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Unusual arrangements for scenery, details of which have just been made public, have been made this year. The introduction of gorgeous displays of color has been attempted especially in the ship scene, where the bridge will be designed, in black and gold; a huge peacock, in splendid colors, is perched on the balustrade of the bridge. All the scenery will be constructed under the personal supervision of Eugene Frost and Edward S. Ely, two of the country's most famous designers, and recently put in charge of the work on the scenery of the new Hippodrome in the Boston Arena...
...practices that prevailed in the Philippines before these reforms were inaugurated were so suicidal that it was only a wonder that the ships lasted as long as they did. There were no fixed schedules. When news got about that some port had a lot of freight several ships would race for it. And if any ship looked in at a harbor where some unfortunate producer had perishable freight at the water front, some rascally officer might decline to take it, alleging lack of space, and then purchase the goods at bargain prices when the frantic owner tried to realize something...
Subsidies were given only on condition that all these faults were to be done away with. Ships had to run on fixed schedules and made lower rates to the public than before. The service was maintained under government inspection, under fines and penalties for failure in any particular, these fines being deducted from the subsidy. And if any ship refused freight at any port the owner had to call this fact to the attention of the government inspector by cable, if necessary to the next port, and if the inspector found any unused space on the ship, the ship owners...
Although very reluctant to enter upon this new policy, once tried the ship owners were very enthusiastic. They found it paid to maintain regular schedules at lower rates, with good service. Coincidently with this the government put its own steamers on unprofitable routes, that is, routes on which there was not enough freight offering to tempt commercial liners to undertake them. The idea was that the existence of this service would create a business and encourage production. It had this effect and within a marvelously short time after these routes were established business became so good that commercial concerns would...
There is a well grounded, inherent objection to direct subsidy to ships. It has the appearance of voting government money from the people to the direct benefit of a select few, the ship owners, and as such it is subject to great criticism. The people of the interior of the country don't see the advantage to themselves and think that this money is not directly beneficial to their region. There is less objection to a mail contract. But these objections are not insuperable, and the main fact remains that some method should be discovered to remedy an unquestionably unfortunate...