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The men who had earnestly attempted to do something were therefore constantly defeated and compelled to abandon the effort. Following this came the demand for the ships, which meant simply that American capitalists might secure the registry of the United States for vessels built in English ship-yards and manned with English sailors.
Adopting what seemed to her statesmen of the new regime, from their study of Western methods, to be the speediest way to that end, she started out energetically to attain it through lavish money-grants from the national treasury for the establishment of steamship companies of her own people in coastwise and ocean service, and of modernized ship-yards and shipbuilders.
Learning that things were ordered differently in English ship-yards, that there work was done by rule and precept, Peter sent an order to the Russian docks not to allow the Dutch shipwrights to work as they pleased, but to put them under Danish or English overseers. For himself, he resolved to go to England and follow up his studies there.
Thus we are establishing a trade between kingdoms, the profits from which go to the betterment of the people to building factories for the manufacture of agricultural implements, and machinery for the various trades we are gradually teaching the people. Already Anoroc and Luana are vying with one another in the excellence of the ships they build. Each has several large ship-yards.
They seldom took the general cut through Maiden and Laurel Streets to Second, but kept down the river bank by Beach Street, to see the ship-yards and hear the pounding of rivets and the merry adzes ringing, and see youngsters and old women gathering chips, while the sails on the broad river came up on wind and tide as if to shatter the pier-heads ere they bounded off.
Cotton bales, cotton-laden ships and steamers on fire, and working implements of every kind such as are used in ship-yards, were continually encountered. On the piers of the levees, where were huge piles of hogsheads of sugar and molasses, a mob, composed of the scum of the city, men and women, broke and smashed without restraint.
My little store of money would soon be exhausted, and since it would be unsafe for me to go on the wharves for work, and I had no introductions elsewhere, the prospect for me was far from cheerful. I saw the wisdom of keeping away from the ship-yards, for, if pursued, as I felt certain I should be, Mr. Auld, my "master," would naturally seek me there among the calkers.
Ile Haute, being directly in the way of some of the swiftest currents, and close by the entrance to a basin which is surrounded by mills and ship-yards, naturally received upon its shores an immense quantity of these scattered and floating fragments.
At this time the German marine was represented by a substantial fleet of merchant steamships, but all were foreign-built, mostly from British ship-yards. The Government was paying only a postal subsidy of about forty-seven thousand dollars a sum in proportion to the weight of the parcels forwarded in the overseas trade to the participating German steam lines.
Peter's unlimited power Extent of his dominions Character His wishes in respect to his dominion Embassy to China Siberia Inhospitable climate The exiles Western civilization Ship-building The Dutch ship-yards Saardam The barge at the country palace The emperor's first vessels Sham-fights Azof Naval operations against Azof Treachery of the artilleryman Defeat New attempt The Turkish fleet taken Fall of Azof Fame of the emperor His plans for building a fleet Foreign workmen Penalties His arbitrary proceedings He sends the young nobility abroad Opposition Sullen mood of mind National prejudices offended The opposition party Arguments of the disaffected Religious feelings of the people The patriarch An impious scheme Plan of the conspirators Fires Dread of them in Moscow Modern cities Plan for massacring the foreigners The day The plot revealed Measures taken by Peter Torture Punishment of the conspirators The column in the market-place
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