Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1895-04-06
ALL IN ENoLlsH SHIPS.
Great Britain Completely Controls
Amcrica's Grain Export Trade.

Great Britain Com plately Controls
Americas Grain Export Trade.
Is the American merchant flag being
swept from tho sens by the British
lion? During the year 1894 not
bushel of grain was carried across the
Atlantic In a scamcr or sailing vessel
under the United States flag. Of the
millions of bushels of cereals grown In
the United states but 600 bushels Of
peas were exported under the American
flag, and even that consignment was
carried in an English.built steamer
which had been granted an American
register-the American liner New York.
That particular shipment of 600 bushels
comprised the small surplus which
could not be slowed away In the al.
ready overstocked hold of an English
craft. The American ship took the
lcavings.
This condition Of the American MGR
chant marine, 80 far us the export grain
and cereal trade Is concerned, Is only
too forcibly illustrated In the statis-
tics which have just been compiled by
Capt. william Il. Ferguson Of the pro-
duce exchange, through whose courtesy
the World Is enabled to publish the hg-
TRES. The commissioners Of naviga.
ton, the produce, corn and maritime
exchanges, and the various cOnsnls gen.
cral have withheld their annual re.
ports pending the completion Of these
statistics, which are furnished them an.
nually by Capt. Ferguson.
Aside from the gradual disappear.
ance Of the American flag from the
seas the tables complied by Mr.. Fer
Guson show the disappearance Of sail.
ing vessels Of any nationality from the
grain.carrying trade. steam has now
entirely superseded sail, as may be
seen by the accompanying table. In
1881 sailing vessels carried 10000, 5S3
bushels Of grain and cereals to Europe.
but In the year just ended not q busliel
Of grain was exported In o sailing
craft.
In 1901 the unequal struggle with
steamships was evidenced when out Of
1,238 vessels which carried cargOes Of
grain from this port only fifteen were
sailing vessels.
There were shipped from New York
during 1904 81, 1884,, O52 bushels Of Amer.
lean grain and cereals. which went to
feed Europc's hungry millions. In.
cludcd In this total export are buck.
wheat, corn, rye, oats. barley and peas.
many of which cereals appear In the
statistics for the first time. There were
2l,OS5. 107 bushels Of wheat. S,056,O5d
bushels Of corn, 2O,625 bushels OF rye,
1000 bushels of oats, 23,237 bushels OF
barley, 173,O57 bushels of buckwheat,
G,1S5 bushels Of faxsccd, and 1850?
bushels of peas.
The lions share of thesc--33, 1884. 052
bushcls--was carried In British vessels
which made 404 trips across the Atlan
tic. carrying 21.OO7.4O1 bushels. The
remainder Of tho export trade was d.
slded between Belgian, German. Dutch
Danish. French, Italian, Portuguese
Russian and Spanish vessels.
Not n bushel Of the trade fell to the
lot Of a Norwegian craft. Russia Wal
represented by tho steamer Ceres
WuICu Huuuc ~ osuSsC u1pS Sutty uS To-
07O bushels Of wheat. Portuguese
vessels made twenty-five trips, carry
ing 1850. 100 bushels; Dutch vessel
made eighty.threc trips. carrying 1922.
3O7 bushels. and sharing FIRST honor
with John Bulls craft. German ship
made nincty.iive trips md carried 2.
C7S.?2l bushels Of grain to the en-
peror's domains. Vessels displaying
the British flag carried more than two
thirds Of tho entire expectation. or 10,
100000 more bushels than all the othe
vessels OF the world combined. INCL
Sans flag was not seen ON q singh
grain carrier.
In 40? OF tho 1928 ship loads sen
abroad only twenty-five were carries
under tho American flag. There wer
then four American steamers left q
the grain-carrying trade. They wer
the passenger steamers Of the old Amer
lean line, which sailed from Phila
leiphia under the control Of the Penn
sylvania railroad. Not even thes
craft now enjoy the exclusive privlleg
Of flying tho stars and stripes. The
have been driven out Of the business.
Following are the total exports q
wheat, corn, rye. oats, barley, bucl
wheat, flaxseed, and peas for 1904: