New York, Jan. 8.
(By mail).
For the purpose of creating nationwide interest in the development of the American merchant marine, a series of demonstrations showing the marine resources of the country, will begin here on April 12, and last one week, it was announced to-day by the National Marine League.
According to P. H. W. Ross, President of the League, the demonstrations will consist of parades, dinners, at which prominent marin authorities will be speakers; positions of ship models and hibits of cargo handling and shipping devices. John Barton Payne, Chairman of the United States Shipping Board; Secretary of Commerce J. W. Alexander, and other men prominent in America's commercial development will be in attendance. While centring in Now York, the demonstration will added. be nation wide in scope, it was
The League, according to its officers, now has more than 9,000 members including not only prominent steamship men, but executive heads of many of the largest manufacturing, banking and general business firms in every state of the union.—Reuter.
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