Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-17
J. s. CREATING MERCHANT SHIPS
 AT RAPID RATE
Turns Out in Past Three Years More Than Ordinarily Would Have Been Develop ed in Quarter Century.
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, NEW YORK, March 16- America has created merchant shipping with;r
 the past three years to the extenl
 which ordinarily would not have beer
 developed throughout a quarter of g
 century had not Germanys submarine
 warfare destroyed tonnage in quanti ties so vast as to create a crisis in
 the worlds maritime situation This
 building of cargo ships which will re
 store the American flag to the seven
 seas is today only in its infancy, ana 1 the preparing of young men to take their places as sailors and officers on these vessels, and on those which are ! to come, is the problem which the i United States shipping board has | agreed to solve, through a sea tram | ing bureau established by its recruit i ing service.
 The work of this sea training bu- reau was actually put under way on January l. Beginning April l. it will graduate into the nations merchant marine about 50 boys daily. Seventy five boys were transferred from farm hands, store clerks and others of civ ilian character into sailors during period of training which terminated February 26-the first group of 5O,00O which the shipping board plans to place in active service. This national system of turning landlubbers into sea- men is in operation for the first time in Americas history.
 The United States shipping board is not basing its system of training on war conditions. Millions of tons Ul new shipping will go into commissio. under the American flag during the next two years and the cry, Man the new shipsi" must be answered Dy thousands of American boys who liveo far from the sea coasts. according .U Eugene E. O'DonneIl. the shipping boards supervisor of sea training.
 New England boys, including many runaways. first responded to this Can because the national headquarters Of the sea training bureau was esta0- lished at Boston. The age limits were then r to 27 years. Later they were changed to 21 and 90 years.
 Tie United States shipping board chartered from the Eastern Steamship cOmnany last December the steamer Calvin Austin, formerly in passenger service between Boston and Atlant,c ports farther north. Subsequently n sister ship, the Governor Dingley, was taken into this service. The Meade, once an aI my transport. may become the next unit of this feet; and an- nouncement is made that, with the es- tablishment of a training station at San Francisco, the Princeton, Unit ed States gunhoat, will be taken over. As the system expands, other ships will be chartered for service along the Pacific coast, and there will oe vesseis for the Gulf coast.
 Life on board one of these training ships combines instruction and play. At 6 a. m. the 600 boys at present on the Calvin Austin arise and tidy their rooms. Breakfast mad general wcrA takes up their time until 9:30, when discipline and instruction begin. Then comes inspection. boat drill. "clean- up," and dinner at noon Fire 7rill seamanship, boat drill. knot-I iakin6 and general work occupy the afternoon hours until supper. In the evenins the boys have reereation-eards, dom inOes, moving pictures, shower baths,