The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-11-03
BLACK FOR NEW YORK
She Seems 10 Be Rapidly Loolng Her
Supremacy As a Shipping Port.
NORFOLK is A STRONG COMPETITOR
SHE Threatens the Supremacy OF
The Empire city ns u Grnin
port-German sugar Can Reach
Chicago More Chenpiy Win New.
port News Thnn by New York.
(Bradstreet.)

(Bradstreet)
a recent issue of the New York Even
\ Ing Post contains an article the in
lantc and Gulf ports with New York.
There Is little that Is new In the state
are hurting ehe Of fff NEW Y farHs
put some OF the propositions stated in
| the letter have the merit OF novelty. Par
!;enlnrly is this the case with regard to
The opening paragraph. which says:
With eight or ten trunk lines ccntering
In the world, experimenting the finest sys-
| tenn OF internal navigation terminating In
h her na nor;,d Snd with TONNAGE at her
aud to greater variety of ports than
elsewhere-wlth all this he Would have
| would have predicted that Boston. the
e9mmercially despised Boston, would in
than New York, Yet such was the fact.
lie would have been equally -ven,uresome
had ne predicted that in 1895 the harbor
the lakes thun did New York. while in
Increase. This circumstance justifles the
| statement. OF serious Import to this city,
flour from the dock in Montreal to the
dock IN Liverpool at less rate than IL
YORK" ~ ""'''e " III inc haro0r oil New
AZ first sight the statement in nelation
| W lsiNGEpOOl seems rather starting, But
Il Is to be recalled that Bostons super
iortty In shipments of foodstuns does not
extend to all parts OF the United Kingdom
of Statistics, report for the fiscal year
ending June 3oth, 1895. shows an aggregate
total value of shipments from New York
| OF live cattle, breatlstufrs, beef pork and
dairy produots of $4,000, o00 against total
similar statements from Boston of less
than S6UON,0OO an excess in favor OF New
| York of Sci, 900, 00O over 100 per cent Ros-
ton. It should also lie recalled: is the most
formidable competitor of Now York IN
the shipment of food products.
| 1t is not, however, from Boston or Mon
trSsal only that competition is dreaded
st. John. n. b., from which -four mllled
at Duluth may be shipped abroad ut a
Sor rate IN than It o gan NJ be shiPped via
OF railroad haulage, is cited as a SC irce
New YORK, While to the southwark s INV sis CAL 81
weston. Now Orleans, Baltimore, Newport
News and even Philadelphia are instanced
the instances given are the establishment
of direct line of steamers between Gal
to share In the western grain and pack
Ing house products export trade because
OF the eheapness of transit, the freedom
lance.
The completion at New Orleans of ter
minals costing t2.Oco000 by the Illinois
| Central railroad Is an additional example
OF the efforts which are making to divert
grain and other western products for eX-
port from the Atlantic to the gulf 1t is
also mentioned that sugar can be freight
News cheaper than from New York to
Chicago ,lsag by any railroad line in the Joint
the Maroy of h is H Hno
Pire City, and is likely to become a very
important shipping point for. southern cot
has become one of the greatest rivals
OF New York. possessing terminals cost
| Ing millions. with facilities for the occu-
| patton OF which the most strenuous q
forts are made" and even Philadelphia
K becoming e,,9g a rival OF , the nsstropolis in
these rival ports is attributed to the fact
that all possess ,faciltie for the prompt
| recuy from the cars on the wharf, or the
elevator at the water side. to the ship ly-
Ing , in the dock beside i; whereas in New
ton, and because of our great geograph-
ical disability three-fourths of the pro
ducts that rench this port are received In
| one city, stored In another city. and ship
| ped IN still another city: received In Jer-
sey City; stored in Brooklyn. and shipped
The claim is further made that of a to-
| tai increase thus far this year of 5000
over 1000 600 bushels.
follows: First, the reduction of rates on
east bound freight ii an equality if not to
l lower level than prevails to the other
total obliteration Of the heavy port
| charges said 10 prevail at New York
| During. the fiscal year 1895 the Atlantic
and gulf port? combined exported So per
| cent. of all the domestic merchandise
Skipped from this country. New York
! alone handled 40 per cent. of the export
trade. Boston coming next with 10 per
cent, New Orleans with 81 per cent
Baltimore with rs per. cent, Galveston
with 50 per cent. Philadelphia with is
cent. 1t may also be worth noting that
| New York in 1895 handled almost cx-
| actly the same proportion of the coun-
| try's export trade in merchandise that II
did IN 1881. and that in spite of the in
| cseased competition from other ports
New York in 1895 handled larger pro-
portion OF food products exported than all
| the other ports named in the table COM
| bined.
| Aches and Pains.