The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1918, Page 8

Numerous By GUSTAVUS MYERS. Once wooden shipbuilding then industry, d of inaction, | % "y 28, 1918, and sinking into # long perio | and was laid on January 28, , an has again burst into flourish- |p otwithstanding two months’ delay in! Maine dng prominence a: Not quite a year 1 of shipya! eatne coast. Most of them were relics of a bygone era. Today there are 89 shipyards of size in Maine, ox tending from the ports at the lower end of the state up enst to what fs locally called “Sunrise section, in the vicinity of Calais and Eastport. 3 a producer of ships. ago there were but ds scattered along Old shipbuilding plants that were | long dead and mourned as supposedly | beyond resurrection have sprung into life again, and with an energy they | never knew in their palmiest days. | Revived and expunded, they more turning out ships fo ¢ ‘American flag on all the seas quite a distance up the Penobscot and ( Kennebec rivers und some of the | smaller streams other old shipbuilding | yards which had long since moldered | {nto nothing but memories have been regenerated, modernized, and are bus- fly adding to America’s great growing merchant marine. At other places on coast and rivers splendid new ship- | building yards now thrive on sites that Jess than a year ago were swamps and junkshops. War Found Industry Dead. When the world war came in 1914) there was not a ship being built im Portland. There were steel vessels at the Bath Iron Works, but only a few wooden ships in the whole of Maine. In Portland, as in many other former Maine shipbuilding centers, only re- pair work was being done. Since the present United States shipping board, -under Chairman Ed- ward N. Hurley, began its activities less than a year.ago, Maine shipyards have been engaged in building (as nearly as can be ascertained) 116 ves sels, some of which are for the ship- ping board, others for private inter- ests. A number of those have already been Inunched. Of this total of 116 vessels 41 have been. wooden freight steamers of an aggregate of more than 110,000 deadweight tons, 8 have been steel freighters of a total of 72,600) deadweight tons, and 47 schooners to- taling about 55,000 tons. The remain- der are tugboats, lighters and trawlers. And where a few years ago the ship- building force in Maine was pitifully small, there are now perhaps 15,000 ° men. working at full speed in Maine shipyards. This number does not, of course, include lumbermen or all otherengaged in allied trades, nor does it comprige the force to be taken on in new shipyards fast being estab- shed, i In Portland shipyards there are about 4,500 men, and the value of the ships on which they are working is Poughly estimated at $10,500,000. The total money value of ships being built or to be built in the whole of Maine cannot be learned with any degree ap- | proaching preciseness, but it runs into the tens of millions of doltars. Old Shipbuilders Come Forth. Old Maine shipbuilding families in which shipbuilding and ship operation | had become a sort of hereditary pos- session have again come forth to do all in thelr power to help their country build ships. One of those families is the Hamlen family, contained in the firm of J. H. Hamlen & Son of Port- land. This firm was organized in 1845, and ‘built ships for its cooperage and lumber trade. Up to! 1889, when it dis- continued its shipbuilding, it had eight clippers, brigantines, brigs and bar- kentines plying to the West Indies and. South America. The present senior member, James C. Hamlen, sixty-six years old, inherited the business from his father and grandfather. One of his sons is a Heutenant in the army; another {s associated in business with bin. When the United States shipping board, headed by Mr. Hurley, sent out its urgent call for ships, Mr. Hamlen with immediate vigor formed the Cum- berland Shipbuilding company, person- ally supplying its entire finances, Hard by an old rolling mill at South Port- Jand, in which he had an interest, was a dismal swamp looking out’ on the Island Fort Gorges (a granite affair built by Jefferson Davis), and on Fort Preble on land side. That was last August. In a few months the swamp had been transformed into a large, fully equipped shipbuilding plant with four piling ways, A fifth way is now partially built. A marine railway capable of hauling 3,500 and 4,000 ton ships is under construction, and a large plant for the installation of ship ma- chinery has been established at Ligo- pla, 1% miles west of Portland. | Making It Hot for Huns. Frequently the temperature was ten | ind twelve degrees below zero when fwamp was being filled in and the Shin—the Cumberland—built. but world-famed for its