Show THE AXCIEXT MAUIXEU The Ancient Mariner of our morning contemporary continues to be much wrought up over our article on the St Louis The error Sn our article was in calling the City of Paris the City of Rome and that was a slip of th pen The Ancient Mariner says our neighbor neigh-bor made it appear on Sunday marning that the e < hip City of Paris had just been built by permission of the United States government on the other side i I We said nothing of the kind I What we said was that the act of Congress I gave the American company the right < U buy the City of New York and the 1 City of Rome City of Paris and admitting ad-mitting them to American registry thus giving them the same rights as vessels built in this country j The important point is the granting i of American registry rights to these I two foreignbuilt ships Those rights were conditioned on the building of two similar vessels in this country That this was the essential paint is shown by what President Cleveland himself said when the St Louis was launched I hope I shall not be accused of making 1 mak-ing a supgestfon calculated to mar the gratification which the occasion Inspires I if I remind you the ship we huve just launched was built in fulfillment of conditions con-ditions imposed in considaration of the I relaxation of our registry 3aws The Herald said I The condition was accepted tnul the St Louis is O1A of the baab fu1iling I I that condition Our contemporary should explain why these conditions were imposed and why accepted There is one frank honest truthful statement in our contemporarys article It is this What we do not know about seamanship and ships would make a Very largs book An example of tins was given by it in its Mondays issue when it said that outside the I cost of labor there is very little cost in I a ship This last statement is abroute I proof of the first as already more tlvan six thousand tons of steel have been I worked into the mammoth steamer the St Louis If Captain Mahan is not I J careful the Ancient Mariner will snatch his laurels from him I |