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July, 1917 charging General Goethals with halting the building of ships by prescribing an impossible form of con- tract. Charge Facts Were Misrepresented The next day their resignations were accepted by General Goethals in a letter in which he stated that they were dropped from the service “for lack of loyalty and misstatement and misrepresentation of facts.” The last broadside was fired by Mr. Clark who said that “when General Goethals says that I misstated the facts he is saying something that is not true. I want the country to know that they can have the ships, and they need the ships. I am afraid the country will wake up too late.” Mr. Eustis still maintained his connection with the shipping board, his resignation being from the corporation. Chairman Denman has not figured in the Goethals- Clark-Eustis affair, his only comment being that “I have previously indicated my opinion as to places where discussions of such serious character should be initiated. Apparently these gentlemen (Messrs. Eustis and Clark) do not agree with me.” - These interchanges of personal opinions as_ to reel HE United States Steel Corp. is preparing to enter the ship- THE MARINE REVIEW Corporation Wooden Yards Needed 222 veracity interest the public only in the irritation they excite over the possibility of delay in building the ships needed. General Goethals, with his record at Panama, stands in the public eye as a man of accom- plishment. For that reason, public opinion naturally has been in his favor. The newly created shipping - board, with its record still one of the future, has “shown outward signs of putting the job up to the Panama canal builder—a contingency which his own statement shows that he desires. What the Country }Vants The loose reports about discarding the steel,-ship program in favor of wood, or the wooden-ship program in favor of steel, mean nothing. The plain facts are that ships of both kinds are needed and will be built, in the maximum numbers possible. The shipbuilding industry cannot work effectively in the face of public dissension among the men directing its efforts. Ships cannot be evolved from discord. The shipbuilders, steel and lumber manu- facturers are demonstrating a desire to co-operate. The nation has a right to expect. and demand that this spirit be copied by everyone at Washington. 1,000,000 tons of ships and together with other shops will fabricate this building field on a large scale A special wire to THE MarINe steel. These two orders embrace through a subsidiary, the American Review, from Portland, Ore., on standard ships of about 5,000 tons Bridge Co. In support of the offer June 9 says that “although the curt each. Another 1,000,000 tons will be pas : Mee Gc dismissal “ot °F. “A. Eustis and favuiceea h 5 of co-operation given to aj. en. F. Huntington Clark, by General Beas . y other companies. Goethals, general manager of the Goethals, has created intense excite- Sixty acres of land have’ been United States Shipping Board Emer- ment in wooden shipbuilding circles bought by the Steel Corporation in gency Fleet Corp., at the semiannual on the Pacific coast, builders are convinced that the government’s pro- the Hackensack Meadows on Newark meeting of the American Iron and gram will not. be materially inter- bay, where comparatively little dredg- Steel institute, the Steel Corporation fered with. Coast builders already ing will be required to secure suffi- and other firms will aid the shipbuild- have started work on 30 govern- cient depth of water to get large ing program. ee a freighters out to sea by way of Steel has been contracted for to . | set of ways vacated by the govern- Staten island sound. The bridge build 3,000,000 tons of ships. The ment there are two private owners company has had_ extensive experi- American Bridge Co. will fabricate waiting to buy wooden ships, and ence in fabricating steel-ship material. 1,000,000. tons; the Lackawanna Steel it is believed that this applies to It has furnished fabricated material Co. will furnish steel for another a en ee ee to the Chester Shipbuilding Co. in Contvacts for 104 Ships and Hulls Awarded by Shipping Board The United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. an- nounces that it has executed the following contracts for the construction of merchant -vessels: Twelve wooden caigo steel Merrill-Stevens Co., Jacksonville, Fla.: V carrying steamers complete, also, four cargo carrying all ships complete. Los Angeles Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., P. O. Box 68, Long Beach, Cal.: Eight cargo carrying, all steel ships complete. G. M. Standifer Construction Corp., Northwestern Bank build- ing, Portland, Oreg.: Ten wooden cargo carrying steamers complete. ene: Peninsular Shipbuilding Co., cargo vessels complete. Sloan Shipyards Corp., Seattle, Wash.: Sixteen wooden cargo carrying steamers complete; first steamér to be delivered Jan. 31, 1918; two in February, 1918; four in March, 1918; two in Portland, Oreg.: Four wooden April, 1918; two in May, 1918; two in June, 1918; two in July, 1918. ; Be Grays Harbor Motor Ship Corp., Aberdeen, Wash.: Four wooden hulls; first hull to be delivered Jan. 15, 1918; second Feb. 15, 1918; third, March 15, 1918;-fourth, April 15, 1918. Coast Shipbuilding Co., Portland, Oreg.: Four wooden hulls; first hull to be delivered Jan. 1, 1918; second, March 1, 1918; third, May 1, 1918; fourth, July 1, 1918. Edward F. Terry & Henry L. Brittian, 60 Broadway, New York City. -Works, Moss Point, Miss.: Twenty composite cargo carrying steamers complete. First steamer to be delivered Feb. 1, 1918, and the remaining 19 within next 10 months. Skinner & Eddy Corp., Seattle, Wash.: Six steel cargo carry- ing steamers complete. First two steamers to be delivered with- in five months from-—date of arrival of keel plates, and of the re- maining number of steamers the building of the second two steamers shall be commenced immediately ‘after the completion of the first two steamers and shall be delivered within five months after the laying of the keels, and the building of the remaining two steamers shall be commenced immediately after the comple- tion of the second two steamers and shall be delivered within - five months after the laying of the keels. Sanderson & Porter,.52 William street, New York City. Works: -: Willapa Harbor, Wash.: Ten wooden hulls; first hull to be de- — livered on April 1, 1918, and one hulf every 15 ‘days’ thereafter, ending Aug. 30, 1918. ann of - : The Maryland Ship Building Co., Lexington building, Balti- more. Works: Sollars Point, Md.: Six wooden hulls; first hull to be delivered April 30, 1918, and one hull to be delivered - on the last day of each succeeding month, ending Sept. 30, 1918. SUMMARY .TO DATE: Total number: of ‘contracts executed 4.5.4 26 a ee 12 Total number of ships and hulls contractéd for.....:........ 104 Complete “steel: “shipsx 20> cosa meine ae ee ee 18 Complete composite ships......... eine aat cla: Sonera Se cee aaa, 32 Complete: wooden. (ships.2¢ 06 fee ee 30 Total:complete: ships -).'00.5 cays en ene ee eee ee 80 Wooden: balls: oo eisai pea Oe te ea ana oeeecar gt gta ete 24 _ (Signed) George W. Goethals, General Manager. Pt