The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-12-21
NAMES SHIPS.
REVIEW OF THE SHlPBUlLDlNG IN
DUSTRY FOR THE PAST YEAR.

Prospect for Increased Business the Coming
Year Encouraging - Tonnage 1f Each
Built in the Several Customs Districts.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Dec 19.-Following Is a
review of shpbuilding operations in the state
for the past year, showing the number of
vessels and tonnage of each vessel in the sew
eral customs districts:
Bath district-At Phippsburg, / schooner
s470 At Bath, II schooners, tonnage each,
AS. r. 1904, 93S.34, 623.59, 1878, lOs3S &c.
9O5. .4S. 92.19, 9213, 3S513, 2L95, 392.33
1850, 1865, 7s928, 5000, 1016.yl. Total
schooner tonnage, S224.75. Five steamers
1887, 3O.14. 1851, SS204, 24432. Total
steamer tonnage, $3.50. One bark, 655. 80.
Thus the total number of vessels built III the
Bath district is "a, the total net tonnage be-
ing 1O,O35,S3. Nine of these were built by
the New England Shipbuilding company.
This same company has recently contracted
to construct two schooners, and has the
frame of the new steamer of the Kennebec
and Boston Steamboat company In It's yards.
The company owns seven thirty y-seconds OF
the steamer Haytien Republic. The amount
of building in this district is about the aver
age and the outlook for next years operations
is good
Wiscasset and Boothbay district-Three
schooners, tonnage each, 2O.73, ll9.2', l4o.oo'
one sloop, O. 81; total tonnage, 296.55 Inc IN
dications are that during the coming year
quite large number Of vessels, as compared
with prior years, will be built.
Machias- Milbridge district-Two schooners,
tonnage each, 253 10, S.33; Cherrytield, one
schooner, 9S 95: Columbia Falls, one schooner,
SG.57: ,Tonesport, one schooner, $50; Cutter
one sloop, 90 80; total tonnage in the district
1917. There will be more vessels built III
the district next year than for several
years.
Kennebunk- Kittery district-One steamer,
tonnage, 2O5O; Kennebunk, one steamer,
IL. 4e: one fishing schooner, 1896; total ton.
naee. 1872. Three vessels are i'll process OF
construction now.
Frenchman's Bay district-One sloop 2O65
This compares unfavorably with former
wears and the prospect for future shipbuild-
siA9 In the district Is not proniAng. /
Waldoboro-T -Thomaston district - Three
schooners. tonnage, 526.50, 943.99. 595,O9,
Waldoboro, one five-masted schooner Cover
nor Ames, 1889 "a; Rockland, one schooner,
1924: Damriscotta, one schooner, lo4. lo;
Bristol one schooner, 21.24; total tonnage In
the district, 1866 &c. There has been an IN
crease OF some 600 tons over 1871 Greater
inclination to build in this district than for
two or thres years past is noticeable. Ihere
will be three or four large schooners built In
Tbomastcn in 1889.
Portland -Harpswell district-One schooner,
$3.50 tons; Portland, one sloop, 15.2; East
D..rirg. one steamer, 1865 40; total tonnage,
1s9 49, These figures, as compared with
those of other years, show large decrease In
the shipbuilding Industries. The prospect for
an incrsass in this line the coming year is OF
an encouraging character.
Belfast district schooner, not yet
n,s.surod, hut which will register about 50o
tons. has h~en built in this district at Rock
port. Preparations are being made to build
ouite number of schooners during the
coming year.
Bangor Brewer district-Two steamers.
tonnage, 2S6 SO and -.S5; total tonnage.
294.e7. In the customs districts OF York,
Saco, Castine and Eastport no vessels were
built during the year, and there Is no pros
pects for any building in the future.
A summing up gives the following totals OF
vessels built during the year: One bark,
tonnage 665. 30; thirty-six schooners, tonnage
1902 O6; ten steamers, tonnage lS49.ol; four
sloops, tonnage 68. O6: total number OF vessels
built, 81; total tonnage 16, 1923
Arrest Of Horse Thief
BosroN Dec. 19.-Inspectors Howard and
Robinson yesterday arrested Charles F.
Clark, who is charged with stealing horse,
harness and buggy, valued at $S75 the prop
erty of Otis B. Gilpatrick, at Portland, Me-,
Nov. 16 last The prisoner was delivered to
Marshal Hawkes. of this city. who started
home with him last evening. At the request
of the Portland police somo pretty active