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Show Largest American Ship Built flvS::::f3dU;.;:lii: fffip"p:!SiiiaiB:MiiiM :s::;:f:iaifi.;:S f aJA 41 -,--srcrt" -ti ' " r'X, , P - " , 0 NAME "MANHATTAN" GIVEN AMERICA'S NEWEST SHIP . i After sixteen months of profound itudy and considerable research, the management of the United States Lines hae decided to name the first of the 30.000 ton linjrs under construction at Camden, the Manhattan. Tht namt for the second of tht two, largest ships to be built in this country is still under consideration. At soon as the contracts were a-warded a-warded for the construction of these liners the problem of naming them was taken up. hundreds of names were submitted sub-mitted to the management from various var-ious sources in this country and Europe and by careful study as to their adaptability they were eliminated until only Manhattan remained the one name that embodied all the cpndi(iqns fhjt had to be met. Th name desired had tq have a, historical background: should be ' distinctly American; should end in "an" for conformity with tht ending of the name of the flagship of the fleet Levithan, and, lastly, should be a name not difficult to pronounce and easily remembered. Manhattan meets with all these' conditions. con-ditions. Being an Indian name it is purely American. Its pronunciation is not difficult, not nearly as much as other abori-inaj nomenclature )ncj therefore is not easily forgotten for it means so rm'-h to the average. Ameri- can, even the- schotlchild. Another important im-portant factor is that the name, being important in American history, would be pronounced and spelled the samt in any alien tongue. . There has been considerable dispute over the origin of the name Manhattan but William Wallace Tooker in his book "The Origin of the Name Manhattan", Man-hattan", admitting this uncertainty and dqubt comes to these cqncuign,s: That thg nam? waj bc$tq'wecj UjJqn the island bearing It, according to all tec-ords tec-ords of the Dutch and English, that the name is of aboriginal origin irrespective irre-spective of the manner in which it was spelled by various tongue and that it meant "People of tht island of the hills". This is explained by the fact that the first element "Manah" is the equivalent for island and "atin" is Indian In-dian for declivity, side, little hill. Again, if pointed oit, the new ship will dock in Manhattan, the name given to the island by the' Castes Figu-, Figu-, artives of (614 and 1616 believed to be -the earliest maps on which. "M.an-hattin" "M.an-hattin" appeared. Hudson Is said to have had a copy of these maps when he made the voyage to this country ' on the Half Moqn. Further, "that Mahhattin, in accord with Algonquin custom and analysis, was descriptive of the topography of the island at the (Continued on Page 8) (Continued from Pa ire 1) date of its discovery and its settlement, all the early Dutch pictures of New Amsterdam bear witness". Rev. John Heckewelder, well known Moravian missionary who devoted the greater part of his life to Christianizing Christianiz-ing the Delaware Indians in Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and Ohio, is said to have been one of the first to offer an entymology for the name. Mr. looker quotes hit history. Manners and Customs of Indian In-dian Nations. 1817, a follows: "The current account given by the Delaware's and Mohegans of the scenes which took place when they were first made to touch spirituous liquors by the Dutch who landed on New York Island. Is-land. ' . ' . . They called it Manahachtinienk, which in the' Delaware Del-aware language means, the island where we all became intoxicated'." ' Dr. Heckewclder later qualifies this, as quoted by George Folsom in tlie Collections of the New York Historical Histori-cal Societies, by saying: The Dela-wa Dela-wa res call this place (New York Island) Is-land) Manahattaning or Mannahach-tanlnk. Mannahach-tanlnk. to this day.' They have frequently fre-quently told me that it derived its name from this general intoxication, and that the word comprehended the samras to say, "The (sand or place of general Intoxication. ". NEW SHIP DIMENSIONS Length overall ... 705 feet Lenth on waterline 685 feet Length between perpendiculars perpendicu-lars 660 feet Beam moulded 86 feet Depth to promenade deck 7 feet Designed deadweight 12,000 tons Loaded displacement . 32.000 tons (Continued next week) . |