New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-11
A BOOM FOR sHIPBU1LDERs
CONFIDENCE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTy,
MANY CONTRACTS AWARDED BY STEAMSHIP
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FLAGS AND
AMERICAN BOTTOMS.

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AMERICAN BOTTOMS
The election Of General Harrison has restored con-
sdence N the American steamship companies and has
Given an ,omediato impetus to the shipbuiIding In
dpstrv IN iris country. Tho New-York and Cuba
Mail steamship Company made contracts In De-
cerber at Roachs for two steel steamships for their
Cuban and Mexican trade and crowded by previous
recent contracts that firm that the vessels cannot
be completed before the end Of this year. Henry T.
Booth member of the firm Of J. Z. Ward q Co.,
NO. 1i3 wallst, the agents of the company, sad 10
Tribune reporter;
enthusiastically the new energy infused INFO
American shpbudlng is 20 DO attributed largely 70
the return OF the Republican party to power We
certainly waited the result OF the election oeioo
deciding to add these two ships TO our hec' aha
II Mr. Cleveland had been reelected, Scarcely ''nA
We should have had them built What we ics'ou i
from second Administration Of PRESIDENT clc'e'''u
was free ships. Under such policy not oniy "oup"
there have been tho purchase OF vessels In ioresh
countries, but thcro would have been also bogus
transferable American flag bottoms not merely
bniIt but owned by foreigners The election OF oeh
eral Harrison has dspelled these apprehension anu
has encouraged to do what We have long ues'ru'
hut could find no Justification for doing under ule
Democratic Administration: G., augment our navy
| NEW LEASE OF LIFE FOR sHIP-owNEHs
The New-York and Texas Steamship Company enc
Mallory IIne closed contract at Roachs week e"&
Tier than the New-York aud Cuba Mail Steamship
| Company and VIII place new steamer on tneir hne
| next spring. John Mallory Of the firm, was OUT.
spoken. "we were very glad" he said, very san
that General Harrison elected, and We did al "o
! could 10 bring about that result We might nave
had ts steamer constructed II he had been Defeated
but we should not have done with half the Wiling
| ness and sense Of security that We now feeL"
The Req ID" line of steamships Will receive snroo
| tba
these were contracted for lat Cramps) since the cleo
| ton OF General Harrison. Ernest c. Bliss, memoer
| OF the firm of BoultoD Bliss & Dallett No III wall
st., the company owning Che line said to The Tribune
| reporter:
| "An impression has undoubtedly gone ABROAD
that the present Administration is hostile 10 inc
interests OF American shipping. And tho impression
is no less than the absolute truth. That hosail'y
has been unmista kAbly displayed by large numocr
| NJ Representatives on the Democratic side OF inc
| House, by Speaker Carlisle, by Villas, when ne was
Postnas General and by his successor, Dchnsoh'
| BY the two latter especially, the representative
of American shipping interests have been msrep'o-
sented and traduood In the most shameless nannea
and IN short It has been considered by this ADMINS
tratlon that II man IS connected with an American
| line Of steamships he is necessarily either 1901
| or a knave So conscious aud deliberate was the
| Democratic antagonlsm TO American snipphs '"a'
| foreign steamship companies were asked 10 con-
| tribute to the Cleveland campaign fund, while nc
such request was mado to native companies Inc
enmity was palpable again in tho Democratic push
ing sor free ships With the incoming OF President
| elect Harrison spreads abroad far different I'M
| nr.ssion from, that which the Democratic rule has
| created. an impression that We shall hear no more
OF FREQ ships, and that the maritime interests OF
the United states will be regarded with riendlness
| and not with animosty.'
ONLY WAITING FOR BIDDERS
| The United statos and Brazil Mall Steamship Com
pany also takes part this general upouidng Oh tne
! American merchant Marine and VIII put two new
steel steamers into commission soon as the contracts
have been awarded I'm this country and tho Vessei'
| can be completed. The designs have been mahe ano
the specifications furnished to bidders by Captain d
| NJ Lachlsn, manager Of tho company 10 INK
Tribune reporter Captain Lachian declared with EN-
phass that It was the election OF the Republican can
ddates IN the National contest which had induced the
oompany 20 build these vessels and he unhestanngS
aScrfbcd the sudden revival Of shipbuildng at the
principal shipyards to tho same cause win UNI
,natin9 bitterness he denounced the treatment wnon
| his company, In common with others, ana nimsen
personally had received at the hands OF secretary
Villas Postmaster General Dickinson, and superinteno
| ent Of the Foreign Mail Service Nicholas NJ Ben.
G. p. Huntington paused busy afternoon al
his Office In the Mills Building TO zee The tribune
reporter and say that the Democrats might possibly
have seen the error OF their way II their official lie
had been sufficiently prolonged and might have mod
fled the harshness Of their policy toward American
steamship companies and American snip
ming interests in general. Butt SAID
he they sgnaly failed to see the error OF their way
during the lease OF life and power that has been
vouehsafed them, and We happily spared tho un-
easnes Of awaiting the uncertain contingency OF thei
enlightenment The steamship companies are at once
restored 10 confidence by the election Of General Har
rson.s Mt Huntington also spoke IN favor OF y =
ZOO 200 per annum subsidy By the Governments "
fhe steamship lines carrying the mails.
Tho Pacific Mail steamship Company has also seel
reason for enMrglng their fleet, and ~ septemori
will place on their line between San Francisco enu
Hong Kong a steel screw steamship or oVVo tons
burden This vessel, however, contracted TOT las
fall Is being built at Govsn, near GLASGOW &
Morgan's Line, of which Q. r. Huntington rs VICE
nresldent Is likewise TO DO strengthened py Vhe a1
6ition Of new iron steamer, which Is now building
| M The wards OF William Cramp q SON. . c,,,
Harlan & HOllngswOrth are constructing az WI
uington DEL a large and fast passenger steamer iO
, | tho New York and Long Branch Railroad Company
sbe will be called the sandy Hook and WIZ Ply %
tween the pier at the foot of Rectors ana the SANDY
The Conn ectcuk rival Of the Pilgrim In size ans
maTnlhoence has just been completed Tor me Proyl
asneo aud stonngton Steamship Company, and VIII d
placed ON the Sound
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