The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1919-08-28
Seattle (wash.) Times.

tors from 40 states. the Skinner &
Eddy Corporations world champion
shipbuilding plant launched the $500
ton steel steamship Editor at o'clock
this morning in honor of the National
Editorial Associations annual conven-
tion in Seattle, sending the big car
rier down the ways with all the ira
ditional Skinner & Eddy success and
bril- fancy.
Mrs Hardy, wife of Congressman
Guy U. Hardy of Canon City. Colo,
president of the editorial association.
christened the new steamship with
an enthusiasm and thorouehness that
added wonderfully to the success of
the ceremony. She withheld the blow
of the champagne bottle until the
great steel hull had begun to gather
momentum and then with one smash
ing blow, she shattered the berib-
boned container on the massive stee;
pdow with a force that brought a re-
coil of the seething liquid showering.
members of her party in champagne
drops.
Many See First Launching.
Staged with minute attention to de-
tail, and all the traditions of the sea.
the launching ranked as one of the
greatest spectacular productions of
the kind witnessed in Seattle this
year Few of the editors from the in
land states ever had attended a
Launching before and the ceremony
left on their minds a profound i'm
preston of the vast value of the ship
building industry and the merchant
marine to the whole nation.
Gathered on the platform, they be-
held on all sides the hitting
thousands that form the day shift of
the Skinner G. Eddy plants far-famed
team of overall workers, massed in
great throngs on the ground, clustered
like swarms of bees on the roofs of
the yard buildings and the stocks and
scaffolding of the nearby ways or sill
houetted against the sky as they chung
with easy familiarity to lofty perches
on the aerial towers of towering
masts. Nearly 1900 strong. they
Joined in acclaiming the new ship
with an enthusiasm that never seems
to grow old.
Nine other 9,600-ton vessels that
will carry the Stars and Stripes to
the ports of the world, rested their
great bulk in the other building ways
of the world-champion plant. each in
a different stage of construction SO
that the editors were able to visualize
the progress of a ship from the kee'
laying to the launching
Editors Pack Platform.
Interspersed among the great mass
es of the workers stood thousands of
men, women and children, guests OF
the company, their ranks including the
wives and children of the army in
overalls. The throngs of visitors
overfiowed the open spaces in the
yard and thousands sought places on
the 9.600-tonners Stanley and Wheat
land, Mont, both riding in the plants
Quitting basin with all their ship
dags fiuttering in the morning breeze
In honor of the day.
Editors, members of the corporation
and other guests of the corporation
packed the launching platform, built
to hold 500 persons.
AS the editorial associations big
delegation moved toward the platform
with Congressman and Mrs. iardy at
the head of the procession, a muir
muir ran through their ranks as they
lifted up their eyes to behold scene
tnat will long be remembered Red.
white and blue bunting concealed the
entire platform structure at the bows
of the new ship. Paintings Of large
INK wells dotted the red, white and
Due walls. At the top of theA steps
rose an arch that brought pleaseS
smiles from every face. that arch con-
'sisting of huge pair of shears sup
ported on one side by the replica of a
'qui pen and on the other side by the
replica of a blue pencil. From the
central pivot of the outspread scissor
blades hung gigantic pastepot.
Jack Waves Welcome.
Beyond the platform and the arch
doomed the great PROV OF the Editor
the American Jack waving a welcome
from the bow mast From the uppe-
bows hung silken Stars and Stripes
shimmering in the golden sunshine,
Burmounting crescent OF smaller
American flags which in turn rested on
a sign bearing the legend "In Honor
of Ye Editors" Below the legend
stood the shield of the United States.
spoiless as of old. symbolizing all that
Americanism means.
AS the base to this array OF national
co1ors. the Skinner & Eddy mon had
placed the first page of newspaper,
cast n heroic size, iwth seven-column
her lie Droclaiming, Skinner q
Eddy Launch s. s. Editor" and be-
Tow the headlines a big cartoon show
ing an equally big champagne bottle