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Show uu SAILORS ARE BEING PAID BIGGER; $60 NEW YORK, Jan. 25. Sailors and firemen, who before the war were paid $30 a month, now are receiving $60 a month with a bonus of $30 for hazardous trips through submarine infested Vators, according to the report re-port of tho seamen's church institute of this city, made public last nighL Tho institute, during 1917, received $533,459 trom seamen for safe keep- Less monoy goes for boor and whiskey whis-key the report stales, for the seamen "arc taking to soda water and other soft drinks." There woro 276.124 sales over the institute's soda water counter in 1917. |