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Excerpt from Newport News, Hampton, Phoebus and Old Point, Va. Directory: Containing a General and Business Directory of These Places and Other Valuable Information, Including a Guide to the Streets of Newport News and Hampton, 1913-1914 Newport News is in direct water communication with Boston, Providence, New York, Philadelphia, and Balti more, by regular lines of steamers, and large quantities of manufactured goods are shipped to this port for the western market. Under a recent decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission, Newport News has become a Common Freight Center, thereby enjoying the same freight rate as Norfolk to and from the South via the railroads terminating in Norfolk. This virtually makes all these railroads ter minate in Newport News. The foreign trade of this port is very extensive and is steadily increasing. At present there are regular steam ship lines from Newport News to Christiania, Glasgow, London, Liverpool, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Leith, Antwerp, Havana and Vera Cruz. It was in 1888 the ground was first broken for the plant of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Com pany; to-day it has a shipbuilding plant that in efficiency and modern equipment is equal to any in the world. The shipyard represents an investment of over and covers nearly 120 acres of land, with a waterfront of half a mile. In its arrangement it is probably the finest Ship yard, as well as the largest, for every stage of the work, from the planning to its completion, is arranged in such a manner that it is absolutely progressive. Dry Dock No. 2, the largest dock on this continent and which can accommodate a ship of the size Of the lusi tania at ordinary light draft cost There is no Ship afloat too large to be docked at Newport News. Two first-class battleships, or two large merchant ships may be docked together in this basin. It is no unusual sight to see two Ships in Dock No. 1. And three or four in Dock no. 2, at the same time undergoing repairs. The texas, the first vessel of the United States Navy to carry 14 inch guns was built at the Newport News Ship yard. This giant dreadnought probably will be sent by the Navy Department to the Panama Exposition at San Francisco. One contract, alone, secured by this industry is for the giant battleship pennsylvania, contract price, This is the largest contract ever made with any American Shipyard for a single vessel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.