New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-01-24
FAVOR SHIP SUBSIDY
LAUDS NAVY.
Leslie u. Shazo Says 1t Is Weak IN
Transport Facilities.

Members of the Maritime Association and tn 1fl
guests at the fifth annual dinner OF the aSeoeia
tion at the Waldorf last night, heard herpeIt L.
satteriee Assistant Secretary of the Navy, praise
the sea fighting equipment of the country aIter
danrecating criticism and then listened to Lesle
NJ Shaw. ex-Secretary of the Treasury, declare
that the cruise of the battleship fleet showed 10
Jenan our naval weakness and not strength 4hls'
Mr.. Shaw said was due to the quick recognition
nv the Nipponese Of the paucity of transports
.Yauaba from this country's merchant marine
Henry w Taft brother Of the President-elect'
seconded everything that had been said IN 1aVor
of American goods being shipped in Amer an
bottoms. He said further that while the visit OF
Secretary Root to the South American nations mao
done much stimulate trade, this could not ehouIe
or grow without an adequate number of ships NY
ing the Stars and Stripes and owned IN TINS couii-
try He also said that as the Southern hauohs
grew and their trade was diverted to Europe, they
would lose respect for the protection WIN" III"
Monroe Doctrine afforded.
M Satterlee said in opening that persons should
not be misled by loose talk regarding the shlps
of the navy. It was curious, he said, that WINE
the battesaip fleet going around the Worid
the only critics those at home. He would IKE
to organize Peevish Club he declared There
was lot OF room for It. Persons on the bridges
of Illustrated studios and in the coming towers OF
magazines claimed more knowledge of naval con-
ditions than experts of the highest standing.
But there were drawbacks here, he said The COM
plaint regarding the advantage Of European coun-
tries in possessing of the newest types of ships
was we'll founded. 1t took three years here to turn
ont q new batteshfp, while abroad one would be
ali ready for service while vessel begun here at
the same time was tust leaving the ways But last
summer there was a conference of naval experts
at Newport, and result If the appropriation for
the two new battleships went through the Amer
lean navy would have two of the finest ships a1oat
Mr. Shaw first dwelt what he regarded as good
arguments in favor of a merchant marine. Then
he declared that cruise in japanese waters was
a revelation the Japanese of American weak
and not strength. He declared that Japan
could place two hundred thousand men in Hawaii
In thirty days. while it would take this country
three years to place one hundred thousand men
there in her vessels. The subject might be I'M
popular he declared, but would be heard
of il in the next four years.
j W. Miller, Of the New England Navigation
Company, told some log book yarns. and then SAID:
There is a spot lying between Tooth and 10th
streets beside the noble Riverside Drive 1t IS ready
at minimum cost to be forever dedicated as a
water gate for the port of New York Inc shaI-
lows once flied a general plan adopted. the de-
tails for this Improvement be left to the future
but maritime in this year of seafarins
anniversaries. should lend influence to the be
ginning of an artistic scheme which as money
and time permit. may its fulhlment, and then
children will rise up and call us blessed
James s. Garrison Surveyor of the Port, after
giving some statistics of the business here, said
that unless the terminal facilities improved
piers would have to be built Staten Island and
further up the river. New York would not make
the progress il should. He suggested that all piers
in Manhattan should be connected with elevated
railways for the quick handling of goods to the
railroad stations.
Justice Victor J. Bowling, OF the Supreme Court,
deprecated the attacks the city administration
tending TO injure the credit OF the municipality.