The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . rded in print. Aswe steam slowly along its riverboundary, it seems difficult to recon-cile the masses of gaunt scaffolding,gigantic forests of iron and ribs ofhalf-built ships that rise up likeskeletons, with the few miserable,stunted sliiubs that sixty years agogave this place the semblance of apleasure ground, to which the towns-people of the time resorted on holi-days or during the long summer even-ings. Why in the near foreground—•now the Abercorn Basin, where al-most half-a-dozen immense steamersare
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . rded in print. Aswe steam slowly along its riverboundary, it seems difficult to recon-cile the masses of gaunt scaffolding,gigantic forests of iron and ribs ofhalf-built ships that rise up likeskeletons, with the few miserable,stunted sliiubs that sixty years agogave this place the semblance of apleasure ground, to which the towns-people of the time resorted on holi-days or during the long summer even-ings. Why in the near foreground—•now the Abercorn Basin, where al-most half-a-dozen immense steamersare fitting out or being repaired—wasa shallow pond where school-boysbathed. It is interesting, too, whenwe imagine how a very small portionof the area constituted the modestyard of Eobert. Hickson and Company,who had as their manager the lateEdward Harland. It was not by anymeans a prosperous concern, for in1858. when the young manager wish-ed to go elsewhere. Hickson madehim an offer of the entire was accepted, and. reinforced by apartner, the foundations of what is. ASOTHEE VIEW OF DONEGAL PLACE. CITY HALL IX DISTANCK now recognised as the moet magni-ficent shipbuilding yard in theworld were laid. A later partner in 1874—and nowthe predominant one—was WilliamJames Pime (now the Eight-Honour-able Lord Pirrie, , the mightiestshipping magnate in the world) whowas born in Quebec on the last dayof May, 1847, and who, as boy andman, has studied practically evervdetail of the mighty business ofwhich he is now Chairman. To-daythere are 20,000 workers. Whichmeans that every Friday evening theydraw as much as £20,000, which findsits way into circulation—and it mustbe remembered, too, that while otherindustrial centres have their slack andbusy years, in Belfast trade, even attimes of general commercial depres-sion, is never at a standstill. It was only in 1809 that the worldgaped at the idea of the second 237 Oceanic—a vessel that eclipsed themammoth Grea
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