New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 8, 1917, Page 6

. GOETAAL'S TS| UNP OVER TRAGES and Clark. Insist on Build- ing Wooden Fleet Washington, June 8.—The fight jon General George W. Goethals, foral manager of the emergency L corporation, because he rejected 3 ‘wooden ship program, reached late yesterday when two of ubordinates, F. A. Eustis, assist- heral manager of the corpora- ‘and F. Huntington Clark, an ef= who' are convinced not only that program was practical, but: that its adoption might be the de- ciding factor in the war against Ger- many, broke over the traces and in formal statements placed thelr cass before the people. There was plenty of evidence last night that the rupture was comple and it was generally accepted that General Goethals would refuse (o continue his work unless jboth of the men gave up their positions and lets him in full ‘charge. Mr. Clark = said that he had not resigned and intend- ed to continue his efforts to put the wooden ship program across, unless removed. The position of Mr. ‘Eustis, he said, was the same. They had in- tended no personal attack upon “Gen- leral Goethals, but felt that the peopls should be acquainted with the facts as they saw them. ‘Mr. Clark frank- ly, was willing to take the conse- quences and go-out, if the blow: feil, General Goethals read the state- ments of Eustis and Clark and then asserted briefly that he had nothing % say “ton It is understood that the whole matter will be taken up at a meeting of the | executive council of ‘the emergency ‘fleet cor- pvrauon Muy and the final nckon- ings mad Whrowing Away Tonnage. The statements in which it was said in effect: that General- Goethals was throwing away 2,000,000 or more tons of wopden ships which could be built | without interfering with his steel ship program, was the direct outgrowth of the address the general made in New York before the Iron and Steel Institute, when he characterized the wooden ships plan as “hopeless.” Tt was made, it was said, without con- sultation with Chairman Willlam Denman of the shipping board or any other member of that board or of the executive..council of the emergency fleet corporation. In fact, Chairman Denman, who has from time to time been reported at odds with General Goethals over the subject of wooden ships, assertad that he had no knowledge of the Eustice-Clark statements until they were submitted to him by newspaper correspondents. Mr. Denman placed responsibility for the statement en- tirely on the men who issued them, and responsibility for thé shipbuilding programs, wooden and steel, on Gen- eral Goethals. The latter, he said, had been invested with full and un- questioned powers when made gen- eneral manager of the emergency fleet corporation, and had not been hamp- ered and would not be hampered in any way by the shipping board- He did, however, renew his expres- sion of displeasure over the fact that General Goethals had ‘attacked the wooden ship program at a public din- ner jn New York, and indicated that a similar displeasure was now visited upon Messrs. Eustis and Clark. His only object, said Mr. Denman, was to get the greatest number of ships built in as short a timeé as possible. That left the comtroversy, for the time being, between General'Goethals and Mr. Eustis and Mr. Clark. It de- veloped that the final straw had been statements made by General Goethals before congress .committees in’ which he maid. the wdoden ship program ‘would be cut down to about 200 ships, and ‘his reported. refusal this or- noon to give consideration to offers made by firms which, Mr. Clark said, were: among the biggest in the coun- try, for the construction of wooden ships on a large scale. One of these firms was, MacArthur Brothers cum- pany, which offered t& build 100 wooden ships in twelve months and 200 in eighteen months. Mr. Clark | satd it was the firm which did most of the conmstruction work at the World's Fair in St. Louls. The presi- dent of the concern, it was said, had recetved little consideration from General Goethals, and finally had given up. Up to mhaur yesterday . there general feeling among those’ thq oiitside that the row over 3 ipbullding plan had been | amoothed over; that General Goethals | struction of ships, ,was going to have his way unmolag. ‘ed, ana that the steel ships woul the feature 'of the program: without ‘further comtroversy. The house had acted favorably on the amendment to the Urgency Deficiency bill granting $760,000,000 for the immediate con- and while the bil: itself was held because . of other features, it was felt that the ‘ship- ‘building program was ii.a sense a¢- || tually under way, under a full hud ](lHPTflEPiIIEHflMHEJ{ - CLOTHES - withthepmalwnthhichwemem This is Air-O-Weave time; light _suits .for 70S. ML HALLORAN Inc. 248 Main Street | Bustis and Mr. of steam at last. . It was'at this moment (hm Mr. Clark mnotified the newspaper offices and gave out . the statements. Mr. Clark said later that he had been vérv conservative in his estimates of what could he done to solve the submarine situation and feed ‘the Allies. He felt that many more than 1,000 wooden cargo ships of 3,000 tons could be built within eighteen months. He could not understand, either, ‘General Goethals' ’ objection to cost plus 10 per cent. basis or the cost plus.fes basis of payment, as the corporation had full power to inves- tigate all companies to which it let contracts. *“My only purpose in doing what I have done,he said, “is to get as. many ships afloat as possible at once and win this war. I think it can be done and want to do everything T to carry out my convictions. T don’t want by any chance to be too|. late, and I fear that may be’ the case if.the wooden“ship program on & large scale is dropped.” ~ fr. Clark’s Statemnt. Mr. Clark’s statement, which treat- ed the situation generally, read: “As far as we can learn, the pres- ent program -contemplates about 3,- 000,000 tons of shipping in eighteen months. This amount was sunk in the first foyr months of this year, and the shortage is already appalling. “The wooden-ship