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Show Two New Ships for Argentine. Boston, Mass. That, nearly 90 per cent of tho ?22,000,000 to bo pnid by tho Argentino Republic for tho building build-ing of two "Dreadnnught8" in American Ameri-can ship yards will go for labor, nnd only about ten per cent for materials, Is estimated hero soml-olllclnlly. One of the ships will bo built at Qulncy, Mass., and tho other at Camden, N. J. Each will be 570 feet long with n displacement dis-placement of 28,000 tons nnd will have n speed of 22 knots, generated by 40,-000 40,-000 horsepower. |