The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-04-21

very life blood Of their nation TO keep
US from arising in new strength and
paying back our debts with heavy in
terest. Look at the experience of Ger
many. See what the war with France
has cost her. 1t would have saved her
the enormous expense of her great
army if she had let France keep Al
sace-Lorraine, and had not had to
keep on the watch against France.
What we need is confidence. We
haven't got enough of it as a Nation.
I'VE can do anything if we try. I know,
for have personally tried the expert
ment of keeping ahead, and I have
managed to keep the Sewall flag flying
after over seventy years, and I think,
as a Nation, we can do the same thing.
It was because Of my devotion TO and
faith in America that l always gave
preference to an American workman,
and today over 80 per cent. Of my
workmen are American citizens
Arthur Sewall the present head Of
the Sewall shipping house and ship
yard, is a man of about fifty, with
strong, massive face, penetrating blue
eyes, large, stalwart figure, most
strongly built, a firm friend, an uncOm-
promising enemy, with all the courage
of his convictions and a confidence
and determination that make him in
tolerant of the failure of others. He is
a Well-knoWn man for other reasons
than his connection with the old house.
He is prominent in railroad circles as
we'll as in politics, having been presi-
dent of the Maine Central and other
important roads, and now being di-
rector in many. He is a bank preSi-
dent. a director and heavy owner in
the Bath Iron Works and the New
England Shipyard, and is one of the
principal man in the famed Maine ship
ping city.
Forty or fifty years ago the Kenne
bee. from Augusta at the head OF ma
vigation. to Phippsburg, fifty miles be-
Cow. was one continuous shipyard, with
countless firms engaged in the bust
ness. Of all these firms but one re-
mains. the SeWalls, for, although there
are vet many yards in Bath, they are
all in different hands. This fact is
due to two causes. First, with few ex-
ceDtions the Sewalls have built for
themselves, breaking this rule only TO
Ioblige close friends; and second, from
THE DAYS of the first chubby little d.
ana. built in 1923, to the great steel
shin now building. this house has LED
| the country in designs for merchant
vessels. Beginning under William u
| Snwall in 1928, this house has been
continued. and today has built and
| owned the largest sailing merchant
r,on aAoat under our flag William ID.
ICoUaI1 was succeeded by his sons I'M
dor rho name of E. & A. SeWall, which
firm has since become legally Arthur
! SavaU & Co., with Mr.. Sewall at It's
head and with the nephew, Samuel ,.
ISAwaIl. and his son, William ID. SeWaII'
Iassociated with him. These men, Har-
Old M SewaIl, Mr.. Sewan's youngest
son and the present United states MIL
is+nr TO Hawaii, the superintendent OF
tho ward. and Arthur Sewall's sister,
| occunv houses in the "Sewall colony,
lust above the Sewall yards.
The SewaIIs are of an old and illus
+rfous family on both sides OF the wa
fer The first American Sewall came
here in 1854, and was born IN CoNeh-
trv ENGLAND. in 1914. so he was
Ivoung man to go into the great wilder
Ineee which New-England was at tna'
Irnriod His sons were Samuel, JOnn
lS+enben and Nicholas. Samuel was the
brave old Judge Of witchcraft fame
iJobn was the direct ancestor OF tht
ISewalls in Maine. Drummer oeWd-L
the grandfather Of the first snip OulIIeI
came to Bath from York, when wa;
also in the district Of Maine IN 10 o.
and purchased the tract OF ANU %
which even now stand the sew,
wards. the houses in the 'oe"dIl COZ
ony'' and the old original hoLlleSIe .Sl
which has baen religiOusly preserves
even unto the present day. -.
In William d. SewalIs time TIE 1''ilii