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Annual Report of the Lake Carriers' Association, 1909
P. N. Bland Ptg. Co., Detroit, MI., 1910

  [p. 100]
  
                           WIRELESS TELEGRAPH
                 
           The great progress now being made in wireless tele-
        graph and the results obtained therefrom would seem to
        demonstrate beyond a doubt its great value in navigation
        and particularly so in connection with life saving, and we
        recommend that a resolution be adopted at this meeting
        requesting the Treasury Department to take such steps as
        may be necessary to equip the principal life saving stations
        on the lakes with the wireless telegraph apparatus.
           In case of storm and disaster and the saving of life and
        property its benefits could hardl be overestimated, and
        as a life-saving factor, which is the greatest of all consid-
        erations, would many times increase the value of the Life
        Saving Service.
        
        
                              LOSS OF LIFE
                              
           The death toll of the Great Lakes for the season of
        1909 totals 121.  Lake Erie leads all the other lakes
        with 75 as toll.  The losses were as follows: Lake Erie,
        75; Lake Superior, 40; Lake Michigan, 6.
           The curious feature is that while Lake Erie has 75,
        Lake Superior 40, and Lake Michigan 6, Lake Huron
        has no fatalities.  Usually this lake bears her full share
        of this unwelcome burden.
           As the Seamen's Union are continually making claims
        that the large loss of life is due to inexperienced seamen,
        it may not be amiss in this connection to state that of the
        75 lives lost on Lake Erie, 58 were lost from vessels not
        belonging to the Association and 17 were from Lake
        Carriers' vessels; of the 40 on Lake Superior, 26 were
        from vessels outside of the Association and 14 from As-
        sociation vessels; and on Lake Michigan all were lost
        from non-Association vessels. In other words, of the
        121 lives lost, 90 were from non-Association boats
        and 31 from Association boats.
        
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