Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-24

Americas response to the Govern
ment's appeal for more ships will be
the launching of eighty-nine vessels on
July 4.
Five more, bringing. the number to
ninety-four, may be launched.
Eight of the ships to- be launched will
glide from the ways into the Delaware
River. Included in the eight is the
largest one of the entire number-the
William Penn. cargo carrier, 12.500 tons
which is being constructed at the
Pusey & Jones yard. Gloucester, N. J.
Work on the construction Of 100
miniature ships. six of which are to be
Launched" as part of this citys cele-
bration in honor of the big splash, :.
was started today at Hog Island.
The launchings will establish a worlds
record for a single day. The eighty-nine
ships scheduled to take to the waters
will represent a total deadweight tom
mage of 440.Ss6, and the additional five
ships, if launched. will add 3o,70o tons.
Two Wooden Ships Here
/, Included in the Ships, to be launched
: here will be two wooden ships--the
Alapha and Bushian-now near COM
pletion at the shipyards of the S. b.
Traylor Corporation. at Cornwells. Each
ship will have a deadweight tonnage
of $500. ...
Pacific coast launchings on Indepen-
dence Day will include the 12,000-ton
J vessel Challenger, which will take to
the waves at Alameda. Cal, and three
sister ships, Independence. Victorious
and Defiance, all of the 1880 ton class,
which will be launched at San Francisco.
The Infant ship of the day will
be the Lake Pearl, which Will glide
80 Tol, Isa1
the Great Lakes yards at Ecorse, Mich.
One of the transports to be launched
as part of the celebration will slide
from the ways at the yards Of the
Cramp Company, in this city. 1t will
be the Santa Teresa, of 1895 tons The
other will be the Western Star, Of 5000
TONS which will be launched at Seattle
. Washington
Thirty-seven of the entire number
to be launched will be steel ships. The
. others will be wooden. The five which
are being rushed to completion in an
effort to have them launched as part
of the celebration are all steel ships
/ According to the shipping board. none
of the ships will be ready for launch
ing until forty-eight hours before the
time for the celebration.
To Launch Mimic Ships
The cityS program forS the launcn-
ing" of the mimic ships, which Presi.
dent Holbrook, of the American Interna'
tional Shipbuilding Corporation, will
build in the next ten days, will be car
ried out at City Hall.
J, Six large models will be built to rep
resent the vessels that will be launched
! all over the country and will be
Launched" from the observation bal
cony at City Hall, gliding down a wire
into an imaginary ocean below. in
!. Broad street.
Eighty-nlne miniature ships will be
made by workmen at Hog Island and
will be placed. on large board, camou'
!, flaged TO represent the ocean, in Broad
y street.
/. The model ships to be built will bt
: seven feet in length and will weight
about ten pounds.
Work on tine construction of these
ships was started today under the di
rection of j. II. Anderton, chief elec
trical engineer of the American Inter
! national Shipbuilding Corporation a
Hog Island. He said tests would b.
made from the photograph towers a
Hog Island.
The graphic board containing eighty
nine ships will be thirty feet long. Eaci
ship will have the tonnage and. the nam,
of the State in which it was<mad,
painted on its side.