The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-20

the Clyde, nor the Mersey can show any
thing equal to the ship-building yard Of
Harland G. Wolff, of Belfast For four sue
cessive years this firm held the highest
place In the world as regards the amount
OF tonnage launched. Only forty years
ago the factory was so small that Its
total OF employees amounted TO less than
100 men. At present It employs 5000 which
probably means that It is the life and sup
port OF some 10000 men, women and chill
dren-the population Of q good-sized town.
The works cover eighty acres, and includes
such a host of carpenters and joiners'
shops, painters shops, cabinet-makers'
shops, upholsterers' shops, bodybuilding
sheds, drying kilns, engine works, etc.,
that the visitor thinks he 10 in a large
manufacturing town rather than In q sim
gle factory.
All the ships Of the White Star line we're
built here. including the famous Teutonio
and Majestic. The largest vessel for COM
mercial purposes afioat was completed at
Belfast last year. She is now engaged In
the cattle trade and carries the enormous
burden of 1910 tons. Several gunboats and
torpedo boats have also been built by
Messrs. Harland g. Wolff for the navy,
and cruisers and battleships have been en-
glned by them. And we do not hear OF
that accident so common In the English
fleet, the breakdown OF machinery ever
their machinery from Belfast.
Nothing In the nature Of 'shoddy' ever
comes from Ireland In fact that is why
the Canadian, In his Irish frieze coat and
Donegal stockings, dehes winter; why
"Balbriggan" hosea dozen pairs OF which
would wear as long as the queens reign
are initiated by not only English, but Ger.
man manufacturers; why Irish tweeds
find their way all over the continent, and
why Irish stout has a foreign export
greater than the total export from Eng
land. Scotland and Wales.
Another industry In which ireland excels
is linen-making. A London outhtter told
linen shirt, collar and handker-
chief in the London shops comes
from the north of ireland.
France has a reputation of turning out q
finer quality than Belfast, but the best
French" goods are really Irish. and that
amusing story Is true OF the Belfast man
ufacturers wife, who brought home some
beautiful handkerchiefs from Parts and
asked her husband why he could not mako
goods like them. On examination he
found they were part OF lot he had re-
Gently exported. The annual produce OF
linen must be worth little short Of f15,0OO,-
600, and the size OF the factories may be
known from the fact that two Of the chief
Belfast concerns employ 900 hands be-
tween them.
Paraphraslng the saying that whatever
II is best" we may truly say that what
ever IL Irish Is good It's Limerick and
Waterford bacon has one rival, Wiltshire.
and the quantities Of the Irish article con-
sumed IN England are the best proof Of
how Il Is appreciated Unfortunately.
some Irish provision merchants are, inten-
tionally or otherwise, leagued together TO
defame Irish produce. and they sell the
best Irish bacon under the name OF Wilt
shire, just as they sell thousands OF tons
Of the choicest Irish butter as Dorset and
Spanish.
one last product let me mention. You
may 20 to Carrara for marble, but n you
want the most beautiful green serpentine
IN the world you will find Il IN Galway. II
you want black marble that cannot DO
equaled, you can get II from the shores
OF Tough Corrlb, ana nowhere viii you
ind anything 10 beat the beautiful red
marble OF Donegal, the bue-and-yeiiow
marbles OF Armagh, the purple and-whito
Of Cork, and the varlegated marble found
in Kerry, near Tralee. IL IL admitted
that the most beautiful stones IN the al
bert Memorial" IN Hyde Park. are tho
four specimens OF Irish granite. while the
Thames ombankment Is a perpetual illus
tratlon Of the excellence OF Oakley gran
ite.