Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-01
WILLIAM CRAMP.

abroad as we'll as ill America as that of one of tho best shipbuilders i'll the world. For +i2 years he continued ill the business there, finally removing to the present location ill 1872. Though Will liam Crump passed forever from the scene of his laburs ill 1879, his name is still q vital one, for the great establish mrnt that fronts the Delaware river, in the KrnSinStun district, and from which SD many of Uncle Sam $ new warshlps, and later the twin American liners St. Louis and St. Paul, besides hundreds of other commercial craft, have been turn cd out, still bears his name, and today the William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building company is of as high rcputc among modern vessel construct ors as was the founder of the enterprise ill his generation.
 There is just now, and naturally, a great deal of talk about tho two liners built for the service of the company that owns the speedy Paris and Now York, the only line of any consequence by the way, whose ships carry the flag of Uncle Sam right into the harbors of John Bull, his old time sea rival and present ma rinc leader. But, admirable ill design and construction and complete ill appoint mrntS as these ships doubtless are, it should not be forgotten tlnt they are by no means tho greatest constructive trl- umpllS of the Cramp yards, It is from this great establishment that some of the most notable American mCn-Ofwar havc been put overheard, including the cruisers Baltimore, Philadelphia, New ark, New York, Columbia and NIinne apuliS, while the hattlcShips Indiana, Massachusetts and Iowa and the armOr- cd cruiser Brooklyn arc now undergo ing construction there. Besides fully twoScOrr merchant COaSting and South American ships have been built at Cramps, ill addition to many steam yachts, and i'll the days when American clipper ships led the world the Cramps built not a few of those fleet winged vessels. During the civil war, too, Cramps wards turned out a number of fighting boats. then quite up to the times, and i'll 1S19-S0 rebuilt four War ships for the Russian government, ill recognition whereof Mir Charles Cramp, son of William and present head of the wards, W,lS humorrd by tho czar with the tl,c ration known as the Civic Or der of St. Ann, bestowed only upon per- sons who ill some signal manner have served the Russian state. Besides it was at Cramps that tho first steam tug and the first triple expansion engine ever constructed ill America were built, and these, ill their time, Wcro achievements that drew the attention of scientific men and men of affairs generally.
 In all 200 vessels and moro have been built at Cramps during the 6 1s decades since William Cramp began so modest | ly, and all but SS of these craft have been steam vessels Today these yards arc the best known on this side of the water, their ships arc the ticctest ever built here, and their capacity, so far as size of vessels goes, is as great as that of any yards in the world These yards, then, arc d proper establishment for Americans to be proud of ill these days of the low cbb of American shipbuild- | ing interests
 When the first keel Was laid ill 1850 | by William CTamp, there were 12 other shipbuilding establishments along the Philadelphia river front, his making the
 thirteenth. Today thero are but two Oth-
 CT similar establishments ill Philadcl | Thi;l. and though they turn out excellent
 work they arc not to bC compared il