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December, 1909 proximate cost of $350,000. stitution will be This the city The institute is: to be provided with reading rooms, writing billiard and assembly rooms in which meet- in- located in of Cleveland. rooms, rooms, gymnasium ings can be held and classes in en- gineering and conducted A branch 'bank will also be established in institute in navigation during the winter. ohe ai the banking institutions of Cleveland. A connection with leading limited number of sleeping rooms will also be provided. The committee ac- tively at work on the institute pro- ject consists of Samuel Mather, E. W. Oglebay, W. G. Pollock, H.. Coulby, D. R. Hanna, Gen. George A; Car- retson and Jj. Ho Sheadle: Under the of the Plan certificates or cards Welfare cat rules issued to employes regardless of union affili- ations. They are issued for one year so as to cover the season of naviga- tion, and are accompanied by a dis- charge book which is deposited with the master -or chief engineer of the 'steamer upon which the holder of the This book is re- turned to the holder at the close of card is employed. the season with a statement of the character of service rendered. The holders of these certificates TAE. Marine Review them is that they discharge their law- ful duties towards the ship, but cer- tain labor leaders, with that rare fe- cundity for the propagation of trou- ble so many of them possess, have characterized the issuance of the cer- tificates as an encroachment upon hu- man rights. Their attitude is simply silly, and would be amusing did it not possess the potentiality for mak- ing mischief. One Dut -46 wage scales to discover how well lake sea- men are treated. The Cunard liner Mauretania is the greatest piece of but 'be- yond his uniform the master of the has compare marine architecture afloat, Mauretania gets scarcely more than the master of a modern bulk freighter on the lakes. Lake masters get 92, 000 per annum with a bonus of $100 to $250 at the close of the season; the master of the Mauretania gets $2,500 per year, and this for 12 months? work as against the eight or nine months for the lake master. Herewith is published a table show- ing the relative wages paid to lake seamen and to seamen on salt water British In each case the mas- ships under American, and German flags. ter's wages have been omitted from the calculation. American British German = a ) ake Ocean BA Total Total : Total Total No. wages. wages. No... wages. No. wages. Deck: VOticers 0 aa Ge, 2 $211.00 $430.00 7 $359.64 6 $221.34 Deck force. tr es 10 380.00 45 1.129.58 44 967.14 wo 659.99 ISNgineers tic. ies on 4 3 370.00 29 1299 ,.00 29 1,455.57. 34 1,069.53 Firemen, oilers and ee Walertenders so. ss. cies 6 300.00 136 .4,860.75 153 336076.59> 179: 2,879.80 Rursens, ere. yi a: uae ane 4 242.50 5 230.85 5 138.04 Calingry seo ee oe ee ee 27 680.00 21 493.29 25 486.95 Stewards yore ees ae 4. 182.00 125 2,179.04 162 2,530.36 191 2,156.27 Miscellaneous, ii... .% 6% Beene i aeliaters 189.13 10 177.88 7 406.63 "Total sbised yh GPaiar dateiaiasoereels 25. $1,443.0U 380 $11,306.00 427 $9,891.32 500 $8018.55 are also beneficiaries in an emergency benefit system should any accident befall them in the line of duty. This benefit is of immediate application and is bestowed even before an_in- vestigation into the causes of the accident are made, and without im- pairment of any legal right to a greater sum. The benefits range from $500 for a master to $75 for an ordinary seaman. The Welfare Plan is generous and imposes no restrictions whatever upon its members. All that is asked "of It will be noted that the average wage paid on salt water ships under the American flag is $29.75, under the British flag $23.16, under the Ger- man flag $16.08, while on the lakes the average is $57.72, or 94 per cent greater than American ships in the ocean trade, 149 per cent greater than British ships and 260 per cent greater than German ships. PRESIDENT TAFT ON SHIPPING. President Taft in his message just delivered to congress urges govern--- B17 mental assistance to shipping in the following words: Following the course of my distinguished predecessor, J earnestly recommend to con- gress the consideration and passage é : Gf a ship subsidy bill, looking to the establish- .ment of lines between our Atlantic seaboard and the eastern coast i of South America, as well as lines from ] the west coast of the United States to South America, China, Japan and the Philippines. The profits on foreign mails are perhaps a sufficient meas- ure of the expenditures which might first be tentatively applied to this method of. in- ducing American capital to undertake the establishment of American lines of steam- ships in those. directions in which we now feel it most important that we should have means of transportation controlled in the, in- terest of the expansion of our trade. A bill of this character has once passed the house and more than once passed the senate, and I hope that at this. session a bill framed on the same lines and with the same purposes may become a law. ITALIAN EMIGRANT SHIP TORTONA. Messrs. Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd., have just delivered a new 'Caird liner, named Tortona, which they have built to the order of Messrs. Cairn, Noble & Co., for service in the Italian emigrant trade to Canada. She is a-twin-screw, four- masted passenger and cargo steamer, 464 ft. by 54 ft. 21%4 in. by 40 ft. depth to shelter deck, and 8,300 tons dead weight. She has accommoda: tion in the "tween decks for 1,000 to 1,100 persons, besides accommodation 40 first-class passengers. She has been built to the highest class of Lloyds Register, and con- forms to the regulations of the Brit- ish Board of Trade and the American Emigration Laws. In_ her arrange- ments for the emigrant trade she has also been built according to the reg- ulation of the Italian government, and in this respect she is certainly thor- oughly equipped, nothing likely to con- duce to the comfort and convenience of her passengers having been over- looked. A large portion of the 'tween deck space has been insulated for the carriage of perishable cargo, this space being cooled on the cold-air system, while there are fyrther chambers cooled to 15 degrees on the brine-pipe system. The vessel has a complete installation of wireless telegraphy. Her powerful two sets of triple-expansion engines, constructed by Palmers Ship- building & Iron: Co. Ltd., Jarrow, have cylinders 2514, 41 and 68 by 48 in. stroke, with four boilers, and they developed a speed of 15 knots on the -- trial trip. It is interesting to add for. about that a sister ship of the Tortona has ~ been ordered from the same builders to be employed in the same trade -- under the sanction of the Italian gov- ~ ernment.