Show I I MERCHANT NAVAL SCHOOL I Because of the scarcity of capable seamen and especially omcers the j German Llo Lloyd Steamship company I has set aside a ship and established n I training school on it following as closely as possible the lines oC the I f regular Government naval schools The British Consul at Stettin gives I Stetln some details of the 1 plan The rletals ship to be used is a fourmaster The foulmaJer hope is to Induce young men of gcod families to enter the service The ship will travel to all ports 1 has a captain two mates a physician and iwo Instructor and the ship has accommodations for plenty cadets The cadets will be in structtid in aJI thnorpfir > arltlno subjects as well as In English German Ger-man mathematics and navigation The course Is expected to last three years during which each student will pay thirty 9a year for his expenses At the end oC that time it is expected that each cadet will be abh to pass an examination for a mate They will then be required to serve as Junior officers eels for n year without pay on tho liners and then will be ready to receive celvo salaries The plan has the warm approval of the Kaiser and Admiral TIrpItz and has aroused much enthusiasm enthu-siasm In Germany Already five hundred hun-dred applications have been filed for admission Into the school I is n good scheme to copy Our commerce ought to quadruple In the next ten years and where arc the men to command the ships There Is only one weakness In tho German plan that we see Instead of n fourmasted ship It ought to be threemasted and with alight a-light steam engine and several electrical engines because one pf the essentials of a shipmaster nowadays Is to understand under-stand the workings of n marine engine and he ought td be able to advise when there is any trouble with It Then again out of eighty cadets there will I be at least 10 per cent that never will make firstclass highclimbing sailors I and there will be quite as many that I will make firstclass engineers In I other words n modern school designed for a purpose ought to complete I |