The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1911-11-17
MERCHANT MARINE
CROWNS GREAT
One Hundred Ships Ordered or
to Be 0rdered-Yards Busy
for Next Two Years.

American shipping in not going "a
decadmce despite tho possimisis, 40
cordiag to II. L. Aldrieh, president Of
tho company that publishes Intorna-
tional Marine Engineering, Now York,
who gives fguyls that proved the pres.
enee Of a de- led boom in American
shipbuilding. hero are fifty steam.
ships sure to be built and orders are
in sight for nearly fifty more. In fact
the rush Of orders for steamships and
smaller vessels is so pressing, he do
elared, that the United States Govern.
ment is facing a serious situation in
the placing Of new contracts for the
construction of war vessels.
1.-THE pessimlsts say that We have
no American shipping,n said Mr.. Aid.
rich, "when the fact is we have T..
50S,0S2 tons, or 67S,5S6 tons more than
the combined merchant fleets of Ger.
many, France and Norway, three great
maritime nations Of Europe, while Rus.
STA, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Bel.
gium, Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal
and Austria-Hungary have combined
merchant tonnage which Is a million
tons less than ours.
"Our coastwise fleet, which is enor-
nous, is showing good earnings, and
within the last sixty days there have
been orders placed for at least fifty
steam vessels, ranging in size from
ocean going tugbOats to ten thousand
ton steamships, such as the four that
the Maryland Steel Company is to
build for the American. Hawaiian
steamship line.
Big Steamships Ordered.
"Then there is a larger fleet await.
ing consideration, which includes If,
teen big passenger steamships for the
newly organized Atlantic and Pacific
Transport Company, of winch Bernard
N, Baker is the head, company Of
$l5000,O00 capitalization; two great
passenger steamships for the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company of twenty
five thousand tons each, or equal to
the George Washington, of the North
German Lloyd line; two passenger
steamships each for the Ward line to
Havana and Mexico, the CLYDE line and
the Mallory line to Southern ports; the
New York and Puerto Rico Steamship
Company one, the Pacific Coast Steam
ship Company two passenger steam
ships, the Union Sulphur Company,
which owns the Herman Frasch, big
freight steamship, the Alaska Steam
ship Company two passenger steam
ships and there are several others.
Recently the Standard Oil Com
pany has placed an order in an Ameri-
can yard for two oil carrying steam
Ions each, and an order out of the usual
run is one for fifteen river steamboats,
boats for use on the Amazon, which
are to be manned by American cap
tains and pilots and for time will be
in charge of Capt James F. Ellison, of
Pittsburg, veteran in steam-boating
in shallow waters.
Orders in Prospective.
81 have information that Devils
Luckenbach will soon be in the market
for bids for the construction of two
freight steamships Of 5000 tons each,
and that A. II. Bull & Co. is to build
another steamship of 5000 tons to add
to its fleet. Two independent oil com.
panies are to have four oil carriers
built, and there is to be another large
steamboat for the Hudson River Day
Line, for which the order will be given
soon.
81 am giving these facts, which are
not based ON hearsay, to show how
busy the American shipbuilder is at
the present time. Nearly all of the
principal yards have contracts that
win keep them occupied for two years
to come.
"'On the lakes there is the same rush
for new tonnage, and the yards are
filed with the keels and frames of new
steamships, passenger and freight car
riers.
In these days, when there is SO
much talk of dull business, it is a very
fact that many large ship
builders are refusing to bid on new !
n-Io~. 4t,.. 49, fall -. ,.,fel, 1911,