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England has drawn upon the United
States for many things since the out- '
break of the war, ana the Import ot
American munitions, machinery, and
raw materials has reached figures that
quite "dwarf \h03e of the most 'active
periods of peace time. Yet, great as
at# the figures for these physical ar
ticles of import, it seems likely to be
found, when a restored peace give3
men the time and the perspective to
weigh the ponderable with the impon
derable, that the import of American
"ideas" will be adjudged to have been
a more potent factor in British indur
trlal mobilization than American ma
chinery and raw materials.
The remarkable British project for
building standardized ocean-going
steamships was decided upon, un
doubtedly, after construction of this
character had actually been inaug
urated in the United States in the
coures of the present building boom in
ocean tonnage. The significant thing
about the British move U that, though
they are following the American plan
and an American lead, they are in a
position, and are undoubtedly resolved
to carry out their plan on an incom
parably greater scale than it would
be possible to undertake it in America
for a good many years to come.
In defining standardized shipbuild
ing one need go no further than to nay
that It la carrying to ireight-steamers
construction the same principle of in
terchangeable parts as has been so
successfully followed by American
manufacturers in the turning out of
practically all Industrial machinery,
and notably automobiles. In sort, the
plan conuunpuues the builuing oi a
steamer Just as much to a model as U
done with a motor car. This will have
the effect not only of cutnftg down the
initial cost from 15 to 25 per cent, but
also of saving several hundred per
cent in the co3t of repairs and re
placements, and, what is even of
greater importance, often days and
weeks of time. The following is a
brief outline of the scheme England
is hurrying to put into execution, as
lold me recently by one of the direc
crs of the newly formed company
baa the great work In hand.
“We have an ideal site for our first
j ards on the River Wye, near the
Bristol Channel, with a launching
depth of 45 ft. Coal and Iron are
cheaper here than in any other part
of Great Britian. Almost immediately
we shall begin work on slips for 10
.jhips of between 8,000 and 9,000 tons
uisplacement and of exactly the same
model. These same slips will, how
ever, be capable of taking 'types’ up
to 12,000 tons or more, and the aggc>r
3Ute number of them will be increased
just as rapidly as possible. Before
very long the keels of a score or more
steamers should be laid down. The
lore ships that can be built of abso
lutely similar size and design the bet
or, but provisions will be made to the
■ nd that transition from one size of
ship to another can be effected with
ihe change of a minimum number of
standardization units. That is to say.
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it will be so arranged that there will
be many interchangeable parts be- I
.ween ships of even as great disparity '
as 9,000 and 15,000 tons. Popular Me
chanics.
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ALASKA
JOTES
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(From Our Exchangee.)
W. D. Kesselring has resigned from
the Juneau police force.
A camp of the Arctic Brotherhood
has been recently established at Me*
Carthy,
The water main on Franklin St.,
Juneau, burst recently, deluging the
street.
Guy C. Wing, of Juneau, has been
appointed a member of the police
force of that city.
E. P. Zelgler, of Cordova, was re*
cenily orualned to the Episcopal
priesthood by Bishop P. T. Howe at
Juneau.
Cordova has passed an Itinerate
peddler’s license ordinance which pro*
vides for a license fee of $50 per
month.
The Carlisle Packing Company
plant at Cordova put up the largest
salmon pack of any cannery In Alas*
ka, 130,000 cases.
The home of Paul Kegel, the Tread
well bandmaster, was recently des- !
troyed by fire, presumably originating
from a stove. 1
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C. C. Hayward, chief accountant,1
cashier and treasurer for the Alaska
Qastineau Mining Company has re
signed hla position.
The schooner Northland recently
lost a tow of two barges of lumber
In the Quit of Alaska, consigned to the
Canoe Pass Packing Co. i
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j The case of Or. Hall of Fairbanks,
who was convicted and sentenced 10
imprisonment on the testimony of a
young girl, has won his appeal in the
appellate court.
Late reports from Nlzlna placer!
camps state that there 13 a decided
shortage of water there, and unless j
there' is an increase soon the plants
will have to close down.
Jacques Hlppeltye Blondeau Ville
courd de Casteglln, of Haines, has
petitioned the court to have his name
trimmed down to James H. de Blon
deau.
Dan Pullen, of Skagway, the first
Alaska boy to graduate from the
West Point Military Academy, has
just been promoted to the captaincy
In the army. He graduated In 1910 at
the head of his class.
The trial of Jack Campbell, charg
ed with assault with a dangerous
weapon, alleged to have been com
twitted on the person of Jack McI<eod
at Lltuya Bay, Is now in progress at
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