Maritime History

The Baltimore Dry Docks Ship Building Co

THE revival of the shipbuilding industry, which has come about during the past few years, restores to several historic seats of American shipbuilding the prestige of their former glorious and creative days, enhanced by the many advantages which result from the application of modern methods to that industry.

Frank Waterhouse & Company

with the larger entry of the United States into international trade that has come about as a consequence of the cutting of the Panama Canal and still more because of the readjustment of international trade and the shipping industries as one of the results of the world war, a much higher degree of importance attaches to our Pacific ports,

Edward J. Barber

I X these days, when the question of the re-habilitation and enlargement of our American Merchant Marine looms so prominently in the horizon, it is well to reflect how much we owe to the men and firms that have steadily kept the American flag floating in all parts of the world. Of these no name is

Antonio Basilio Caragol

ANTONIO BASILIO CARAGOL AL0NG prominent in international commerce and more recently in the shipbuilding industry is Antonio Basilio Caragol, president of Manuel Caragol & Son, Inc., of 127 Water Street, New York. He was born and educated in Liverpool, England. His father, Manuel Caragol, was born in Cuba of Spanish parents.

Water L. Webster

WALTER L. . WEBSTER NEW YORK, with its pre-eminence as a port, also a world-famous center of the marine insurance interest, in which profes- alter L. Webster occupies a prominent place. He was born in Oak Leaf, Ontario, Canada in 1S71, the son of William and Patience E. M. Connors) Webster.

American Coal Exporting Company

AMERICAN COAL EXPORTING COMPANY ONE of the things done for American industry and business as the result of conditions . Brought about by the world war has been a drtided expansion of the exporting area for American coal. Countries that had never seen American coal before have been supplied from our mines a-ring this period, and in a large measure to.