Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 199, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 15, 1916 Page: 3 of 12
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GALVESTON TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1916.
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cheerfully given.
2110 Church.
The largest stock of elec-
trical fixtures in the
city of Galveston
Crowell Recites Tasks Already
Completed, and Outlines
Plans For the Future.
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COYLE BROTHERS
Builders and Contractors
Office at the Builders’ Exchange.
Res. 2319 Thirty-Seventh St.
JOHN EGERT
HOUSE MOVER and GENERAL CONTRACTOR
2316 Postoffice St.
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished.
TELLS OF WORK ON
BIG NEW DRY DOCK
The letter carrier’s whistle is a pos-
tal note.
BELT! BELT! BELT!
We have iust received a complete line of Byrnes Co., St. Louis, Celebrated Oak’
Tan Water-proof Leather Belting, 1%" to 8".
Let us have your enquiry when in need of anything in the Transmission Line
Paul Shean Company
House Painting and Paper Hanging
Estimates Furnished
Company
Incorporated
Now located at
2118 Postoffice Street,
Knights of Columbus Bldg.
Phone 5171
J. N. Childress
Corner Tremont and Strand.
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PLAN#2328.
A. J. WITT
PLUMBER, GAS AND STEAM FITTER
Telephone 3531.
For Fans, Motors or Anything
Electrical, see
Clarke Electric Co.
We Sell, Install, Repair, Exchange or
Buy Anything that Uses Electricity.
.What Are Your Wants?
Don’t Forget Your Gas
Piping for your Stove.
Piping for your Water Heater.
Pipe every room for a Heater.
Pipe every room for a Light.
Gas gives you Light and Heat during Good and Bad
Weather.
WM. SCHADT
Sash, Doors, Blinds, Hardware, Paints,
Roofings, Glass, Screens, Wire Cloth.
Flue Crocks and, Flue Linings.
2801 Mechanic St. Phone 224,
Galveston, Texas.
PEDROON
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Edwards Wooten
Dealers in
Paints, Oils, Glass, Varnish, Wall
Paper and Decorations.
612 Tremont St.
Telephone No. 5919.
PREPAREDNESS —
Don’t flirt, with fire. Insure against it.
See me—-phone me to call.
Charles Meyer
Formerly manager Jno. N. Stowe & Co.
We will gladly help you with your plans.
Galveston Gas Co.
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V. E. AUSTIN, Notary Public.
Telephone 334
AUSTIN ® CO.
Real Estate Agents
307 Twenty-Second Street
Galveston, Texas.
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"THE BUILDERS’ SUPPLY HOUSE.”
Tinner and Slater, does all kinds of
roofing, guttering and repair work.
burdensome furniture, which only takes
up space. This should be in white enamel woodwork with light grey walls
and white ceiling.
The bedrooms and bath all open to a hall, thus giving privacy to all.
Large closets in the bedrooms add to the comfort for space, and particular
attention is called to the large attic space for storage, made possible by the
gables and which is thoroughly lighted and ventilated.
This is considered an ideal plan for a south or east front.
Contractors, dealers in paints and wall
paper. Will paper room $6.00 up. Call
and see new line wall paper. Estimates
Successors to Jno. N. Stowe & Co.
General Insurance Agents and Foreign Exchange Brokers.
specialty & FIRE and MARINE INSURANCE
PLAN NUMBER 2328.
Here we have a most attractive de-
sign with a gable roof covering the
house and porch, giving a large effect to
the house and also making the construc-
tion cheap, as the porches are built un-
der the main roof of the house, thus
avoiding extra cutting of timbers.
The broad opening between the liv-
ing- and dining-rooms give a spacious
effect upon entering, and the handsome
brick mantel with dark brown wood-
work and tan walls for the dining-room,
with a darker shade for the living-room,
makes the interior most ideal. Draper-
ies of moss green and white will be very
harmonious.
In the kitchen we have all built-in
cabinets which allows a small, cozy
kitchen, thus saving the housewife un-
necessary steps and doing away with
NO CASH REQUIRED Hoyruason WXys5peshmunthnthereet
into a home of your own, and on Broadway, too. That splendid 5-room bunga-
low at No. 4124 Broadway can be had on these terms. A full lot, facing eouth
goes with it. The Market street cars run south on 41st street; the Interurban
and Ave. M lines pass the door. Let me tell you more about it.
Choice home site, third lot from southwest corner of 33d and O, $1650.
JOHN HANNA
2222 Mechanic.
The ease of mind is worth the premium. We write polcies
with old established companies—it costs no more.
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H. C. OPPERMANN
TIN AND SHEET IRON WORKS
Metal Roofing, Guttering, Etc.
Special Attention Paid to All Repair
Work
Telephone 1553.
2628 AVE. F.
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E. C. NORTHEN ( CO.
ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE
Fire, Life, Accident, Burglary, Plate Glass, Liability and Automobile
, Insurance; Fidelity, Judicial, Contract, and Official Bonds.
Room 220 — American National Insurance Building — Phone 57
Galveston, Texas.
to install three sections at first, and
keep adding as the business offers.
Three sections will lift a. vessel 300
feet long, any displacement up to that
length and any draft to 22 feet.
“The sections are 110’ feet wide and
80 feet long. Each section requires
600,000 feet of lumber to build and
about 35 tons of bolts and spikes. The
lumber, iron, valves, and pumps re-
quired in this construction will all be
Purchased in Galveston or through
Galveston firms, and the dock will be
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SCREEN DOORS and SCREEN WIRE
All kinds and sizes. Low prices.
Builders’ Hardware and Mechanics’ Tools of all kinds.
We make it to your advantage to trade here.
UNION HARDWARE CO.
yards of material. This material has
been usec to raise the grade of the
entire property up to 13 feet, 6 inches
and seventeen inches above mean low-
tide. This basin is 480 feet long by
115 feet wide, and will ultimately have
a uniform depth of 40 feet below mean
low tide. It is just large enough to
contain the finished deck, submerged
to a depth sufficient to accommodate
a steamship drawing 22 feet of water,
blocked up 4 feet from deck of dock.
“This floating dry dock will be built
in sections, each section a separate and
entirely independent unit, every sec-
tion identically the same and inter-
cnangable. Additional to this, is the
fact that the sections will lift one an-
other for the purpose of self-repair,
thus making the dock pratcically inde-
structible.
Being independent units, the dock
can be connected or disconnected at
any point, can be used as two smaller
docks or one large one. The longitu-
W. D. HADEN
Sand and Shell
814 American National Insurance Building
Telephone 2837
HOME PROTECTION —
Means a policy to prgtect you from loss by INSURANCE
fire. Let me look after this business for you. „„ . _ T ““
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Island City Wood Working Co.
LUMBER AND MILL WORK
We can furnish and will gladly estlmate on anything in the building line.
Phone 2622. 18th and Mechanic Sts.
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Stewart Title Guaranty Co.
last word in this, class of construction.
It will contain several new and up-to-
date improvements, inventions of the
designer. The engineer who is de-
signing it, and who has the plans
about completed, has been engaged w
dry dock construction as a specialty for
several years in this and other coun-
' tries.”
The second monthly banquet of the
Galvez Civic club, held at the Murdoch
pavilion last night, was featured by a
comprehensive talk on dry docks by
Charles N. Crowell, manager of the
• Galveston Dry Dock and Construction
company. Particular attention, was
given to the project on Pelican spit by
■ Mr. Crowell. During the dinner a five-
piece colored orchestra furnished mu-
sic, and there were a few short talks
during the evening by members of the
club. The next monthly banquet will
be open to ladies and special cabaret
features are to be provided. The talk
by Mr. Crowell follows in part:
"Our fair city of Galveston is the
second city of export of our country.
“This being true, many ships must
necessarily come and go, and wher-
ever ships are they must be kept up to
a high degree of maintenance. Insur-
ance companies require this, safety de-
mands it, and economy proves it is ab-
solutely necessary.
“Now, if ships come to Galveston and
have to undergo repairs, why not have
• all these repairs made right here in
this city for the benefit of our Gal-
veston merchants and mechanics. It
seems strange, when we consider how
many large contracts have gone else-
where, that provision has not been
made prior to this to retain this work
n Galveston. Not only must we con-
sider repair work, but construction of
new vessels as well. Every shipyard
in the country is busy today, and we
surely should be able to secure our
quota of this business.
"The building of a ship, gentlemen,
is one of the best advertisers of a city
or a firm. If we obtain contracts to
build vessels, and we surely intend to
try for such, every marine trades pa.
per in the United States will advertise
the fact, and this will advertise our
facilities along this line.
"Speaking of the plant now under
construction, a plant calculated to pro-
vide facilities for repairing and even-
tually building vessels of either wood
or steel, a plant built as an investment
for the citizens of Galveston by their
own capital, and one that will prove a
benefit to Galveston’s merchants, man-
ufacturers and mechanics. This ship-
yard, to be known as the Galveston
Dry Dock and Construction company,
is centrally located on the Galveston
channel dike, directly opposite the foot
of Tremont street, on a plot of ground
600 feet by 1,300 feet. This, site was
leased from the city under a thirty-
year term, with an additional twenty-
year option at the expiration of that
period. This location was secured
about one year ago, and since that
time the work of installation has been
steadily progressing. At this present
time there is a railway dry dock, capa-
ble of hauling out a vessel weighing 1
1,000 tons of 1,000 tons displacement.
