Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-19
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NEW YORK, September 1S.-The New
York and Cuba Mail Steamship Company,
of which Mr.. William H. 7. Hughes is
President and James E. Ward & Co. the
| general agents, will put three additional
new steamships into service during the
next two months-the YumurI, named from
the Yumnri Valley, of Mexico; the Orizaba,
from one of Mexico's great mountain peaks.
! and the third not yet named. They are
frst-class steamships, elegantly equipped
for the passenger service between this city
and the tropics
The company has other steamers now run
ming regularly between New York and the
West Indies. Mr.. Hughes entertained a
company of friends at breakfast this morn
ing on the Cienfuegos (the hundred hres),
which sails this afternoon for Vera Cruz.
Speaking of the commercial relations be-
tween this country and the West Indies and
South American States, Mr.. Hughes said:
ENCOURAGED BY REPUBLICAN SUCCESS.
MAINLY because of our faith in what the
new administration will do for American
shipping We built the three large ships. If
the election OF last November had gone
otherwise we certainly would not have done
SO. We could have made much more money
by chartering English instead of building
American ships, but have always main
tanned the idea of keeping American ship
ping in American vessels. There is no use
of our trying to do anything about foreign
trade unless we have constant steam COM
munication of our own with all parts of the
world.
"This if the only American line running
out of New York to foreign ports SEMI
weekly; and you can understand the opposi-
tion we encounter from the factthat the Span
ish line we are running against is owned by
the Compania Transatlantico Espanola, and
receives subsidy from the Spanish Gov
ernment to an amount annually of over
S1,750,000. Yet their steamships leave here
only once in ten days, while ours are twice
a week.
TRADE AMERICA MIGHT HAVE.
1--WE have practically no communication
with many of the South American countries.
Our visitors have to go to Europe and then
come here, returning by the same route,
making all the voyages in either British,
French or German ships. Something must
be done, for America should not permit such
commercial stagnancy. To me the bounty
bill seems the most feasible plan now for
aiding American shipping, opening steam
communication with all South American
ports and Immediately giving US the i'm
mense trade which is going to every other
nation under the sun.
81 believe that we should arrange for
banking facilities in all the principal ports
SO that we can do our business there in that
line; for without banks under American
control we can never develop commerce to
any great extent.
MORE STEAMERS TO BE BUILT.
can opinion has long prevailed that
Cuba has attained development as large
as she is capable of reaching; but this is
mistake. She has reached but little beyond
the stage of her commercial infancy. Her
supply of mineral may be considered mex
haustible as long as the world lasts. The
tobacco, sugar and coffee industries are
capable of euadrupling their present dimen-
sions Mexico is a nation of producers, yet
she can use many times the amount of ma
chinery and manufactured articles that our
manufacturers are pouring in there. We
are going right on, building more ships.
1--WE are American shippers, and are en-
couraged by the advent OF the Republican
administration. When Congress takes the
subject up we believe that it will be but
short time before there will be American
lines, communicating with all the ports
south of u.s."