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Personal Sketches of Marine Men Daulton Mann, Executive Vice President, Grace Line By Ben K. Price S EXECUTIVE vice president of the Grace Line, he is in charge of the operation of six distinct passenger and freight services. HOUGH one of the youngest Amer- ican merchant marine executives, his experience in shipping covers a period of over 20 years. E ADVOCATES American labor on American ships and has placed approximately 100 per cent American crews on Grace line vessels. = WENTY-TWO years or So ago, a young tellow, Wi still in his teens, was grinding away at a dock clerk’s job down in Panama; today, at the age of 41 he is a leading executive in the American i merchant marine, one of the youngest of his class, a ship operating man known from coast to coast and a strong advocate of the principle of American labor for American shipping. His name is Daulton Mann. As executive vice president of the Grace Line, New York, a position which speaks for itself, he has come up the ladder, faster than most, by sheer dint of ability and enterprise, with an understanding of operating problems obtained first hand and based on exceptionally well- rounded practical experience. Born in 1893, in Oakland, Calif., he received his early education in San Francisco, and before he was 20 had entered the employ of the California-Atlantic Steamship Co. as a shipping clerk in Panama. In this affiliation he was perhaps especially fortunate, for trans-isthmian traf- fic in the days before the canal was completed provided him with a variety of instruction, even though he spent but a year on this job. Upon the suspension of the California-Atlantic Steam- ship Co., activities he returned to San Francisco and be- gan his long years of service with the Grace organiza- tion. His first important post came two or three years later, when, in 1917, W. R. Grace acquired first an in- terest and then possession of the old Pacific Mail Co. Still in his early twenties but already a veteran in ex- perience, he was appointed assistant general manager, and, seven years later, when the Grace company reorgan- ized this enterprise to administer it as the Panama Mail line, he became general manager and vice president. Then five years later—on Nov. 19, 1930, to be exact— he became executive vice president of the Grace Line, MARINE Review—April, 1934 with headquarters in New York, although retaining his duties as vice president of the Panama Mail line. This step came as a logical development in a career devoted to ocean transportation and to constant study of its prob- lems, and placed him in charge of the operation of six distinct passenger and freight services, linking Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific ports of this country with those on the west coast of central and South America, an operation which today means the direction of approximately 30 vessels, including the four new deluxe liners, SANTA Rosa, SanTA PavuLa, SanTa Lucia and SAanTA ELena, built at a cost of approximately $20,000,000. These new liners, in the planning of which Mr. Mann took an active part, are probably the finest of their class afloat under any flag and have proved very popular with travelers, They are the first American ships having all outside rooms with private baths. Public rooms have been brought ‘“‘up top’? where there is ample light and air; decks made wide and with as few obstructions as possible; colors and materials used to give an atmosphere of coolness and comfort in tropical waters. As one who has come up from the bottom to his present position as operating head, Mr. Mann knows the prob- lems of his men and has been particularly active in ’ their welfare. As a strong advocate of manning Ameri- can ships with American labor, he has been instrumental in placing approximately 100 per cent American crews on Grace ships, thus far exceeding the demands of the La Follete act which requires that 6614 per cent of the labor on American ships be of American origin. He resides on Manhattan and is a member of various marine and social organizations. He still retains member- ship in two or three leading clubs in San Francisco and, in New York, is a member of the Racquet and Propeller clubs, and the India House. 55