Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-06

Each of these vessels has nine decks
and accommodates more than 1000 pas
sengers. besides the crew of between four
and FIVE hundred men.
Harland & Wolff are now making
berths and erecting enormous iron scat
foldings a thousand feet long. which
reach seventy-five feet into the air, for
the construction of two new ships for
the White Star and the Hamburg Ameri
lean line. They will surpass in size any
thing that was ever before attempted.
The new Hamburg steamer will be 1872
feet long. 50 feet beam and $4,000 tons.
The new White Star steamer. to be
called the Olympic, will be $50 feet long.
So feet beam and 10000 tons-ffty feet
larger and 5000 tons larger than the
Mauritania. Both these steamers will
contain every modern convenience and go
as far beyond the Mauritania and Lusita-
ma. in everything except speed. as those
vessels surpass the types of ten years
ago The Hamburg-American steamer
will be fitted with +O.O0O-horsepower en-
gines and make twenty-five knots an
hour. The new White Star steamer will
have 5000 horsepower engines. capable
of making twenty knots. the policy Of the
White Star company being to furnish the
maximum of comfort and steadiness
rather than speed.
The Adriatic is the largest steamer ever
launched thus far in the Belfast yards.
hut the Olympic will be 1O4 feet longer, Ii
feet wider and 11.o0o tons larger.
New Ships Being Built.
The company did not turn out any
large ships last year. The largest was
the Asturias. 300 tons. for the South
American trade. 1t has now on the docks
three SOOO-ton steamers for the Leyland
line and two 12,OOO-ton steamers. for the
Dominion line. which will run between
liverpool and Canada.
Messrs. Workman. Clark & Company
hot yr-in fha;v
busy all summer. They are building sew
efal lO.OO-ton steamers for the Lambert
& Holt Company. which runs between
Liverpool and South America and New
York. and the Orient line, which will
run between London, India and Aus
tralia
Thus the shipping industry in Belfast
will maintain its usual force of workmen
at least for another year. and that will
be great benefit to the town. because
Harland Woln employ about an aver
age OF 1900 men, with a weekly pay
roll of more than 100000, and Work
man. Clark Company about 1000
hands. with a weekly pay roll of about
10000 SO that at least 1900 men are
sure of continuous employment. and their
daughters and the other wage-earning
members of the families have encourage
nlent to soon expect regular work from
the linen mills.
The Harland & Wolff Yards.
,.Harland & Wolff began business in
rS59 when Sir Edward (then Mr. Har-
hand and Mr.. G. W. Wolff took over a
small yard and enlarged it to employ
about 100 hands The concern has since
been organized into a stock company
and Lord Perrie, son OF Sir Edward
Harland, who was elevated to the peerage
few years ago. has become the head of
the firm and its directing genius. Since
1888 the establishment has turned out
3A steamers. measuring 1.6S6. 162 tons
Their record year was 1903 when they
launched eight vessels. measuring 40, 463
tons, an average of IA, 500 tons each
Harland & Wolff have no furnaces or
mines. but buy all their ore coal, plates
and other construction material from diff
ferent manufacturers in England. Nor
do they accept government contracts. but
eonfine their attention to the mercantile
marine
The manager says the conditions of
government work are not satisfactory
and the system of inspection required bv
the admiralty is annoying Formerly
they built some gunboats and furnished
engines for several first-class battleshps
The firm has built the entire fleet of the
White Star Line and nearly all the YES
sels of the p. and o. Company. the Pa
&ific Steam Navigation Company. the Ie-
hand Line. the Dominion Line and others
The works occupy what was formerly an
island in the river in the very center of
Belfast. and cover an area of more than
eighty acres.
The late President McKinles's ancestors
came from a village called Dervock near
the town Of Ballymoney. County Antrim
In the north of Ireland. between Belfast
and Londonderry. and only few miles
south Of the Giants Causeway. The vii
laRe is the first station on a little narrow
gauge railway from Ballymoney to the
port of Ballycastle. and has nothing to
distinguish II from hundreds Of other vii
lagos in the same locality, except it's as
sociations with our late President. None
of the family remains In the neighbor-
hood. although they are remembered by
the old residents. The last of Presi-
dent McKinley's relatives remaining in
Ireland died at the village Of Lower Dun
loose many years ago. An old homestead
about mile and a half from the village
of Dervock. with a farm of sixty acres.
is pointed out as the ancestral residence
Of the Mckinley family. but there is no
definite proof that they ever occupied it.
Earning Capacity Of Property Taxed.
have been asked to explain the sys-
tenn of taxation in Ireland. which was de-
vised by Sir Richard GrifYith. acting for