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Footnotes Chapter V.                                                              1 Marine Review, April 20, 1899, p.14.   2  "Minutes of American Ship Building Company, 1899-1908," Certificate of Incorporation, March 16, 1899, p. 5, American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio. 3 Marine Review, April 20, 1899, p.14.    4 "Minutes, 1899-1908," Directors' Second Meeting, April 18, 1899.   5 Marine Review, April 20, 1899, p.14.   6 "Minutes, 1899-1908," Directors' Second Meeting, April 18, 1899.    7 Ibid., Directors' Third Meeting, April 20, 1899.   8 Ibid., By-Laws of the American Ship Building Company, Article XVII, "Standing Committee." 9 Ibid., Director and Executive Meeting Committee Meeting, June 8, 1899. 10 Ibid., Executive Committee Meeting, June 27, 1900.   11 Ibid., Executive Committee Meeting, April 24, 1900.   12 Ibid., Executive Committee Meeting, November 21, 1900.   13 Ibid., Executive Committee Meeting, November 10, 1904.    14 Ibid., Executive Committee Meeting, March 5, 1905.    15 "Fifty Years of Empire Building," The American Ship Builder, March, 1949, p. 7.   16 Nowhere in the minutes of the American Ship Building Company, between 1899 and 1908, do the names of Rockefeller or Carnegie appear. The Carnegie Steel Company, along with the Illinois Steel Company, appears once - and this in connection with getting steel to the Chicago and Lorain plants for vessels then under construction. 17 Norman Beasley, Freighters of Fortune (New York: Harper & Bros., 1930), p. 200. 18 "Minutes, 1899-1908," Directors' Meeting, October 10, 1906.   19 Ibid. 113