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238 THE MARINE REVIEW DEVOTED TO MARINE ENGINEERING, SHIP BUILDING AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES Published Monthly by The Penton Publishing Company Penton Building, Cleveland. HICAGO - - . - - 1521-23 Lutton Bldg. Cc . CINCINNATI - - - - - 503 Mercantile Library Bldg. So - - - - 507 West Street Bldg. ET TSBURG 2148-49 Oliver Bldg. PITTSBURGH - : >. 2 301 Metropolitan Bank Bldg. WASHINGTON, D. C. - - Orcs Coaniber: BIRMINGHAM, ENG. - - Subscription, $2 delivered free anywhere in the world. Single copies, 20 cents. Back numbers over three months, 50 cents. Change of advertising copy must reach this office on or before the first of each month. 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. (Copyright 1914, by Penton Publishing Company) -- a June, 1914 Lake Trade Lake trade has "certainly been in the doldrums during the past month, but there is now noted a slight improvement in affairs, and inspires the hope What a. bless- No company that His 'fortune may disappear, his wife elope, his friends that things will presently get better. ing hope is with its eternal fire. man keeps is so constant and unchanging. pass him by, even his dog may be stolen, but hope abideth ever. Enough, however, of these reflections. What is more to the point is that a little wild tonnage has been chartered' in the ore trade, and that more is expected to be chartered in a few. days, even though the shippers have not as yet put all their Ore sales have been What with the drift of the season so far furnacemen will have own vessels in commission. slow but are now gradually picking up. to make up their minds shortly as to their require- ments or they may find themselves unable to obtain delivery. The movement to June 1 will be light, and the June movement will probably not be heavy, but should there be a revival in July the 'late summer and fall months will be brisk ones on the lakes. One of the. remarkable things about the iron business. is that no one is wise enough to say what it will be three months hence. It has an 'astounding faculty for recovery. We will know a little: more about the matter when we get the May figures of pig iron production. If the furnaces continue to produce THE MARINE REVIEW of the country have paid a great deal of attention June, 1914 iron the way they did in March and April, then some cre will have to come down these lakes, and the time to bring it down will be very short. The ore trade is, of course, the dominant trade of the lakes, but the coal trade is getting to be a healthy second. Coal has had a bad start this season, and the movement so far has been light, but it is q foregone conclusion that the Northwest will require its usual quota of coal. Cargo and fuel coal reached the respectable total of 33,000,000 tons last season, and while:it will probably be less this year, the block will still represent a good round sum. And there's the grain trade, growing like the proverbial green bay tree. It isn't prudent to be a pessimist on lake trade. One may be deceived to one's sorrow. Campaign for Sanitation During the past four years the leading industries to the question of safety to the end that the number of personal injury cases might be lessened. | The railways have developed this safety campaign to a remarkable extent. Since the movement was started ~four years ago, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway thas reduced the number of accidents nearly 30 per | cént. _ persons were injured on this 'railway system than in "the preceding four yéars--a very real and gratifying During the past fotr years 10,000 fewer achievement.» " . On the Great Lakes the Lake Carriers' Associ- ation has conducted a' systematic campaign for the elimination of the avoidable accident by distinctly -marking dangerous places and by appointing 'safety committees from among the crew on each ship. In addition, the association has this spring begun a campaign on sanitation to promote the physical well-being of the men. A man is obviously not competent to do a day's work unless he is in good health. The initial steps in the campaign have to do with the care and preparation of food supplies. Every dealer on the whole chain of lakes supplying meats, milk, groceries and ice to the boats has received a circular from the Welfare Plan Committee of the Lake Carriers' Association outlining certain simple rules to be observed in the care of food stuffs. Meats are to be kept, in the refrigerator away from flies and not exposed to handling by prospective customers. Milk must be pure and cannot be trans- ferred from one can to another until the cans have been thoroughly sterilized, and ice must under no circumstances come in contact with food. Manu- factured ice is preferred because being made from distilled water it is chemically pure, while natural ice may be of doubtful purity. The observance of these rules will go a long ways towards the elimin- ation of typhoid fever cases, because typhoid is a disease which is communicated to the system through food and drink.