Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-04
NOTES OF SHIPPING.

WI =
REFORMATION OF INrEREsrToM MARI
NEHs AND B - BUILDERS.
Bnitdtng Beats 10 Sheds. A New Enter
psi c. Line,o Mexico. Clyde
Record Broken.
The Clyde shipbuilding returns for
the half year just ending beat all pre-
vious records. They show that 125 yes
sells were launched, representing an ag-
gregatc tonnage of 234 ST.. No fresh
orders were placed this month but
there in six months work at full time
on hand.
The famous old sloop yacht Mischief,
which was built by the Harlan & iIol-
1ingsworth Company, in 1919 from de-
s signs by A. Cary Smith, and in 1881
was the Americas cup defender, hand
somely defeating the challenger Atal-
anita, was sold at auction here the other
day for s1,05o to f. c. Packard. of
New York. The Mischief has an iron
hull and is still lin fine condition.
A steamship sevice will be established
between Boston and Mexican ports the
middle of this month When a steamship
will leave Boston for. Tampico, Vera
Cruz and Progrsso, via Havana and
Matanzas, Cuba Tornightly sailing.
the announced, beginning about July
18th, by Boston, Havana and Mexican
lines. The company is headed by Ma
than De SzanGari Hijo. OF .I@.:.TTpico.
who have agents in all parts of Mexico
There is to be inaugurated soon new
monthly freight service between this
port and the River Plate, South Amer
lea, with ports Of calling at Montevideo
Buenos Ayres and Rosario Barber &
Co., Will be the agents in this city of the
new service for r. p. Houston & Co..
of London and Liverpool, who have
operated service between Liverpool
and the River Plate for years. Six
steamships are nearing completion for
the new Sirvice. They will be twelve
knot vessels, each With an.average car
rying capicity Of 5000 tors. They Will
be called Hernes, .Honorus, Hostilius
Hylas, Hortensius and HyantheS. The
first sailing will take place about the
middle of August.
In 1910 the foreign mail from England
for the United States, carried on the
Great Western. consisted OF two sacks
of mail. AS late as 1873 d steamer from
Europe with 10000 letters on board was
considered Il record breaker. To-day
the Cunard steamers and othcr transat-
lantic ships carrying what is called a
full European mail' usually bring
some three hundred thousand letters,
and an average of three hundred sacks
Of newspapers and printed matter for
New York City, not TO mention She five
hundred and odd sacks for Canada.
Mexico and transpactic countries and a
few United States exchange offices.
which are now taken direct to the trair 5
and not handled at the New York office.
July Scribner's.
Shipbuilders will be Interested in She
report of Consul Metcalf, at New-Cas-
tle-on-Type, giving an account of two
covered berths in the establishment of
G. S. Swan & Hunter at Wallsend- on
Tyne. This is the only finn in England
which has gone to the enormous cN-
pense OF erecting stupcndous sheds to
enclose the vessels on the berths. The
idea of carrying such project@into eff
feet originated in the mind of Councillor
q. Is. Hunter, the managing director Of
the company, conceived during a bust
ness tour in America. the huge struct-
ure enclosing the exhibits at the famous
Chicago exhibition suggesting to his
mind the practica bilty of the develop
ment of the principle on more en-
i larged scale in the covering of vessels
IN course of construction on the berths
Two huge steel sheds, have been erect
ed, their present dimensions being 100
feet in height. Apart from the advant-
ages accruing from the worl1men in all
the departments of the shipbuilding
trade being able to follow their employ
ment from Monday morning to Satur-
DAY at noon under the protection Of the
Sneds, the facilities in point of labor are
u uch that steady men of the best class
are securing engagements with the firm
Under such a condition Of things it will
4 pe understood that the firm gain in turn
Tor the enterprise and outlay, inasmuch
S they are IN position to undertake to
A Dulic and equip. the vessels in less than
half tia prescribed period essential for
Y the eXess1t ton of the work in establish
ments ln&which climatic considerat tons
natura Ssdorm an important factor
Inc Workmen in all the outside de-
partments speak in terms OF the highest
Communication of the advantages which
the enclosed berths afford, not the least
OF which Us the greater safety to life
and limb: 1T is known that many lives
I have been LOST through the oscillation
{ OF the uprights, the ends of the staging
becoming detached, and the men falling
TO the ground below; but, as llprights
s are dispensed with in the case of vessels
built lander the sheds at Wallsend. :,
spirit OF confidence is engendered among
Ghe fiveterS and other sections of the
men, the stagings being attached to the
y massive. still trellis work of which the
3 SUES y! lneS ned are composed. In point
\ OF expedition and the finish of work, the
men participate largely in the facilities
which the sheds afford
a plant in which all the improvements
/ have beer introduced, and driven by
electric energy is at the disposal of the
men, by which the plates ana bars are
raised from the ground with the utmost
promptitude by electric cranes ana
placed IN position one huge crane work
i I, -;x-
Il while several cranes OF lesser power
travel l#lmmediately Under Tie r>nf@