The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-03

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the Severn the time bsween Milford Haven
and London Is now only six hours. In every
way my plan will be benefit TO American
commerce. The money ia ready for the
carrying out of this enterprise as soon az
American registry is given my ships, the
same as has been done with the Inman liners,
the City Of New York and City Of Paris
When the line is established we will
extend our Long Island railroad from Its
present terminus at Bridgebampson to Fort
Pond bay, Long Island, which will then
bring Long Island city within two hours APP
proach. All mails. passengers aud express
freights will, therefore, be carried over our
road Ia New York. Boston eau be very
quickly reached by way Of the sound and
across from Fort Pond bay. or course,
they may not all agree that the enterprise
| will be profitable one 80 long as they have
such large interest In the great transit
lantic passenger and freight trade over their
own lines. One OF the best shipbuilders in
the world, X net the best, is William
Pearce, of the firm of John Elder 81 Co.,
OF Glasgow. lie believes alb
solutely In the enterprise and has
| pledged me his word that he win give us a
ship built after later models which shall
make the distance between Fort Pond bay
and Milford Haven in five days in good
weather. There will be no opportunity for
the public TO object to our line with ships
/ pullu3 do buCJ Will 10, bu u IuOOcl ~nlCu Las
| been thoroughly tried, and no vessel will be
better Differed or manned than ours. Ad-
| hitting this TO be true, do not believe, as
| q ship owner recently remarked to me, that
| we shall simply divide the business We
shall take IL all-mails, freight and passen-
gers"
THE TUNNEL UNDER NEW YORK.
when will you start work on the tunnel
under New York;
every looR now. The engineers are al.
ready at work testing the ground. The tun-
mel will run from Grove street, in Jersey
! City, near the Pennsylvania railroad depot
through the bed rock Of Manhattan Island,
| aud will have a terminus in Brooklyn, not
| far from the city hall. 1t is not yet de-
termined where the stations will be in new
| New York city, as it will depend on the re-
| suit OF the explorations OF the engineers
Ii 1t is decided to have only one station an
opening will be made at the Battery, where
connection can be made with the
elevated roads of both the
east and west sides of New
| York. The tunnel will be reached at the
stations by massive elevators. II will be
! twenty six feet wide, so that two tracks
| can be built. 10 will be q plain, ordinary
tunnel, and not on the great head or little
| head system. We will make the trip from
Jersey City to Brooklyn in nine minutes.
Our cars will always bs free We will take
people from Jersey City TO New York, re-
place the New York passengers with pee
pie going to Brooklyn and transfer through
passengers to Europe to the Long Island
railroad for Montauk Point, where an
ocean express will be in waiting The tun-
mel will greatly relieve the Brooklyn bridge
and the ferries, which are now over
crowded. The plan is perfectly feasible and
the cost will not be so great as one would
suppose"
"Will you have exclusive passenger
steamers on your ocean express linel"
mo IL wouldn't pay TO carry pasesn-
gers alone. II we oan cross the ocean in the
finest ships alioat In four or five DAYS
guess the public will be satisfied for d time
at least. What do you thinkl For years
have favored all legislation that looked to
the encouragement Of American shipbuild-
ing so We could buy our ships as reasonably
in the American market as abroad. The
causes of the falling off in the building OF
American ships for transatlantic carving
are perhaps not hard to find Dur
ing the war people who were in
the transatlantic carrying trade sold
their vessels to the government at a
fancy price, disbauded their companies and
their help were gradually absorbed in other
trades. When the war closed old shipping
houses had retired from business, men
trained TO run transatlantic liners were
scattered and men of large capital were not
found 20 invest in enterprises new to them
and requiring skill and long experience and
training. But men Of both parties in con-
gress are coming 80 the rescue Of American
shtpbulldinR IL the American register is
given our foreign built ships we will build
In American ship yards an amount of ton
mage equal to that admitted under the
flag"
"Will there not be more danger in running
your ships at an increased rate of speed7n
mo, there will be less danger tuuning at
twonty-one knots en- hour than at fifteen or
eighteen, unless you run into all iceberg
and no matter at what rate of speed you
are going you are wrecked then, sure"
THE ARROW COMPANY LAUNCHES A SHIP.
Naturally Mr.. Corbin's proposed new
line of ocean grsyhounds has aroused the
greatest activity on the part of other lines
The latest scheme, an old one with new
varnish, is the Arrow Steamship COM
pany, that has recently completed and
launched ship, the howard Cassard,
at Baltimore. This ship has keel that
weighs Sc 900 pounds, and it was believed
she would sink Of her own weight. At any
rate she has been completed and tested TO
the satisfaction Of the men who invested
money in her. 1t is said by Mr.. Fryer, her
builder and inventor, that other ships Of
this style will be built at once and employed
IN the ocean passenger traffic, and Mr..
Fryer and his hackers say they can make
tho voyage in even less time than
can Mr.. Corbin's ships. As they will
carry only passengers, they claim that
the Howard Cassard, now in the water, will
make the trip in four days to Queenstown.
They will get the mail carrying at 40 cent 8
pound and the $4,000 q round trip of
their Americ in-built ships, according to
the provisions OF the subsidy bill. But the
public can at last expect tremendous rivalry
in the ocean carrying trade, There will he
such racing and hustling for prestige for
Uncle Sans mails and subsidies that even
the great railroad magnates of America
will be sllenced for time.
CARL sCHURz MAKES A PREDICTION.
went to Carl Schurz, the director Of the
Hamburg American Line, for a quiet and
serious chat after listening to tales Of these
gigantic ocean enterprises. | asked him
what he thought of them.
Mr.. Corbin's scheme | know nothing of
excepting what have picked up piecemeal
in the papers from time to time. From the
meager information have l should say il
was perfectly feasible and showed great
planning. don't think it will gay to put
on ocean liners for passengers carrying alone.
The passage OF the Cochran act for the en-
couragement Of ship-buildlng was one OF
the wlsest &C OF congress. II proper en-
couragement is given our capitalists, of
course they will build ships here. The only
thau didpIf do