“This part of the plant is now ready '
for business. The equipment necessary
for handling repair work on vessels 1
hauling out on this railway is also
being rapidly provided for. At pres-
ent this equipment includes several 1
buildings, designed to withstand Gal- l
veston storms. These buildings will 1
contain necessary machinery1 and am-
ple space for workmen.
“There is a boiler shop 50 feet by
J 110 feet, with 21 feet clear height be-
low the truss girders. No post nor
other obstruction encroaches on the en-
tire interior space, and a five-ton trav-
eling crane will be carried the entire
length of the building by the roof and
side walls. This boiler shop will con-
tain iron-working machinery only,
such as drills, punches, rolls, shears,
planers, pneumatic tools, forges, etc.,
and is designed for boiler' work, re-
pairs to steel hulls and any local or
outside work offering.
“This building is intended for iron
or steel work. Another one, of about
the same size, except two feet more in
height, will be used entirely for wood
work.
“This second building, known as the
‘carpenter shop,’ has an upper floor
extending its entire length and breadth.
The lower portion of this building will
contain machinery necessary for the
various classes of wood work, such as
planers, saws, lathes and boring ma-
chines; also benches for the use of
workmen on joiner work and spaces
for the making of spars for sailing
vessels. The second floor will be, a
clear and uninterrupted space 50 feet
by 110 feet, to be used as a mold loft
or full-size draft board for the laying
down new vessels of either wood or
steel, and is designed to be the first
step in new construction.
POWER HOUSE.
“The power house is designed for the
reception of the boiler, furnishing pow-
er for the railway and the two shops.
Crude oil will be used for fuel.
“This building also will contain a
large air compressor for the use of all
pneumatic tools, such as boring ma-
chines, air hammers for bolts, rivets,
drills, chippers, calkers and scalers.
“Another building, entirely isolated,
will be used for the storage of paints
and oils and painters’ tools.
“There has also been provided a com-
plete piledriver with 40-foot leads.
“The next step in our installation .
will be, to my mind, the greatest of |
all, and the one which will produce j
tae greatest and most far reaching re-
sults.
“ I refer, gentlemen, to the float-
ing dry dock. The most modern, econ-
omical and efficient method yet de-
vised for handling repair work on ves-
sels. . '
“As compared with a basin or graving
dock, in the latter the entire dock has
to be pumped out at every operation,
be it a steam ship or a row boat, while
in the case of the floating dry dock,
this is submerged to any required
depth, thus suiting the expense of
pumping to the size of the job.
"As to a marine railway, the entire
weight of the cradle and ballast has
to be dragged up hill every time a
boat is hauled out, be it every so small,
a direct waste of energy and loss of
efficiency. While with the floating
dry dock, there is no such wasted en-
ergy to be added to the expense ac-
count, because the lift is made by sim-
ple water displacement and the force
of gravity.
BASIN DREDGED.
“For the reception of this floating
dry dock, ’ an immense basin or slip
has been dredged out of the solid earth, ;
requiring the removal of 125,000 cubic ,
dinal rigidity and continuity of the
combined sections, when connected to
form one large dock, will be sufficient
to resist the tremendous stresses—due
to the lifting of a, heavy steamer. The
most severe stresses, however, to over-
come are the twisting or tortional ones,
and these are provided against by a
series of interor trusses—in both direc-
tions1 and interlocking. The balancing
of the dock is accomplished by the
use of interior watertight bulkheads
and by having the pumping systems in-
dependent of one another.
The ultimate number of sections will
be five or six. In the case of five,
the dock will lift a vessel 460 feet
long between perpendiculars weigh-
ing 8500 long tons. If six sections are
installed, the capacity will reach 10,000
ten lift, with a 500 feet lengtn. unis
will take care of any vessel eniering
this port, excepting possibly a very
wide battleship.
“It is the intention of the promoters
PHONES 430 AND 2549.
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H. E. Malitz
Plumbing and Gas Fitting
Repairing Automatic Heaters and Soda
Fountains a Specialty.
3923 Avenue 0. Phone 4881
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Our Stock of Clear Lumber
Is Unequalled!
If you want your home to be attractive
BUY FROM
SEABOARD MILLING CO.
JNO. ADRIANCE, JR.
Fire and Tornado Insurance
PHONE 213.
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Building FRED M. BURTON & CO. Phonege
Asbestos Slate Ru-Ber-Oid Roofing
Fred Hartei
Slate, Tile and Metal Roofing
Cornices, Skylights, Steel Ceilings
Metal Lath and Wall Ties
2321 to 2323 Church Street
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EDITOR’S NOTE—We have procured the services of com-
petent architects in editing this department, and each week
illustrations of practical modern homes will be shown. Any
information desired will be gladly furnished free. Complete
plans, details and specifications for any home shown on this
page will be furnished for $10.00 per set. Call or write
“Ye Planry," Inc., Dallas.
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