Show nagel WILL NOT I 1 fin THE H LES WILL ENFORCE STRINGENT regulations ADOPTED AS RESULT 01 THE TITANIC lie refuse r fuses to permit steamer steamers except in southern waters water to travel after september 15 without sufficient lifeboats and rafts washington secretary nagel of the department of commerce and labor on wednesday practically killed the plan to modify the stringent steamboat regulations adopted by the department of commerce and lubot shortly after tho the titanic disaster he ile refused to permit coastwise steamers and lake bay bound and river steamers except in Fou southern thern waters to travel after september 15 without lifeboats and ratta rafts sufficient to protect all passengers aud aua crew mr nagel granted permission for lake bay gulf and river steamers to ply in southern waters with lifeboats and rafts enough to accommodate at one time 60 per cent of tha pa and crew the line at which this modification will apply was fixed at the thirty third degree of at latitude about the location of charleston 8 C danger below that latitude mr fr nagel says Is not so grf groat at as ar it would be farther north and ho does not desire to work any great haid hardship ship upon ship owner where protection Is sufficient |