Willis J. Abbot
Capitolo 75
navigation that is not any exaggeration to declare the most impressive
I capitulate in the history of the sea American dealer. In this volume,
however, but the brief attention or you/he/she can be given.
The figures show as honorably our whole body to send comparisons in
volume to that operated by some maritime people. Ours total recorded
sending takings part in the fishing, coastwise and traffic of lake, and
external trade numbered to the beginning of 1902, 24,057 vases with a
global tonnage of 5,524,218 tons. In national commerce we had alone
4,582,683 tons or an amount that it exceeds the total tonnage of Germany and
Norway combined, or of Germany and France. Only England excelled us, but
his/her lead that in 1860 it was inconsiderable, in 1901 it was prodigious; the
English point out not flying on less that 14,261,254 tons to send, more
what three times our tonnage! You/he/she is corrected to note that more than
two-third of our recorded tonnage is made out of wood.
[The illustration: Là is Integrating American Enclosures]
I have already given reasons because, in the natural progress of things, this
the disparity among the American and the British dealer of foreigner-going
sea it won't continue from a lot. And indeed, as you/he/she is writing this book, it is
apparent that its end is near. Although shipyards have multiplied fast in
the last five years of the nineteenth century, the first years of the new one
century found above them all busy ones to the a lot of limit of their ability.
Fences in that have started, as the Cramps that build war ships of United States and
finding few the other job, it was soon under contract to build man-of-war
for Russia and Japan. The people's interest in the military harbor him permitted a
the great stimulus to naval constructions. It is said of one of the principal enclosures,
what its promotors went to Washington with an offer for naval construction in
his/her pocket, but without a shipyard or wherewith of the capital, to build
one. He assured a contract for two ships, and capital quickly interested