on the
Atlantic cannot be equaled anywhere not
even east of Suez where the skipper of
a regular liner is the monarch of all he
surveys.
But if economy is practised on the LADY"
of the ocean, as Kipling calls the liner, it
is on a small scale compared to that fol-
lowed on the poor old cargo boat" An
examination of the annual statements of
number of tramp steamer concerns flying
the British flag will show that the masters
of these vessels receive not more than $50
per month. The deckhaud of an ordinary
river craft would howl like Ceylon pirate
if he had TO do as much work a 5 some of
these captains for as little money OF
course, where such poor salaries are paid to
master mariners who have hundreds of
thousands worth of property at their COM
mand there is generally 4 leak, and the
butcher, baker candlesuck maker, and
even the stevedore and the ship chandler
at ports where this cheap sample of tramp
touches has to furnish a rebate which the
informing the ships husband
The other day the British Board of Trade
suspended for three months the certificate
of the captain of the BeecToft. The inVes-
tigation, held ut Liverpool, showed
unique and startling device on the part of
the master of that vessel for pocketinS the
wages of his crew during a voyage. IL was
shown that the captain took a big stock
of liquor to sea with him which he retail
ed to the men during the trip. He had
among other spirits twenty cases of whis-
ky, for which he paid $3.50 a dozen bottles,
and this stuff he sold to the men at about
81 a bottle. The carpenters bill for whisky,
gin and beer during the voyage amounted
to SGT.
The Ashby. of West Hartlepool, is run on
an economical plan if ever a ship was. On
a passage from Baltimore to Bilboa the
ship averaged 91a knots an hour on con-
sumption of ten tons of coal a day. This
coal cost but six shlllngs ton, which
made the daily expenditure for fuel about
S14.S0. The engines of this ship, although of
the triple expansion type, are made with
view to economy as well as for speed. There
are but three engineers on the Ashby, in
Guiding the chief The donkeyman stands
a watch, but does not, of course, get en-
| gineer's pay. The ship was a dead weight
| capacity of 1850 tons, and Notwithstanding
this fact, her entire crew list, including Of
6cerS, NUMBERS only twenty -OhS iiiSA 1lliS
is certainly one of the samples OF tramp
steamers that has reached the point where
freights must be remarkably low if she
cannot be made to pay.
The Buckingham is another sample that
averages ten knots an hour on consump-
ton of fourteen tons of coal day, has a
displacement of 2,700 tons and carries
crew of twenty-nine men all told the A.
BIS. of sailors, of which get only $l2
month. OF course the shareholders of these
ships make a lot of money through this
economy. Take the Crescent as a sample
of profit. Here is a craft that has paid $3.50
los. per sixty-fourth share for five and one
half years work. Her original cost is I'M
derstood to have been 1895 per sixty-fourth
share. so that she left over q per cent. per
annum continuously for five and oSe-half
wears. Rock bottom prices for wages and
Klondike finds for profits were never in
the rush for gold with the successful poor
old cargo boat