The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-03-10
NoRR / WANTED
Net NnougA % suBnsy the Demsna
Tor men d the German
navy.

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AZ the beginning al 1ss9 the total.
number OF men ia tie service 81 the
GermsR navy was 20, 400, i~neluding the
officers and engineers ana q few sur
geonss gpnsmiths and Ragmastera
From Berlin it IS reported shat With
the rapid growth and proposed fnrthen.
Increase Of the German navy there has
been an increasing scarcity 81 trained
young sailors. "a few years ago GER
many furnished q large part Of the
crews Of English vessels, but to-day the
crews Of German vessels ara partly
composed Of foreigners. With the dodb-
ling Of the German navy, as eontem-
plated, this difficulty viii increase and
steps are being taken to meet it, At
Bremen the North German Lloyd com
pany is organizing a cadet school To-
train young men Tor the companys
service.
The demand for additional sailors III
Germany, is not limited to the govern
ment service, however, for tbs two
chief German lines Of ocean steam
ships have, collectively, crews Of 4,s00
sailors, exclusive Of the lines connect
ing German ports with other countries
IN the enormous and constantly In
creasing German shipping trade. Here
tofore a country supplying many ether
countries with sailors has been Sweden,
but the increase Of foreign commerce
Of that country and the demand for
Swedish sailors for Russian ships has
diminished the number Of such sailors
available. Moreover, Germany is only
one Of the countries "a which there has
recently been an extensive development
Of the naval armament and an enlarged
demand in consequence for sailors.
Al the beginning Of the year 1898 the
total number Of men in the naval seeV-
ice Of Great Britain was 100000, Of
whom 10000 were officially described as
Officers and seamen," and 10000 were
marines, Since then a further in
crease of 5000 naval men has been au-
thorized and the transport service Of
the English government to South Az
RIGA has made necessary the increase
In the number Of sailors.
There been a very considerable
Increase Of sailors in consequence Of the.
enlargement and improvement Of the
United States navy, and the demand
NW them M the merchant marine 81.
the country has been increasing corre-
1 8pondingly. The American line ems
bIoEs 800 sailors. and the enlargement
Eof ocean travel this next summer TO.
and from the Paris exposition win make.
further demands upon the service of.
sailors in all transatlantic fines. gWo.
European countries which are adding
considerable to their naval equipment
are France and Russia, and the in-
creased Dutch commerce makes neces-
aary the employment Of a consider
able number of Dutch seamen under
The home flag Dutch sailors having
excellent reputa and numbering in all
more than 10000, of WHOM less than
10000 are in the naval service Of the
country.
Sailors almost uniformly, il is an
axiom of the sea, come from countries
having a large water coast and from
parts Of the country nearest to the
coast line, There are, it is computed,
n quarter of a million sailors connect
Gu VIII the udNlGS OF Bne various
countries and 100000 sailors employed
in commercial navigation, England.
the United States and Sweden ranking
in this order in hat regard. Ger
many, France, italy and Holland are
large commercial nations, too, and It
has been observed generally that Ger
man sailors come from the northern
provinces Of the country, particularly
The Baltic and the North sea, While
French sailors almost uniformly are
drawn from the two provinces Of Brit
tany and Normandy.
The threatened dearth Of available
sailors, which some German compa-
MES are seeking to provide against by
the establishment of a cadet school.
affects other countries as well, and
unless all ~indasations are at fault the
demand for sailors next summer viii
be more extensive than ever before in
the worlds history.-N. Y. Sun.