Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-27
THE BARGE LINE.
Another Telling Communication on
the Subject.

AltftGtfc ZDNFltAtr All aINAEAG ii AllE
Eqaehe of the oath inst, signed by "True
Friend to Enterprise, and headed "The
Barge Line Subject Considered" calls for
some attention at our hands, lest the un-
rejecting portion of the readers of that
journal should be misled by its ridiculous
logic.
The writer begins by stigmatising it as
a 4" dubious enterprise, misleading public
opinion and falsely impressing the public
mind by bringing to its support all the
assertion, assumption and misrepresen-
tation can do, to accomplish those ends"
The best answer we can give to this TRADE
of abuse, is the fact that the merchants of
MeEanhis, not two, three or even a dozen,
but our seventy-fiye of these have offered
theft time, their talents, and, better han
all, their money, to build up and sustain
what he, the true friend" chooses to
class rs a dubious enterprise" That,
further, the system of barges which I" A.
T. F. 7. E." charaeterizes as advance in
the crab STYLE" is a system IN general use
on the Hudson river, where the people
are not notorious for progressing back
wards, and has also been in the most ne
cessful operation on our own Father of
Waters F" for nearly four years. The veri-
est Tyro on steamboating knows perfect
ly well that around trip between St. Louis
and Memphis with the kind of towboat
h~tu INV w AAB SLA11A1ElBBl ' aAAGN
Transportation Company of st. Louis,
with three fully laden barges of 500 tons
capacity each, can bemade easily in seven
days, which will allow the boats a full
day at each port. or
We beg to say to a . True Friend =" that
our Memphis Barge Company, we under
stand, propose using this style of boats,
and not the real estate head on style which
he so much lauds. 1t is highly probable
4hos NTH the Taftau ut-1a Of - .rfwsar -
steamboat as a prOpelling power, two
weeks, possibly two months, or even
years, would be consumed in the trip. es-
pecially when there was only five or six
feet water. Again, True Friend sees
nothing to prevent our enterprising mer-
chants from chartering one or more of the
barges of the st. Louis and New Orleans
Barge Company, and having them dropped
of here, saving to themselves the
money they are now investing in the same
style of transit company, and limiting that
they might then invest it in the famous
- what is it?" Steamboat, which is un-
doubleday in urgent need of even an inn
nitiSimal moiety of the same subscription
TO what our live merchants and business
men know to be a safe enterprise. We
partially agree with the True Friend"
in this assertion. There is only nethingtO
prevent our merchants doing this. But
that one thing is an insurmOuntable OBJ
stacle. Il Is all conveyed to V c the dull
comprehension Of y True Friend to e.
in one word, in~dispOsitiOn." '"True
Friend" touches or the point Of insur-
ance. and very much in the manne of an
infant scholar at acOuntry school, guessing
at the name of any particular letter in the
alphabet, prOably ne comes as near to the
facts as a child of ordinary intelligence
three wears old would to a complete I'M
EHrgF arHs Of flG rrr1a of fBa.an
Just to e|nlighten his sadly benighted
we viii inform him of a fact which
he can verify at the Office Of any insur-
anee company in our city, st. Louis or
New Orleans. The insurance on goods,
merchandise or property in transit by the
of the Mississippi Valley TranspOr-
tation Company Of st. Louis, is taken hy
any Of the Western companies ut the
charged on our finest and best
steamers-such as the Thompson Dean.
Great Republic and many Others We
name; and further, We have the
assurance from our insurance COM
that the insurance on goods, mer-
'handise and property in transit 10y the
Memphis and st. Louis Transportation
Company. Will be the same as by the
packets of the Memphis and 81. Louis
Packet Company.
In regard to the hostility to the Mem
his and ST. Louis Packet Company, its
breaking ont first in the shape OF q desire
O remove the wharfboat Of the CGnpauy, |
secondly, in the shape - Barge |
COMPANY, we need only to say that the
mover III the Barge Company is
apt. Smith, to-day indebted for his
yharfboat being securely moored at our
wharf. This is a fact well known to all
.ur citizens. and would he, without doubt, |
heerfully attested to by either Capt.
or Capt. Calvert.
The direct slur which a True Friend to |
Enterprise" endeavors to put upon the
directors of the Memphis and So. Louis
transportation Company, in saying THAT
he subject of cheap freights is not so inn
Ortant 10 them, as they expect TO handle
thousands of dollars of other peoples
money! can best be cred by naming
those same readers of the IrdiHHche,
these vilitied Directors are, viz: c.
Goyer, ". i. Meacham, j. c. Nicely,
1. ]. Wicks and J. c. McManus. Those
like names vino would want TO han
lie other peoples money. don't they,
True Friend 10 Enterprise?"
We believe we need only say, in conclu-
on, that should any compromise be ef-
scted or entered into, we have the fullest
,surance, from a glance at the-names
lentioned above rs Directors, that it will
@ a compromise i'm which the hest inter-
Il of Memphis viii De fully protected.
Yours, SACK A. RHINE.