New-York tribune., 1898-09-30
BIG DEAL ~ LAKE VESSELS.
THE ATLANTIC TRANSPORTATION COMPANY
CHARTERING AND BUILDING A
GREAT FLEET.
September rs. 1895.

Cleveland. Ohio. Sept. 29-The chartering of
thirty-five or more vessels from the lake meets
by the Atlantic Transportation Company OF
New-York is only feature Of one Of the larg
est combinations OF floating property In the
United States. In addition to the lake vessels
chartered. which have total carrying capacity
of over fifty thousand tons OF cargo, the new
company will build in lake shiryards 'eet or
twelve or fifteen barges. with a carrying capac-
fly Of from thirty-siX thousand TO forty-hve
thousand tons. The total fleet OF the Atlantic
company will eventually comprise about seventy
craft with room for over one hundred thousand
tons Of cargo.
With the single exception OF the construction
OF the immense Rockefeller fleet in n single win
ter. there never was such a great deal made In
vessel property In the history Of the lakes.
The Marine Review" will say tomorrow:
The operations OF the Atlantic TIansP21rta'ion
Company. represented here by General ManagGSr GG
christ. have assumed enormous proportions n NJ
Of Mr. Gichrist that hve steamers and thirty
barges had been engaged up 10 that tim 'oii,
there a few Of the barGes also on which
negotiations were .no fully concluded Twcye @ of
the vessels have already started for nc coast ana
II Is expected that the entire feet viii have passed
down the St Lawrence before the close Of next
The lis, Of vessels has not been given ont, but
the following has been obtained from IN" owners.
The schooners are as follows: The r \ Gcoreer.
the Moonlight. the n n. Alvesson. the w. ).
Crosthwaite the Verona. the NJ. ;. Racon, the ;
H. Foster the Thomas p Sheldon. III" :. J. Wat
son the Charles Foster the Halloran, the Camden.
tho Brunette. the John O'Neiil the Charles Wall.
the II W Sage. the Iron State. tht Iron city, the
San Diego the Red Wing the s '. r. the watson.
the Annie NJ Ash the Wndena. the Rocker. the
II n Brown the McGregor. the Thomas J.. Parker.
the NJ. W. Page. the David Wallace and the Mas
sasoit.
or the FIVE steamers only two. so far "a can he
learned have been definitely placed The" are the
Arngon and the Lindsay, which were chartered hy
G r. Jones who also put in the harees Rruneti".
Wall and O'Neil. Other steamers are UNDERSTOOD
10 have taken, but tho contracts have not yet
been fully closed. They are the simon J. Murphy.
the John ". Moore and the Katahdin
Mfr Bosse will make arrangements heior" lehNlhS
here for the construction in lake sh1yarda ot from
twelve TO fifteen barges Of about 25 feet IN length
and OOo tons capacity. They Will b" huilt WIN
snecial reference to the light drauGht ana "ihe' re-
ouremenis of the service for which th"y are IN
tended .- q, .-
The Atlantic Transportation COMPANY is Ne%y-
Jersey corporation OF 100000 capital with head
ouarters al No ] Broadway. New York The char
Ter price of the vessel taken ranges from >l"" I"
Tho Atlantic Company is already in possession
of . hIg feet OF vessels hut Will require more, as
its contracts involve tho movement or more than
four million tons Of coal annually from N""poit
News 10 New-York. Boston ana New EnglinH