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Show 1,066 VESSELS IN LAST jUflONTHS This Is the Record Est?blished by the Shipyards of the United States. SHORTAGE OF OFFICERS SEEN Nearly Two-Thlrda of Steel Craft Were Built at Atlantic and Gulf Ports Vessels Built for "reign Countries Not In. ..Hod. New York. A bulletin Issued by the New York Chamfer of commerce shows that during the tirst eleven tnonlhs of the calendar ear there were const 1 acted In the shipyards of this country l.lMKi vessels, with a gross tonnage of 488,441 tons. This means that for every working day In the year more than three vet sels of more than 1.IHH1 tons were added add-ed to the tleet that sails under the Stars and Stripes. The compilation does not Include 88 wooden vessels and 18 steel vessels built for foreign-era. foreign-era. Of the 4X.X.440 tons built for do-iirostlc do-iirostlc demand, wooden construction included only IL'T.'JVtl tons, or 864)0 per cent, while steel construction comprised com-prised .'Mil, 17( tons or T&M per cent. Nearly two-thirds of the steel construction con-struction was built at yards on the Atlantic and (Julf coasts and approxl-' approxl-' mutely one-third on the tlreat Lakes, with about one-half us much on tht) I 1'acltlc coast us at the lake shipyards. List Shows Growth. The chamber of commerce has com piled this table showing the uphuild-! uphuild-! ing of our meiiinuil marine, the list in i cludlnc vessels of l.lHKt tons and over: Fiscal Built on BUlll on Tolnl of 1,1)00 Years) Beaboaire. at. i m i ami over. Tons. TOne. Tons. lid's XB,7I lili,-'' 242.143, litir. 111I.71K S.r.'S 127.S44 ru ia.20t IS.23 1ST.44S , litis ii'i :; t:;.m.' is-nus I'.ui' c.wh (2,932 iu.na 1U Dh.ms rtJtTt li'j ,i:t As the law reipilres that all ships sailing under the Americuii ttag have American ollicers, the prdVeni uw aiises us to where these are to bo obtained for the new construct Ion The slate nautical scholarships fill nlsh the chief supply, lut tliere ayajfii only 41 to he graduated from the New York state schoolship this year, a number num-ber barely sullhieiit for tlie BM8S Of ten of the new vessels. The monthly bulletin of the -rlium-her of Commerce calls attention (t-o the needs of domestic commerce. U tills connection it njn Domestic Trade a Feature. "Kor the time being it looks ns Ir the more Important subject of domestic domes-tic trade had been nlhvucd to taike Its own I'ourse. Pewof slnlisties lire published pub-lished now of domestic trade movements move-ments than formerly. The government govern-ment might direct Its ntleuttoa to the solution of some of our domesiic prob loins which are woefully bel.ind (he progress for instance ol liuiiuif 'actur-ing. 'actur-ing. "These are not altogether 'aken In lilt iil by the Interstate commerce commission, com-mission, which deals almost wholly with railway rales," says the report. "It is suggested In some quarters that the olllce of markets in the deiartmeiit of agriculture and the bureau of for eign domestic commerce in the depart meiiL of commerce might do well to co-opernte and in tackling sone of the more vital questions Involved ! the loss of great crops for want of distribution distri-bution facilities and the arrest of supply sup-ply lu foodstuffs. "This latter condition tat bseome so acute that the department of justice jus-tice wits lliuilly obliged to take up the subject ami Investigate it as the result of popular demand, lb-re is field lu which three department! of the government gov-ernment have each a hand and none of them as vel has worked on! am thing that is suiiicien'iy Mttsfactarj to -hii it u solution, ttiir Internal coawsssret Is worth tiiaiiy limes our foreign trade In any given year." |