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20 DEVOTED TO EVERYTHING AND EVERY INTEREST CONNECTED OR _ ASSO- CIATED WITH MARINE MATTERS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH. Published every Thursday by The Penton Publishing Co. Teg oe ey dees Ones 73-74 Journa g. SOETALO Pea aes ea 6 ie ERS 932 Ellicott Sq. COICAGO. i cee ee eee se: 1328 Monadnock Blk. CINCINNATI. 425.05 First National Bank Bldg. NEW. YORK. c.3565 200s 1005 West Street Bldg. PITTSBORG. cee cee eens tees 510 Park Bldg. BTCA ee cies vs oiuie eee sie 302 Pioneer Bldg. ondence on Marine Engineering, Ship Cee and Shipping Subjects Solicited. Subscription, U. S. and Mexico, $3.00 per Dance 'Canada, $4.00. Foreign, $4.50. Subscribers can have addresses changed at will. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on Thursday preceding date of publication. The Cleveland News Co. will supply the trade with the Marine Review through the regular channels of the American News Co. European Agents, The International News Company, Breams Building, Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England. Entered at the Post Office at Cleveland, Ohio, as Second Class Matter. March 18, 1909. LAKE SHIP YARD METHODS. ._The Marine RevIrw some time ago published a book by Mr. Robert Curr entitled "Lake Ship Yard Methods of Steel Ship Construction". It has proved to be one of the most valuable books for the shipyard worker ever written and is the only book in existehce de- scribing the methods in the shipyards of the great lakes. Considerable in- terest obtains in the work and it has been seized upon eagerly. It ap- pears to be of equal interest abroad as well as at home. It has gone into every shipbuilding. country, especially. Great Britain, Germany, and Norway. Howard Saunders of Brooklyn, N. Y., writing of it says: "J am.astonished at the amount of good practical 'knowledge it contains. It is clear, concise'and itistructive and an invaluable book to anyone interest- ed in shipbuilding. There is one ar- -ticle in particular relating to the ex- pansion shell plating of stern which is worth many times the cost of the THe Marine REVIEW book. I recall in my experience at ship building times when a book of that kind would have helped me out of many a difficulty." CARRIERS' WELFARE PLAN. The welfare plan of the Lake Car- riers' Association is working out well, Mr. George Marr, the secretary of the association, being extremely busy is- of. registration, LAKE suing certificates though the certificates. which he is- stles and engi- are only to masters neers. About 500 applications certificates have been made by mas- ters, mates and engineers. All certifi- cates other than to licensed officers for - are issued by the shipping commis- sioners. Numerous applications to the shipping offices are also being made. To each man below the grade of master and chief engineer, there will be issued with the certificate a record discharge book in which will be noted the record of his service upon each vessel. The benefits which accompany the plan in case of accident apply to all. They are to be paid at once with- out even waiting for inquiry and such payment will have no bearing what- ever upon the future liability of the ship. The whole purpose of the plan is to provide immediate relief. Foreign journals are now paying attention to the various features-of this plan and are commending its spirit highly. The welfare plan of the Lake Car- riers' Association is no new thought. It has been-in mind for the past 15 years or It has been evolved slowly. . more; in fact ever since the Lake Car- . The first thing that the association did was to riers' Association was formed. improve living conditions aboard lake steamers, Then gradually the thought. came of establishing club rooms in the principal ports where seamen might meet, small dues being assessed in order to carry with it the feeling of independence, coupling with the plana form of mutual insurance against the natural vicissitudes of the business. This plan took definite form in 1902, a Before it could be put into effect, however, some of the unions proposed to undertake the work if contracts : were made with them for supplying men aboard ship, and the plan was accordingly set aside in order to give the the opportunity they sought. For five years thereafter the contract system with the unions was unions followed. At no time, however, was it found satisfactory. From the be- ginning there was complaint from the masters and mates that they could not get the customary work out of th: deck hands; complaint from the engi- neer and his assistants that disipline could not be maintained in the fire. hold; that all duties aboard ship were subordinated to the interpretation of technical questions of contract he- tween the men and the union. In other words, the men derived their pay from one source and took their orders from another. The situation became intol- erable and at the close of the season of 1907 the Lake Carriers' Association determined to have no more of it. Open shop was accordingly declared and the welfare plan picked up where it had been left in 1902. ing therefore to note that applications It is gratify- for membership under the conditions With the, earnest co-operation of the men it of the plan are numerous. can be made of permanent benefit with the assurance that everyone em- braced within its provisions will have a square deal. The Lake Carriers' Association has printed the in the pamphlet and it would be well for everyone ship ir- context of the welfare plan form of a convenient employed aboard respective of his rank to obtain a copy of it. He can doubtless get it by addressing the secretary of the as- sociation, Western Reserve bldg., Cleveland, O. JAPANESE SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPPING. The return of the director of the Mercantile Marine Burcau indicates that the Japanese yards, like others, have suffered from the prevailing ship building depression, but only to a lina- ited *€xtent. It is in a, méasire sue prising to'note that, at the end of the last financial year, there were 224 ship building those de- yards, excluding