Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1882 — SUPERVISING INSPECTOR DUMONT. [ARTICLE]

SUPERVISING INSPECTOR DUMONT.

His Report upon the Steamboat Inspection Service. Supervising Inspector General Dumont, in his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30 last, giv s the following statistics of the steamboat inspection service: Number of vessels insp- cte l, 5,*117; tonnage of same 1,298,564; officers licenced, 20,467, s owing an increase over the previous year in the number of vessels of 338, in tonnage of 74.561, and toe number of licensed officers, 2,669. The total receipts frcn ail sources during the y ar w re $279,889.80; total expenditure-, $227,615.63; receipts over expenditure, $52,27367. The total number of accidents to ste<m vessels during th • year, resulting in less of life were forty-one. L'ves lo«t from accidents to steam vess Is 205, of which but fifty-six we e lives of passengers. Total persons car led during the year, 354 - 070,447. Tnis n amber ivided by 2i5, the number of lives 1 st, shows -ope life 10-1 to eacn 1,727,172 per ons carried, a» ag dost one life lo t in eada 55,714 persons, carried in the fifty -on® years previous to theenactmenc of the first efficient steamboat? laWa in the year lass-named tber were 39,000,000 p ssenger carried, and 700 1 ves lost ' Don’t throw away your cheap Japanese fan<; remember that in a few years they will be more valuable, became in Japan, as elsewhere, purity of natural an is gradually being distorted‘hy acquired fashions and tastes.