Show SAFETY ON THE WATER the department at efficient work neaily people carried en american steamers ste aaers during the last fiscal year and livee lost of whom but 96 acro is the prominent feature of ho new annual report of supervising inspector general dumont of eleam vessel inspection servie this Is a smaller mortality among the same number of people we have no doubt than if hey bad all staid at homo and went regularly to bed to say nothing of traveling by rail it again what we often remarked that travel by american steamers under the system of inspection now enforced is the safest that could possibly be devised thirty dye of the 06 passengers above referred to lost their lives in one disaster the sinking of tho tugboat james D nicol off sandy hook ou a sunday in juno last and general finont states that this solely duo to the fact that tho ang was being navigated by a person wholly ineice rienold rien oed it is further stated in the report that of tho nearly boilers inspected accidents causing the loss of life have occurred to but 15 of them defects in upward of being detected and remedied also that of now life pro servers examined only 64 were found deficient this statement shows that AS great caro is taken in the inspection of equipments to prevent disaster as in tho machinery employed to run them and tho men who man them in regard to the latter less aban 38 applicants for masters and pilots licenses rejected during tho year on account of colorblindness color blindness although passed the tests all of which gaoa to show traveling public and tho steam vessel fraternity aa well havo every reason to raposo confidence in alio inspection system aa at present managed marine journal |