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DENOUNCEs MOTORBOAT BILL
Capt. S. H. Larmore. of Schooner
Grace Bennett Gives Reasons
For Opposing Motorboat
Bill.
Editor of The Sun:

Editor of The Sun:
times since Mr.. Linthicum intro
duced the bill in reference to the
motorboats that would write The
Sun on this subject, and am in
duced to do so by the letter of Feb
ruary 81, from that wonderful man,
Capt. Vivian Phillips, who has the
welfare of the public at heart to
such an extent that he would have
Congress pass laws to protect his
interest in his business, which is
the tugboat business, but would
lead the people to believe that he
wanted to protect them against pos
sible danger.
It was my privilege to read that
bill, and Mr.. Linthicum was very
particular in presenting this bill to
say that it was gotten up by the
tugboat men of Baltimore city.
Now, it does not take a man as
wise as Solomon to see through this
whole thing, particularly when Mr..
Phillips says the small schoooners
pay $3.50 and that it is worth 81
to do the work. Anyone can see
that Mr.. Phillips is one OF those
big-hearted fellows by reading his
letters. He would also have you
believe that the captains of the bay
vessels are a particularly hard class
of people to deal with; that it is
as much to collect a bill as it is to
do the work, and rs per cent. he
never gets. Poor man! What
a deplorable state of affairs for such
a man as Captain Vivian Phillips, a
man of such wonderful ability, hav-
ing to make a living by working for
such people as he would have the
public believe these bay captains are.
would suggest that he go in poll
tics and become a leader in his ward
or go in the saloon business. They
are the chaps that wear large dia-
mond in their shirt and can live the
life of. gentleman. and not be pa
rading around under false colors and
making it harder for honest men to
make living, or men that stay out
in the cold and sit up nights plying
the Chesapeake and it's tributaries,
when Captain Phillips is home in his
warm bed.
Now as to the licensed men he
would have you carry. how about
them? Why there are numbers of
them living in Baltimore city that
get up at O'Clock in the morning
this season of the year., eat their
breakfast and put their dinner in a
lunch box, go aboard of some little
old tugboat and run around the har-
Dor all day, and go home again at
dark, and they have never been out
Of sight of the smoke of the city in
their lives. But they are licensed
men, perhaps for Patapsco river or
down the bay as far as Sandy Point
which is Is miles. And Capt. Phil
lips uOcS uOL uSStCdCS W ISll you
these men have to serve three years
to obtain this wonderful informa-
ton SO they could get licenses; that
a captain who trades from Phila
delphia down to the Chesapeake and
its tributaries, and on down through
the North Carolina sounds and their
tributaries, or anywhere there is
load and water enough to float his
vessel is incompetent, and that it
is not safe to get near one of these
vessels, if you happen to have a mo-
tor in your yawl, without having
some of these licensed men aboard.
I wish to state for the benefit of
the public that am in vessel of
210 tons registers and that went
from Newbern to Morehead City,
= 80