The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-24
SCOTCH SHIP

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The Industry Along the 1ivor clyds.
from the Philadelphia Press.
Scotch thrift and canniness are pro.
verbal, but in no respect are they SO
marked as in the building navigation
and management of steamships. With
mastery ability, indomintable pluck
and consumate skill have the men Of the
Clyde pushed this enterprise. So uni.
formly and so long has this been true
that history Of steamship building has
largely become the history OF Scotland.
chef city, Glasgow. Its population
and that of it's immediate suburbs. up
proximates to. 100000, and it is essen.
TALLY the manufacturing, and comme
cial center of the entire North Coun
trie."
In 1916 that portion of the CLYDE
which ct present constitutes the harbor
OF Glasgow, swarming with ships great
and small, hailing from or bound to
every part of christendom, and resound-
ing with the near or far din of mammoth
s%hip-yards, could be forded at low wa
ter by the inevitable small boy anG
yielded an annual revenue of about $780,.
900. A public spirited local govern
ment has dredged out this marrow
stream until it will float craft of the
mammoth proportions of the imperial
steamship City of Rome, and has lined
it on either bank with quays and docks
and capacious basins that rival compar-
lson and excite the profoundest wonder
and admiration. And the work is Ikea
housewife's-'n never ended A multi
tude of dredges are constantly doing it
over and over again.
On the north bank Of the CLYDE are
the Victoria docks, o huge artificial
basin formed by years Of patient toll
and the expenditure Of 81, 500, 900,
Into this basin ships are locked for the
discharge and receipt of cargo. On.
the opposite side of the river another
basin is being scooped ont at o prob
ably additional cost of IS, 0DO, 900 or
100000 Works of this nature are
prosecuted under the supervision of
municipal board of 25 persons called
the Clyde navigation. Ten Of them
are elected by the town council two by
the chamber of commerce, two BY the
merchants house. two by tho trades
house and zine by the ship owners and
rate payers. The necessary funds are
raised by a tax Of two pence on the
tonnage of ships arriving at and clear
ing from the port. The largest con-
ceiyable liberality is shown toward ship
ping interests both by the municipal and
general government.
Despite the hustle and uproar Of the
streets, the black smoke of innumerable
tall %chimLeys, the clank of machinery
and the stirring life of the docks, it is
clear that the "times. are dull, desper-
ntely dull, at Glasgow Worse, said
q prominent bank official, athan IsAaye,
ever before known them to be, andI
don't see when and how they are to
mend" And" said q prominent ship
builder s'the change appeared to come
as it weres Instantly. There was asud-
den shutting down, and that is about MI
one can say SO far as the surface indi-s
cations went. Ofcourse. there are good
reasons for the existing state Of things,
and they are not far to seek. General
ly speaking, trade is slow, freigllts are
away down, and too many ships have
been built OF late. The thing Is over
done. VIZ must be patient, let The sit
nation mend in q natural way and prof
it by our adversely
Perhaps in no other quarter Of the
globe a steamship building be aeer. iii
such perfection as on the Clyde. In
1850, 81 years ago, the first Inman
steamship, the Cityo Glasgow, steamed
out of Liverpool for P~hiladelphia. She
was built at Tod s. McGregor's yards,
at the confluence Of the rivers Kelvin
and CLYDE. where. the fact al old C1lIn.