Show FIREMEN Wll GH GET INCREASE The Board of Arbitration Settles Wage Controversy Favor Favorable Favorable Favorable able to CHICAGO CHiCAGO June Jutie 4 Tho rhe men lovely Involved ed cd In the wage wago wa o controversy decided by bythe bythe bythe the arbitration board today are nrc mem memo members bers hers of the Brotherhood of or Locomotive Firemen and Engineers Under tho the ruling of or tho the arbitration board hoard tho the wages of or tho the men inca vary Val with the dif diC different ferent forett classes of or service Following are the Increases announced by the board Firemen Main line lino and branch passenger service Ie ce Increased 15 cents per miles or oi less Firemen Through h and antI Irregular freight mixed work wreck gravel helper pusher snow plow and branch service except Mallet type engines Increase of or 15 Hi cents per or less leBs on coal burning engines firemen in this service shall receive additional Increase of or additional 1 lO W Wmiles miles or less legs lessOn lessOn On simple engines having haing cylinder 24 Inches or over In diameter and on compounds engines weighing pounds or more on drivers firemen shall receive not less than 3 75 per l er miles or loss less provided that whore where a rate Is now paid on engines with cylinders less than 21 24 inches in diame diameter ter tor or compound engines weighing less than pounds on drivers in ex cx excess coal cess of 01 75 per miles or less there ahaB be no Increase Firemen Local or freight service Increase lucrease 25 percent miles mites or less except on road having eight hour day lIn or twelve and antI a n half miles per hour basis banis Firemen On Mallet type engine 54 4 per miles or less hess In all classes of or service Firemen Yard service increase of 25 cents per day Switch engineers en and engine dis dispatchers increase of 25 cents per day daj do doThe The Tho hearing before tho the arbitration board has been heen on for three weeks Scores of or witnesses testified regarding the high cost of living The Tho railroads opposed d the increased dost cost on the ground that they the could not afford to moot meet It IL SHIP BRAKE SUCCESSFUL Washington June 4 Although it was waB demonstrated by br trial on the battleship Indiana that what Is known ns as the ship brake would undoubted undoubtedly ly stop a vessel In somewhat less limo timo than where it was not employed tho the device delco has been found unsuitable for naval e eThe The Tho naval no val board boord which conducted the tho tests tf StR holds that the brake which resembles a barn harn door on either side of o tho the ship would soon become lecome clogged with barnacles unless con constantly constantly conStantlY employed It would woul also In Increase increaSe Increase crease the danger from torpedo at nt attack attack tack tock h a 3 grave gravo menace in close cloo encounters |