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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
In conjunction with another act, which created the nucleus of an American line of transatlantic greyhounds, the law of March 3, 1891, within three years caused five new vessels to be under construction, which were in all respects abreast and in many respects ahead of anything then afloat. These vessels were built in conformity to the requirements of the two acts referred to, under a contract duly executed between their owners and the Post-office Department, to go into active effect in October, 1895, for a period of ten years. This was surely progress and improvement, but the foreign mail bureau of the Post-office Department had either overlooked or ignored it through impatience with the slow processes inevitable in the production of ships over a tenth of a mile long. This is somewhat digressive, but it is introduced here by way of preface to the remark that the capacity to build such ships has been attained but recently by any American ship-yard, and hence, unless active hosti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Scovel, Sylvester 1869- (search)
Scovel, Sylvester 1869- Journalist; born in Denny Station, Pa., July 29, 1869; graduated at the Michigan Military Academy in 1887. He went to Cuba as war correspondent for the Pittsburg Dispatch and the New York Herald in October, 1895; was imprisoned in Havana in January, 1896, but escaped. He was then engaged by the New York World; lived with the insurgents; passed through the Spanish police and military lines thirty times without detection, but was finally captured, Feb. 7, 1897, and imprisoned in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba. Later he was set at liberty through the negotiations of the United States government. He served afterwards as correspondent for the New York World in the Graeco-Turkish War, in Spain, in the Klondike, in Havana prior to the destruction of the Maine, and then with the United States navy and army till the close of the American-Spanish War.