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THE MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. C, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1917. NINE UP MAY YET LOOM NGTON LARGE AMONG IN SHIP BUILDING THE SOUTHERN PORTS t; Possibilities tfOODI ...; nf Concrete Vessels ?ns. leaf Pine- practically all of fMSir ui-wv- - . - wnicn is secured in this immediate Experiment Tnat Utters jsig j AnotUcr r Veggel - cusnman & AIcKown, a northern con cern, began operations in Wilmington in July and are now buildine- hr four masted schooner of 1.500 tons dad .t-vt oxJTP5 A"RF "RTTTTT eiSht capacity, which it is hoped to )N SHirb AK-fj J3UILT;have ready for launching some time in March. The vessel will be douVle deck and equipped with all modern ap- AlTarfir T.n.iiTiftliefl With 1 aC r 1 w -""ai"1 flne iCitl' 17 yji wag cargo asiae irom . ". I engine for ODeratin? anr-Vmrc ni,mna etc. In addition to this vessel, this ship building firm j-constructing for oth er interests a -500-ton harbor lighter which is expected to be ready for de livery within the next five weeks. At the present time Cushman & Mc. i Kown state that they have other bus- I iness for undisclosed interests, but are , ! not now in position to make any state- i ctnrta TViic vo . ' nent about this - IuUIUL-j NeTr Shpyai.d Rcady. The JNaull Shipbuilding Company; of Which Mr. A. P. Naull is general man ager, several months ago leased the plant of the Camp Manufacturing Co.. ! a large lumber concern, and have in- .Another Soon to be Ready- to Take to Water STILL ANOTHER ON WAYS That May Mean Revolution Vt- arc Northern people and began here in July for the simple ; stalled machinery for the building of operat e -- vessels, and it. is understood that the reason th.i'- ne considered Wilming- keels of four schooneers are to be laid an ideal Ic,rt for the work we a-ro shortly after Christmas. A large force W of hands ia r rw Bmnlnva at rho vor"o prf'kiu-iV i-aia capt. j. r uusnman, .. , " ' eilJtvu ' . 2-ettlno- tlmhprs ronriir fnr iii Hlin e Hhipi-uilding firm of Cushman & wooden ships. The plant of the Wilmington Iron "Works, now under lease by the Naull interests, is equipped for building schooners up to 300 feet In length and ae soon as the present ships, being nf th' McKown. t;-.e other day in mscussing t.e possibilities" of solving the present scarcity vossels by the .construction f concrete boats. . " Captaiii Cusiiuian frankly has doubts built by the Naull company, are. out , of the way, it will either be leased to 10 11 , " .. . i another concern or will be utilized by of re.ea:-on-eJ concrete tnat can nav-1 the present owners. igate tiic peas- but realizes as 3iay Be Deciding Factor. '-rvo-f" aciU'i-nted with the present! The building- of concrete ships -while T--'v'ot wssefs m-ust; that if it of- nwin an experimental stage may yet t mw-oiiiucs of a solution it is Pf0 to be one of the deciding factors .eis i j of the great world war. Admittedly WS" ad not looked into the ability of the allies to turn out t. n..- i -..., shins siiffifiient for- thuir npr!s la nmh- .n.i;;-i..i. aptam lusnman aeciarea - - T the eut the government un-f" xost Pr.et!sinf ?bl?" f1 the teat . . . "... . i nresent tuns. Withnut Rhins th trans- 4.akei to wuiiU - one oi tne larger i --..I",." -r.. cciuTcre vessels, lt.w i.ib;.- to do the .work at this Sjdiifieu.Hes in launchin m ms board now " . .- m n i- i ITlTiraCTP.1 1TI Thai 3i5i V L1-4 T. bnd the hull of fQU masted i schoojier requires six months to a year The hull of a be constructed In 'M- . " "" . - - 1 60 diivs. ' Wllmineton has an ODDor- ras entirely ' Prtation" of supplies and men to Eu r thio rr-t i rope is impossible.- How to'get the i snips in tne quicsest possiDie time is would be eheountered. ollv'" 'vu""uu"Uo "1S much mierestea in tne irc-s rep-'TiS tnat Wilmington aiong fcavai.ua.i .-"""b gnd sometimes longer. r sucli an cxper.me.it in .nipbuild- j concrete sllipe. may b .