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Show GERMANY'S SAILING SHIPS. Navy Bald to Ba tn Need of More Sailors and May Pay Large Subsidies. Consul Piicnlrn, writing from Hamburg Ham-burg on the suggested subsidy for tho Hormnn sailing fleet, quotes a recent re-cent report by tho Commercial association asso-ciation of Oldenburg. Ho says 'In part. Steamships nowadays tako hold of cargoes formerly reserved .for sailing ships, such ns nitrates, logwood, pltchplne and grain from California and Australia. This Is due to the keen competition, making It often Impossible Im-possible for sailing vessels to cover expenses. German steaniBhlps and sailing crnft were equal In tonnsgo In 181)9; since which tlmo tho former fleet has Increased 138 per cent., while the latter lat-ter has1 decreased 38 per cent. Brigs have almost disappeared, barks and threo-masted schooners hnvo do-creased, do-creased, while largo four-masted and full-rigged ships have mnlntalncd their position. Tho Ocrman govcrnrr -nt has become be-come actively Interested In tho reviving re-viving of tho empire's ship sailing trnde, becauso of the rapid develop-mont develop-mont of their navy and tho grent need of seamen. Sntllng vessels aro tho only practical schools for deckhands. Tho government bIbo desires to pro-servo pro-servo and promoto tho small shipbuilding ship-building ynrda, which nre declining. It Is proposed "to make un appropriation appro-priation In Germany of 3..7 cents per day nnd capita for training men on small sailing vessels. For 2,335 men this would require only $250,080 for a lO-months' service, nnd would re-llovo re-llovo many n poor sklpp r, payments being $107 to $214 per small vessel. An extension to tho larger sailing craft would require $1,007,240 per annum, an-num, Incense the fleet of German sailing vessels, which would bo manned man-ned moro by German seamen, nnd afford af-ford annually 2,000 young men entrance en-trance to tho mariner's career. |