Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-03-02
MORE SAILORS WANTED.
Not Enough 10 supply the Demehu
for Men In the German
Navy.

At the beginning of 1890 the total
number of men in the service of the
German navy was 23,4OO, including the
officers and engineers and a few sur
geons, g@asmiths and paymasters.
From Berlin it is reported that win
the rapid growth and proposed further
increase of the German navy there has
been an increasing scarcity Of trained
young sailors. A few years ago Ger
many furnished large part of the
crews of English vessels, but to-day the
crews of German vessels are partly
composed of foreigners. With the doub-
ling of the German navy, as contem-
plated, this difficulty will increase and
steps are being taken to meet it. Az
Bremen the North German Lloyd COM
pany is organizing cadet school to
train young men for the companys
service.
The demand for additional sailors in
Germany is not limited to the govern
ment service, however, for the 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 country supplying many other
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 in which there has
recently been an extensive Development
of the naval armament and an enlarged
demand in consequence for sailors.
AT the beginning Of the year 1895 the
total number of men in the naval serv-
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 COCO naval men has been au-
| thorized and the transport service OF
the English government to South At
RIGA has made necessary the increase
| in the number of sailors.
There has been a very considerable
increase of sailors in consequence of the
enlargement and improvement of the
| United States navy, and the demand
for them in the merchant marine OF
the country has been increasing CORE
spondingly. The American line EN-
ploys $500 sailors, and the enlargemen
of ocean travel this next summer tc
and from the Paris exposition will make
further demands upon the service OF
sailors in all transatlantic lines. Two
European countries which are adding
considerable to their naval equipment
arc France and Russia, and the in
creased Dutch commerce makes neces
sar. the employment of consider
able number of Dutch seamen undel
the home flag, Dutch sailors having
excellent repute and numbering in al
more than 10000, of whom less thar
10000 are in the naval service of tn,
country.
Sailors almost uniformly, it is al
axiom of the sea, come from countrie
having large water coast and from
parts of the country nearest to tn,
coast line. There are. it is computed
quarter of million sailors connect
ed with the nayies of the variou
countries and 100000 sailors employed
in commercial navigation, England
the United States and Sweden rankin!
in this order in that regard. Ger
many, France, Italy and Holland ar
large commercial nations, too, and I
has been observed generally that Ger
man sailors come from the northern
provinces of the country. particular.
the Baltic and the North sea, Will
French sailors almost uniformly ar
drawn from the two provinces of Brit
tany and Normandy.
The threatened dearth of Svailsbl
sailors, which some German compH
MES are seeking to provide against b.
the establishment of a cadet schoo
affects other countries as well. an
unless all indications are at fault tn
demand for sailors next summer wi
be more extensive than ever before i
the worlds history.-N. Y. Sun.