The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-03-14
Proposed Line OF Steamer betwoe" New
York and the Mediterranean Ports.

cnant anu tIauer must DC III INC Co1'c'APN~~ ~
the bearing and the results Of the passing crisis upon
the commerce of the world, it becomes important IN
such considerations to take into account the agencies
which are likely to be brought into operation and
which may be calculated to influence the controlling
business transaction for the future.
As such an agency we may designate the intended
establishment of line Of steamers from New York
to the Mediterranean.
It is matter of great surprise that our trade, |
which has assumed such an immense impor-
lance in almost every part Of the globe,
should be comparatively in its infancy N the
very regions where commerce has first unfured her
flag, and where, from the most remote ages down
to this day. lively and profitable trade has been
carried on.
The star spangled banner has but few represen-
tatives in the Mediterranean in the Adriatc and the
Black Sea, and our direct trade with the numerous
productive and wealthy nations of those regions has
been exceedingly limited.
We have been contented to buy their goods in
foreign markets, and to ship to them our own pro
dace through intermediate channels
The disadvantages Of such system Of interna
tional intercourse with millions Of the richest people
of the civilized world has long been felt on both
sides of the Atlantic, and we therefore gratfed
to learn that the project of Mr. Loosely the Austrian
Consul General of this city, for the establishment
of line of steamers between New York and Trieste,
is about to be realized by that powerful corporation,
the Austrian Lloyd Steam Navigation Company.
This company controls one of those gigantic un
dertakngs in which Austria, in particular, exults.
The founder and protector of that enterprise is
Baron Charles de Bruck the eminent Austrian Min
lister of Finance II began its operations in 1886,
with a capital of one million of forms and seven
steamboats, The success which attended the under
taking induced the company, soon after to increase
its MEANS and they have now at their disposal six
ty-eight steamboats,, some OF which rank amongst
the most magnificent productions of naval architec-
ture in the world, amounting together to 1920
nominal horse power, and 39,l75 tons burthen, gov
eminent measurement, besides ninety three towing
boats and barges, and set of river boats plying on
the river Pc and its tributaries and on Lake Mag
giore.
The company has a large and well conducted ar
senal dry docks and slips at Trieste, which were
built at an expense of l,O96,770 FORMS They also
possess extensive buildings at their various stations,
and more particularly at Patras, Lutakia, Caamak,
Galatz, Alexandria, Venice, Caranella, Milan, &c.
| The number of persons employed in 1856 reached
! the enormous figure of upwards of 1000. The en-
| ployes of the company have fund amounting in
1856 to 423 3l4 FORMS to provide for themselves and
| families in cases Of accident, sickness or death.
| Amongst the employees agents whose business it
is to inquire into the wants of the travelling public
and the requirements of the trade, who have to in
spect the different lines Of navigation and stations,
and to report regularly upon the result of their OBJ
| servations
| The steamers Of that company run between Tri-
este and Alexandria, carrying the India, China and
| Australia mail; Trieste and Constantinople, to
Thessalia, Caramania Syria, Palestine, Trapezunt,
yarna &C.. touching at all the most important ports
| of the Black Sea- the mouth of the Danube, Asia
| Minor, Greece and the Ionian Islands. They also
| have line of steamers from Trieste to Malta and
| Barcelona, touching ut Ban, Messlna, Palermo
| Leghorn and Marseilles
| in the Adriatic the company has established q re
| guar system of navigation between Trieste and
Venice, Dalmatia, Croatia, Ancona, &c.
On the river Pc aud its tributaries and on Lake
Maggiore their vessels likewise keep up regular com
munications with twentyeight different landing
places.
In 1856 the companys vessels run 92s, 1888 miles
| carrying 364 ,l67 Passengers, s6,320632 forins in
money (about forty millions of doars) and ,239,032
| hundred weight of goods The receipts of the com
| pany were 6 1888 5si florins.
| In 1856 the Austrian government granted to thi,
| company subsidy of one million OF horins per an
num- for ten years. to enable IL to compete with the
subsidized companies OF France and England in the
| Mediterranean,
The affairs of the company, commanding capital
In 1856 of fifteen millions Of horins, which has since
| been considerably increased, are conducted by a
highly intelligent board of directors, well acquainted
with the requirements OF the age, and DESTROYS oil
| adopting the improvements OF the times.
| This company, we understand, has made PROPOSE
lions to the Austrian government TO carry out the
plan of Mr. Loosely: and IL information Is correct,
we have no doubt that the enlightened Austrian Min
| iato snfE nd Tralp ~ IL
foresight and sagacty OF that company, aud enable
them, by an adequate appropriation, to realize a
project which in its results will prove OF the greatest
| importance TO that government and to the parties
directly interested.
| As the project we speak Of may not be generally
known we propose to give an outline Of it,
Mr.. Loosely proposes to establish two lines Of nayi-
gation-a main line running between New York,
Madeira, Cadiz, Algiers, Malta. Corfu, and termi.
mating at Trieste, and an auxiliary line proceed
ing from Lisbon to Cadiz, awaiting there the
arrival of the steamers from New Iork-then pro-
ceeding to Barcelona, Msrseilles, Genoa. Leghorn,
Civita vecchia, Naples, Messina, Corfu, and also
terminating in Trieste, and rice rersa, and thereby
connecting New York in a direct line with every i'm.
portant port north and south of the Mediterranean
west of Trieste.
The departure of the steamers from New York
will he so timed as 90 meet the direct Indii, China
and Australia mail line at Corfu from Trieste TO AL
exandria, and New York will be brought therefore
in direct communication with the India mail steam
ers at Suez, and mails and passengers may proceed
from New York without stoppage az far as Shang-
haze Sydney or the hhuritius.
BY the trsnshipment Of mails and passengers at
Corfu on board the Austrian Lloyd steamer direct
communication Is also effected between New York
and Greece the Levant the ports Of the Black Sea,
the south of Russia, the mouth of the Danube,
Egypt and Asia Minor.
fhe New York steamers will arrive in Madeira on
the day the British Brazilian line Of steamers reach
that port from Southampton. Mails and passengers,
therefore from New York 10 the Brazils the Argen-
tine Confederation, and the Canary and Cape de
verd Islands, may he transhipped az Madeira, and
a direct communication be established by which ten
DAYS Of time are saved.
AT Madeira the British west coast Of Africa
steamers also touch and mails and passengers may
there be transhipped for those ports, putting New
York in direct communication with the ports OF that
coast.