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NOON EDITldN " - NQQN EDITION "THIS GOVERNMENT SHOULD BACK UP AND START OVER AGAIN ON PANAMA TOLLS" ' SAYS HERBERT QUICK. J THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper, N.D. Cochran, agjga&v ' Tel. Monroe 353. : Editor and Publisher. C Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St 398 By Mail, 50 Cents a Month. VOL. 3,, NO. 36 Chicago, Saturday, Nov. 8; 1913 ONE CENT ASSENGER LINERS TOY WITH LIVE OF PLEASURE SEEKERS ON BOARD Freighters Required to Cariy Lifeboats for All on Board, While passenger Boats, Are Not-Kind Fate Has Prevented Afore Slocum-and Titanic Disasters k Yet Ship Owners. Fight Seamen's Bill, Sen. LaPollette's seamen's bill has'served to" bring forcibly tomind the Imminent danger fo lalce -boat passengers under the -present laws. It has only been a kirid fate that has saved passengers on the Great Lakes, boats from beings victims of a tragedy of thje, magnitude ofthe Gen. Sloc'um dis aster and, proportionately, ofthe Titanic. I?or bright -now, tinder the present law, freight vessels arerequired to carry sufficient life boats to accommodate every oneon board, while pas senger vessels are permitted to operate without lifeboats for all. Chicago is the most Important excursion boat cltyJn the United States ontsideif New York- t-T-he- Day Bookj yesterday,, printed a list of disasters and near-disaste'rs in which Great Lakessteamerehave figured. There are many, others." (- - , ' r TToltosving are names' of 'a number of steamers lost "with all hands on the Great Lakes since' 1301; each foundered during'' bad weather, all on board, being los - " ' f ' Baltimore, Lake Huponj-HudsontakQi SuperioPf Bannockburn, Lake - ji