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... N . . 0 R .T H p 0 R T · Vol No. ti9 Issue No. 4'7 .•. ... . • • ~f····~' - .. ~- _p<ti--'< l< < ,.. . ~;~'}i .J . • ~ ' . ,_;·. In 1862, Union forces In the Civil War were on the defensive both on land and sea. US Government attempts to blockade the Confederacy were hindered by The Merrimack, a war- ship converted by the Rebels Into a nearly Invincible Ironclad. Through the Intervention of Eatons Neck's CH Delamater, however, government officials agreed to take a look at the Ironclad designs of Swedish-born Inventor John Ericsson - thus paving the way for manufacture of the Monitor. The success of the Monitor In neutralizing the capabilities of the Mer- rimack was an Important factor In changing the outcome of the Civil War In favor ofthe Union. · (Illustration from \Duel Between the First Ironclads,\ Doubleday & Co., Inc., ~975) ·NOrthport's Civil War Hero CH Delamater, Lifelong Friend Of Inventor Of /(The Monitor,\ Made Its Success Possible By Ge()rge Wallace Sometimes in the world of industry, the gap be-. twt3e.n theory and practice makes for some surpris- ing scenarios. Th.is· past month, there have been reports in the press concerning a new \777\ jumbo airliner under design and construction at Boeing Aircraft. Accord- · ing to the news accounts, the plane is so large Boe- ing has had to build it without an opportunity to test- fly a model of it beforehand. The mathematics say it is going to work -· but there are people asking the question anyway: will it fly? Will it fly. The answer to a question like thaLhas been at the volatile heart of tile industrial revolution for going on two centuries now. If reality meets the- ory, then human industrial progress moves forward. And if it doesn't? The results may be no more em- barrassing than the Edsel was to Ford M<>tor Com- pany. Or else, they may be as disastrous as the Hin- denberg to its German manufacturers. Consider the case of Eatons Neck's Cornelius H. Delamater. A man who was given co-ownership -of what amounted to little more than a blacksmith's shop in New York. City, he .rode the industrial revolu- tion into a position of such success that he turned his business into a major foundry, iron works, and construction complex . .Granted, he hooked himself up in a lifelong rela- tionship- both personal and business- with a controversial inventor whose ideas were sometimes as spectacular in failure as they were in their suc- cess. But in the process, Delamater became so successful. that he was able to purchase most of Eatons Neck and create a massive estate there. And in one critical instance, ·the efforts he put into helping that inventor not only helped to increase his family's wealth and standing - but was instrumen- (ContintJed on page 12)
