The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-12-24
TRADE WITH THE sOurn.
n Lsssso Increase in business in tho Las
Pew Years

N H.ssEse Increase in business in tho Last
Pew Wears.
4 Tribune reporter recently started out
In search of information in regard to the
increase in Southern trade IN his office,
at Pie~ No. 30 North River was found Hen
~ Yenge, agent of the Ocean Steamer
Gomesny. He said;
"our freight business has doubled since
1877, and our passenger tariifhas more than
doubled from this port to Savannah We
now rRp two steamers week for passengers
and freight, and have four others for freight
atone, which make the trip as fast as they
o8n load and unload. Since 1874 we have
bWlst five new steamers and are now build
ing shrce more
''What is the capacity Of yonr s.eamerS''
"Tlie four largest ones, when carry both
freight and passengers, have capacity OF
fr0ni seven to eight thousand bales of cot
tor and accommodation for l3J passengers,
IGtely these steamers have been ililud to
their utmost capacity with freight, and
have been obliged to carry 100 passengers.
At this season of tho year the business ID so
great that We can carry only compressed
rutt0n, but in the dull season we carry it
without COMPRISING. Every year the cot
tlJu season seems to hold lougcr. Why,
the Ist vt May, but nov we bring il all
summer"
''ls0 you bring much besides cotton?'
''uh, yes, We bring large quantities OF
kuJnhsr, fruit, roSin and rice, besides lots Ol
Sunthcrn domestiCs. Lately there has been
u very large increase in the amount Of do
nlcstiCS we have brought NORTH
The reporter had vision of the regiments
OF oolored cooks and brgadcs of negro
walters. and was proportionately astoni:hed
wisn Mr. GonEe continued:
These are some bales Of them the men
are Just hauling out upon the pier
MIR. Yonge subsequently explained that
S'dUmcstics' are coarse kind Of cotton
ao0dS manufactured in the South
We Also continued tie agent, Lave
lately brought to New York large amount
0t cotton yarn
"Nhat DO you carry back TO the South"
We carry large amount OF iron, -four,
agricultural implements and dry goods,
Ttie orders given by Southern merchants
for goods from New York houses are said
to be larger this year than ever before,
Our lines running from Boston and Phld-
stelphia are carrying To the SOnth a great
deal Of machinery, and We carry some
fEurn this port. While the trauc in orr
ILne has 81 much increased, competition
fFas Increased also, and believe that every
Zine running to the Southern ports is full
OF business. The increase TO oar passenger
tzsitac has been very large, We have fami-
lies which 90 with Us year after year, Mrs.
harriet Beeehcr Stowe has been passcn-
yer of ours for years. We claim that our
steamer, the City of Augusta, has the finest
saloon of any ocean steamer allodt, and the
new steamers which we are building will be
even more elegantly fitted up. The new
bouts will be 3l3 feet long, 10 feet beam and
30 feet, . inches depth OF
hold. They will have compound en-.
gines OF 100 horse power each, and are
expected to make fourteen knots an hour.
Our line connects at Savannah with the
Central Railroad of Georgia and our pros
perityis u pretty fair index OF the prosperity
of Georgia from Atlanta 20 the sea"
The agent of the Charleston line Of
steamers said that what was true of the
Savannah line in regard TO the increase OF
trade was also true OF the line he repre-
sented. Two steamers week run between
here and Charleston on that line, and
briHg, on an average $500 bales OF cotton
each tsip. The other companies running
steamers % Southern ports are all doing Il
great dcAl OF pusiness.-[Ncw York Tri-
bune