Show I LIES ON GRAB GRIB 4 Inconsistency of its Promoters is js S Shown Show Up U 1 0 CRAMP CHANGES FACE FA E EI EGO I GO COL COLORE ORE TO SUIT HANNA KAiNA 1 Special Correspondence Corre New York Feb The fallacy of tiC the arguments of the ship skip subsidy shouters becomes more apparent here on OIl Investigation Investigation The pending bill bil Is privately admitted by to be as s raw rawa a steal as was sas ever proposed ed Government reports colored to suit the purpose are being used to bolster the project An example is 18 the report of the commissioner of navigation Mr Chamberlain In his discussion of cost coat co t of American A as 88 compared with British ship building Mr fr Chamberlain insists that British labor and machinery Is more effective trem the fact fat that It tt is conducted on a wholesale as a distinguished from front the re retail retail retail tail scale upon unon which American ship shipyards shipyards shipyards yards are conducted and in his last annual report he gives a table showing that in 1899 Great Britain produced tons of steel shipping and the United States tons The force of his argument is i broken broke by the fact that of the thirty largest ship yards In the world the Cramps is second in the list and larger than any in Great Britain that the New Newport Newport port News yard is sixth and anti surpassed bv by 1 Y but one In Ireland and antI andone andone antIone one in En while the Union Iron Ironworks Ironworks Ironworks works of San Francisco and the Amer American AmerIcan Amerlean ican lean Ship Building company of Cleve Cleveland cl Cleveland e land Jand are included in the first twelve America has already of the largest ship yards ards in existence and d Is 18 Isso isso so adding to them that in Ia ship yards yaMs which may be truly considered whole hole wholesale sale within two years she will lead the he world Indeed a year ago alO Senator Frye him himself himself self admitted that C P yards at Newport News were probably the finest ship yards In the world And Mr Chamberlain himself selects selecta the fourth in size of American ship shipyards shipyards yards for the following explanation In point of cost promptness of de tie delivery fie livery and adaptability to the special trade steel steamship building on the great lakes at the present pre ent time is not surpassed by ship building in any other part of or the world It does not however come com into competition with IUt the ping ning of foreign nations and while a aJ J J source of strength to tf the United States I it is not vet yet a factor in any Rny effort we may make for a share of the trade After Mr Chamberlain had written the words thus quoted but before they had been printed for congress he had himself favorably upon the status for American registry of a class of ton vessels which the American Ship Building company Mr Hannas Hanna home concern familiarly known as the Great Lakes Ship Building trust had already arranged to build on the lakes lake for the ocean trade Its organ the Marine Review of Ceveland Is natural naturally ly booming the subsidy bill Mil Contradicts Own Statement The force of Mr 11 Chamberlains re xe repeated reI pe ted suggestion as to successful ful lines that they have been built under sub subsidy I sidy sid is most decidedly broken by his admission of his annual report Two steam each of 2 gross tons larger larer than n any steamships now in existence exl have been contracted for forby forby forby by the Great Northern railroad to be launched during durl lit the fiscal year 1892 1902 designed d for direct trade between Puget sound China and anti Japan These r yea ves vessels vesel asIa sels of thirteen knots will not be elig eligible ible for tor mail mall subsidy under the act of tf 1891 They are the first ocean steel steamships ordered in the United States exclusively for direct competition with without without without out subsidY with foreign forel n vessels vessel yes elsM Mr Mt M Hill Hm the president of the Great Greet Northern railroad says I We e can build ships in this country as well welland and as cheaply ch as they can be built buiK anywhere in the world Now I Iliad had figures within the last year fur furnished furnished furnished from the best beat builders on the Clyde and figures from as good build builders ers era as there are re in this country and to my utter amusement amazement the American figures on a single ship were eo to clOO under the best beat Clyde build era er and when we get Ift the ship subsidy sub thiat is Ix promised ed see Bee how happy we shall shaU be beThey beThey beThey They have set apart 90 I per cent of the subsidy appropriation for the Pa Pacific Pacific ocean No doubt some of my friends thought they were serving me mel but I would mum muck rather see them take the duty off oil the that are to go into the ships when they are built But Mr Ir Chamberlain in his report mentions the Steamship company as 85 first in the world in importance and enterprise with Its tonnage of shipping averaging tons tens t na to the vessel which has been built up without sub nuh subsidies subsidies sIdes and is recorded by Mr Ur Chamber Chamberlain lain as SUB paying better dividends S than Utan its great subsidized rival V Cramp Admits Ability to Compete Compote Nine year since In the North Amer Aster American AmerIcan ican lean Revie Charles Ch ramp Cramp ramp said saki The proper r form in is which to put the question Is Can you build a ship to do dothe dothe dothe the work of the City of New N York or ot the Majestic or the Columbia in all respects for the some same cost co t To that ut question I would reply Yes or within ae M small a margin as would be likely to prevail in ina Ina Ina a similar case cese between any two tWp British Britten shipyards It Lt is the fact that the first cost t of or ships is not net only not a prime factor but it Is not e en en a factor in tn any Rolly competition that may occur be between between between tween this country and Great Britain for a share cheroot of the traffic tn of the ocean ocen If the e current policy of naval recon reconstruction be e pursued for another de do decade decade cade till 19 1902 coupled d with a vigorous and consistent execution of the mesa meas measure 8 urea ure recently enacted in behalf of the merchant marine the question which byrne forme the s subject of this paper will be ie asked no more unless indeed Its point Should bf be J and not ni two be asking one another Can we build ships I as lIB economically as they can in the United States State Put Pu the plats plans and nd specifications t of I the average English tramp in the of an American Shipbuilder hl bunder and he Ic could not duplicate tw her lIe He would build a better vessel Yee l of superior workman workmanship ship and neater finish in every respect respectS S C Under those se circumstances this Uris branch of the subject may be dismissed summarily with the statement an English freight ship of the usual type could not be duplicated in this country at any cost I |