The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-03

In response to your inquiry as to
facilities, remark
That within the past two years cars
especially built to run through with
out break of bulk or change to Gin
cinnati, indianapolis, &C., have been I
built, and the great objection hereto
fore existing to the route, because of /
transferring freights at harrisburg. IS /
now corrected. These cars are loaded I
in the Western cities, and the con-
tents unloaded at the doors of the |
warehouses in Baltimore, or at the |
station of the company, and In cases
where the produce Is designed for |
foreign shipment, upon the pier Of the
company-generally regarded as the
best arranged, as they are certainly
the most extensive. In the United
Satisfactorily alongside of the yes
sci, thus securing the minimum cost
of handling and storage, aud securing
the greatest practical economy.
Tue Baltimore and Ohio Company,
In connection with the North German
Lloyd, has established line. of four
first. class steamships between Bre-
men and Baltimore, stopping at
Southampton going and returning.
/ n
One of these steamers leaves Bremen
and Baltimore each fortnight, and
have brought to Baltimore during the
eighteen months the line has been in
operation large numbers Of emigranss,
many of whom would, under other
circumstances, have gone to New
/ York, and from thence to the North
/ west; but with the superior arrange
ments as to ocean transportation and
cheap transportation upon our system
of railways, found homes in Southern
| Ohio and Indiana.
These facilities also have attracted
to this city through Cincinnati, i'm
mense quantities of tobacco, cotton.
and other products, which so a great
extent, formerly found outlets 10 Eu-
rope at New Orleans. The success of
the Bremen line is already SO we'll
assured that the owners are now con-
sidering the pr0priety of adding four
more steamships, thus afordlng a
weekly steamer from each port.
Three steamships belonging exclu-
sively to this company have hereto
fore been run IN the line between
Baltimore and Liverpool. The Bal
timore and Ohio Company has been
engaged recently ia some important
; negotiations, looking 80 the placing
} upon this route four first class new
} iron steamers, each of three thousand
! tons capacity; and we have delayed
/ responding to your communication IN
{ the expectation Of being able to an
) nounce the consummation OF these
, negotiations.
/, We are now pleased to advise tina
Q a preliminary agreement has beer
4 made which will insure this object
q so important to your city as well a
to this community.
Similar arrangements for trade t
Y Charleston, Savannah, Wilmington
9 Norfolk, Petersburg and Richmond
e as we'll as Havana, have been supplied
e by Baltimore enterprise, IN some in
!. stances assisted by the Baltimore anC
: Ohio Company, and these lines are al
] hourlshing, paying in most cases fai
j dividends to the shareholders, beside
e bringing to the city, as a point Of dis
4 tribution, cotton, rice, sugar, naya
f stores, tobacco, and other products o
0 the South, and returning laden will
f goods imported by our European
e steamers, and with grain, provisions
: &c., the products Of the great West.
t Perhaps in no other respect has tn
!. advantages of a system of low. AM
! what was regarded WhLn established
o as unremuneratiVe, rates produces
q greater or more important result
4 than in the interchange of this bust
: ness through Baltimore, between tn
5 Southern, coas twise cities and tn
cities of the West. particularly Gin
i cinnati. But few years ago nearl
: all this traffic was sent via New York
f and transported nearly three hundre,
o miles by rail and a considerable dis
! lance by water, further than it is no
v transported via Baltimore. The rate
Q are correspondingly lower than thos
0 previously charged via New York.