Show OF or THE TRE HOUR sonic arc are boio born great some achieve aali eve grew greyness pre aness ness anil and stoic hao greatness throat upon beni JOHN ROACH rne H KICI perhaps no one of americas industrial du men i i more frequently talked and yr itten about than john roach wh aee name was the most conspicuous ablong the speakers at lit tariu convention in city he ile isn ian etrene TOd advocate sub which Z ieli in to the restoration of iho strength and prestige of the united states marine marine mr VM was born in ireland but camo came to this country when hen sixteen years old rending no cm nt in new nenn york vork the poor i friendless friend lehs boy croiser over info new jersey in carolf of a m roan mi who had worked father in the tile old country he IR found him at the fhe hottell works gifty ty niiles fl ibin jersa cit city and procured rohm work in in the ame which was TM boril toril by y jaw james alaire allaire ll aire three cars aiom his life lifo i ill alie united stages he be had bad I fifteen hundred dollars and I leaving eavin i g the balance of his savin savings as in the hands of mr allaire Allai rc tooka took a small amount of cah and started forthe for the west with the intention to buy laud land sir Al laires failure in in business killed this project a and nd left tho young man under the necessity of working ds a laborer in Ju order to live lie ile returned to new york city and shortly afterwards mhd hd was a married man by this timo thile set b up in in business in m which lie pros perl for a while but waa afterwards financially ruined by the cs ex ofa boher undaunted he be started af afresh nesb arnd tha ovner owner odthe of the foundry in which were ivero built the largest ent engines gines ever constructed in the united states up to that time after a few years he lie bought the morgan iron neptune the franklin forge and the allaire works in november 1871 he also bought the ship shipyards yards yary at chester penn owned by mew rs blainer sous since that time he bus hus built saine some ino fine steamships but has failed to successfully artilly compete with the builders of the clyde and in E europe because of the high duty dunyon on materials ILs his plan to overcome this difficulty is 13 for congress to liberally subsidize ship owners and not to revise the tariff jn I the direction ot t freo trade |