New Britain herald., 1916-05-12
Phone 1901.
P BUILDING NOW
 DMS ON THELAkES
Causes Great Revival of
 Industry in Many Ports

ago, May 9.--The shipbuildlng @ ry on tke great lakes, after lying 3@nt more or less for half a de-
 s enjoying Q revival of prosper
 e ecordilg to reports from ship # at aad near Cleveland, O., De SsAIiell., Toledo, O., Duluth, Mich. Wo, N. Y, Chicago and smaller # lake ports.
 "a opening of the Panama canal, E&tivities of submarines and the #y increase in exports are con-
 d the immediate causes of the
 liIding b. om. The claim is M without denial from the build lat old ships and vessels now & construction are bringing better # than in many years.
 E boom will bring millions of lH of business to the dozen or so 6 bbuilding companies, has created @ ork for hundreds of men and &y has caused the rebuilding of &Mrds and the planning of several aaRnes. RM demand is strong for both lake lean vessels and only the inabil- 4# the builders to give assurance #%very of the ships by 1917 stands @ way of even heavier orders.
 n interests are prominent #@ the buyers.
 essels Shipped in Pieces. M the first clash of arms in
 e, shippers saw the necessity for
 Eng boats quickly to carry mer- &se to foreign and domestic
 One New York capitalist ob- ## at least four huge great lake l
 e freighters. At the Welland 1
 t these ships had to be cut into M before they could continue the @ the coast.
 M tremendous amount of shipping
 Ms gone to the bottom in the # ne together with the fact that
 o Of the shipyards in Eingland
 b cen turned over almost exclu- Sast ships of war, has forced for sIyerS to look to American ship Ss for new vessels and some S8 buyers are ready to pick up
 ip for sale on the seaboard.
 Cleveland Prospers.
 eIand alone reports the closing |
 racts for forty-six vessels with l
 gregate cost of of more than | # GOO and that negotiations are
 gress for thirty more ships. 1
 orders are being filled at Cleve-
 Eo1edo, Lorrain and Ashtabula, l
 orse and Manitowoe, Mich, |
 lffalo, N. Y. The yards at these
 re said to have all the business
 hat they can handle during the IN Other Ports Busy. Y Toledo Shipbuilding company is
 on an eastern order for five @ CTS with auxiliary power plants 8A used in coastwise trade. A lake N@ CT 800 feet long also is being 3@ at Toledo. The total tonnage S# Toledo contracts is said to be & bit reports the receipts of or
 pr score of ships by Michigan
 nies and Ohio firms not men, M in the Cleveland reports. The
 e of the vessels that will be un- 3zl instruction in Michigan harbors M 1916 is estimated at 100000. #lth says the first ship to be
 sat the Superior, Mich, yards
 BIO will be constructed this & provided the steel can be se-
 The scarcity of steel also is S4bned from Detroit. The inabil- @ purchase greater quantities of Sng material, Detroit says, has & ted several companies from en- their plants.
 chieago, the Calumet docks g have been occupied only with @ work during the last eight
 have just received an order for # instruction of a freight steamer, et long and 43.6 feet beam. This I'M men is to be launched the lat ot April, was ordered through | agents for a concern in 3z6 'y' the name of which is not
 oi'e Nalumet docks. la olt hrms have received orders
 eastern shippers which r,dar
 conditions would hava hoon on or near the salt water Eoa4
 past shippers, it is evident & freighters wherever thev oa
 tained.
 he ships ordered at Cleveland M will be built at Lake Erie wards ste they will be sent to the Atlan- Sast and dozen or more will be
 he'd for us on the great lakes Z# the current year. Four more @ be delivered to the coast in W American Shipbuilding con- M at Cleveland has an order for
 cam freighters from Norwegian