The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-06-10
0IIR NEW YORK LETTER
Pllo, o,o,,s WHEAT EXPLOITATION.
.,dred More Ships In and Out OF New
to MAY Than In Aprii-Msny Come
u.st- Big Future Business Ex-
Are We Feeding spsinf

uaIlast - BiG rus"'"
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,r WORK. June 1o.-[Special. J-The
NE" ELAINE of our wheat exports In
enorino 81 war with foreign nation has
the la' - much admiring comment rom
caiiou at large and proved "a source OF
tnc "andoble pride on the part OF Aineri-
cohinold to one class of men, the
cans 90 this port 1t has brought great
pho'' ,,,orl, coupled with corresponding |
rush - IA compensation. Every cargo OF |
nnanV" "l,,..iod away from Now York ware |
wic"V 'ooons two jobs for them-first, |
houso ,,,', the carrying vessel safely to the |
brlIsi"o 1d second, taking 1t out again.
doCh, .to,,t Going mt all into the details OF
"t,,,ord movement of grain, which
the or sufficiently exploited in the dis
mas - - q NAV be said that it has increas-
Pa,.l.,cb an extent within the last Few
GU tbot from one-quarter TO one-thlru
W.. shins are now passing through the
Hrarro1vs daily than before the movement
began. c..o,o cvlvestor ono
. +ho most experienced pilots In the serv-
900 70 the writer yesterday, I'VE hanuicu
an the neighoorhood OF 500 vessels. Al
Nov the number was nearly 4oo lhao
,,esns n good many thousand collars llore
narnod by the members OF the pilo1s ION
tinued permanently 1t would mean oeooc,
- tban the old boom days even, and
tllIo ,ro hardly expect it will keep up we
wii VIII for excellent business all summer
w W. continuation through the fall unless
Sometbing unexpected happens. The early
oIoso Of the war, we are told, would boom
o,,orvtbinp tremendously, and that would
1.oo,, our business I'D.
Present situation Peculiar.
"But the present condition cannot con-
+inue because Of one or two peculiar iea-
lures of the situation
Thus. while the number OF Outgoing
wheat laden ships is unprecedented, SO also
Is the number of incoming ships bearing
nothing more valuable than BALLAST L
have never before seen so many steamers
standing high out of the water coming III
90 This mort as now. OF course that can {
go ON forever-couldn't If the world at
Iaroo we're always to be as short of wheat
and America as long of that valuable ar
ticlo rs now-for, indefinitely prolonged
tho sending of light ships here for loading
would i'm time drain all tho rest of the
world of gold.
eve pilots don't claim to DO flnanciers
or business experts, but from constantly
having TO do with tho actual process oil
commerce we manage to pick up lew
facts regarding its laws. One of these, as
we understand matters, is that in the long
RIM there is as great volume of exports
as of imports and that rush OF imports
ALWAYS follows an ovcrplus OF exports, not
of necessity Immediately, but as certainly
rs the changes of the seasons. We thcre
fore look for big import business within
the next few months and feel confident
that nothing but an undue lengthening OF
the war can put it OH.
Naturally we have all been much in
terested in the dongs Of young Mr.. Letter
the Chicago man who has made SO mucI
money out of wheat, and naturally We
have our own opinions about the causes o.
the high prices and the part he has played
I'VE think that the constant procession
of empty ships coming in here to go on
laden with grain upsets completely the no
ton that his manipulations were the chic
reason for wheat's rise They added some
thing to the figures, no doubt, but not 81
much as many seem to think
The Harbor Closed at Night.
A popularity of the plotting business
at this time lies in the circumstance that
owing to the closing of the port at nigh
for the exigencies of war, there Is no bring
ing in of vessels between sunset and sun
rise. This results in great and interest
ing procession of ships up the bay earl
every morning-such procession indeo
as can probably be seen nowhere else II
the world and never has been seen her
before
The Brooklyn bridge is the best plac
from which to view this procession. 1t
=. l.,l xtNNA
Manhattan Island, a large portion of tn
ships passing up the North river to bert
on the west side Of the island and on tn
Jersey City shore, but the number enter
ing the East river is large enough to max
very imposing marine display. A bi
percentage of these vessels pass under til
bridge to berths in Brooklyn and on tn
east side of Manhattan, and they can b
observed from the heights of the bridge 0
ships can be observed nowhere else.
That some Of the sailors on wheat seel
ing craft are now making their first visit
TO this port was shown by little PAL
tomime on board the deck of an incon
ing vessel observed day or two ago froi
the footpath of the bridge. Every on
who is at all familiar with the appear
ance of that structure will remember tia
II seems much lower than 1t really is-to
low, in fact, for the masts of most ships
pass under, though actually of amp
height One of the sailors taking part
the pantomime mentioned was clearly
The opinion that the spars of the vessel I
whose crew he was member would sure
suffer unless they were lowered, for
could be seen pointing first to the magnii
cent span and then to the tapering mas
OF the craft while evidently expressing h
Tears in an animated talk with two
three mates
AS the vessel approached the bridge
seemed to be actually stricken dumb
the certainty of disaster, for he paused
ms gesticulations and stood perfectly still
looking straight up at the bridge wit
mouth open and both hands raised. Whe
the vessel was so near that he could clear
see the impossibility of an accident, h
hands came down in hurry, and he o
pressed himself in most expressive M
exaggerated shrug as who should say, m
The laughter NJ tho bvct p1ara.