- : 60 dlys, Usui concrete vessels of smal ton- th SQuth f buiiding of these age lor sayping in protected wateis. , There gufficIent depth of wa. asueCaesa;uaiVe Bay for: instance is, ter tQ enable" ships ; of the larger ca M new lu.ns. ihut nb proven al-. pac.ty t( be constructed. Excellent together a success. But out upon the . railroad facilities, afford the means of ocean wh.ic- tne winds beat fiercely getting. the suppYies. and the waves oreak -with intensity j what ,s Beinff Done. upon the siues ci tne snips tliat is j An excelIent review of what is be is yet an txperiment. - .: " jng done towards the building of, con- Eut it is iccallea that within three crete ships appears in the Literary Di nars times, under tne stress of mod- , &egt of December 8. -In March next a :rn war, more progress has been made J 5000.ton shipi bullt of reinforced con in aeroplane building than would have . crete says the Digest, will be launched wen possible in a hundred years of n San -Francisco. A 500-ton concrete Hace. jeats unneara oi ana yes, un learned of, have been .c plished in Hie air because of dire necessity. . Cannot the same be true in shipbuild ing.' Undoubtedly it will be so. And vessel has just successfully completed a 2,000 miV. voyage in European wa ters, and a jnt with a possible yearly output of 20,000. to '30,000' tons of such i oraft i now in nnfiration in Norway. oncrete snips offer the greatest pos- j smaller concrete vessels barges and suilities. W nmington is under con- j lighters have been in use in sheltered -.deration by the government as a port, Wlitfrs for several vears past. In view of these facts, says the Digest, espe cially since the reinforced concrete hull .costs less than half as much as for trying an experiment that may re suit in revolution in shipbuilding. Ir is easily possible that it may be se lected. - May Mean Bigf Tilings. lt may be that in shipbuilding, Wil mington is to take rank as one of the iead ng ports of the South. - But wheth er that be true or not, it is worthy of note that already three schooners of 'unsiderabie tonnage are in, course of instruction here. Others will be -tarteu later. . While Captain Cushman talked, the iitrp proportions of a 1,300 tons dead weight capacity chip loomed up.from ii? river front. This vessel n'ill bo ready for launch- "By means of the, clever arrange ment of his steel lath, Engineer Foug- ! ener is able to form the hull -walls of thickness ranging from a maximum of only four.-inches down to thinner sec tions of but two and one-half inches. Not only that, but this hull is a homo genous body, and the union between his j concrete ana nis embedded metal is perfect. "Engineer Fougener does not have recourse to molds as th term is ordi- tion. He forms his metal lath in a double wall and nours his cement in w . ww a. kJUlUO Ul 1X1 etc, Ui course, works through the perforations and takes the shape of knobs upon the two outer, surfaces. These knobs, in turn, form the anchorage upon which he lays the coating oi the inside and 1 outside of his vessels. The steel bars J that constitute the prime re-enforcing fflatllrp. u V Q Triic-ht K nvnontoH sot I in place between, the .two separated Walls of metal lath. The: outer surface of the Fougener hulls is finished by hand and this makes it possible to ob tain a very 'smooth skin. As a result friction is surprisingly iow, and in the case of the barges built, the boats have been found easy to to.w. "It is quite likely that" the cement gun will be employed hereafter for laying on the bulk of the surface coat ings of concrete, and only the smooth ing up will ,be left to hand work. It has been found advantageous to resort to water proofing especially where the vessels are exposed to frost: The pro cess is said to be thoroughly satisfac tory. "By way. of contrast, it is interest ing to examine the pictures of concrete ship construction as practiced under the more familiar mold system. The two views of this which accompany the present discussion are of a vessel which will be launched some time in March at San Francisco. Its cost is estimated at $750,000, against $2,000,000 for the, ordinary steel ship of the same size." "ot Sure Solution. A warning not to be too sure that the concrete ship is going to replace the steel one is put, forth editorially by the Engineering News-Record (New York, November 15), which is of the opinion that "rosy expectations are pretty far ahead of present knowledge." It says: "One highly experimental ship of large tonnage is on the ways at San Francisco, a small, motor driven ves sel has. been launched at Montreal, and several small ships have been built in Scandinavian countries. These repre sent the efforts of thoughtful engin eers and business men to solve the tre mendous problem of adapting concrete to the wracking and