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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS. 
A THOUSAND SHIPS 
New ENGLAND SHIPBUILDERS WILL 
SooN BE IN Mrpst of REcoRD 
BREAKING RusH. 
A thousand wooden ships to build 
for Uncle Sam—this is a veritable 
electric shock of good luck to the old 
shipwrights and seaports of New 
England. Not since the Aryan was 
launched on the Kennebec in 1893 
has a large wooden square-rigger 
been constructed in this country for 
oversea trade—the schooners of four, 
five and six masts have all been de- 
signed primarily for coastwise ser- 
vice. These thousand new ships are 
to ‘be machinery-driven, but their 
hulls will be of oak and pine, and the 
adze and the calking mallet will ring 
out again in scores of coves and 
rivers where their music has been 
stilled for many years. Once more 
the blacksmith fires will glow, the 
spar-makers will ply their graceful 
trade, and the perfume of new-cut 
chips will rise among towering frames 
where the grass of many springs has 
overgrown the marks of ancient in- 
dustry 
Near by, at Chelsea and East Bos- 
ton, are yards that are quickening 
into life. Newburyvort is organizing 
her share in the work, and from 
Calais to Kittery all hundred-har- 
bored Maine is eager and_ stirring. 
This call of the nation arouses keen 
memories in Bath, Portland, Belfast, 
bucksport, Camden, Kennebunk, 
Rockland, Searsport, Thomaston, and 
Waldoboro. These new keels are to 
be of trading and of fighting ships, 
America’s answer to German ruthless- 
ness, built for carrying cargoes and 
for self-defence, with heavy. freights 
of foodstuffs and munitions below, 
and rapid fire guns above. They will 
sail for Europe in the bold, defiant 
spirit of the Yankee privateers of 
the old wars, with batteries grimly 
ready fore and aft, and_ trained 
crews of keen young marksmen. 
Perhaps these wooden ships of 
America, steering on and on in un- 
ending numbers, will prove to be the 
decisive factor in this great world 
corbat. A very important factor 
they certainly w ill be, for our coun- 
try, once gripping the task, can build 
these ships faster than submarines 
can possibly sink them. One ship 
goes down; another and another are 
launched, and vital supplies are kept 
pouring into the allied ports. This is 
ferry service, instead of ordinary 
commerce, constant and_ irresistible. 
These thousand ships are to be 
constructed in all seaboard states, 
southward to the Gulf of Mexico and 
up the Pacific to Oregon and Wash- 
ington, But the great work makes a 
Old World. 
April 27, 1917. 
Twelve Things 
to Remember 
The value of time. 
The success of perseverance. 
The pleasure of working. 
The dignity of simplicity. 
The worth of character. 
The power of kindness. 
The influence of example 
The obligation of duty, 
The wisdom of economy. 
The virtue of patience. 
The improvement of talent. 
The joy of originating. 
‘shall Field. 
supreme appeal to New England, 
most famous source of the wooden 
ship, home of the stately packets and 
magnificent swift clippers, where mas- 
ter-builders and mechanics wrought 
with a genius unrivalled in the world. 
Splendid were the days when the tall- 
sparred wooden walls of New Eng- 
land held all the records on all the 
long courses around the globe, when 
Longfellow wrote “The Building of 
the Ship” in honor of the men who 
enched them, and Senator Hoar 
eulogized their “marvelous achieve- 
ments” in making the flag of the 
United States “a flower that adorned 
every port and blossomed on every 
soil the world over.” 
These ships will face not only the 
accustomed hazards of the sea, but 
all the perils of a merciless conflict. 
They will sail under the flag of the 
United States in the name of human- 
ity, to save the cause of liberty in the 
Their navigation will de- 
mand the utmost skill of American 
seamanship, and their officers and 
crews will have need of courage and 
endurance equally with their com- 
rades who will soon unfurl our na- 
tional colors in the fields of France. 
Not all of these thousand wooden 
ships can be of New England birth, 
but as many of then as possible must 
be. Into their stout hulls should go 
all the practiced skill of our veteran 
artisans, and the soundest and strong- 
est of materials. They are building 
for the government just as truly as 
are the new battleships, cruisers, de- 
stroyers and submarines, and so they 
should be built “on honor” every one. 
—Boston Herald. 
Manchester may see something in 
the way of shipbuilding within the 
next year if the Calderwood yard is 
commissioned to do some of the gov- 
ernment work. The shipyards in 
Kssex are already engaged in building 
vessels under the big ‘order, 
