Evening journal., 1918-06-29
SH|PYARD HOHORS
CO TO pacific COAS!
Prizes for Last Month
Awarded by Emergency
Fleet Corporation
HARLAN YARD
IS LOW ON LIST

Shipyards on the Pacific Coast Writ
ually have made a clean sweep Of the
honors awarded by the Emergency
Fleet Corporation for construction work
last month. The championship, accord
ing to figures compiled by a committee
headed by Rear Admiral f. F. Fletcher
shows the Bethlehem Shipbuildine
plant, Of San Francisco. TO be leading In
the competition among the steel yards
Honors among the wooden yards have
been awarded to the Grant-Smith Port
er plant, at Portland, Ore. Second place
| prizes were awarded TO the Skinner and
Eddy Corporation at Seattle, Wash, for
steel construction, and to the Aberdeen,
Wash, yard Of the Grant, Smith-Porter
Company, for wood construction. The
Moore Shipbuildlng Company, OF Oak
! land, took third hOnOrs in the steel
competition, and the Allen Shipbuilding
Company, Of Seattle. was awarded third
place in wood yards.
To The winners Of first place, a blue
pennant has been awarded. This pen
nant is 5xiO feet in dimensions, on a
background Of blue, with a circular in
flcial flag Of the United States Shipping
Board. The SECOND place pennant is
similar in design, except that it is a red
background, with the Shipping Board
flag on field Of white. The third place
pennant is white. with a similar design.
The flags Will be sent to the winning
yards as soon as possible, in the hope
that they may be flying from the yard
flagstaffs on the Fourth OF July.
Acting with Admiral Fletcher on the
committee on Awards were: F. w
Wood, vlce-presldent OF the American
international Shipbuilding Corporation.
and Hugh Frayne, a member Of the
War Industries Board. Mr.. Schwab,
who originated the competition, is tax
ing keen interest in the scheme and ex-
poets to see the race for flags develop
into a national contest with rivalry
keen enough TO draw the interest Of
thousands Of persons throughout the
country.
Members Of the committee stated that
picking the winners Of the May con-
test was an extremely dflcult task
owing to the small margins which sep
arated the contestants.
There are only three pennants to be
awarded in each division" said Admiral
Fletcher, "and the first ten contestants
are so close together that we had TO
reduce the whole matter TO an algebralc
formula In order to determine which
ones were entitled TO first, second and
third places.
"As shipyard organization is i'm
proved, / fear the committee will be
I1Tf
as all the shipbullders are extremely
interested and Will strain every nerve
to fly the blue ponnant, which denotes
first place.
The judges, in fixing the winner, con-
sidered not only the differences in the |
size Of the yards and the difference in |
he number Of ways in various yards, /
lut took into consideration the general /
OF the contesting organiza-
ions. the labor turnover, the daily at
Of workers, the percentage OF
and the natural and other
landicaps, such as weather, on the one
land, and rail congestion, shortage Of
teel, etc, on the other. Everything, in
act, was considered. on which the COM
nittee had data, and. as Admiral Fletch-
T remarked, I'VE have data on every
hing"
II is emphasized that the officials Of
he Emergency Fleet Corporation, from
Director General Schwab down, exerted
bsolutely no influence upon the delib-
rations Of the committee on awards;
hat tile board devised its own scheme
or arriving at an accurate and fair
,asis Of measuring the output OF the
ards. The board has not made public
he details Of how this basis was ar
lived at. 1t is somewhat involved,
here being so many considerations en-
ering into the awards, that the COM
nlttee chooses not 70 go into detailed
The yards, however, it is
officially, may rest assured
hat the basis OF measurement is ab-
olutely fair to the small yard as
gainst the large; that the shipyard
one type Of vessel for the
'leet Corporation has an equal chance
With the yard building another type,
nd that everything which, in the opin-
on Of the most expert ship brains in
he country, goes into the building Of
vessel, Is taken into consideration.
The shipyaris and their standing for
lay performances as fixed by the COM
nittees awas4 follows: