The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-09-05
PORTLAND'S WINTER TRAF-
FIC.
Grand Trunk Officials Are Going
10 Boom This Part.
What Can BE Done with All the ships
This Winter.
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portland Corr. Montreal Star.)
One question that Is upperInost in the
minds Of those people who are employed
during the ocean steamship season
around the Grand Trunk wharves is
where are they going to put all the
ships that will come here after the St.
La wrenoe Is closed to navigationS"
From a Grand Trunk official 1t IL
learned that the load is expecting to
handle about 135 steamships at the port
of Portland this approaching winter sea.
son. Mr.. Frederic Smith, agent of the
Grand Trunk railway in this city, has
received from MIR. g. b. Reeve, general
traffic manager list OF service for tn 9
winter Of 1s99-l9O0, which, In a season Of
161 days, or 20 weeks, should work out
about as follows:
Allan line, to Liverpool, " eekly ser
vice, 20 steamships. =
Dominion line, to Liverpool, weekly
service, 20 steamships.
Thomson line. to London, weekly SER
vice, % steamships.
Donaldson line, to Glasgow, fortnight
ly service, II steamships.
Allan line, to Glasgow, fortnightly SER
vice, IL steamships.
Elder. Dempster line, to Bristol, fort
nightly service. IL steamships.
Hamburg meriesn line, to Hamburg,
fortnightly service. IL steamships.
Ieyland line, to Antwerp, fprtnightly
| service, ! steamships.
Total steamships, l24.
Negotiations are also pending with tha
Manchester line and it Is confidently ex-
peoted they will send ships here, SO the
fOf aI ha~ ux-ffl f. 60 ~
1856. Last season was the busiest Port.
land has ever known, and it may be COM
prehensively summarized as follows;
Leyland, to Liverpool, 81 steamers.
Allan, TO Liverpool. Is steamers.
Allan, to Glasgow, II steamers.
thomson, to London, 10 steamers.
Hamburg -Ameriean, to Hamburg, 9
steamers.
Elder, DeInpster, to Bristol, II steamers.
Beaver, to Liverpool, steamer.
This made total Of SO steamers for the
season of ls9S-99. The number of days
from the first arrival on November 60
1898, to the last sailing, May ~, 1899, is
$50 days, but as all but two vessels had
cleared by April so. the season may be
considered 16t days long, with 81 sailings
for purposes of comparison.
The foregoing statement of proposed
sailings, showing that 1874 steamers will
pro baby clear in i61 days. scarcely bears
out the statement attributed to General
Manager Hays that next season there
Will ba a ship day from Portland.
If ocean steamships could be depended
upon to arrive with the same punotuality
common TO railroad trains, one might
count en- the exact time 1t would take to
get them loaded and away again, but un.
fortunately, gales. hurricanes. rough
water and fogs materially ehangs the
plans of an ocean steamship. Irregulari-
ty of arrival Is contingency that must
be looked for during the winter and
this fact must be reokoned upon in estf-
mating accommodation and terminal fa-
cilities for q large fleet.
Last winter during the week ending
Jan. !, there were nine steamers in port
at one time dispossd of as follows; Six
were berthed, two Ia y In the basin be-
tween the ships herthed at docks an ]
and one was anchored out till o vacancy