New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-03
HOW TEAS COME TO NEW YORK.
ACROSS JHE CONTINENT BY RAIL.

! SHARP COMPETITION CAUSING LOW RATES ZOE
CARRYING.
Tho tea-drinker who comfortably sips her cup 81
Oolong seldom ponders upon the great maritime
struggle which has long been going on and the over.
land competition which s lust In It's Infancy -
supply her with this soothing beverage at reduced
rates. Time when tea made greater nroads o.
the pocket-book than and competition in carry
ing II from China and Japan &c Eastern ports IN this
country is OF tho important factors In the redus
ton. The sailing vessel, technically known NJ the
sailcr, was the sole medium OF transportation
Now tho Union Northern and Canadian Pacific rail-
ways almost anuihiate the slow coming and going u
the white wings of the tes-oarrers Tea
like other things is rushing across continents now II
the mad competition OF modern traffic
The sailer took cargoes OF goods from New-York
and Boston and brought back teas in exchange 10
required from twelve to fourteen months to make the
round trip When the weather was particularly fine.
the voyage this way might be made In four months.
Whsn the California fever broke out, the demand tor
freight from this port thther induced the building
OF clipper ships, which made a rapid passage, with
attendant high freights but freight returningy
the clippers crossed tho Pacific and took In
csrgoes of teas the time Of tea transit to this port
thus reduced to from ninety 10 one hundred days
Then the Panama Railroad was built and steamers
from China by tho way Of San Francisco 10 the
isthmus of Panama connecting by rail with steamers
on this side once made reduction In tea time 10
from forty TO fifty days The completion Of the Union
Pacific Railroad, with tho establishment OF the
Pacific Mail Line from California TO China made from
thirty to thirty-ave days the limit he Suez Canal
route MADE the time from China 10 this port from sixty
to seventy days. Tie Northern Pacific Railroad ext
wheeled into competition. rsing vessels were stiu
used well steamships to convey he tea to San
Francisco Now saers were also pus on 10 cvinect
also with the Northern Pacific az Portland. Oregon.
The completion OF the Canadian Pacific railway with
ts sailors from Japan affords three lines ot
land petition ali of which are In rivalry with the
Sucz Canal route
These fUnr lines OF competition have reduced the
price of bringing here largely. Until lately the
rate within live years rarely below cents lgrossl
pound and by the Pacific Railroad route IL varied
from To cents for tho entire distance from Japan
Now the frat one two fast steamers which bring IN
tho first teas make the carrying pr,ce . cents,
but after that il falls to - centsor 1t did last year,
who this year II was u cents The cost by the Sues
Canal ia little less but the time IA about twice ~
much. The sailing vessels connecting with the Pacific
Railroad only to Japan, where they receive their
cargo of green from other vessels which are from
four TO dive days in sailing from Chinese ports.
The consumption OF the Japan teas here Ia moro than
one halt oi all teas consumed last year the number
OF pounds brought here was ~, 600 600. while tho
OF green teas amounted to i0oOOOOO and
that OF Ooong to l8.OOO,OOU. The Canadian Pacific
Company u talking of putting on last steamers TO
supplanf its sailing vessels. The time from fOkOh0mA
to Montreal il forty days. cargo OF tea by the
old Cunarer Parthia has recently arrived here alter
being iorty-twO days In Transit from Hong Kong.
This ia considered unusually fast time.