New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-06
70 INCREASE THE CoUNTRY's COMMERCE
SUGGESTIONS FOR TRANSATLANTIC STEAMER
LINES FROM PORT MORRIS THROUGH
THE HARLEM SHIP CANAL.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Peaceful tranquility In quiet prosperity
reigns at home and abroad so that whosoever will
can happily abide under his own vine and hgtree
Throughout our wondrous and productive country
the States. like large family OF sisters vylng
with one another I'm rendering happiness supreme
Slavery, the once dark spot on our country's es
cutcheon. has been washed out by the blood of our
first born. Bitter politics have been laid aside
The great bugbear. tariff has been amicably settled
10 the JOY OF the people The Lord Of the whole
earth, although in a measure Withholding from
some other countries a full harvest has 10 US given
The early. latter and intermediate rains. so that
fields have brought forth wel'-nigh a hundredfoid
not only a suficiency for our seventy million
souls. but for the people Of other nations who may
he in want OF daily food. Our thousands OF hill
sides and wide praires have immense throngs Of
vooiiy sheep and horned cattle which greatly in
,rease rlercai wealth. The mineral
wealth OF our country is enormous. Our wide DO
main from the Atlantic to the Pacific IS dotted
not only with the church and the schoolhouse but
also with the machiue-shop and factory. which
work from early morn often irto the night The
ancient plantations Of the South are whtened by
the expanding bolls of the cotton, and the lately
OVERLOADED banks of the Mississippi are repaid
with double portion OF the exquisite saccharne
yled OF the canefields.
Thus In these later years Of the worlds history
Yet one thing. IT may he said IL !ack ing-com-
mtrce-Which other and Inferior nations nave. and
which We have not with all Of our enormous pro-
auctions; not commerce to transport own
mails and products 10 the open markets OF the
world. II We want 10 send a cargo OF grain 10 feed
the starving In distant land must needs hire a
let IL get the credit Of the gift
When even needful and important waterway
like the Harlem RIVER Canal less than six miles In
length, TO connect tho large waterways that
pess in and out OF the Port OF NevYork. has been
legis'ated upon during the last seventy years. and
money for II appropriated In part. twenty
years ago. find II half completed yet. and
made to cost nearly double what II should with
improper work done thereon When completed a
schedule timetable OF ten DAYS could easily be estab-
lished from San Francisco to London via Port Nor
ris out through the deep water OF Long Island
Sound 10 Bristol England and thence 70 London
also, In six days from Chicago 10 London for mails
and passengers. and five DAYS from Port Morris
sending OF urgent express matter. also fresh mea
ard frut3. making the time from eight TO days
with quick returns. The-e would be a ample bust
ness for hrst-ciass daily Inc OF fast passenger
steamers from Port Morris. the hour Of departure
being independent OF tide. say o'clock p. m. En-
basses from the Orient China Japan and a inter
mediate points. could thereby make close connec-
tons
Again would u not he highly proper for our
commerce to nave a weekly line OF steamers To
transport our Passengers mails and products 10
and from those South American States VINO feel 80
closely akin 10 US in government alliance?
We need 100000 for a progressive merchan,
marine commerce. II can't be done YOU say Not
Why not? CHARLES STOT-GIITON
New York Aug % 1897