Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-07-29
NOTES OF SHIPPING.
lie MS OF INTEREST TO MARINERS
GATHERED FROM ALL SOURCES.
Buying Up Lake Tugs. 1hrce Immene.
Ships. Subsidy for "a Line.
Navigation News.

a special dispatch to the New York
commercial from San Francisco says:
The recent detention of the Steamship
-Nippon Maru in quarantine at this port
and the detention of the American Maru
IN Japan, on account of the plague
has caused u congestion of merchandise
bound outward from this city to the
orient. Several weeks must elapSo be-
fore the merchandise can all be moved
There are ready for shipment about
2,4o0 barrels of alcohol and sevcra,
hundred bales Of Virginia tobacco, in
addition to the regular shipments Of
agricultural implements. nails, machin-
cry. canned goods, hardware and sim
liar goods.
Exporters are anxiously awaiting the
completion of the new 1880 ton steam
ships under construction at the Newport
News yard for this trade. Although
nine regular steamships. ranging In
tonnage from 1000 to $500 tons. are en-
gagged in the Chinese and Japanese
trade, the flour exporters arc forced
70 resort to tramp steamships to fill
their orders in China and the Philip
pine Islands. The establishment of
oriental lines from San Diego. Portland
seattle. Tacoma and Vancouver by the
different ns-contncr;al railways has
apparently only stimulated the activity
OIL the exporting houses.
with the new, cotton crop which Will
soon be moving from Texas to Japan
~ ~ 4.,': por's, tIc ingenuity
VIII DC taxed to the utmost, both on the
regular steamships and on the tranps
e'nlcSs the proposed new lines nateri;ll-
ize by that time or the old companies
e. w., ~, sasse!s, enc congestion VIII
,yh.n 80 49,, ei''.i - ":is i's' WINTER
lor months before being shippcd
~ - uiiehe that the Oceanic
clirrct Ii,p ~, ", -, cstapHsh !;
Sonth A,.,;, -. "ss. coast ports o!
Q nnn ,'s soon Us inc three
(,r.,,,,,. nov, builoinE al
service on Tho p,,.i,,,. w. l,,''". ere ~.
cwns f,,,,,. :. nno 1cl'!c' ne company
,yh;,.h 49,. 800 .oll steamships, Two OF
uo,,,,,,i,, ~ -Australl;i. one 10
~ ~, ,, .,ni we iouftn as a transport
steam.l,;,. N.,, ,i'i ,,, me Australian
se.,l'l''''S ana INC transport Will
assni"S business before many months.
c,i ny SF.cch1cS' VINO control the
WEI r, -, 'te ,1''uerSloou to favor the
4,oI1 i, - az .ne most promising nov
ness " '''e 'ci''c IN inc steamship bust
At III, ,.,
,,.l,;..,, s - c>c'i. titne nlSh freight rates,
-, 49, ''it hl'uc nearly prohibitive by
Cn,,'17., u..'iei', between the Pacific Mail
,nl 49, - ous'i,ess Hoith ol panama.
I,o,nnnn,, lIi.it;. ElealilHhlp Navigation
An,.,.i.,, > c, 80, ana the South
1io,,t L.,
t 80; h!Nc closed this business to Cali
et.,n Ir., 10" summed exports by
Lcu.,.,n ~ i!ouf ana vine To
Nv stn,,, -. ,s..!1 i'u lllc imports
some n,inin,r s.ii..'!' occaSlonailS
bur ~. ,,.7,.,Ii,. IS sent to chill,
th.s lnml,,,. 80. ~ san. as does
of ~. ,;t 60. rom tuSet sound All
n,anYr,,.,,,, 80 e pS the western
1irjzrrs cn,,,,, IL, - Explosives ana fer
The n,ncin,i
ing honsrs nv .,,la', ..ils ana import
trade VIII ~ 80. ms MS me valuable
A,nn,;c., an,1 N,.;s oo,St OK Central
cnrr,tinns 80. .1,,,ti' ~ WI! extend their
Oceanic i,on,n,n, - a'l.!.ha II me
which is now ,.nnsida,ad 'ue ,. ~ ni''hS,
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consul n Hon, I,nr,d ~, tlons or the
cia,lv on ia s,,i,i,,.S "l' ~ illorS esp2-
C;encr,I eorr.t, n1 - eN-Consul-
tions IN HAM, J., &c $50 10. ms cohh"c-
methol NJ rn3,.h;nir ulu.l ,He present
erablr dr,whan, ~, -n' ~, IS d consul
the irans.shjn,n.,,t, -, lio sIestter IMAM
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East In,,ics fron, T,n ,luiGs anu bIitlsh
FREQUENT hnrjlino 49,, i>o.s' ..i!u tne
MANY narts nf NJ. ~ 49, - 'ottinS 20
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l.n,,nt,;,, !3, p" 'tll an Oh these
carried ON AZ snn, . sa WI, trace is
ed in thr philin,;nos 81 pe ~, IS testor.
pected. ''''e 81
AIessrs w A C,,,;or 1, 1.;.,
and " r. Env-,,,., ' , - lusoh
OF vcsscl nvncrs 49,. i; 80 ~ ~
all the hnrhnr tu,s and - - II. - eA'se
plianrrs Of tnn ,rr1.,t Inn ~,
stood to have made arranrcmrnts INNS