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October, 1919 sarily restricted to service age re- quirements in an. effort to 'gain Gime mediate results. The shipping. board recruiting service place their entrance age requirement at 21 years, and boys below 18 are not allowed enlistment in the United States navy. "The reason that the shipping in- terests of this country are interested in the work of the junior naval re- serve is not only because our future sailors are hidden in the boy mem- bers of the organization, but because by encouraging the coming genera- tion in discipline and love of the sea, the support and growth of our mer- chant marine is assured for all time. In line with any constructive policy to man our newly built and newly THE MARINE REVIEW ing and have supported the several agencies now working in England along lines similar to that of the junior naval reserve." Vessel operators on the Great Lakes are also in favor of the movement. At a recent meeting. of the Lake Carriers' association it was resolved that the work of the junior. naval reserve be given the cordial approval of the association. Among the members of the Cleve- land local council of the reserve are Harry Coulby of the Pittsburgh Steamship Co.; Carl Osborne and L. C. Hanna, of 'the M.A. Hanna & Co.; Samuel Mather, of Pickands, Mather & Co.; Maj. S. J. Logan, of the United States marine corps; S 467 three of the wooden hulls purchased by his company from the shipping board. These three vessels are to be rigged as 4-mast barkentines, having in addition to a full set of yards on the foremast, one yard on each of the main and n-izzen masts, to carry the topsails. The strong point in favor of having a yard or the main and mizzen masts is that it makes the lower sale 25 per cent smaller than it would be with the reg- ular fore and aft rig. Anybody who has ever sailed in large schooners will appreciate what an advantage this will be in handling the sails. Besides this, the sails will last much longer, because they will not have the same chance to wear out from »slatting in light winds and heavy seas as would a larger sail. It FOUR-MAST BARKENTINE WITH UNIQUE RIG DEVISED TO ELIMINATE REEFING AND TO FACILITATE COMING ABOUT--IT IS CLAIMED THAT LESS TIME IS REQUIRED TO BRACE THE TOPSAIL YARDS THAN IS REQUIRED TO CLEW UP REGULAR GAFF .;-TOPSAILS AND SHIFT THEM OVER THE SPRING STAYS building ships, and in co-ordination with present efforts of the United States shipping board, it is essential that an organization like the United States junior naval reserve, with a broad and systematic plan for inter- esting and training the younger boy, be encouraged and helped. By proper extension of the work of the reserve another quarter of a century would see the crew of every American ship Successfully dominated by American seamen and an almost native person- nel insured. "No Opportunity has been ever neg- ected by England to foster her mari- time Supremacy, and English ship- Owners have long been aware of 'the Value of a. sea-training system for boys of 14 and older. Committees of English shipowners have worked in- le telligently to establish such _ train- Livingstone Mather, of the Cleveland- Clits: Iron Co.> Gapt. Jo. Hs Clark, Guardian building, and George Mars, secretary and treasurer of the Lake Carriers' association. Will Rig Wooden Ships as Sailers Six wooden vessels of the Ferris type have recently been purchased from the Emergency Fleet corporation by the Universal Shipping & Trading Co, Seattle, and are to be rigged as sailing vessels. The price paid for them has not been made public but delivery is to be made without delay as the hulls in auestion are lying at anchor in Seattle. Capt. C. T. Larsen, port captain of the Universal Shipping & Trading Co, has evolved a unique type of rig for also gives the vessel a larger sail area as the illustration shows. The topsails will not have to be clewed up and shifted over the spring stays every time the vessel is brought about. It will also eliminate much reefing in bad weather, because those sails compared to the larger fore and aft sails will be like a single reefed sail. » Captain Larsen got the idea of the rig from the schooner CotumBIA River, which is rigged somewhat similar, but with the difference, that on the CoLum- BiA River the upper topsails are made in one piece and pull down on the yard, whereas in this case the upper topsails are two separate sails, running or: wires alongside the topmast and clew up to the masthead, the same as an ordinary gafftopsail. While the Ferris hulls are not con- structed on exactly sailing ship lines,