Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-09-10

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Kiel.
America and Germany have sup
planted England as the worlds SNIP
builders. This is the substance OF all
official report about to be rendered 10
the German government by Professor
Ernst Won Halle, says a special cable
dispatch from Berlin to the Chicago
Record Herald. In the capacity of spc-
cial commissioner of the imperial adj
miralty, DR.. Won Halle has just con-
cluded an exhaustive investigation OF
the shipyards of Germany, Great Bri-
tain, France, Holland and the United
States. The story is replete with trb-
utes to the greatness of the Yankee
maritime industry. Thirty-seven out
of forty-seven pages of the report that
deal with foreign countries are devoted
to the American shipyards. The au-
thor asserts that the United States
needs to acknowledge no masters in
the art of shipbuilding. In the report
Dr. Won Halle says:
"The shipyards Of the United States
are incomparably equipped for thor
ough, economical and rapid production.
This is due primarily to the splendid
transportation arrangements of the
yard areas, the employment of the
most improved type Of hosting ma
chinery and the widespread use of
pneumatic tools.
with the enormous expansion OF
trade the time is not far distant when
there will be shipyards in America ut
every important ocean and lake point.
The time is also not far distant when
America will join Germany in occupy
ing the same relation to the worlds
vessel supply that has been held by
England for so long. Germany's Ship
ping needs are in excess of its own
productive abilities. and, while hereto
fore we have been supplied exclusively
by English boatbuilders. it is distinct
ly probable that we will shortly go to
the United States whenever there is a
deficiency to be filled.
".AmCricl'S only scarcity is in native
designing ara engineering talent. That
this condition is Lvtl! actual and urgent
l gathered from the fact that the con-
sulting engineers of two of the largest
shipyarGs on the Atlantic coast are
En-...;h importations. Withal. America
is able today to build as good ships
as anybody and build them almost as
quickly and as cheaply.
"The new Camden yards in New Jer-
sey are like the new Krupp works at
Kiel and. as they are backed by un-
limited capital, are destined to be one
of the model establishments Of the
world. Americas strongest advantage
over England is her freedom from the
tyranny OF the British workman.
where mistaken hostility to modern
practices may eventually crowd John
Bulls dockyards to the realm of the
obsolete.
1.-THE yachtbuilders Of America are
pre-eminent. The kaiser has lately
taken occasion to say as much. The
ocean speed laurels, however, are not
likely to be wrested soon from Germa-
ny, although the friendly rivalry of
the Hamburg and American and the
German Lloyd lines insures us the pre-
miership at least until the champion
German figures are equaled. 1t should
be remembered that increases in speed
nowadays come only half knot at
time, so that America and England
have much to accomplish before they
can hope to distance the records of
the Deutschland or the Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse. So far America is
behind in the matter of speed, as it has
nothing better than the st. Paul of the
American line. while Great Britain
has produced the Lucana and the
Campania. An officer of the Atlantic
Transport line ted Inc while was in
America iiiat his company proposed to
build a thirty knot ship within the
next four years. but such hope in the
present stage of the American mari-
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