unique | i.y were belping to make it hot for "| they came to Work in this vard. MAINE AGAIN WINS PROMINENCE | AS A PRODUCER OF BIG SHIPS Formerly Renowned for Its Great Number and Fine Quality of Ships, the Pine Tree State, After a Long Period of Stag- nation, Is Now Again Rustling With Activity of Its Shipyards. the’ men rejoiced in the thought that | the Huns. The keel of the Cumber- getting lumber from the South the ‘ship’ was lxunched on July 29. She | was the first of ten wooden freight ‘Steamers, each of 3,500 tons’ capacity, | that the Cumberland Shipbuilding com- | Pary fs constructing for the United | 's shipping*board, The keel of the | second ship, the Falmouth, was laid in the phenomenally short time of four | minutes, The workers are nearly all native | Maine men, It f9 a remarkable evi- | dence of American adaptability and quickness of grasp that not 5 per cent of the force of 1,700 men at this yard knew anything of shipbullding before 8 On the! site of the old Russell ship- yards in Portland there ia now another | modern shipbuilding plunt, that of the Portland Ship Colling company. Noted nearly sixty years ago for their wood- en ships, barks and schooners, the Russell yards passed into oblivion, with not even a shack remaining. In July, 1917, the site was. a mudhole, Then came the Portland Ship Coil-| had been making stalls and bins. for cattle and grain ships, Already it has launched three wooden ships, each of 3,500 tons. The greater part of the 500 men—mostly native Maine men—have ¥ i ing company, which up to that time |Investigatore Get Up Production Sta- ; commodities are being investigated by the federal trade commission for the confidential use of the war-making LAUGH AND GROW FAT. - You sure will if you see “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath,” of FIGURE ON'COSTS FOR WAR tistics on Twenty Essentials. Production costs of twenty essential Twelve been converted into shipbuilders with- “Do Your All,” “Do Your Bit,” is the motto In this yard. On one of the forges is painted the exhorta- in a year, tion, “Roast the Kaiser!” These are only two of a half dozen shipyards in Portland, with more to The other yards are building millions of ‘dollars’ worth of wooden freight ‘steamers, be established. In Other Yards, lighters and tugs. trawlers, In Bath approximately 50,000 dead- weight tons of merchant marine are being built. Much of this. is steel ships being. constructed by the Texas company, Which employs about 2,600 men, Near by, at Boothbay and East Boothbay, six shipbuilding concerns are building or will build this year a total of a dozen or more schooners ranging from 500 to 1,600 tons each. After being dormant nearly forty years, the old Soule shipyard at South Freeport is again bustling with activ- ity. This was one of the yards where half a-century ago many of Maine's best clipper ships were built. Here three 3,500-ton wooden steamers have been under construction this year, Bel- fast yards are turning out four wooden schooners, three of them five-masted. In other Maine places many other wooden schooners, generally three and four masted, and a number of wooden | freight steamers. are being hurried to completion, With delight Maine is watching our merchant marine grow to a supreme place, and with pride,it is sharing in its building. Dancing. after “Parlor, Bedroom Bath,” at McKenzie, Friday the 16th. 8 15 2t Bismarck,ND. The Oldest and Largest Bank inthis sectionof the State | I supplies. Man Pays $50 Fine for Getting Meat Sly has been fined $50 in London for obtaining meat contrary to the ration- Ing order. \ ‘ court, on two successive weeks boxes were consigned by rail to Sly, and one was discovered to contain meat weigh- ing 26 pounds when the bottom drop- ped out in transit. of meat, while the members of the de- fendant's family only numbered fours MOTHER'S FRIEND branches of the government. of the inquiries are for the use of the war industries board in determining | fair prices on purchases, for the gov- ernment, three are for the food ad- ministration, two for the fuel admin- istration, two for the army and one for the railroad administration. The investigations include cost inquiries in- to bituminous oval, petroleum, coke, pig iron, ingots, rolled steel, copper,, zine, nickel, lumber, sand end gravel, locomotives, textiles and various food NOT SLY ENOUGH Contrary to Law. A man whose name was given as According to the evidence before the The second box contained 21 pounds BUY W. Tribune Want Ads Bring Results, FOR Expectant Mothers USED BY THREE GENERATIONS ora THE SAFETY OF YOUR DEPOSITS. ‘ You never need to wor- ry about the safety of your money when de- posited in our Savings Department. This bank is a member of the Federal .Reserve System and that means that all .its affairs are controlled by the United States Government. Consequently, deposi- tors are safeguared -in every possible respect and our methods of doing business are along safe, conservative lines. We welcome accounts of One Dollar and up- wards and ‘pay 4% com- pound interest.’ which the above is one of the scenes. This comedy is one of A. H. Wood’s latest successes and will be the attraction at the Auditor- ium tonight. D {NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORE- CLOSURE SALE, Notiée is hereby. given that that cer- tain mortgage executed and delivered by John Bostrom (Bachelor) mortgag- or to First National bank, (corpora- tion), of Bismarck, county of Burleigh and state of North Dakota, mortgagee, and filed for record in the office of the\ register of deeds of the county of Burleigh and ‘state of North Dakota on the, 29th day, of. November, 1913, and recorded in book 116 of mort- gages at page 292, and assigned by said mortgagee to Bismarck Loan & Investment Company, Bismarck, N: D. a corporation, by written instrument dated July 16, 1918, filed for record ——_———— i dated the 28th day of November, 1913,|- | NOTICE OF EXPIRATION OF RE- in the office of the register of deeds of Burleigh county, North Dakota on the 18th day of July, 191°, and record- ed in book 155 on page ‘25, will be foreclosed by a sale of the premises in such mortgage and hereinafter de- scribed. at the front door of the court house in the county of Burleigh and state of North Dakota at the hour of ten o'clock A. M. on the 3rd day of September, 1918, to satisfy the amount due o nsuch mortgage on the day of sale. The premises described in such mortgage and which will be sold to; satisfy thé same are described as fol- lows: | Northeast quarter (NE 1-4) of the Northwest quarter (NW 1-4) of Sec-! tion ten (10) Township one hundred | 'thirty-.ine (139) Range seventy-nine (79) containing forty acres more or less according t the government sur-! | vey thereof, all in the county of Bur-| leigh and state of North Dakota. | There ‘will due on such mortgage fat the date of sale the sum of three hundred twenty-four and 33-100 dol- lars 1324.33). % Dated this 26th day of July, 1918. BISMARCK LOAN & INVESTMENT COMPANY (a Corporation) Assignee of Mortgagee. | THEODORE KOFFEL, Attorney for Assignee of Mortgagee. Bismarck, N, D. 7—27; 8—3 10 17 24 31 BUY W. 5, 3 — DEMPTION STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA, County of Burleigh—Ss. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR, Bis- marck, N. D. To Caroline. G. Cochrane: You are hereby notified that. the tract, of land hereinafter described-and which was assessed in the name of C. G. Little for taxation for the year 1913 Little and Pet. F. was on the 9th day of December, 1914, duly sold as provided by law, for the delinquent taxes of the year 1913, and that the time for redemption from said sale will expire ninety days from the completed service of this notice. Said land is described as follows: Und. 1-2 Lot 8, Block 28, McKenzie’s Add. to the City of Bismarck, Amount sold for, $1.53. Precis taxes paid by purchaser, 71, Amount required to redeem at this date $7.28. Ih addifion to ‘the above amount you will be required to pay the costs of the service of this notice and un- less you redeem said land from saia sale before the expiration of ‘the time for redemption as above stated, a deed thereof will issue to the holder ot the tax sale certificate provided by law. ¥ i GOOD BYE STRAW HATS ~ PRICES CUT IN TWO On all Straw, Panama, Cloth and Silk Hats, for men, 4 boys and children. CUSTOM TAILORING EXPERT REPAIRING FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918. 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Has ‘demonstrated its. practical efficiency this season by making’ the harvest of the sec- ond: largest wheat: crop ever proéduced in this country “Safe for De, moeracy.” { \ ‘THIS ADVERTISEMENT CONTRIBUTED TO THE WINNING OF THE WAR BY The Bismarck Tribune Peéring through his trench periscope, across the shell-searred waste of No Man’s Land; the German sol- dier ‘catches an occasional glimpse of the new enemy that he has already learned to @gread. Deep forebod- ‘ings of evil begin to take form in his mind. : America’s millions of boys in Khaki are flowing in asteady stream to the fields of France. Soon more ships _ will be carrying more fighters and more food that they will need to “carry on” to Berlin. - The Hun can see this army. But he fears even more: the bigger army that is making possible the presence of millions of our boys in the trenches. It takes 6 to 8 men to back up one soldier on the fir- ing line. 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