Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-14
AMERICAN SHIPS CARRIED NEARLY
ONE-HALF OF NATIONS COMMERCE
LAST YEAR, ALEXANDER REPORTS
Fleet Shows an Increase of go Vessels; Con-
gress Is Urged to Provide for Expansion of
Our Foreign Attache Service and Additional
Funds to Promote Business.
tBY THE ASSOCIATED pHrss,


eign business was the greatest in
its history last year, the secretary
expressed the belief that American
exporters would find it "iucreasing-
~ difficult to maintain their posi-
ton in foreign markets without
adequate government ala and he
urged congress to provide for cN-
pansion of the foreign attach" ser.
ice and asked fer increased nppru-
priations to be used in the pro-
motion Of foreign trade For latin
American trade development MIR.
Alexander recommended eTp"ndi
lures Of 30 per cent more than was
used i'm this field last year.
Achievements of Foreign staff,
The secretary cited specific
achievements Of the departments
foreign staff as proof Of the aid it
had rendered and was rendering
American business i'm expanding
and increasing its foreign trade.
He declared the accomplishments
had been marked I'm every country
and suggested that congress de-
VelOp the commercial aid service
apace with the growth and require
ments Of the nations foreign com
merce.
Estimates Of appropriations re-
CURED for the department of COM
mcrce for the fiscal year 1922 were
placed by the secretary at $30,%S3,-
4S1, an increase of $40, 2l7l2
over those of this year
Cost of the field work in con-
nectiou with the enumeration of
population and agriculture for the
1920 census will reach approx
mately $9.345.O00, consisting of
about $7,G50.O00 for enumerators
and Approximately Sl,695, 600 for
salaries and travelling expenses of
the supervisors and special agents
Secretary Alexander said.
Bureau of Lighthouses.
Discussing the work of the bu-
reau of lighthouses for the year,
the secretary said total of ga
new aids to navigation were estab-
lished, including 172 lights and
sixty gas buoys. by the lighthouse
service which on June so, 1920,
employed G.O02 persons and was
charged with the maintenance of
aids to navigation along 49.0l2
miles Of coast line and river chan
mel.
In his discussion of the work Of
the coast and geOdetic survey, Mr..
Alexander devoted much space to
declaring that there had
never been we'll defined and con-
effort on a big business
scale to develop the territory as it
should he done. He pointed out
that Alaska with its more than
26, 900 miles of detailed coast line
could not be approached without
plying the waters that nearly sur
round il.
Many Vessels Wrecked.
The secretary said that hundreds
of vessels had been wrecked on the
Alaskan coast. many of them be
cause of the lack Of proper sailing
charts and knowledge of currents,
and he urged that the present con-
ditions as regards to survey work
be remedies by means of complete
survey carried on in a systematic
manner with all possible rapidly,
"The millions of dollars that are
being expended to build the gov
eminent owned railroad through
the interior of Alaska" said Mr..
Alexander, "the large amount of
private capital that has been and
will be spent to develop her mines,
to build up her fishing industry,
the certain early opening of the
vast coal fields; the utilizing of the
great timber resources, etc: all this
would be wasted and her vast re
sources would be worthless If YES
sells could not reach and enter her
ports or visit the railroad terminals,
cannerios and nearest ports as out
let's to the many mines"
Reviewing the work of tho |
steamboat inspection service, Mr..
Alexander disclosed that during the
year nearly 100000 passengers
were carried safely on ships for
each passenger lost. The total OF
carried was 36S,S7O,32I
and only forty-two lost their lives. |
The total number of accidents on
ships resulting in loss of life was
1872 and the number of lives lost |
40, of which 145 were from such !
causes as suicide and accidental !
leaving 325 as fairly |
Chargeable to accidents, collisions |
and found6rings.