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Show OUU WtUUKESS AT Amorlcnu Ship Bullilorn Mnko tho Doat or Ships. uenrl lrnoranf of tlio l'cnplo Cnu- cernlng; ArlilcniitiU lu Hnlltllng l'ait Ocean BtpittarrsFor- clfineri Aittualtlicd. There I n serious Mdo to our continued con-tinued yachllnj; triumphs, lu impor-tnneo impor-tnneo traneeciullii: far tho bportlng world, says tho Boston Transcript. Somu tlmo ago Hmporor William was piotcd as saying that In building up tho Herman nnvy ho would look to tho United States hereafter. Whether tho smpertir until this or not, tho fact thnt It Is attributed to him -In Buropo demonstrates dem-onstrates thnt tho rovivnl of American nielli In shipbuilding U attracting at tention ulirond. Wo shouhl not bo surprised at learning' that it U attracting attract-ing mora attontlon nbroad than It is at homo. American enterprise 1ms looked Inward from tho sunboanl so lonfT that It has hut recently accustomed accus-tomed Itself to tho idea of looking sen-ward. sen-ward. That It Is waUliif up to tho possibility of reaping' tho harvest of tho deep r.eas many Irus botohou. Thoughtful Americans havo for years seen tho folly of abandoning tho for-olfrn for-olfrn deep Bon onri-j-lnjf tratlo to foreign for-eign steamors. They hnvo grown weary of Ogiurlng up the millions that go to foreigner for freight money ou American goods. But tho manses of our -pooplo have beon too busy, havo made monoy too oaally on shore, to think of turning their thoughts seaward, sea-ward, to appreciate the extent ot tho demands of freight money, or oven to renlUo tho progrcstt (if the country in shipbuilding, inuoh less tho poealbil-itioa poealbil-itioa of development of our money-making money-making power on the seas. How ins aru tho people who real Ire all that is meant by tho statement that a now)y-lnunehel crulsur has made twenty knots on hor trial tripl There tiro not many who know that a twenty-knot ship woe teu years ago a mo-clmiikol mo-clmiikol inipoealblllty In this country. Of tho materluU entering Into the construction con-struction of biioh n vossul there were In this country In 18S9 only thu ingenuity inge-nuity and tho oi-e, blueo that tlmo the steel-plute Industry and numerous allied al-lied buslnoeeos have been built up to build tho bhip. Bngland looked with amusement on the undertaking of the Unltod Statue to build flyori. It tmltl llmttho Americans were clover ix,'pli, but they hail built no fast Htoamore, and thoy had so much to learn that they would never catch up with Europe; Eu-rope; the Amerloaus might turn out some voasols only a little les.fuet than thoso launched from tho I'.uropcnn yards, but thoy would not equal tho I latter. Now tho tone of Kugllnli aom-ment aom-ment has ohsnged. The London Bn-glneer. Bn-glneer. n high authority, U-1U l.nt;lili-men l.nt;lili-men that vcn it the prosont eottruts should pus n frec-bhip bill, lu benefit bene-fit to Hngllsh bhlppers would ho exceedingly limited A few Olyda-blillt Olyda-blillt flyers might bn bun-'hl by mer-Icans mer-Icans and put on Aiu rn 4iv r.-gi .tera to form the nucleus ot a last ocean service serv-ice hut that would bo nil. Its rea-boni rea-boni for this boliof nro not only the American proforenco to wait until Improvement Im-provement of processes has offset the difference In cost between tho two countries, but tho extension of our bhip-bulldlng plants. Homo ot these establhhments, It declares, "aru almost al-most as well ablo to build ships ns nurtcWos, and tho 'almost may be omitted In rjgartl to two of them." Tho great plant nt Newport News ca-poclally ca-poclally moves its admiration for its completeness, area nnd appliances, nnd it saya of tho Cramps that tho cruisers built by them would do no discredit to Ulswlck, Fairfield or Clydebank. Skill In handling vessels comes natural nat-ural lo Americans. Wo havo seen It Illustrated in many ways. Tho yacht raco ltaolf has more than a merely sporting significance It. signifies that wo retain our skill in building fast vessels ves-sels nnd can ndapt that skill to special and peculiar typos with tho host ro-suits. ro-suits. Wo havo ngreatcoastwisofleot, both Ktcam nud tall, wo havo fast cruisers, and If wo do not havo a fast foreign carrying trado under our own flag we shall have only ourselves to blumc. |