Identifier: industrialhistor00boll (find matches)
Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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as imposed upon our builders, and they were forced to pay greatattention to their models. No one wanted to send a ship to seaunless she was capable of sailing rapidly away from a hostile cruiser if pursuedM and obliged to run. As early as 1782 a ship had been built inNew England, the frigate Alliance, which, being chased by a fastEnglish ship, was able to run fifteen knots by the log, with the wind abeam,in making her escape. Our builders displayed great ability and originality inmeeting the requirements of the age. They ignored the rules prevalent inEurope, and, rejecting the short, deep hulls and bluff bows, made their vesselslong, with sharp and concave bows, and stems, which permitted the water toflow away from them freely. Sometimes, at first, more attention was paid tospeed than steadiness; and a sixteen-gun ship, The Neptune, is knownto have capsized and sunk at Newburyport the moment she had crossed thebar on her first voyage. But by 1812 earlier faults had been corrected, and
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY the ships of the United States were the handsomest and swiftest in the world.There was great compensation in that, when peace came, for the years of riskand loss which had preceded. The second advantage above referred to wasmore immediately the result of the brilliant victories of the war of 1812.Upon the return of peace the United States demanded that her ships shouldbe permitted to sail the seas unmolested, and that they should be received inEuropean ports upon the same footing as the ships of the most favorednations; or, in other words, that navigation should be conducted on a basisof exact reciprocity. The prestige which this country had gained in that warprompted England to accede to the demand at once; and the other nationsof the world entered into treaties of maritime reciprocity soon after, or elsepassed laws which had the same effect. It had been customary in Europe totax American ships entering port a heavier tonnage duty than native ships.We had returned

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