sudden strains of a ship at sea. Quite soon they and the committees appointed to investigate the question will be able to report the progress of the hopefulness as the case may be, of the concrete ship. Until then the future will be veiled behind theory and experiment. For, some time however, there must be an orderly de velopment in the size of the ships ex perimented upon. There is no more re lation between a concrete row boat or launch and the 3,000-ton, 13-knot freighter demanded in the present shipping crisis than there is between a toy airplane and a giant Capronl. Step by step up through the scow, the barge, and the small framed and formed hull must progress be made to be hop ed for large vessel for oeean travel. This is the normal course of all engin eering design. On account of these one of steel, some writers are looking ; necessary intermediate steps, it seems forward to a revolution in ship build- as though there is at the present time ing, while others, more cautious, are ; a bigger field of practical work in th,e reminding us that in such comparative- concrete barge for coastwise, river, or ly untried fields as this, two or three ! swallows most emphatically do not make a summer. Norwegians Took Lead. The Digest quotes from an article, "Ships of Stone; Seaworthy Concrete Vessels an Accomplished Fact," in tne Scientific America, written by Mr. K. G. Skerrett, as follows: "These barges, pontoons, and light ers constituted an engineering sctart 't n.iaiii tnree months.- It is visible upon -which to predicate safely the con ev.dence of possibilities that have be- i structibn of much larger and more am canal trade. Here the gap beween present knowledge and desired results is not so great and -the possibility of immediate use is much nearer. If im- proved design and construction niaku sucn vessels seawortny ana permanent, as many of th early one were not, some of the most serious problems of the big ship yard will be solved and at the same time some very necessary bot toms supplied." come realities. And not far distant was "'.other vessel swinging at anchor in jtf harbor that was launched a little "re than two months - ago, one of tnose constructed at the Naull ship yards. And on the ways at the Naull -"Pyards was another sister ship of fini'.iar size-or perhaps larger that will e the water in a few days. And tners ar to be built later, i : Mnst Win On Merit. An ieal port f2J. tke.-ypoj-fc we are ueriaklnz,-' were i:he words that iveyed a world of meaning. Sug- 2v .ln them 5s the fact tha "what er Wilmington, gets from the govern- -sin in th3 way of .industries or" from u"06 e:se" must e on merit: ..Man-. .iaturers, shipbuilders, or commercial (f -S WlI! come here, not for th'eir - ditll or nersnnnl rnmfnrt l-.nt V ;-iuse of the advantages that 'the city offer, for the b usiness they have j the route chosen for safety' " pi- erta kt- - ' ' ' volved a total journey of i bitious vessels. No wonder, then, wnen our scracity of ocean-going bottoms became deplorably short of the demand, that the naval architects and engin eers familiar with re-enforced concrete structures set about planning ships of considerable tonnage of this material for transatlantic traffic. But before we engaged in this revolutionary de parture in naval architecture kindred conditions had compelled some of the Scandinavian countries to seek simi lar relief. "The Norwegians took the lead In this effort, and .more than a Sear ago equipped a plant at Moss, about forty miles south of Christiania. Through it Norway now has to her credit the first self-propelled, seagoing concrete ship. This -craft, the Namsenfjord, has ac rnrrmlished a round trip between Christ tiania and the British Isles, which, by s saKe. ln- about 2,000 mllft. 'It was not long after the. outDreaK MRS. WEATWORTH KAISON IS FOUND DEAD IN HER ROOM of hostilities ,in W 11? i services were held at Faion by Dr out m a city noted for .its patriotism rfP7-ay-dccades past it would be-enr v'-v,.. !ne to start an industry that e'-v have a 'material part .'.'