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144 yi CCORDING to the Japanese gov- ernment’s regulations for marine subsidy, 50 sen ($0.249) is to be granted to a ship, not more than five years old, per gross ton for every 1,000 miles at 12 knots per hour, plus a 10 per cent increase for each knot per hour faster than 12, plus a 25 per cent in- crease for vessels which have been built according to plans approved by the government. Five per cent is to be deducted for each year of the ship’s age in excess of five. The government will grant’ a subsidy to the Toyo Kisen Kaisha for three vessels, namely TreNyo Maru, CHIyo Maru and Suinyo Maru, of about 13,- 000 gross tons each; to. the Osaka Shosen Kaisha for four vessels, namely, CHICAGO Maru, PANAMA Maru, THE MARINE REVIEW fleet consisted of two vessels of the size. of KoreA, two larger ships, and only one smaller one. Taking into account the subsidy which the Toyo Kisen Kaisha receives, it costs this company about $227,860 less per year to run one ship of its fleet of four than it did the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. to run one of its five ships. The difference in the salaries paid on the Toyo Kisen Kaisha steam- ships and those on the Pacific Mail vessels lies in the above, as the sal- aries paid to Japanese and Chinese members of the crew would not differ to any extent. The wages to the Asiatic crew, in Hongkong currency, amount to $4,092, of which the princi- pal items are as illustrated in the accom- panying table. Wages of Oriental Crew Month- Month- Pe Month Positions. ly pay. Positions. ly pay. Positions. ly pay Carpenter’s mate. $25.00 Two saloon cooks, Four mess boys, No. 1 boatswain. 30.00 AU wooo cow es $70.00 | ESBS eRe aie $48.00 No. 2 boatswain. 25.00 Three saloon Six ‘learn’ boys, Seaman 2. ven .00 cooks, at $15.. 45.00 Fate DOscon eae 1.50 33 seamen, at $15 495.00 Baker gece ae, 45.00 Five bath boys, Sallmakere 4.5 oo. 12.00 Two bakers, at $15: -30.00 CPL Seta ee eevee 75.00 wo mess. boys, Baker vesicles a25 Two deck boys, Ate DOS rneh mes .50 Biutewer arcitia. 15.00 Ate ONO i ester 30.00 Mess boy ..... ee TSO POTtet sac cheer 20.00 Steerage cook.... 35.00 18 oilers, at $18.. 324.00 Portere we cos ee 720 Two steerage Piremans se ees 23.00 Pantryman ...... 20.00 cooks, at $15.. 30.00 Bireman si jo5 20.00 Five pantrymen, Five steerage Pinemane oases 18.00 eter OaS Saks ores 75.00 waiters, at $15. 75.00 39 firemen, at $16 624.00 Scullery man 15.00 Japanese steerage 45 coal _ passers, : Silver. “man 72.3... 15.00 COOK ee: 25.00 at sSiide ss cee is, 630.00 Printenv tiie 2338 30.00 Two Japanese Storekeeper ..... 18.00 Interpreter... 40.00 steerage cooks, Two mess. boys, Barkeeper ....... 30.00 Ey nee Gh ster coats a 30.00 ate Ole ee 24.00 No. 1 cab. waiter 25.00 Check clerk ae 30.00 Two mess boys, 38 cabin waiters, Chinese instructor 75.00 ate S025. ear: -50 at eho). suracurats 570.00 Two Chinese in- Saloon cook 45.00 wo 7 bovs, aa structors, at $55 110.00 cnet Bay capa Saree eae a CanaApA Maru,‘ each of 6,000 tons, and Hawam Maru of 7,000 tons; to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha for two vessels, SHiIpzuoKA Maru’ and YoKoHAMA Maru, each of 6,000 tons. : Under the regulations the Toyo Kisen Kaisha will receive in 1916 for the ships mentioned, approximately 1,- 635,000 yen ($815,240), the Osaka Kaisha Shosen 1,004,000 yen ($499,992), and the Nippon Yusen Kaisha the balance (the total subsidy for North America being 2,949,012 yen—$1,468,608—for the year 1916) or 310,012 yen, equivalent to $154,380. Examination of the papers of the Pacific Mail steamship Korea shows a monthly salary expenditure of about $5,000, while the average monthly ex- penditure for salaries on a Toyo Kisen Kaisha steamer does not exceed $3,000. - If anything this is too high an esti- mate. Korea may be taken as an_aver- age vessel, since the Pacific Mail A Lesson in Patriotism As told in a recent issue of The Marine Review, the frigate PorrsMouTH, one of the last survivors of the wood- en navy, has been condemned at the Norfolk navy yard and sold for $3,662 —about what the metal in her stout hull will bring, and has disappeared under the axe of the ship-breaker or the torch of the dealer in junk, and human vultures at last have picked her old frames. There are those imprac- tical persons who say that it-is sac- rilege. PorTSMOUTH’s sister ships, JAMESTOWN and St. Mary’s have recently suffered the same ignominious fate that is in store for her; so have ALLIANCE, ENnTER- PRISE, INDEPENDENCE, Nipsic, OMAHA, SARATOGA, WABASH and others—all grand old patriarchs, which have played a large part in the preservation of the nation. Of the few remaining, such as the noble Harrrorp, LANCASTER and April, 19 Essex, their imminent destiny jg | wise to be condemned by that executioner, the board of estimate survey, -and sold for an amount than the cost of firing a superdr naught’s big gun! Worth one gunshot in cold ¢ but untold riches in memories, ¢ gallant veterans deserve a better fg In this utilitarian age on lacks ¢ presumption to suggest that they ] restored. But Uncle Sam might pro itably learn a little lesson in patrig ism from one of his diminutive neig bors overseas—might have learned some years ago, in fact, and gay himself the charge of being a vagg of Mammon. When the training ship THERMopyzap _ of the Portuguese navy recently got too old for further service, or thrilled to the verse: Nail to the mast her holy fl Set every threadbare sail = And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale! Submarine is Junk An acetylene torch changed the ole Holland “9,” which was the first prac- / tical undersea war craft, into a mass of : twisted junk recently at Port Richmond, — N. Y. She was then taken to the scrap : yards of the Henry A. Hitner’s Sons Co., Huntingdon street and Aramingo. : avenue, where she lost her among piles of other junk. identity The “9” was the last of a series of experiments conducted by John P. Hol- — land and Samuel Lobe, and proved suc- cessful. She was finished in 1900, and was bought by the government for $150,-— 000 and two years ago was sent to the scrap pile and sold for $1,076.50 to the Hitner firm. Like all inventions various mishaps and disappointments marked the pro-— gress toward success. The first, built in 1875, was so imperfect that it was feared she would again, if tried out. sink never to rise, — The second was no better, while the third never got beyond — a certain stage and was left unfinished. The fourth and fifth met misfortune in the water; the sixth was in theory only, and the seventh, though accepted by the government, was later abandoned. The eighth was evolved into the ninth and undersea warfare became assured. Maynard D. Church has been ap- pointed chief engineer of the Terry Steam Turbine Co., Hartford, Conn. The Terry company builds steam tur- bines adapted for a wide variety of | uses, 9