The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-10-10

records for rapidity of construction
surpassed this year by the American
shipbuilders. Prior to the beginning
of the war, from nine months to a
year was required to build a $500
ton steel seagoing vessel, from year
to year and half to build $500
ton steel vessel, and from year and
a half to two years to build an 5000
to 10000 ton vessel. In July and
August of this year the steel freight
er, "Crawls Keys" of $500 tons was
built in thirty-four days by the Great
Lakes Engineering Works Of Ecorse,
Michigan, and delivered to the Ship
ping Board. The Collier "Tukahoe,"
of ,543 tons was built in thirty-seven
calendar days during May and June
by the New York Shipbuilding Com
pany of Camden, New Jersey, and
on the fortieth day after the keel of
this ship had been laid, she was load
ed and carrying coal to New England.
The freighters "West Tianga" Of g.
SAB tons, the "West Hosakie" of $500
tons, and the "West Hobomac" of g.
GAO tons were built in seventy-eight,
seventy-nine and eighty days respec-
lively by the Skinner & Eddy corpor-
alton of Seattle. When the present
Shipping Board began it's work in
August, 1917, there were sixtyo-ne
ship yards with three hundred and
thirty-five ways in the United States.
Then the largest shipbuilding yards
in the world were on the Clyde River
in Scotland Now, due to the organic
alton and work of the United States
Shipping Board, there are 203 ship
yards in the United States, with 1920
ship ways. The largest ship yards in
the world are now in the United
States. The Clyde River shipbuilding
district is surpassed in size by two
shipbuilding districts on the Atlantic
Coats-Delawar River and Newark
Bay--and by two on the Pacific Coast
Oakland Harbor and Puget Sound.
There were on September 1, 3S6,O00
workers employed in yards building
ships for the United States Shipping
Board Emergency Fleet Corporation.
The greatest production in the United
States of seagoing vessels of over
1900 tons in any one year before the
war was in 1916, when the production
was 295,555 lightweight tons. From
January to September l of this year
there were built of this class Of YES
sells 1,626,052 tons. Since the first
of January, American ship yards have
led the ship yards of Great Britain by
nearly eighty thousand tons. The
total losses of ships by the Allies and
neutral nations from August 1914, to
September 1, 1918, has been 21,4O4,-
913 tons. The total construction of
the Allies and neutral nations during
the same period has been ID, PAT 1925
tons. In addition to this, the Allies
have acquired from the enemy 1885,
900 tons. The American Merchant
Marine is now expanding more rapid
ly than any other in the world. In
January, 1917, there were, under Am
ercan registry, 2, 100000 tons of sea-
going ships, each Of over fifteen hun
bred tons. On September of this
year there was, under American reg
istry, 100000 tons Of these vessels.
The tonnage of ships constructed by
the United States in August exceeded
by sixteen hundred tons the total
losses of all the Allies and neutral
idClollo Jul ing CilaC llIOllIil.
Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill.
Representative Shirley, Chairman
Of the Committee on Appropriations,
has given notice to the House that his
Committee will not be prepared to
report to the House the Urgent De-
fciency Appropriation Bill until Oc-
tober IL. The bill will carry appro-
priations for the Army and Navy and
for the expenses of the general gov
eminent amounting to approximately
eight billions of dollars. It is pro-
posed by House leaders on both sides
to have this bill passed by the House
and Senate before any recess Of Con-
gress is taken to allow Members of
Congress to go to their homes to take
part in the general election campaign:
Senate Defeats Woman Suffrage.
President Wilson's oratorial appeal
on Monday to the Senate to pass the
Woman Suffrage Amendment on the
ground that it was a necessary war
measure failed to impress or to meet
the approval of any of the senators
opposed to the adoption of the federal
amendment as a proper method of
granting suffrage rights to women in
the several states of the Union. I'm