. Factory and industrial management . U. S. BATTLE SHIP INDIANA, IO,288 TONS 348 ft., beam , draft 24. Built by Wm. Cramp & Sons, Phila., 1896, by J. S. Johnston, N. 6o2 FROGI^ESS AV AMERICAN U. S. RAM KATAHDIX, 2155 TONS DISPLACEMENT. Length ft., beam draft 15. Built by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me. Copyright 1896, by J. S. Johnston, N. V. the future. In a word, our policy of the new navy broke the back ofEnglands ship-building monopoly, and broke it beyond cure. If not, why are Japanese cruisers building in American ship-yar
. Factory and industrial management . U. S. BATTLE SHIP INDIANA, IO,288 TONS 348 ft., beam , draft 24. Built by Wm. Cramp & Sons, Phila., 1896, by J. S. Johnston, N. 6o2 FROGI^ESS AV AMERICAN U. S. RAM KATAHDIX, 2155 TONS DISPLACEMENT. Length ft., beam draft 15. Built by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me. Copyright 1896, by J. S. Johnston, N. V. the future. In a word, our policy of the new navy broke the back ofEnglands ship-building monopoly, and broke it beyond cure. If not, why are Japanese cruisers building in American ship-yards ? Mr. Charles H. Cramp, in an article on the sea power of theUnited States, says: We have made great and rapid progress duringeight years of naval construction, but we have not yet rebuilt ournavy. In fact, about all we can reasonably say is that we have con-clusively demonstrated our domestic capacity to rebuild it. I have heard it said that, no matter what our progress in ship-building has been, we had to begin with English plans. Unquestion-ably English plans were procured at the start ; so were French they were used for reference, not for imitation. No naval shiphas been built exactly after any foreign plan. They have all bee
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