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If Only We Had One
Of These AT Cambridge!

The following news item was clip
ped from the Baltimore Sun of Ap-
ril Gath:
The four-masted schooner Chas
NJ. Struven, launched from the ship
yard Of E. James Tull, Pocomoke
City, last Thursday, is the first of
five wooden vessels now under way
in the plants on Maryland and Della
ware Peninsula.
'On the Nanticoke, at Bethel, the
Bethel Marine Railway Company is
fast completing seagoing barge for
the Smith G. Terry Transportation
| Company, of New York. 1t is 200
feet long, 4 1 feet 6 inches beam and
Is feet deep. AS soon as 1t is over
board another of the same dimen-
sions will be started.
The Delaware Shipbuilding Com
pany, at Seaford, has a contract to
build four-masted schooner to have
a capacity of 1900 tons, and the keel
will soon be laid.
AT Abbott's shipyard, at Milton,
the four-masted schooner Albert F.
Paul is being rushed to have her ov-
erboard by the last of June. The
vessel is for Capt. c.. A. Southland
and others of Baltimore.
THE Sharptown Marine Railway,
SharptOWn, is hurrying to completion
four-masted schooner for r. B.
White and others of this city. 1t is
expected to have her in the water
within six weeks.
The four-masted schooner build
ing at Rockland, Maine, at Dunn's s
shipyard, will probably be ready the
last of June. The vessel is being
built for Capt. Allen P. Vane and
others of Baltimore. She is to be
named Allen, the first name of Capt.
Vane, who has been in Maine some
time overlooking the work"
Millions of dollars are being spent
in hundreds of towns and cities in
the United States in building and en-
larging shipyards for the building of
wooden boats.
at Salisbury, Md, was awarded a
one hundred thousand dollars for
the building of two power boats.
1t seems a great pity that our en-
terprising city of Cambridge, with
it's magnificent water front, should
have no yards for the building of
ships, while many little villages Of
one-tenth it's size, and located on
crooked little streams, that float a
ship only on an occasional high tide,
should be spending weekly big sums
for labor.
Few towns in the United States
have more natural advantages for
shipyards than Cambridge has.
Thousands of ships have been sunk
during the past three years of the
world war, and never before has
there been the same demand for
boats Contracts already are in
sight to keep all available shipyards
busy for years to come. 1t is a
great pity that Cambridge has no
shipyard for the building of big
boats. A shipyard of this kind
could give employment to hundreds
of skilled mechanics who now are
unable to find employment in CAM
bridge and who are leaving our city
uaiIy CO nnu 6IiIpiVy iIiviTl SIsow
If big shipyard could be located
at Cambridge. the laboring men 1t
would employ and their families
would increase our population at
least one thousand. The women and
girls of these families could help
operate the vacant machines in our
shirt factories. The wages that such
shipyard would spend weekly would
make prosperous every line Of Cam
bridge business and increase surpris-
ingly the value of Cambridge real es-
tate.
We have the water advantages. We
have capital and more capital can be
procured If the proper effort is made.
The greatest single benefit that
can come to Cambridge now is a
big shipyard. 1t can be gotten. Who
will start the movement to get it?