The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-04
Another Makers Trip.
! Builders Of City Of
Detroit Make Test
Question: Why 10 Il Harder to
Make a Good City Than II 10
to Make a Good ShIp7


this being with
out travail unacquanted with and anxiety
, So and radiant stately selfsufcent has she
she has grand and down the straits on her
e matinee trips.
City Cleveland had qualify
This proud beauty the lakes had her examination day
eye designer her builders her navi
and the president and general of designers builders
navigators Lake Erie month and
4showed her mettle
troubled sea- ubbers couldn't
make but which the mariners familiar track over
acke blue the candidate toled and ugged to come
u up requirements
III pass Was she ftp
IN These were the questions she had to midday till
that her the path OF destiny from
Southeast Shoal o Long Point.
Grave punging and whrling
shaft O the great triple expansion engine
The seemed know what required OF
asking shower of cool
evered journals The grateful streamed from its saning
a back like perspiration.
labored leaving clocks
watchu the pilot house and captains cabin
TO say whether it had done its part
There guests may have been
thing wondering lookers-on in this afar-ho
with things in the dynamo room how
boilers behaved how the candidate responded 10 the
steadying what she entitled
rudde how the electric system OF sig
,ls and worked ont and what of the washed
h the ventilatng engines
Makers things automatic registers and
watches and lights and the invited guests
II looked at the makers
by makers faces and by the
easyng sweating engine by big weather
hands, the City of Cleveland around of the
Long Point light the andbbers knew that she had passed
the evening confirmed it.
The makers had buded-not better just well they
knew o build
The thing that took form in the designer
papabe brain upenendents engineers and
foemen bolt driven stood forth
\ tested and triumphant creation!
e. And there is another at hand.
City with the inspiration Of what
shpbulds wrought before them and about them go
today for hreedays of the fruits of their genius and
Patriotism city builders.
precisely line the Board OF Commerce
4. in ~
81 noble design municipal perfection work its
he engineers committees construction
City of Detroit its shpyards of
ussion agitation Sounds OF hammering and
sifashioning have filled the air.
Will their City they put
;khe this makers trip?
M Will she prove strong straight against all dis
lSstera
iS up the motto Will she in anywhere'
I acqu herself goously the product of the ship
did in the thick darkness of that April night Lake Erie
tn The answer is already written more's pity
Il The City will fair perfect in the of
her builders this trial trip the City of Cleveland in the
eyes of her makers
There develop disparity sought
and Capacity efficiency durability will show be-
specifications She will lack ventilation and will right her
self quickly.
For with the City passion
Perfection their plans enforced their materials
I builders of the City of Detroit the be for
perfection plans nd the laws loosely enforced and the
that the job wretchedly faulty
(Ths where the Socialists find for their propaganda
They beakdowns be averted by elm
mating individual avarice selhshnes and corruption
They would build political division specifications strictly
forced from the ground shipbuiders build shps)
But while the City of Detroit will fall short OF perfection this
+ trial trip, the situation is hopeless
Her defective points will develop the unity of patriotic
their will be and will
on trying build perfect City of Detroit
As good to live in she is good to look upon.
fine devotion the public singeness
patriotic that would pel the makers of city watch
for working of perfection with the octude
with which of the City
Cleveland by her and night of trial!
II The I've Qnesu hlch lion