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July 12. Left here at 6:30 AM. to take 8:00 A.M train for [[red underline]] Philadelphia.[[/red underline]] Motored to New York. Marvelously beautiful cool weather. View of Hudson along Riverside Drive has never [[strikethrough]] seen [[/strikethrough]] ^[[seemed]] so beautiful as in the early bright light.
[[red underline]] Hog's Island Ship Yard [[/red underline]] which only a few weeks ago was called a [[red underline]] "National Scandal" [[/red underline]] certainly looks more like "America's Monument of Efficiency". Where not long ago there were only marshes and swamps or shallow water on the Delaware has arisen a mighty plant for [[red underline]] building ships as never was dreamed off before - Stupendous is the word. - 180 ships under construction at the same [[/red underline]]
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[[red underline]] time. Fifty different ways, [[/red underline]] one along the other there next to this huge basins where the launched ships are fitted with machinery, and finally another basin to load them with merchandise to be shipped directly to Europe.  All this [[red underline]] with endless [[/red underline]] buildings, simple but neat in construction, a [[red underline]] veritable network of railroads, everything [[/red underline]] handled. Spick and span and simply as if some giant [[strikethrough]] where [[/strikethrough]] were handling [[red underline]] toy [[/red underline]] ships. The [[red underline]] toy ships are 10 000 tons gross! [[/red underline]] 
There are about [[red underline]] 29000 [[/red underline]] men employed here, intelligent looking men, steady in appearance and in action.
Admiral [[red underline]] Bowles [[/red underline]] assures us that first ship will be launched about  [[red underline]] Aug 5 this year [[/red underline]] and that from then on launchings will be kept up