Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-18
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New Orleans Not Idle.
The chamber of commerce of New Or.
leans has already begun to take lively
interest in new arrangements to connect
their city with the isthmus and with the
intermediate ports, if not with Brazil.
A service every ten days between New
Orleans AMI Colon, with 2,500-ton four
teen knot steamers, making the distance
of 800 miles in about four days, has
been somewhat discussed. A line like
this could al % drop mails, passengers
and freight for the south Pacific ports,
and the steamers might also Iroceed to
Carthagena and Savanilla, in COlumbia,
with mails before returning to New Or
leans with their cargoes OF freight from
the Central + merican ports. 1t has Eeen
stated that the Illinois Central railway
is ready to put on line of steamers foI
this purpose. and the pro ectors of the
great TIanscontinenUal railway have al
ready begun to make inlu,r ,ries to see
how their enterprise may lie supple,
mented and i'm, roved the better to
handle this Central and South American
ira e. This rvice from New Cr'eans
may possibl J be supp emented by a line
from Tampa to the isthmus, stopping at
Kingston, Jamaica both going and
coming. This distance of GOO IN les
might be covered i'll three days, which
would bring Colon within five days OF
New York.
Cuban Mails.
The Cuban mails now go by way of
the Atlantic coast line to Tampa ana the
Plant line Of steamers from TAMPA to
Havana. The Tampa service runs three
tim week in winter and twice a
week in summer. Ordinarily, a letter
reaches Havana from New \ YOrk twenty
four hours quicker by way OF Tampa
than by way of the Ward line of st am
ers from New York to Havana, but if
the Wa q teamer5 were 10 sail on tn
odd days it can e seen that they would
take th3 mails to Havana quite as
quickly and the southern ports of Cuba
w uld be served cutie as quickly. In
view, however, Of the present condition
of the Tampa service, it is thought that
the additional benefit of extra service
between New ork and Havana would
hardly warrant the department and the
Ward line in entering upon an arrange
ment,for new vessels.
Double Service for South America.
IN arrangement has been suggested
for a double service for the east coast of
South America, similar to that Oatlined
for the west Goa t. 1t is maintained by
some that there should be line of fast
800 }-ton vessels between New \ ork aud
Buenos Ayres, every two weeks, stop.
ping at St I homas, Rio de ,anero and
Montevideo only, and that during the
summer or vellOw-fGyer season they
should stop only at Rio to drop mail ami
pa sengers, and leave all freight at hio
to be discharged on the return voyage.
The quarantine regulations of the
Argentine Republic and Uruguay are
so severe that they will admit no
steamers that stop at Rio during the
ycllOw-feyer sea on: all of the English
steamers, for instance, go direct to
Buenls Arres, and stop at Rio on their
return yoyage to discharge and receive
freights,
There would probably be no objection
to drop ing the mails and passengers on
the southward voyage at Rio, but mails,
Iassangers or freights could not lie taken
on witho II sub ect'ng the steamers to a
long and pensiye quarantine. This
arrangement for the east coast would
involve, like that for the west coast,
line of smaller and slower freight steam
e"s. which might touch at all the plin-
cipal ports Of Brazil. 1t is understood
that New York company is ready to
put on fast throu h service like that
just described to the Argentine Repub-
lie. The distance from New YORK to
Buenos Ayres is $500 miles, and 5000
ton, eighteen-knot ship ought to make
this distance i'll sixteen or seventeen
days in tead of thirty, as required at
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