CHAPTER X 



ADMINISTRATION 



ADMINISTRATION is used here for want of a 

 better general term to cover every form of 

 management that is done ashore, as well as 

 every form of what might be called, by analogy 

 with fleets and armies, non-combatant work 

 afloat. It falls into two natural divisions : the 

 first includes all private management, the 

 second all that concerns the government. 

 Here, even more than in the other chapters, 

 we are face to face with such complex and 

 enormous interests that we can only take the 

 merest glance at what those interests prin- 

 cipally are. 



The privately managed interests have both 

 their business and their philanthropic sides. 

 Let us take the philanthropic first. Seamen's 

 Institutes have grown from very small be- 

 ginnings, and are now to be found in every port 

 where English-speaking seamen congregate. 

 They began when, as the saying was, the sailor 



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