. The War Cry . Launch of the Ontario No. I. ? •The above: is the launching scene of- Ontario No. 1, the. car ferry: to beoperatedvby the Grand Trunk Railway between Gobourg and- Charlotte thissummer. The launching took place at the yards of the Canadian Ship-building The camera vyas snapped just as this, the heaviest-vesselever built in Ontario, struck the water. With : great pinchers and tongs theleather aproned workmen seize hot, straight bars as they come glow-ing from the frunace. They bend^them between pegs that have beeninserted in the holes of the perforatedmetal -floor for
. The War Cry . Launch of the Ontario No. I. ? •The above: is the launching scene of- Ontario No. 1, the. car ferry: to beoperatedvby the Grand Trunk Railway between Gobourg and- Charlotte thissummer. The launching took place at the yards of the Canadian Ship-building The camera vyas snapped just as this, the heaviest-vesselever built in Ontario, struck the water. With : great pinchers and tongs theleather aproned workmen seize hot, straight bars as they come glow-ing from the frunace. They bend^them between pegs that have beeninserted in the holes of the perforatedmetal -floor for the purpose of givingthe required curvature to each partic-ular steel bar. The rib-bands thathold, the ribs together, are hammeredinto shape in the same way. Thuswith infinite carey and the hardest:labor, the work goes on for/months,niitil all the Whs and rib-bands arecomplete, until the skeleton has,heehriveted together. The ship has nowbeen advanced to the state known asin frame. To cover this frame wi
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