Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — SHIPBUILDING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SHIPBUILDING.

Charles Cramp, of tlie Well-known Philadelphia Firm 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 onb 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, iu speaking of dull times, says: “English shipbuilders, when there is J 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 baud is completed, but there seems to be no prospect of shutting down, as work usually comes in in time to avoid this. ” The Cramps came before Roach 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 aud almost assured them feudal service from the three generations that have worked in their yards.

A YorNG man was conversing in a public: house of his abilities and accomplishments, and ho&stiug a great deal of his mighty performances. When he had t -aished, a Quaker quietly obseryed, “There is one thing thou canst not do; thon canst not tell th« truth." He said her hair was dyed, and when she indignantly exclaimed, “’Tisfalse!” he said he presumed so. When a man takes soda water at this season of the.year, you maybe sure there is something in it.