The Pine-tree coast . KENNEB1 NKPOR I. 37 with the labor of hundreds of workmen. The moribund industry is barelykepi alive in one yard now. Then, at the Btroke of seven from the villagebelfry, the air resounded with the echoes of a thousand hammers. Now thevillage looks as though it had lain down and gone to sleep under its elms. The history of one of these yards is the history of all. Within the memory(>t all middle-aged people Bhip-building was the one important industry of ahundred harbors and a hundred thousand mechanics. It was only given upwhen financial ruin had overtaken mosl of the
The Pine-tree coast . KENNEB1 NKPOR I. 37 with the labor of hundreds of workmen. The moribund industry is barelykepi alive in one yard now. Then, at the Btroke of seven from the villagebelfry, the air resounded with the echoes of a thousand hammers. Now thevillage looks as though it had lain down and gone to sleep under its elms. The history of one of these yards is the history of all. Within the memory(>t all middle-aged people Bhip-building was the one important industry of ahundred harbors and a hundred thousand mechanics. It was only given upwhen financial ruin had overtaken mosl of the builders, who bravely held outfor the better days that never came. Beginning with the fishing-boats of acentury ago, il had steadily advanced to sloops, schooners, and brigs, and frombrigs to ships of the Largest class afloat. It has now shrunk to its first estate,—a result involving not only the turning away of capital ami the stagnationconsequent upon its loss, but what is far more to be deplored, it has brought. Illl SHIPYARD AS IT WAS. about the dispersion of a distinctive body of skilled native American crafts-men, whom it would be hard to match in any branch of modern industry, or inany country. The disbanding of such a body of men can hardly be viewed inany other light than as a national misfortune. In the days when ship-building was an American industry, as many as fivefirst-class ships have been going up in the yards here at one and the same I counted nine vessels, large and small, on the stocks. Then, besides the yards themselves, there were the various trades pertainingexclusively to ship-building, such as Bpar-making, boat-building, sail-making,rigging, pump, and Mock making, joining, painting, and the like. All sharedthe same fate, and what we now see are the fossil remains. The records >how that since the beginning of the century more than eight hundred vessels have 1 n sent out from the shipyards of this One finds little pleasure in retrac
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