The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-21
- Of Commerce Sends Let
- 70 Secretary Boot.
.r,lf.s MANY ADVANTAGES.
4 evsvy rssiIity for Dispatching
01usvs ssl Supplies to Far East
|.n rsel O. Point Of Departure
snre1 nssult In ssving Of Time
- usssy 70 war Department.
=. prestA's Statement Of Case.

n14A through her commercial bodies.
fove no stone unturned In endeav-
q eet the war department 10 use
- q IN extensive scale as point
S~rtuss for soldiers horses and sup
q route for service In the far
chamhsy Of Commerce has been
= effbrts in this direction for
80 The decision OF the war de-
- 70 ssnd the First cavalry to the
n SEATTLE has given great en-
1saneet 70 the business men OF the
leoehsr letter has been addressed
- E7ihu Root. secretary of war.
- e>amber. setting forth the many
Sloroe posseesed by the northern
+ Speaking Of the matter. ses-
pyoech, Of the Chamber Of Com
ia yesterday:
6 u IN, second istter Of this kind
~ eent 70 the department. this
~ mt one being dispatched about
stac.s ssGs, II - - c now two years
<(j2 attempt to have troops sent
~ latte. That was In the sum-
- When shipments were be-
FGAle 10 Manila No progress was
Culll the spring 0f 1899, when the
ePsat spRsrsntly commenced 70 re-
- ncil'tis s rossss ss sy Seattle tn;s
~ MiIeott was loaded with lumber
bNse feed principally for use at
q this port,
y s6vsntaes Of purchasing supplies
4 ~ aMply proved. and during the
- summer and al q number cf
0&XImexfNAa cant vwnn t.ys-
m nMlnP Of tho transport Victoria,
y Gscouhteref storm shortly after
4 bpard Although transport sail-
~ IN Francisco had lost many
p1ary 49, prejvdios Was excited
s s nSsth away ,o ss III. To-. .n esr
J y beUInning to SEE that shipments
- Seattle result IN a saving Of
~ ard money. II n believer by
oDeftie perchants and shipping men
= tAefN viii now be no cessntion OF
= shspmer,ss: hut that they win bs
~ same claims In favor Of the North
! seuts for the Transporting 81 soldiers.
IRls and supplies 10 the Philippines
CHINA will also apply with equal force
- return trip from those countries."
~ iettef which was sent to the war
nftmsat yesterday II m follows:
nevthsvn nests's Advantages.
Non. Eilhu Root. Secretary OF War,
|6hlnston, u. c.-air, In ths Intereat
the nan OF the army. az seopouy IN
vtrBment matters, aud OF time IN the
action OF public business. your at
nm n once moro called &c the super-
- d the northern route for the shin
= n soldiers. horsass supplies and tut
1nGs from tho United state. 10 china.
~ or any OF thu Asiatie ports ar
11rfss
Nm the exception OF lumbar. coal
~ and other thinRs that can no Of
~" : Mr.. I'M, aSs soia o ar eas Y, ~.
- them are From thu Trasfsrp
and chiefly from thu xreat cities
= North, They are from ST, raui,
I0ukee, Chicago. Detroit. Rufsmi,, Gin.
IN. Pitfshurx. philadeinhia New
I and noston. Each Of these elites
lnssr to Seattle than 10 ann Fran
y hy from ono hundred 10 four hun
! miles, The Transportation OF several
lpand men an average unnecessary
MO cf two hundred miles is A seftou.
\ even to the government OF tho
~ States. II II n serious thing also
Ne men. when TO Il ~ added from m
hundred TO three Thousand other
> Travelled IN the heat and dust Of mid.
lmsr. And IL II still mare serious
n ~ all this land travel IA added n
sea voyage through the trupics a
Ne requiring weeks Of time under n
NAM sun heat OF nearly one hundred
sses, and a, the end ~ which hut few
~ mon taking II are n, for anything
the hospital Nv the northern route
only are several hundred miles Of
travel cut on, but more than as
~ ~ ses travel. The distance il ie.S
D puset SQUAD upon which Seattle is
= hArpils located. 10 the va .'esis noy,s
sfs other side IN which our country
Interested. by from three hundred 10
4 hundred miles than from San Fran.
e, while II T. many thousand miles
than fretn New YORK.. Leaving the
N city our % consideration. and max
ectnpsriean only with San Francisco.
way b. farther truthfuily stated that
aerthern route Is otherwise much 20
fssfsrred.
~ climate IL more euuable more
sls%nfns and generally better Though
3<rs more or less 10 hard winds IL ia
mate ~ thar other long ocean routes
~ part % the world. A FAR a. the
4h~rn iasfudrs aru concerned II !.
tfDahiet IN this respect than the
aern latiiudss % any Of the rot,tos
~ arr ne typhnnns untif after ths
eese waters are reached, when. uheth.
~ vrssei IL from seattle 9Rn Frnn-
~ New York ahe /. subject 10 them
= " IA fact established hy the
= u The iranapacife trade that better
= Ana mere miles per DAY car hr mazda
,sr northern route to Yokohama.