Show SHIP CARPENTER VANISHING Onrush of the Modern Age of Steel Is Driving Him Out of Business Quaint old craftsmen whoso In rs in years past went for tho iipbuii ng of Chicagos lake commerce hiss teen their fates fall In hard lines with the on o ti 12 i r + 4r b J 1 i s 0 W3J HE I s SIllI CAnPENTEHS MAKING ANCHOlt STOCK FOR SCIIOONEH rush of the modern ago of steel There still exists along tho river however tho typo of hardslnowed workman whoso adze and piano swung busily the days when hundreds of wooden craft crowded crowd-ed Chicagos harbor and races by wind for n thousand miles wero common events in the lives of hardy lake mariners mar-iners Year by year the numbers of ship carpenters dwindle Year by year tile stout fleet of lumber craft which braved tho gales of Lake Michigan In tile days of old has dwindled Today there Is n pitiful remnant of the once prosperous loot nnd tho ships earn a precarious living No more of them are built The steel giants of commerce are crowding them out of existence With them Is vanishing tho ship carpenter The lit tie force yot employed has only an odd job of patching or the fashioning of an anchor stock I occasionally The swirl of smoke from tho funnels of lake leviathans levia-thans is covering Chicago river and hiding hid-ing forever tho picturesque character who labored In oak with chisel and plane for tho rearing of Chicagos tower of prosperity |