New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-23
BUILDING HUGE STEAMSHIPS
NAVAL, ARCHITECTS ASTONISHED AT
WORK THAT is BEING DONE
AT CAMDEN.

-r t,,rdrad members Of the Society Of Naval
Architects and Marine Engineers took lesson IN
modern shipbuilding yesterday at Camden y. y
At the invitation OF Henry G. Morse ore OF It's
members. the president OF the newborn ahli''
building Company they boarded a special train
az s45 o'clock at Jersey City. that travelled direct
TO the plant which is on the Delaware nearly op-
posite the League Island Navy Yard arriving
there at II o'clock
,rbesa men were astonished TO find on the ground
,-bere three wears ago a corn field hourshed. two
great steamships each Of 5000 tons displacement
in course Of construction for the Atlantic Trans
mort Line-the Minnekahda and the MlnneIofa-as
well as two other ships each 800 feet long. Tor the
J. NJ Guffey OIL Company. These four and the
steamship Massachusetts, some 500 feet long ahoat
in a dock are all being constructed under what Is
undoubtedly the largest ship shed built or steel ana
glass in the world
visited shipyards in all parts OF the world declared
they had never such a perfect eIectlcally
equipped plant anywhere. There are 1o'Iy cranes
that lift weights Of from seven TO one hU''ui GU
tons The engines and boilers for these great
steamships are lifted and placed in them before
launching while electric magnet cranes llt I'M
enSe sheets Of steel that would otherwise require
twenty men TO handle them. They are transported
nv the touch Of q switch in the hands OF a ooy'
FER thousand men are employed. and each ma
chine has its individual electric motor. Hydraulic
power is used in the boiler shop In the consul nc
tim sbop and ship shed compressed ar Is tHe
steamship St. Louis. who is now treasurer ana
marine superintendent of the company. told the
visitors of a most interesting experiment oe''e
made to discover by hourly data now Inuch llile
IS lost by building vessels out IN the open
80 ebir alone which we built that way SAID
S 40 13o hours were lost. All work comes TO
sion IN any kind of a storm, but ire WORK never
stops on a ship built under cover. WheFe the 9iPa
now building stand we had 10 o's anu 80.
ont 100000 cubic yards Of materia! to get water
Henry c. Morse is the president OF the COMPANY
Myron c. Wick. of Youngstown ONO Vlce-PIeSi-
dent: S. NJ. Knox. secretary; captain lie Cor'OeS
NAV general manager; L, D. Lovekin, che en-
80. ana w D. w Dimock the New-York repre-
sentative. ,o, y. tho
once building the guests spent three hours INSPECT
ing tie 50 100000 plant taking the "a'h D@'A 10
! New-York at $3.50 p. m
! A. the close of the luncheon, CoioheI T. A
stenbens spoke of the work that mas oeeh accom-
r1ished nv the shpbuilders of this country 4HSiS
| q; 70 reason why we should build shlps 10 san
% ~ taier coIors - he said. Something better
- chin subsidy is needed. The AMERICAN met+
Chant marine docs . n1s Gatherings like this
she SINE Sc We congress recognize the merchant marine
factor in n 5hS a2 Mas OF f6 5h b
Morse who SAD ;ve hesitated and sti hesitate 70
saw much 1t is yet an experIII'ebi ns in dJpi
ships heG nw the cost Of single large ship Is low,
but as TO the cost for me &c be question The
e e1st Of Building ship is not in The LAYING al for
tbe1 months before the keel Is laq, who visited
the pant at Camden were Clement G g. s.
Lewis Nixon Resr Adm @6dmmodore G H. Lorng.
lieutenant sabr and Lieutenant TX O f Engdrd
e. NJ United States C9nstiTnet9F 65n,a an AZ b.
". - Da1 = : X: Professor Alexander Mclean
Professor W Durand caiefF Ieteher and Mrs
| y; - A. w d. Forbes. Darwin Amy j. -,
s sbdfegs. w T. Babcock. W. H. Baily' George
| Need and George Rowland.