Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1887 — SHIP-BUILDING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SHIP-BUILDING.

Charles Cramp, of the Well-known Philadelphia Finn of Ship-builders. Charley Cramp, as he is familiarly called, of the firm of William Cramp & Sons, is adopting a policy in the American

ship-building line which is meeting with much success. He speaks very encouragingly in reference to the labor situation, and says the men will now be kept busy for an indefinite period. The firm, in connection with Other orders, has received one from the Government, through the agency of Secretary Whitney. Work on the vessel, which is to make not less than twenty knots an hour, is now in progress. Charley Cramp, in speaking of dull times, Bays: ‘‘English shipbuilders, when there is a lack of orders, build ships to be sold to chance purchasers in the future, but we find it better to shut down as soon as the work on hand is completed, but there seems to be no prospect of shutting down, as work usually comes in iu time to avoid this. ” The Cramps came before Eoach and if they had located on the banks of the Clyde instead of the Delaware they would have built up a village which would have spread their own name and almost assured them feudal service from the three generations that have worked in their yards.