. Factory and industrial management . always foster any successful ship-building industryin this or any other country, remained supine during the early years ofthe new era. And, while our government was thus neglectful, everyresource of the British government was applied, and every inducementoffered, to promote the progress of ship-building in England. These conditions prevailed all through the seventies and the firsthalf of the eighties, until the government, resolving to have a newnavy, appeared in the market as a customer. Fortunately, during this dreary period of twelve or fifteen years of
. Factory and industrial management . always foster any successful ship-building industryin this or any other country, remained supine during the early years ofthe new era. And, while our government was thus neglectful, everyresource of the British government was applied, and every inducementoffered, to promote the progress of ship-building in England. These conditions prevailed all through the seventies and the firsthalf of the eighties, until the government, resolving to have a newnavy, appeared in the market as a customer. Fortunately, during this dreary period of twelve or fifteen years ofinanition, the materieloi omx coasting traffic found need of renewal orincrease, and the demand incident to this fact proved just about suffi-cient to nurse the spark of life in American ship-building. Meantime English ship-building was progressing by leaps andbounds,—gaining almost absolute control of the North Atlantic, be-cause, no matter where owned or under what flag sailed, almost all 594 TYPES OF AMERICAN-BUILT VESSELS. 595. L. S, CRUISER CHICAGO, 4500 TONS DISPLACEMENT. Length 325 ft., beam 48, draft 19. Built by Jno. Roach, Chester, 1891, J. S. Johnston, N. V. ships in North Atlantic lines during this period were built in Eng-land. Subsidies were showered on E^nglish steamship lines, and Eng-lish ship-yards and machine shops were glutted with contracts for con-struction of hulls and engines for the British navy. About all that American statesmen attempted for American ship-building during this fitful epoch was the introduction of free ship billsin congress ! No matter what theories prompted this proposed policy,its practical result would have been the employment of American re-sources to aid the English government in its efforts to promote Eng-lish ship-building. In 1883 the government began its new navy with the Chicago, Bos-ton, Atlanta, and Dolphin. These were the first steel ships. As soon astheir construction was attempted, the result of twelve year
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