. thirty-nine. In one of the cuts of this book will be seen the tall masts thatstand as sentinels of the past, and which mark the site of what wasonce Roachs shipyard. None of the older residents can view the pic-ture without a feeling of sadness. The closing, for all time, of theDelaware River Shipbuilding & Engine Works, was the heaviest blowChester ever experienced. It was the lifes ambition of its founderthat, in addition to the building of ships, a great and modern dry-dockshould become a part of Chester. The old shipyard site a
. thirty-nine. In one of the cuts of this book will be seen the tall masts thatstand as sentinels of the past, and which mark the site of what wasonce Roachs shipyard. None of the older residents can view the pic-ture without a feeling of sadness. The closing, for all time, of theDelaware River Shipbuilding & Engine Works, was the heaviest blowChester ever experienced. It was the lifes ambition of its founderthat, in addition to the building of ships, a great and modern dry-dockshould become a part of Chester. The old shipyard site and some of theadjacent lands would be ideal for such an enterprise. It is to be hoped that the dream of that sturdy pioneer, who, byhis foresight, skill and industiy, did so much to advertise and bringfame to Chester on the high seas and in every port of the civilizedworld, will be some day actualized by the building of a dry-dock, headedby Chester capitalists, that may serve as a fitting monument to thememory of the one who was, industrially speaking, the backlione
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