The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-01-01

1 bia IltiidldllbH IN OlltltI 10 l4lf
public at fifty cents 4 bottle. ana is
recommended ana sold by all druggists.
distance eyes. lie nas ben looking
across the river for land marks for
gears. and with constant practice
his vision has become far reaching
See 4 is not only unjust but
foolish What is there IS the cd,l-
cation Of pilot that would require
two years on The deck Of a steam
boat to lcalne No young man aspir-
ing . the profession Of pilot cares
to s9end two Years on deck when he
an learn everything that would
benefit him in two weeks On deck
is strange place To educate pilot,
See 4 SAYS he must spend two
Years on deck and only c1e in the
pilot house, They certainly got
ulat turned 2rol nd. But Que yes "a
deck is necessary
Tile wise men who made tE5
rule say nc ,.cst take q yea" T.,
learn how to steer, II is assumed
that in the W years he has ben en-
deck he has learned the channel
and is a nilot. but he mus spend
a year learning how to steer.
knowing how to steer is only a
part OF pilots education He must
learn to calculate results from the
flow Of the water and be able to read
It's surface, He must know the diff
ference between a break and boil.
[ He must know how to read the reefs,
fat places and the deep water Then
netting The tlow CT the water, shape
cf the banks and bars in connection
with the reading Of the surface, he
can locate the channel. When he
has that done he must make it out
| by land marks by which he must
j run j.,
f'Whon he gets to this point he
may be called a daylight pilot. but
i he has yet to learn that there are a
good many different kinds OF nights
to be reckoned with. Gray nights,
dark night, starlight nights and
moonlight nights On all of them,
.u
things take on different appear
ance. He must know the river by
the sky line at night as we'll as he
does by the shore or water line in
daylight He must learn how to cal
culate the location and extent OF the
| dry, bars and willow bars that do
not show on the sky line
When he has acquired this
knowledge he Is not yet a pilot, but
must learn how to handle all kinds
Of steamboats, when loaded and
when light He must learn how to
! overcome the resistance OF the wind.
note sets and know what he must
flank and what he can steer, How
much of this can he learn on deck {?
Two years on deck and one in the
pilot house to learn to steer That
rule was made by land lubbers.
Great efforts are being made to
get large appropriations from Con-
eress for river Improvements, and
with the completion of the Panama
Canal 1t is expected that there will
be great revival of the steamboat
business.
IF these hopes are realized more
pilots will be needed and none are
being made.
The supervising Inspectors have
made rules that destroy pilots at
both ends, 50 to speak. They re-
quirc an examination of the eyes OF
the old ones and put such restric.
tons upon young aspirants that no.
body wants to take mp the profess
sion
I'm Section AZ they have taken
away the discretion Of the local in
spectors who are far more COM
potent A local board is composed
OF a master pilot and engineer. They
are practical men, and every licensed
man in their district is for the most
part personally known to them.
They are the men on the ground
and are familiar with the conditions
OF the boats, their officers and all
things pertaining to the proper safe
guarding OF the interest Of the pub
lie. While this board which meets
in Washington once year doessnot
know these conditions and is hard
kprcsscd for something to do when
they make such rules as Section Al
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