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Show SCRAPPING THE SHIPS EM PLOYS THOUSANDS (ha farmer with implement of toil and th families of ail with vehicles fur pleuur-. The denuding ct these ships means to the ifuvernment a minimum coat of about tTO.000,000 for the ten year naval holt.'ay. This represents about the Junksble value of the mere hulls of thene ships. One-half a cent on the dollar Is what the "scrapper" pays. The Government will save about $200,-OOO.Otxj $200,-OOO.Otxj that wouM tave to be spent for mofe ships If the naval holiday had not been accepted. Many thought It would have been more patriotic If not more dramatic, to take the condemned ships out to sea and bury them, as the Navy Department Depart-ment did with the 111 fated Maine, but tt.e thousands of workmen thrown out of work suddenly by the abandonment of the battleship building program demanded de-manded employment and the Government Govern-ment s a wy to keep many of the enforced idle workmen huny for at least si1 months. In ft way thia was a counted a fortunate thing for th ahlpvards along the Delaware, as It was a 'proMfpi what to do with the trronje, of men ho were rlamorttig daily for work Twenty-seven warships, war-ships, sixteen of whi h were completed nr.d el p-irtly bu.it. are on the doomed Il1. and their demolition will keep m-arly iri.ooo men bus' for sis months or robr. IT l almost a pre-war fever of Industry In-dustry that has stricken tha banks of the Delaware, the high-et high-et tem;rrature of activity bein noted St HriJ' fLurg. the stene of such nerve r.w l:ir:g energy four years ago. when joo.tnjo mn worked d:y and night to build a bridge of ships acroa the Atlantic to help end the world war. The birthplace of many of the navy's fighting nhips Is now their "graveyard." "grave-yard." The Delaware haa long been aHMxriated with obsolete ships which have been sold simply aa such 10 , sinulli.-r Powers, principally Houth American republics, in whose waters they have floated impressively enough to k-t ; in awe revolutionists or aid the Ins urgent caue tf the people wer inclined to end tome unpopular die-riitrih'y. die-riitrih'y. No that the scrapping progran of the arms corift-rence haa become ef-fcrihe ef-fcrihe a, nrw Industry has sprung up, that of cutting up nw and old ships of the navy into scrap fur the Jjnk pile and araelu-r. rrotabiy a tenth of the number of nrvn who were ke;t batsy buii'lin; sonieNf these very ships are now buy hackingHhern to pieces wf h acetylene torches anV giant nippers. In on shipyard alonKthere are l!ng dismantled, dis-mantled, and airidy altnoai-ipped lo the inner akin, the battleships M.iine. Missouri and Wliwonsin, the ont o proud first clans cruiser t'olutn-the t'olutn-the monitors Jxark, Monterey and T'-fiiopuh and numerous dMtioycrs and ni.ller craft. Hubm&rinrs with sides of cardbo.trd lbiki.v"fl are being nppd into strip with shears and ch .. Junt as a tearnatreA uses a scls-wrs and kulfo In ripping apart an oid garment. Everywhere there is bustle. punotuald with staccato concusfuons from corn-ire.-ed air hammers and rippers, but there la lacking the exelti ment that marked the building of the ships th r Is a grimlike tenacity of purpose pur-pose expressed by those ft ho ar dis-?'ting dis-?'ting them. The first of the great scrapping clf rutlon is already under way. th 1'. S. S. Washington having been de-;u!dof de-;u!dof much of her eMi muf d twenty million dollar hull, deck and interior fcquipment. The momef.t the torch luui hd her d'k to r:p her ,op-n th re of The junk dealer was upon her. So was the eye of the manuf iurer of rnathmerv. of toys and of nhip equipment. equip-ment. The junk dealer had his es ;oPyrlht. VKZ. by The Nw fork Htral4. focussed on th plumbing and steam fitting materials of th ship; he had a ready market for brass, copper, lead and wire rope. The manufacturer of machinery was after malleable metal. Th toy maker wanted metals of alt kinds in small quantities to Con vert Into mechanical boats and otb:r toys of a marln or military nature, while the ship chandler waa ready to buy ventilators, chains and capstans, fur which there la always a market o"ln 4 to th number of storm worn ships that com to port for refitting. The automobile-, manufacturer is also among those present at the dismantling yards: armor plate eleven Inches thick is readily convertible int axles for hlKh powered cars, half Inch ateel caning plates can be rolled into an eighth Inch thickness for motor bodies or used for cylinder calngs. Nothing is being wasted. There la a demand fur every hit of metal that Is being torn from the sides-of the Ignobly sTr1ken ships. The toy maker w:ll amuse the. patriotic lr.silncts of the (.nil', the manufacturer will mak easy with a sewing machine the household house-hold cares of the mother and provide |