Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-03-31
MESSENGERS FROM AFFAIR.
Pen Picture of New York
Harbor Fleet.

The fGyorlng gates Of the last few days have
waited into the port OF New York an enormous
heet OF deep sea sailing vessels II is doubt
full u ever before such a number Of craft ar
rived here within the same space Of time.
This means busy DAYS for all concerned in
shipping interests Broad smiles ilumlnc the
faces Of ship chambers, toaboat men and
boarding house runners and stocks In sailors
lance houses is quoted far above par.
The great peaceful armada which arrived
during the week is safely docted hloug the
Brooklyn shore from Fnton ferry TO the At
lantlc dock ut the wharges Of the new-1edged |
Empire Storage Company An unusual feat
ure about the feet is the fact that fully one |
bali fly the American flag. A glance along |
the water front, between Fulton and Hamil-
ton ferries, where the trade is liViest. gives |
| one a good idea Of the commerce Of the great |
cosmopolitan city. As far as the eye can reach !
itdiscloses consecutive labyrinth of tall-spar-
red and thiclly-rlgged craft, Interspersed
with black bulls and smoky tunnels OF a score
| Of steamships On closer inspection scene
OF activity, varied and instructive in its as
poets, greets the eye The mariners CHEEKY
holloa echoes among the piers, engines wheeze,
cordage creaks. the whistle of the steYedore
pipes, while innumerable other sounds COM
blne TO produce genuine business hum. Here,
safe at last from their long and troublesome
voyages, rest the stub-nosed, soft wood Nova
seotian ship In juxtaposition to the trim and
sbapely four-masted Clyde clipper, both from
Calcutta laden with linseed, hides. drugs, and
thousands OF bales OF jute, the fibre OF which
Is now used so enormously in the manufacture
Of paper, bagging and rope. Close by rises up
the onken body and lofty aerial fabric of the
American three skysail-yarder, which after
voyage Of nearly half year. has brought a
valuable cargo OF sugar in mats and MANILA
hemp from the far-oif Philippine Islands, in
which trade by the way, as yet is unencrosched
upon By steamers on account Of its remote
ness some Of the remnant Of Yankee deep
water shipping still engage. Antique looking
Dutch vessels, crammed with spices and dye
stufTs, collected from the forests Of the Ma
layan Archipelago; chunky British barks with
costly produce Of the baImy Isle of Ceylon;
Italian and Australian nondescripts, laden
with fruit from beyond The Rock Of Gibraltar,
over whose buwarks peer sinister piratical
like faces;a every kind OF sailing craft from
every quarter OF the globe, bearing an indeln-
tie variety Of merchandise are berthed at
these wharyes. As for steamships, tramp and
regular liners of all Sizes types and nations,
they lie locked 10 profusion.
+ All these, with the aid Of floating hoist en-
4 gines and host Of brawny 'longshoremen,
: dsgorge their freight upon the bulkheads and
covered docks, where attended by swaTms OF
4 custom house officers, Weighers, gaugers,
: samplers, truckmen and others vitality inter
o esied, great part Is soon delivered TO carts,
a lighters, barges and railroad floats, through
y whose med uIn II Is soon dispersed all over
Z tie country. A considerable part. bonded,
u duty paid or not auliable, either through the
u choice OF the owner, his inability TO sell, is
consigned to the care OF the warehouses
whose emp Dyes gather the boxes, casks and
10 bags and stow them away in the gloomy re
a eesses Of the brick structures which over
shadow the scene. There they remain until
= such time the merchant makes disposition,
IS when thev are once more brought TO light and
@ given oyer to various carriers, who convex the
It sAme TO places OF consumption. For this Gus
A tody a stated rate per package, according K
value, size, aud weight for reception aud de
livery, as well as for each month while stored
N IL charged by the warehouse people thor
:. ough system prevails, lsbar-saFlng device
Nv are used, and goods are handled In a careful
1f and, at the same time rapid transit manner
a There are not many ports from which onil
n one or two vessels arrive here annually, bu
.. GuayaQuil, Ecuador. Is one OF them Las
- year only QUO bark came from there, and OF
X Monday the solitary vessel on the war iron
Id GuEyaQuil came into port after voyage of ~
v days. She was the German bark Charlotte
under the command of Capt. BohndOrf an,
she brings a cargo oil cocoa IN Dulk. AOOu
as two cnrgoes of cocoa arrive from Guayaqui
90 yearly. There are many large plantations Q
the bean in that region. TIE trees are abou
H. twenty feet high. They are planted at inter
lis walls Of twelve feet with broad !eaved banan
"a aud coral trees placed between 10 screen then
Il, from the rays OF the sun, as cocoa has th
u popularity OF growing well only 10 the shade
aS The fruit is shaped like cucumber and con
n tains from forty TO fifty beaps These az
OF dried IN the sun after picking. Ground, wit
the addition Of sugar and vanilis, they becom
chocolate: roasted whole. with a little sue
'al put in they produce the familiar beverap
Sc called cocoa The cocoa trade is very anelen
a. Away back in the fifteenth century, when III
We bean WAS far more esteemed than IL Is nov
to cocoa formed a considerable part of Il
n freight OF the old Spanish galleons. Lars
il supplies Of a superior quality OF the bean no
~ come from Central America, and this Is u
I o reason why so few vessels arrive from Ecu
10 dor.
to One OF the sailors OF Charlotte, when askt
II il WAS any way warm down in GuayaQu
made a rather wry face. He said there we
pm places down there hot enough for the ms
th who thought he was doomed to eternal dar
.ba nation 20 train In. lie had often seen u
cooks Of sailing vessels take the lenses out
,eS the telescopes and use them as burnt
N. glasses to cook the meals. But EcuadC
To- which is so called from its capital LING
~ most under the line is not such b d place
he live In after ALL When a man gets the few
ell he has only 20 ascend the Andes and when
alf descend TO the lower regions Some porto
OF the latter, he opined, were about as U
healthy as those Of the same name spoken
,ad by the parsons.
on The carriers Of the recent unprecedent
u. crop Of India are we'll represented Fro
Ihe Chittagong, a port in farther Intia, trc
he which merchandise has OF late years been I
IL ported, three ships have arrived, all load
~ with lutte fiber a number of large freghit
is from the PARKWAY Spanish Philippine lslan
a in the Chinese seas have also entered
lso harbor They have brought great quanut
the of sugar and thousands of bales Of the Man
in. hemp fiber, which plant belongs to
a. banana aud plantain family so useful to ms
~ kind Voyages from this quarter are usua
ne very long, owing to the great distance,
MY some Of the present feet have made good ru
The manila hemp in all these craft belongs
1 the trust known as the National Corda
y COMPANY, which some time ago bought fri
ern the importers 100, 900 bales OF the fiber
tba arrive, at high prices, In order TO monopol
'ilo the supply; but the new crop IN the Phil
lee pine islands has proved so enormous that 4
asst said that they will be forced TO purch
N, another 100, 900 bales, now in process OF sh
IN ~, ment In order TO control the market
MY Several bulky argosies from China and
at pan, laden with tea, hrecrackers, straw b
len aud bamboo mating, have also during