New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-31

| odd haiidS-mostly Skilled Worhihohoe
keep the work OF these going.
It's equipment for ship repairs is com
plete; II can handle the heaviest machin'
! cry and can weld shaft up to twelve
| inches.
There's a pointer for steamship owners
the world over
Mr. William VI. Evans says: we can
, do better and cheaper work-in our lne--
here than at any other Gulf port, because OF
the location on the river Of our plants; III
New Orleans works OF this kind are no.
| installed on the dock, and, In fact, do not
| cater TO the marine trade to the extent
| that we do"
He believes that ships coming through
the Panama Canal will simply he com
PEELED to come here land he is proving
his faith by his works. as will ne seen
later on) They are" he says, only
equipped to do light repair work. New
Orleans and Mobile are the only ports on
the Gulf that can in any way offer tdry)
docking facilities: and the latter is not
only the better equipped, but the nearer
of the Two" And he thinks this Will build
I'D his trade, since the docking companies
do only the woodwork on ships. all steer
and iron work having to be done by the
shipsmith.
Mr.. Evans is the president of the great
Gulf City Boiler Works which has only
recently enlarged and improved the equip
mont of its plant to meet future require
mcnts and to such an extent that II has had
to seek very much more spacious quarters
for IT, The present site has upon ii two
fireproof structures. building 32i feet
long by SO feet wide, and another 70 feet
long and SO feet wide. originally erected
for and occupied as carbarns, etc. by the
Mobile Light and Railway Company; the
first is equipped with the requisite up-to-
date machinery. and also accommodates
the erecting shop" while the second is
divided between the blacksmith" and the
Hanging" departments.
The company does ship plating, sheet
metal work. such AS roofing. blowpipe, etc,
and structural work for buildings; all
kinds Of iron and steel steamship work,
makes stationary, locomotive and marine
more of these than of the others-boil-
ers of any capacity; manufactures fuse
burners for sawmills steel smokestacks
and tanks Its works are also equipped
for making dredge buckets and discharge
pipes for hydraulic dredges and bridge
structural iron, as well as for all kinds Of
iron and steel steamship repairing.
It keeps steadily employed some fifty
men, who are, it claims, the most skilled
in their line. And 1t also claims to be
the only concern here keeping a steady
force Of boiler makers" be the only
one making a speciality OF boilers, tanks
and smokestacks" and to have "the best
equipped works Of It's kind south Of Chat
tanooga."
The company has furnished structural
iron work for very many Of the best mer-
camille and factory buildings Of the mod
ern types; has recently completed two 2
feet by feet boilers for the Interna tional
Asphalt Company, of Chicago land is con-
structing two 16 foot by foot boilers for
the same concern, and a battery of marine
boilers for the steamer Alabama, attached
To the United States Engineers Office. at
Mont last being of the West
orn river type.
Besides being within two hundred feet
of the pier heads. these works are con-
nected by spur tracks with those Of the
Louisville G. Nashville Railroad, and so
are enabled to reach any dock or ship.
The business was first established Janu-
airy !, 1904. as a partnership, and under its
present title. its owners being william NJ.
Evans, Fl. NJ. Mimic (since deceased, A.
Bailey. +. A Cirlot and the heterogeneous
brothers manned elsewhere in this article.
IT was incorporated in November Of the
same year, with all Of the above, except
Mr. Bailey, as stockholders.
The present officers and stockholders Of
the company are William NJ. Evans, presi-
dent and general manager; c. Toxey. sec
rotary and treasurer, and u. G. Hodges
and James *. Dempster. the latter two
gentlemen being on its board Of directors.