Chairman. of doing away with compulsory pilotage has been tried before. It was tried in New York fifty or more years ago. and while the experiment was being made one of the most disastrous wrecks ever recorded in the history of navigation occurred within the pilot grounds off the Jersey coast. A vessel bound for New York Harbor. loaded with immigrants. approached Sandy Hook. A pilot on the outside tendered his services. which were refused by its captain. and the wreck of his vessel. togetheP with the loss of hundred of lives. was the result of his rashness and cupidity. This disaster so shocked the public conscience that the legislature of New York at once restored compulsory pilotage. to remove the same on coastwise shipping some years afterwards. as did all the coastwise States north of the Potomac. and as North Carolina has done within the last year and a half at the port of Wilmington.
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