..Rnin the war for democracy. It an ,de cr dream, if vou "lease. . :s tvorta maki ng a re alitv. if dos-U1 Nicolav K. Fougener, who had al Mc.. - t . reaay omit umo omi.u,vh. . I T. h Cushman -and-McKown arelCrat in the Philippines, to interest his "6- cy.rcason of the efforts of tire- I compatriots In the establishment of a "Warsaw, Dec. 15. Mrs. Wentworth Faison, aged about sixty years, was found dead in her room at the home of Mr. George II- Best, where she boarded, Thursday afternoon shortly after four o'clock. She had been confined to her room with a slight illness for two weeks, but her condition was not con sidered serious. When a member of the family entered her room to carry her nourishment, she was lying on the f lpor partially disrobed, and a physi cian being summoned, pronounced her death due to heart failure. ' The deceased was a member of the prominent Millard family, and the daughter of a noted Duplin county ed ucator, arid v was a talented musician. The members of her family, several brothers and sisters, now reside in dis tant states. She is immediately sur vived by one daughter, Mrs. . Robert -i..- . T- - TTr 1 mi. ' t Idearst, or near wamaw. ins lunurai hamh 'vorkln through the n rv. ot Commerce; and Mr. Jas. Uuar, ..." . presenting Wilmington felt acutely the rapidly -growing short- Purcell. . pastor of th Presbyte age oi siruuui. -- . ;r "Elan church, of which .the deceased was it was this state of affairs that Inspir- .A-"ltr6meat .wasvln the cemetery at- that place. . " owan I lUngton' is working tirelessly rV-?re Siin'lar companies, so, that oi tnis nort as a sliinhnnfl- to-tCentfr' is beinS approached in a Jiea. iractlcal manner by practical Thp F!rs Ship Launched. ' U v5 ,st c'f a fleet of wooden vessels te built in - tki.,.. ; --4 was the . schoOrier Hobnauze. .va launched; on' 0.ctSbjerJl(r:and fie' i0 hish seas- A sister ship of ' un. s5ze and capacity will be v'tekAe - from the same yards this ?ru'-fWae two thers are under con-moT-A 'n bnd the keels of at least four Thpfre to be laid after Qhxistmas. ;?r 1 v' r schooners are being built r:;,V y the auir Shipbuilding Com-LaV- " SUD3idiary- corporation to R. W e"?ce Sn-ith, Inc7; -of New York, t-" t li C f3 tne plant of the Wilming bur.fl7"u Vors, for the . purpose of ton'T' ",essels now under construc-t-. 'JtUt v'nic'a has recently acquired ?a'e v- .Df a former lumber plant on th -1"tllfca.st CaPe Fear river, above 1 v- ' v l . fix .C) UJL OLt the same size will be oxirr.sly . J."e H-PPauge and her' sister ship tj.;,' "ros3 register of 1,530 tons, a ve.-.,, ot -,ouu tons, ana a aeaa ii-ni. -ai"clty or about .15,500 tons. ' ' ... . a er.t rm , ; 1 , 1 i. " 'eta over all u ooc n-. .... C7 t J LU V II IS 22-'l -Foot- V- in ai i-J 1 ieet. at Moss. "The first vessel undertaken at the yard was started' in June 'of 1916, and by the beginning of 1917 ther establish ment had built and launched a matter of fifteen craft, and today the yard has on the blocks one ship of 4,000 tons well advanced and four others begun three of 600 tons and one of 1,000 tons, all of which will be driven by Diesel en gines of the Bolinder type. "The same conjpany is also construct ing a lightship of re-enforced concrete for the Norwegian government, and when this vessel is ready she will be stationed in the stormy sweep of the Skagerrack. The yard is building, be sides, a big tug boat of the same ma terial, and has already turned out a grandolithic floating dry dock having a lifting capacity of 75 tons. Based upon the experienced gained in this case, the concern is now about to undertake two other floating, docks of . ferro-concrete, each capable of handling ships of 7,000 tons displacement. These various adap tations of re-enforced concrete illus trate the wide range of applicability of this material in the different del partments of marine architecture." A. Minimnm ot Steel. The distinctive feature of the Foug ener method is the use of a minimum of steel. Steel ribs or built-up frames are not called for in the Fougener sys tem. The materials can be readily had and at relatively low cost. The high priced labor of the steel worker and the riveter Is dispensed with, and the comparatively unskilled concrete .fin isher is -substituted. -To auote further: FREE TO ; ASTHMA SUFFERERS 'Use Without Discomfort -or ; Loss of Tinie j, "We hae.-NW'.Methodthat cures Asthma, and .we, want you tp try it at our expense. No matter whether your case is of long-standing or recent de velopment, whether it is present as oc-. casional or chronic Asthma, you should send for a free trial of our method. No matter in what climate you live, no matter what your age or occupation. 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