The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-08-19
REVIVAL IN SHIP BUILDING
End of War WIN Be Followed by Grsa
Activity in This Line.

Activity in This Line.
The close of the war will mark the
greatest revival in the ship-buildine
industry that this country has ever
known. This prediction is based OF
the reports of orders already placed
and in contemplation for new vessels
to take the places of those bought by
the Government.
From Philadelphia comes the report
that the impressment by the Govern.
ment of so many vessels of the mer-
chant marine has crowded the ship
yards there with orders enough to keer
them busy for months to come. Among
these orders are the following; From
the New York and Cuba Mail Steam
ship Company for a steel twin-screW
steamship, $50 feet long, 80 feet beam
and 80 feet deep, to be built by William
Cramp & Son; from the American Mail
Steamship Company, for four steel
screw steamships, each $50 feet long
So feet beam, and % feet deep, to be
built by William Cramp & Son. Al
the Delaware River Shipbuilding
Works, at Chester, Penn, two steel
steamers, 260 feet long, so feet beam
and 30 feet depth, are being built to
take the place of the ships of the Old
Dominion Line sold to the navy foI
auxiliary cruisers. These ships are tc
be known as the Hamilton and Jeffer-
son.
The Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Company of Baltimore is
having new steel ship constructed at
the works of Harlan & Hollingsworth,
at Wilmington, Del. 1t will be 274
feet long, AZ feet beam, and 26 feet
deep. Richard Stevens Of Hoboken,
who sold the yacht Aileen to the Gov
eminent, has placed an order with
Roaeh's yards at Chester, Penn, for a
new yacht. P A B. Widener, whose
yacht Josephine is now the auxiliary
gunboat Vixen, expects to have a new
yacht built for him by the Harlan &
Hollingsworth Company. The new
craft will be ESQ feet long.
At Newport News three new Morgan
liners, two new Cromwell liners, and
two new Pacific Mail steamships are on
the ways.
Maine shipbuilders report that the
business promises better there than for
many years previous. 1t is expected
that the results of the war will bring
about boom in the trade with the
West Indies which will produce de-
mand for ships of medium size, of
which the Maine yards make a special
! ty.
An experienced official of the Navy
Department, speaking of the effect of
the release by the Government of the
merchant ships it has been using DUR
ing the war, said:
THE Navy Department will, of
course, proceed to dispose of these aux
iliary vessels as fast as possible after
the war is actually over. This will
put in the market large number of
vessels, considerably more than hun
dred, which will necessarily be sold at
bargain prices. The former owners of
these vessels in many cases already
will have replaced them or arranged
to do so. The result will be that the
ships will be bought up by people who
see in the low price at which they can
be purchased chance to use them in
the newly opened channels of trade in
the West Indies and eoastwise trade az
soon as peace is declared. The aux
Hilary boats will be quito doing second
class work while new ships. the orders
already placed, will be put on the more
important lines.