Show sS s'S Po 1 T AMERICAN I t PORTS flEECE I I U. U S. S SHIPS r 1 ere Finds Everybody f tt K s f Grafted Yankees a Little on r BUENOS NOS AIRES Aug 6 The The I gaited States shipping board has I I ken defrauded of ot many miny many thou- thou I cads pd of ct dollars through practices bleb amount to systematic 1 I Jt ln of ot shipping board vesI ves- ves yes yes- I felt ds In the River Plate trade accordIng according ac ac- sl cording to reports to tho board by byj Captain ln G G. L. L Carden Garden special j rep e of ot tho shipping board emergency c 3 fleet In Bu Buenos caps JI I I t Captain Carden Garden accompanied I by C Captain of or Engineers L L. L C c. c a I arrived here a n. month 1 I fro jo 0 to take chargo charge and protect the boards board's Interests When I 1 arrived cd here he ho said Mid to the tho Associated Press correspondent chandlers repairmen and I others ethers connected with the shippIng shipping ship ship- shipping ping industry seemed to be In a I general agreement to mulct the chipping hipping board vessels to tho the taut limit t Rob Rob the Rich The shipping board Is 19 rich t tE they a er F said Wo We will get bet what we I un fm jin Accordingly the board was charged for tor things not received aid ird overcharged o for things s re received re- re until it became me so obvious that thit I was ordered to to this port porto to o take charge Jn ln receiving my orders I was told that while the A the fact tact that j I expenses pense i of t all sorts were high Ih I- I In Buenos Aires and Montevideo it felt feU that there thero must be wrong rons when their ves- ves ids eIs paid such prices for tor In- In as 4 34 a n. pound for tor butter I Excellent System When a shipping board vessel ap pp ared In tho the roads and sib sig- ed Its desire to enter those ha rho o had hopes of ot selling the supplies prepared for tor a n. plucking of ot tho the golden colden goose Tte te result was that when the tho ies Tt suet el l eh cleared bills were presented to tho the steamship agents and promptly paid since It was ship ship- T r g b board money for tor every con- con item Hem at prices bl based ed on ft totting except a a- a desire to ob- ob Lj easy money II's Its It's All Changed Now Our arrival put a n quick and Active e stop to all aU this thie We toy tow v Tf have all alJ shipping board vests vest's vese ves- ves e rei ts calling at this port report directly to us W wo we alone alono having haying the right to authorize purchases tt tf c supplies or expenditures for tor AU All repairs at present must aust be made according to I and under bond I ETer Every hill must have havo m my signature signa a- a tan lure before it Jt will be bo paid and the tie result of ot this has been a aurine urine of as much as 18 50 per cent centI ca ss I many Items Conditions formerly for for- cerly merly were so o bad that I have havee e mn even n heard that In some C cases food toed was thrown overboard In order oder to create a shortage so that purchases p could be made Eve Monthly Durin During Daring the first four weeks of ot the supervision super provided h by the tew arrangement it was officially estimated that hat a saving for the tho flipping board which means for tor tie Le United States government of or for food foort alone alono and 1 cr repairs was made As a renit re- re knit nit of ot this campaign at least one Is expected when a certain ID arrives In New York There re aro are twenty-three twenty lines JInes tl fr the shipping board which live ive vessels calling at ports in this Ws Jurisdiction There ore are on 13 a 11 average two twenty-two vessels lea is CI hand lIand at all alJ times The Tho average aver aver- ife age cost for maintaining these Is prom on om 1500 to 2000 each per day Wore teore the war an American restel Te Tm ol l on the River Plate Plato was a Curiosity I Others Given Preference Since the shipping board bord had or of P Its own W to tak take urge barge of at of Its s vessels in ports throughout Un the world continued Cuden Carden f ll It was usually ally eC 10 to the care caro of or its ts Chips to est established agencies my of these had steamship agents already for tOT years be been n the thes s of or foreign and competing lines Tho The Thoi Thoas 1 SUIt has lias as b been en that In m many ny ta ales i hId American vessels have been h bacK while other ships w were r d' d en tho the preference causing the ot of American ships to mount up through port charges charge s and lost time Repair BillIn BillIn Bill BillIn In all River Plato ports losses from this source have been very great as well as those through overcharges for supplies repairs and so 50 forth There is one ono case on record where an American ship was ws held up for tor months fo for r repairs and charges totaling about 0 were piled up against her But nut we wo are seeing to it now that shipping board board boardl vessels g get t into port and ge set get getaway t awa away again without unnecessary dela delay The saving to the tho shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping board from this attention undoubtedly will be several sc hundred hun hun- I dred d thousand dollars annually I Lesson to Agencies Agents who have the Interests of ot other nationalities more moro at heart than American are coming to learn that they are not entitled entitled entitled en- en en en- titled to more than a n. legitimate profit from American vessels and must handle them efficiently It if they thy want American business Captain Garden Carden and his n. n assist assist- ant Captain Farwell are officers of or tho the United States coast guard detailed on stripping shipping board ser ser- vice vicC During the war Captain Garden Carden was port captain of ot New I York and had char charge o of loading I more mom than tons of ot j high thigh explosives making a record I It It Is fa said d of 01 never having had an accident occident or lost a man |