The morning call., 1892-08-17
TIE CAPE HORN STEAMERS.
Three More Vessels to Carry
Freight From the East.
six-weekly Service Between New York and
San Francisco Mr buatin gtcn ana the
Eastern Traffic Association

soar steamship line is doing well and no
outside influence can make us stop running
our boats" said Frank S. johnson of the
! Johns Locke Mercantile Company yester-
! day afternoon 10 a CALL reporter who de-
! sired some information about the Atlantic
and Pacific Company's Cape Horn trans
| pOrtatOn line. Mr.. johnson then con-
! tinued: 1--WE have three steamers running.
! the Progreso, now in this port, the MineOla,
now on her way from this city TO New
/ York, and the Conemaugh, which left
| New York for this port some 16 days ago.
( Very shortly We will put on three more
/ steamers, and we will make one trip west
ward and one trip eastward every six weeks
as long as the business pays. At the present
time we have ali the trade we can accom-
modate. New York merchants are eager
| to ship with US, and, TO show how our line
! is appreciated by the local merchants. / can
| only say that the PTogreso, which arrived
few DAYS ago, already has engaged more
! cargo for the return trip than she eau carry.
FREIGHT AT REDoNDo.
1--WE land Southern California freight at
Red0ndo. connecting there with the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe system. and we
are entirely INDEPENDENT Of the Southern
Pacific Company"
Mr.. Johnson then explained that the
| competition with the Cape Horn clipper
ships because they make the trip from New
York 10 San Francisco in much shorter time
than n sailing vessel can make 1t, and there
fore carry different line OF freight. From
20 TO SO days is the time tie steamers make,
while three months is considered quick time
for q sailer. Besides the steamer lines
freight rates are from 81 to So ton higher
than the clipper. ship rates.
The Southern Pacific Company's officials
do rntr oh. ..fuf flaa a tFa,aF nd
Pacific steamers, or about clipper lines.
They claim that enough has been said in
the new spapers about the ocean traffic be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacif. coast.
But that they are very much worried
about the unexpected dimensions this ocean
traffic has taken Of late becomes easily ap-
parent wien they are interviewed on the
subject
The Western Traffic Association is now
trying to devise some means by which il
can ST lac Southern Pacific in lis stTug-
gle aga ns competition.
Mr.. Huntington and his men consider il
violation OF the laws of the land aud an
injustice that their monopoly should be
broken; but according TO Aldace +. Walker
one OF the cleveTest railroad men In the
United States, who is now chairman Of the
Western Traffic Association, that institn-
tlOn rs built upon sand, and is liable 10
vanish from sight like its numerous prede-
cessorS and be forgotten"
RATHER SHAhH.
The Tran sentimental Association foun-
dalton is not any more solid than that of
the Western Traffic Association, and when
Mr. Stubbs of the Southern Pacific Com
pany raises his voice in favor of reduced
rates from New York to San Francisco he
is likely to meet with storm Of opposition
which will wreck the whole concern. The
chances are that when the clouds have
passed by nothing but fragments will be
left of both Of these associations, and Mr.
Huntington will have to do his fighting
single-banded
There viii be on one side the people Of
the State of California. the Traffic Associa-
tion, the League Of Progress, the clipper
lines. the Cape norn steamships, the San
Francisco and Great Salt Lake Railroad
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the
Union Pacific, the Great Northern, the
Canadian Pacific the Chicago Northwest
erI and some other new roads not yet heard
from, and on the other side will be poor MIR.
Huntington and his corporation all alone.
1t will be a fight the outcome Of which
cannot be anything but beneficial to the
mercantile community OF this city. and
whether the Southern Pacific Is humilated
and made to come TO terms. or whether the
trans sportation trade goes to other parties,
the prosperity OF San Francisco will he GER
tainly advanced.