Contemporary American biography (1895) (14587963907)

Identifier: contemporaryamer03newy (find matches)
Title: Contemporary American biography
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York, Atlantic publishing and engraving co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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, which owns her, havebeen desirous not to claim too much for her, but to let her performance speak for itself. Thespeed made by the St. Louis yesterday, on her official speed-trial for acceptance as an auxiliarycruiser in the United States Navy, places her so close to the Lucania and the Campania that thereis every possibility of her cutting down the ocean record. When it is remembered that the twoCunarders are much larger than the St. Louis, the success of the Cramps in giving the Amer-ican ship equal speed is an augury of victory for American shipyards in every detail of con-struction. It will not be long before foreigners will put their orders for ships where they canget the best—namely, in the United States. As is well known, these ships, the St. Louis and St. Paul, representing the very zenith at-tainment of American shipbuilding, were produced under a policy inaugurated by the Presi-dent of the International Navigation Company, who agreed, as a condition to having other ships
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CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. 467 of his company, the ocean greyhounds, the New York and the Paris, admitted to Americanregistry, he would cause two other ships of at least equal tonnage to be built in the UnitedStates. The proposal being ratified by the Government, the work was naturally performed bythe Cramps; and with what result has already been briefly told in this sketch (and voluminouslyin the press of two continents). The ships are American from truck to keelson, and couldWilliam Cramp—the founder of the establishment at which these splendid products of Americangenius and industry were planned and executed—have lived to witness the splendid craft thusgiven to the commerce of the world, he would doubtless have felt more pride in that fact, and intheir general excellence, than in the handsome profit attending their construction. Such wasthe nature of his pride; and that his sons emulate it, and enjoy the patriotic aspect of the honor,is well understood by those most famil