program has '| been cu® to about one-fifth of its orig- | This is not nearly iiberately neglecting 3,000,000 tans of ina] size—apparently to make room for steel ships. “It is possible to build of wood 2,- 000,000 tons more than are at pres- ent contemplated without in the slightest degree interferring with the steel construction. “A orisis in shipping will arrive by Dec. 1 and our allies’ and our suc-’| cess depends on our abilify to begin to produce ships by that time. “Very few steel ships can be pro- duced in time. The early ships will be the wooden ships and they may decide the issue. “The plan of fabricating ships of structural steel is a splendid one and it will succeed, but it is new, and ex- pected ‘delays will be encountered in carrying it out. On the other hand the wooden ship is as old as clvili- zation and there are no uncertainties regarding ifs construction. “¥ven if we build all the wood ships we can in addition to the steel, we can only hope for a total of 500,000 tons in eighteen months. enough. In . de- woaden ships we are taking terrible chances. ““The construction of wooden ships bas been limited in many ways. The standard design is difficult to- bulid, requires a high percentage of -kmod ship carpenters, large timbers, and much hard labor. This ship is too ‘Jarge for the Welland Canal ‘locks, eliminating a large number of ships which c# be built in G;ut Lakes. Many aof the old Maine ship- vards are willing to build a slightly different ship than the standard de- sign, but will not build the standard as it represents a radical departure from their established practice. “We have another design which could be bililit much more rapidly— which has been "accepted by the American Bureaus of Shipping and by Mr, Ferris, the Board's consulting ar- chitect, and ’'which many builders much prefer. ‘The original form of contract called for payment on the basis of cost plus a\flat fee. This is the form used by Canadian government and by our own navy. The present policy is to insist on contracts on a flat price, put- ting all the risk on the contractor. In view of the uncertainty as to how the war will effect business conditions, most of tlie cantractors arg unwilling to take this risk and are withdrawing their offers to build. “Further delay in starting construc- tion would be ruinous. Civilization looks to us to create the tonnage which may prevent the submarine from winning the war. “In this race of construction againat destruction we can afford to overiook no material nor design which wiil in- crease our output of cargo-carrying craft,” Eustls’ Statemeat. Mr. Eustis, while a bit more cor- servative, was nfne the less emphatic in his'demand. that the wooden ship building program be carried out to the full, and he cited facts and figures which he believed showed General Goethals in the wrong in turning away the wooden shipbuilders, He sald; “We ire at war. mined to-darry the war to & success ful conclusion. do this we must have moge ships. We have not enough now and ships are being destroyed faster than they are being replaced. ‘We need them now. the Emerxency Fleet Corporation to build ships, ~Fertunately that cor- poration finds that it can build many ships for a permanent fleet. This is g00d. We all prefer steel ships to wood, but the emergency is still with us. We need all the ships we can possibly build of bath steel and wood and we particularly need ships for early delivery. , “Woaden ships fit for the emer- cy can be built quicker than steél ips and without interfering with steal ship construction, “We_have just received written of- fers from ten conmtractors, among whom are some of the strongest firms ‘We are deter- ‘We have created EXCHANGE TT OR KEEP ITT NO RED TAPE---NO FUSS--NO BOTHER. WANT IT---AND HOME IT COMES! Put this genuine Columbia Grafonola in your home today! SAY YOU Keepltand\mexttwo months—then exchanxe it, if you like, at full prieo— $15, for a larger, r{,fonoh or records, or both. -You have been mtendmg to get a Grnfonola some time—you're not diflerent {from apybody else.* You've made up your mind to get a BIG machine. . All right. But dén’t go along without music and fun and entertainment while you ting ready for the outlay. 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I do not] know what action .the Emergency Flest Corporation will take, The country should know what are the poasibilities.” Statement by Denman, * Here is what Chairman Denman of the Shipping Board had_ to say about the controversy: “None of the members of the Ship- ping Board had any knowledge of the statements attributed to the engineers; Mr. Eustis and Mr Clark ,intimating a refusal by General Goethals to build as many woaden ships as he might, nor had they the slightest in- timation that they were to be issued. General Goethals,’ as head of 'the Emergency Fleet Corporation, in th service of which they have-been act- ing, has entire responsibility for the shipbuilding program, wood and steel. That power was given him when the corporations was. organized on Aprll 16, 1017, ‘“I'he board has not insisted that preference be given éither to steel, of quickly constructed tonnage .for|of his immediate war necessities.. Goethals has noét requested any as- and any request for . assistance m the board that he might have 3 or may make, would have received and will receive instant attention. I have préviously indicated my, opinion as to places where discussions of such a serious character should be injtiated.) Apparently these gentlemeén do not agree with me.” Dr. Eustis is a resident of Boston, and Mr. Clark comes from New York. Originally both were in the emplo; | of the Shipping Board at $1 a year, and they brought here the plan for the great fleet of wooden shipe. When the Emérgehcy Flest Corpora- tion was formed, with Géneral Goe- thals at its head, Mr. Eustis and Mr. Clark were assigned to that organiza- tion ,and came under.the jurisdiction of General Goethals. Mr. Eustis was a member of the Executive council, as well as assistant general manager. 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