Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-04-09
The steamboat Carrying Trade Of New
York.

erestipu facts and statistics OF the
Ioatiue steam craft of that city, COM
nencing with the first steamer that
,rosssd the Atlantic from New York IN |
$40 1t was an American ship-the |
savannah, of 150 tons burthen, and
was twenty-six days iu making the
voyage. Although this was the
of TRANSATLANTIC steam
navigation, it was not till l84O that the
Eirst ocean steamship company was or
qanized to open regular line between
New York and Great Britain. This
company was formed under the auspi-
ces of Sir Samuel Cunard, an English.
man-who died in 1866 at the age oil
78 yeals. The Cunard line has main
tanned its popularity up to the present
time, and monopolizsd the trans-Atlan-
tic steamboat trade till the establish
ment of an American company-tne
Collins line. The latter, however, did
not prove o pecuniary success, Whicn
seems 70 be- a general complaint OF
most of the companies that have since
been formed on this side of the water.
There are now but two American lines
plyipp between New York and Europe,
viz; The "Ne,o York and Hdpre' and
"Ne,O York and Bremen. The num-
her of vessels in the Cundrd line rs 2O,
first class iron built ships, all, with one
or two exceptions, screw steamers,
with an average tonnage of 2,3OO tons
each. The largest-the Scotia-has q
tonnage of 1857 tons. This line has
transported during the past year o6,'
426 passengers
The bnlan Line Liverpool, New
York and Philadelphia Steamship Com
pany,) has sixteen steamships OF an
average of 2, $50 tons each. These ships
carry the British mails. Last yeal
thew made 164 trips, with an average OF
152 passengers, or q total OF 24,92o.
The average time of these boats IS ten
days and seven hours. Tue shortest
time being seven days and tweniy-three
hours. This company transported
specie The past year to the amount OF
So, 5000
The French Line, (the General Trans
atlantic Company have seven vessels
of an average touage of 2,6ll tons.
They carry the French mail, and trans
ported in 1857 only 1900 passengers.
The Ne,o York and Bremen Company
have but three vessels, averaging 2,5OO
tons. They carry the mail to Germany.
Their average time between New York
and Bremen is twelve days. Carried
last year IL, 100 passengers.
The Hamburg American Packet Com
PAM has eight steamships, averaging
about 2, 400 tons. They carry the mails
calling Mt Southampton. These are
screw steamers aud constructed OF iron.
Total number OF passengers carried hy
this company in 1867, was 10000, OF
whom three.fourths were from Ham
burg.
The North German Lloyd line rms 8
iron built screw vessels vi an average
OF about 2,7OO tons, They carry the
mails both ways, and in 1857 trans-
ported 35, 500 passengers.
The National Line comprises 8 ships
of an average tonnage OF over 3,OOO
tons, running weekly between New
York and Liverpool. They are all iron
screw propellers, and have conveyed
in the past year 20, ,S94 passengers.
The Anchor Company, Scotch line
runs between Glasgow and New York.
1t numbers seven steamships, averag-
ing about 1900 tons. Carried passen-
gers in the year to the number OF
35, 162.
The Liverpool and Great Western
Company has four vessels, which have
carried II, 500 passengers in the past
year. There is slsl line known as
the NeV York Hd0re and Loddon,
running four iron steamships. Being
intended mostly for freight transporta
ton they are slow, and their passen-
ger list during the year Dumbers ouly
1850.
The 81 vessels enumerated above,
which do the main TRANSATLANTIC car
rying trade, conveyed in the year
1867, $4,000 passengers. LOIS 276
tuns of cargo, and $48, 1876, 174 in sp Gle,
which gives some idea of flow of COM
merce across The Atlantic, between
Europe and the United States.
Besides we have several home lines
of steamers. The Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company does the carrying trade
between our Atlantic and Pacific sea-
boards. It employs 13 vessels with a
total tonnage Of 30,616 tuns. The At.
lautic Mail Company between New
York and Havana employs three steam
ships. There are five lines to New
Orleans which employ about 16 ships.
averaging about 1000 tuns. There is
also the United States and Brazil Mil
Company running two vessels of !, 400
uns each. The NetU York Mail Sedns-
hip Company having two vessels, aud
eVeral lines to Charleston and other
outhern ports.
The whole tunnage of ocean steam
hips belonging to the port of New
York is 233,618 The number OF vJs
els l79, with an average tunnage OF
,3O5 tuns. And all this from a single
eaport, which less than forty niue
1ears ago sent ont its first little steam.
BOAT on u perilOus and uncertain trip
lcross the Atlantic. Let us say no
onger that the age Of miracles has pas.
Ied, but rather that miracles are the
everyday occurrences of modern pro-
yressive fivilizltion, with which we
laye become 50 familiar that they fail
10 challenge our wonder. With all
these actuahties before our eyes, what
are we to think of the possibilities OF
the next bali century? II we imagine
there is to be any stoppage in the race,
we reason not from the past. ALI that
we have done is but lengthening of
the lever which the coming years will
use to accelerate the worlds career OF
progress. Those who shall look back
upon the present time from the stand
point of the year 1920 will doubtless
consider us q dull and nnsophistica.
ted people, even Ss we regard our
slow forefather's of fifty years agone.