The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-09-13

San Francisco Alarmed at Seattle's
Central Americap steamer Line.

The Puget Sound & Central American
Steamship line is attracting considerable
attention among shippers throughout the
country, but nowhere has the interest been
aroused so much as i'm San Francisco.
which has hitherto had practical monop-
oily OF the business. The Weekly CONNER
cial News. OF that city In commenting edi-
forlaiy upon the project. sounds the warn
Ing to the shippers OF San Francisco, but
I'm the course Of tho article refers TO TIA
coma as the shipping point for Puget
sound when Seattle should have been
mentioned Instead. This mistaken i'm
preston is due to an Incorrect dispatch
cent ont from Tacoma. The News has the
following 90 say:
Commercial conquest Is the spirit % tho
are. and has long been tho controlling
principle OF tho North. which seems "a
have caught some Of the enthusiasm and
enterprise that enabled Chicago 70 over
throw the. commercial prestige OF the older
Eastern cities, and Win for herself a vast
trade. The people Of the North have read
iiy wrested from san Francisco the terri
tory TO which their proximity and in
creased transportation facilities epttled
them geographically a result 10 which the
spirit OF forty~nine. which stiu pervades
this community, contributed materially.
Not only has this been So. however. but
these same rivals have been steadily eN-
tending southwark the area Of conquest.
and now propose to contest san Francis
co.'s supremacy in Central American
with this fl view J. l.. 1hlhcrg. - the
Puget Sound x Central American Steam
chip Company. has chartered tho Norwe-
rian steamer Transit FOR the Central Amer
fcan trade. and VIII dispatch her some
time between the middle OF September and
the first OF October. Many Tacoma mcr-
chants we're delighted with tho commercial
prospect rehearsed by the founder or the
line and business rivalry with san Fran
ei9Nn In Central American f=
therefore an early probability. There arc
OF course. many advantages possessed hv
this city in the promised contest She has
tho geographical position. ara she has pos
session. n formidable combination Rut
unless n sharp lookout IS kept ana the
railroads which import and tie Transport
tstion lines " hiCh export the articles %
commerce employed On the Central Amcri-
can trade may he induced - contribute
their lust proportion 20 The strip. there ls
danger that tie field may also b. taken
Trom san Francisco as others have been
81 The same manner. & liberal trtus0orta-
lion relcv would seem 20 support ITSELF as
p prime element iu the COS, ut argument of
rclf-preservaton. bat the less ~ much *
The carry ing trade between this country
ana tho orient demonstrates that trans
Yofta'ion lines aye 0r- always aucIablc
70 this influence
''Thc rivalry referred - "a this srti-ls
may not reach a formifatle vrouart.ar
bat II viii not SO In ignore &c. ANA ~ san
Francisco merchants are W So fhtv 50 tll not
rely too much upou ma vreet.Ee already
established. bat would foriifv 80 SAG every
point with TIRE argument ~ EreOcial adj
vantage. which IS simply iuNincible. I'm
order 20 do THIS they must also insist arau
The active cooperation ~ the railroad
and the steamship lines interested 80 the
preservation ar this trade"
Steamship san Jose which sailed from
San Francisco - Central America Aug