| Show BUILDING OF VESSELS There Were Constructed In Ii the United States During Year 1899 Washington Dec SL The total num number ber ir of vessels vesse built and officially num numbered numbered by the bureau of navigation dur during durIng ing the calendar year Just closed was as J 4 of gross compared with 95 of gross tons toes for the year ear Steam vessels built during 4 9 numbered of gross torts tons with of gross grom tons r iSis vela numbered of gross gro tons d with of gioe tana t for The increase ia almost wholly on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts where 58 ves ls IS of gross tons were buir buil with vessels of gross TI SS tons for foi 1898 On the Pacific c I aSt only vessels of gross grose 1 ns ni were built compared with of c 23 gross grom tons tois for the previous year This falling off to in construction on Ott the Pacific in spite of the fact that the tiie Alaskan tade rest next year will be bev beelY v try elY large lare is due pertly partly to the belief that bat American vessels hither 1 I employed as transports to Manila il be released and enter the coasting trade in the spring Construction on oil the lakes comprised seventy of gross grom tons compared with of grass on eni for 1898 1398 on the Mississippi and rivers of gross tons compared with of gross grom tons tors for 1898 The total output for the United Kingdom for the year has not beers been ascertained but tt It will exceed of gross tons torm all of were vere steel built during 1898 The rhe returns for tn the first six months of the he fist year show the construction ia In Inthe the United States of 57 vessels of 4 grots tons compared with yes ves vessels sels sOis of groas gr tons for the cor corresponding corresponding responding six months of the previous fiscal y year ar arNone None of the foregoing figures include unrigged barges and canal boats bosis In fn ing these the total tonnage built in the United States dur during durIng ing the current fiscal year bids fair to be somewhat over gross gro tons |
