The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-05-29
CORRESPONDENCE.
The Tennessee River Trade.
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/ noticed in your paper few weeks
since an article urging the business
community of Evansville the impor-
lance of sustaining the packet Sam.
Orr In the Tennessee River trade,
by giving her all the freight for that
destination regardless of propositions
made by outsiders to take it at about
half the rates at which she was charg-
ing. Your remarks were exceedingly
well timee and advised, and breathe
.. spirit of enlarged and enterprising
liberality, which ifinfused into and act
ed upon by those for whom it was IN
tended, would greatly enhance your
. prospects for permanentand profta-
BILE trade from this section
Let any candid and competent indi-
n vidual take the trouble to make an
estimate of her expenses, and COM
pare it with her receipts at the rate
she now charges for freight and pas
sage, giving her good trips both ways,
and he would soon become enlight-
ened to the fact that she was only do
ing moderately paying business, and
that these outsiders who are propos-
4 ing such reductions ina Tennessee
River freight, not to attain legitimate
ends or make any money from the
immediate transaction, but looking to
remote consequences, when the Evans
vile and Tennessee River packet, by
reason of such diversions from her
business, will be compelled to aban-
don the trade; when Evansville, losing
her regular connection with Tennessee
River, will by degrees lose trade
which, even in it's infancy, has proved
itself profitable revenue to her mer-
camille and manufacturing commu-
nifty.
Evansville is particularly fortunate
in having Captain Allen Duncan, Of
r. the "Sam Orr" to enhance her in
terests on this river OF winning and
afable manners, and the most accom-
modating disposition, together with
an energy and industry rarely to be
equalled, he has, in the short time he
has been in the trade, attracted TO
himself hosts of friends. His popu-
larity is fixed and stable, based. as it
is, upon the promptness and integrity
which has ever characterized him
since he came among US; and Evans
vile would, indeed lose her most
effective support here, were she,
through her indifference to her own
welfare, to cause him to look among
+ "a more appreciative community for the
furtherance of his own interests.
Had your oft-repeated and urgent
suggestions, relative to the organiza-
ton of Board of Trade, been acted
on long since and kept vitalized by
regular attendance and free COM
munion Of thoughts and views, Evans
vile would this day stand by her
packets, and during the dull months
indemnify them for any loss they
a might sustain in running for the pur-
pose of keeping up regular channels
~ of business communication with those
sections of the country whose trade
e she was benefited by.
+ - We of Tennessee River are particu-
9hA Iarly DESTROYS of having Capt Duncan
n { continue in this trade.
During our busy season we viii do
.y all we can to sustain and encourage
him, on the grounds merely of his up
% right character and clever disposition,
- g and we rely on you, as is ever your
wont, to urge your business men to
wa rally to- his support, for the same
qualities that attach us to him, and
for the other, more material incentive,
81 to them, of self-interest He is ably
seconded in all his endeayors by his
--fa clerks, those two most estimable gen
Il, tlemen, Guy Vineyard, ESQ.,, and Ollie
Breeder, Esq.
Should my letters, in your estima-
7s ton, add any thing of interest to your
readers, will drop you few lines
from time to time. Yours, ever,
-, H