| Show NGEL WILL NOT MU THE RULES WILL ENFORCE STRINGENT REGU I 1 LATIONS ADOPTED AS RESULT OF THE TI TITANIC refuses to permit steamers except it in southern waters to travel after september 15 without I 1 an dRafts washington secretary nagel af 6 the department di commerce and li labor abor on wednesday practically killed the plan to modify mhd he stringent steamboat regulations adopted by the departs depart ment of commerce and labor shortly after the titanic disaster ile he refused to permit toast coastwise wise sida steamers merr and lake bay sound and river steam ors era except in southern waters to travel after september 15 without life boats and rafts sufficient to protect all passengers and crew mr nagel granted permission for lake bay gulf and river steamers to tc ply ly in sod southern thern waters with 11 and rafts en enough ough to accommodate at one time 60 per cent of ts and crew the line at which this mod I 1 will apply was fixed at the th thirty third degree of latitude about the 16 location cation of charleston a C danger below that latitude mr nagel says is not so great fruat as it would be farther north and he does not desire to work wor kany any great hards lill ship owners where protection Is our fl fi clent |
