The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-22

Downey was attracted by French
method of subsidy introduced in 1895.
France paid bonus on dead weight.
From 1895 until 1903 French shipping in
creased more than 500 per cent. In bal
last Frenchman could go around the
Horn to San Francisco, reload there with
wheat and make a good profit. Despite
the favoring tariffs, Downey claimed that
American shipbuilders or owners could
compete with the cheaper wages paid by
by foreign masters.
Shipping Situation Reborn.
The whole shipping situation is being
reborn. Quinn states the South Ameri-
can republics will no longer go begging
other countries to carry their goods. They
will place orders for ships with the Amer
lean yards. With the trade vistas opened
by the Panama Canal, Oriental and Aus
tralian commerce, the vision of the Stars
and Stripes af1oat on the Seven Seas is
decidedly sanguine.
The Stacker and the "pro" baseball
cinch hunter got most convincing slar1
at Downey's, thanks to William 81. Day
director of welfare. His programme has
had most decisive effect in all yards
where these evils took root. Day limo
waited gentlemen's agreement to the eff
feet that none but Simon pure amateurs
might play ball for the yards.
Paper accomplishment and doing things
differ largely. The friction created by
yards trying to obscure the Downey spirit
in this baseball matter is too complicated
to detail. Out of the eight yards in the
Atlantic Shipping League it is claimed
half are disqualified. They have been and
are competing for the $500 trophy pre-
scented by William G. Coke, a Hog Island
official.
Downey's believe in baseball that is
baseball, and the following are with them:
Newburgh, Staten Island shipyard and
the Submarine, Newark. That man can
be good ball player and a good ship
builder both is demonstrated by the big
weekly check drawn by Joe Thompson,
the Downey crack. Joe is one Of the best
workers on the hulls.
There are other young college men and
semi-pros who are in perfect agreement
with the Downey view. To have a pro
player draw down a big check for doing
absolutely nothing but play ball will not
be tolerated. Ability to produce is all
that is required. Downey's expect to win
the trophy. There are two games to be
decided locally. They will be staged on
Ebbets Field or the Polo Grounds and
the proceeds donated to the Red Cross.
Yard Band out-Sousas Sous.-
The Downey band of twenty-eight art
lists in chocolate and gold uniforms out
Sousa Sousa when they begin to stir
things up at the yard functions and
games. The few features of information
alism to be found locally are expressed
by the band. Many nations are in
cluded. This is not the fault of John
McClashin, a favored minstrel of a
Scotch laird. "Mac" woke the heather
and won Highland competitions by the
score. The trouble is, his brand Of har-
mony, the pipes, does not fit in the scheme
Of Downey's delightful band Tom Muir
ply, veteran drummer of many wars
and flags, fought with Drum Major Jack
Mullins in the Zulu and first Boer wars.
He has two sons in France. Tom wanted
to go abroad but Chaplain Father Duffy
frowned him down.
Inspector of Plant Michael MeLaush-
lin has been operating detective and pri-
vate police agencies for the past twenty
years. He has big job, for the stores
and buildings are scattered over a con-
siderable area. A nephew of "Boss" Nc
Laughlin Of Brooklyn and cousin of a
former Brooklyn chief of police, Mac
does not live on tradition, but holds down
his job thoroughly. Sixty veterans COM
prise an efficient force of old soldiers, men
y r