CONTRACT TRIAL OF THE GRESHAM (REPRINTED FROM JOURNAL-AMERICAN-SOC-NAVAL-ENGINEERS, VOL IX, PG 253-266, 1897)

The Gresham, a single screw, steel revenue cutter of about 900 tons di splacement, was built by The Globe Iron Works Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, from designs furnished by the Treasury Department. The limit of the ap propriation was $175,000, and the contract was let at $147,800; as a m atter of fact, the actual cost of the vessel was far in excess of that sum. She is intended for service on the Great Lakes, and her headquar ters will be at Milwaukee, Wis.