Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-07-26


The pilots arc meeting and have always met every
emergency and extended all possible aid ports The
above reference docking unlocking twelve hundred
Snps meant the saving to them i'll dcmurragc Of $4,000
oOO to S5OOOOOOO. while have but recently gone
through the thing again May thousands of dollars
have been devoted to port exploitation while general par
hepa,on IN the cntcrprsng movements in this section
has been given though for every Jealous in the in
crest OF Hampton Roads. there is charged an Interior
motive Even the donation Of $1,000 the William and
Mary College and similar the University of
virginia was coldbloodcd and calcuatve"Hon soft gus
The full extent OF vital cooperation (both in open and
secret scrvcc) during tho war will never be known
though officials OF tho Fifth Naval District the n O. T.
s. u S Port Captains, British Admiralty and others
formally testify to tho same in the highest terms.
AN UNTIRING SERVICE TO THE PORTS
SINCE 1867
For half century Virginia Pilots Associa-
ton has an nnbroken record for shipping
protection and in all the main movements looking to i'm
provemcnt and up-buding of broad
exploitation of their wonderful advantages
vice in securing Federal same. We even now,
of our own initiative. contributing literally
using me Hampton Roads section while very substantial
amounts have been expended ways in help
Ing to get this section ION map"
There has n single month since the organl-
cation OF this body in 1867 that has by
special and nnsefsh devotion interests might
not De amss for Messrs Brown Degge Page
candidates for membership in Assembly
ginia to show the when many have
hererom Ploase Plank is the
not creative Of good. but destructive
PERFECTION OF ORGANIZATION KNOWN
THE WORLD OVER
AS example of organization readiness and effici-
cnc is here stated literal truth that the Association
went through four years with the most exraordi-
nary demands upon it, without ION account of the wary
the purchase OF much yawl boat or the addition of
single its Though expenses more than dou-
bed and VIC right through the thing and
handle even shipsa system nearly perfect that
during those four trying years the Government did
sec lit to take extend aid suggestion while
the profound honor paid the Virginia pilots of not
requiring single member take the Of allegiance
as was cxaccd elsewhere.
In addition to splendid testimonials from those IN
command OF the Fifth Naval District the NJ O. T. s. u
S Port Captains u S. Secret Service and the British Adj
aly in regard to the work of the pilots during the war;
they cooperate with are strongly endorsed BY the u
5. Quarantine Authorities. u. S. Weather Bureau u S.
Customs L. s. photographic Branch, u. S. Courts of
Justice Norfolk Maritime Exchange, Newport News
Chamber of Commerce Steamship agents and chartcrers
masters OF vessels citoraly by the informed and I'M
biased press leading port interests and many prominent
ndiveuas-hesc testimonials being file and available
occasion
In its issue OF March r. 1920 the Richmond Times
Dispatch said OF this Association
Ho7crsr,. il may be said for the Pilots Asso-
riaon. no matter ho7c close corporation st may BE-
matter hosr golden its income hor light its ox
ho7v all bit possible is for an outsider to IN
'adc its sacred ranks that alvvoys hos "deiuered
the goods, and its services haze been nneqnalsd in
quality along the atlantic scdbOdrd. That be the
chief reason arhy Frgnio legislators azuoys haze
looked "fo" 1t 5"t Kindly eye 7phene0er its esis-
iencc has been threatened"
Is not this something for Virgnians from Underwater
10 nc trrcat Southwest to be proud ofan organza-
ton which commands the admiration and confidence Of
only all shipping interests but high Government Of
hcias, and in all truth is known the world for
hundred per efficiency?
Rival ports already have undue advantages in 4
material sense those OF Hampton Roads, while foreign
interests going the limit in embarrassing the American
Merchant Marine If you do wish to still further ag-
graate these conditions defeat these pilot candidates
who through lack OF proper knowledge of port economies
would foster upon Virgnia's inefficient
piotagc service which will please rival ports stamp our
unsafe, and whose runous effects will be in
sant-therc will be tedious waiting for proof
In conclusion and again referring to the fact that
bot md
entir satisfied and that every Senator and Delegate in
the hampton Roads section opposed the Ewel bill does
it not become apparent to those who know nothing
about the subject that the pro bono pbIieo spirit is not
the real figure concealed in the wood pile? Any with
modicum of gray matter knows that the widespread vim
dctve propaganda in the of the Public and
tell you that the passage OF any similar
Ewel bill has deeper significance than mere change in
the Pilotagc laws OF the State and this point we shall
be explicit the proper time
w. r. BOUTWELL,,
President. Xrpinia