Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-05-31
NEW GIANTS OF TIE OCEAN.
Boston to Succeed New York as
Steamship Terminal.
Huge Ships Which Will Hereafter Ply
Between the Hub and Liverpool
The Greater the Speed the
Greater the Returns.


Tho now and gigantic steamship tvoruia
which recently landed an immense NUM-
Der of passengers in New York will here
after ply between Boston ana Liverpool
Furthermore, her sister EiantcSs, the SAX
onia, whose trial trip recently occurred is
to make her initial voyage i'm few days
and is TO give the citizens of Boston the
new sensation Of seeing the largest vessel
that over entered Boston harbor winding
it's way up the tortuous channel Of that
harOor to the pier at East Boston, says
the New York correspondent Of the Phil
adclpha Press
So far as the question of the most pro-
ftablo type of ocean steamship is concern
ed and furthermore the cheapest method
of Transporting commerce between the
New and Old World is to be considered,
It makes but little difference whether
these giantosses Of the sea mako their
terminals at Boston or at New York. But
the determination of the managers Of the
line to send the greatest Of ocean stca'u-
ships TO the Boston docks instead of those
of New York harbOr will certainly be re-
fcrrcd TO as another illustration Of that
tendency which is taking away commerce
from New York city TO the advantage Of
other of the Atlantic ports.
tlfIt are lNO steamships WllDSt thIdtll ,
is so enormous that were the detailed sta
tstics given Of their size their tornaLe
ana their prOdiGiOus power. IL would Joe
impossible for any bUt expert engineers
to get from those statistics good idea
Of The magnitude of these steamers. aud
yet they arc to be commerce bearers be-
tween Boston and Great Britain instead
of between Now York and Great Britain.
That, of course, suggests that the mana
gers Of ocean steamship lines not only
expect that an enormous commerce is %
be developed between the New England
port and Great Britain, but furthermore
that these managers have UNDERSTANDINGS
with the owners OF the trunk lines that
transport freight between the West ana
the Atlantic cities. whereby the steam
ships arc certain 10 secure traffic suii1-
ciont to tempt them to make Of Boston a
terminal rather than New York
As the greater part Of the traffic is TO bc
furnished by trunk lines i'm which the
Narderbilts are either the controlling in
tcrest or in which they have large inter
csts it seems strange that in Bostor
tncrc should be accusations that il is the
purpose of the Nanderhilts through theu
lease of the Boston and Albany TO take
away traffic from Boston and divert il
to New York.
THE GREATEST or ALL.
! These two steamers are so much great.
or than any others, with Il single eNcop
ton that it would ne possible to- trtusfc1
the freight carried by four of the larges
steamships now in the Atlantic trade g.
the hold Of either one of these vessels
Tho manager Of the line in sl,dNlui
Of tine size of the lVCliud said that 7D'
a,one could carry as much freight as TIE
Campania. the Lucania. the Etru3fa uu'
the lmbria combined, four of the ldrgcs
steamships IN The service of this company
Tho statement seemed to be so tNtraVa
giant that the manager was asked II h
could have been correctly understood, am
he repeated it with emphasis.
| Furthermore il would be possible T.
| carry in either one of these steamers ai
| entire army brigade consisting of %
officers and $500 men. In addition to tha
number must be computed the officer
and sailors of the snip, so that it can b
said that one of these eanships cai
I carry conveniently 1000 men Beside
that there must be stores and munition
and the steamship can carry In addition
to the men l0'oV tons OF provisions an
munitions of war.
II it were resigned 10 carry a ctv7lr
brigade. either one Of these steamship
can transport 200 officers. 1900 men am
1000 horses, with 1o,uO tons Of stores an
munitions. But this is not all. She coui
leave Liverpool or Halifax with an arm
of the kind just spoken OF aboard am
could carry i'm addition sufficient coal I
make IL possible for her to steam TO IT,
Cape Of Good Hope and back witLou
rcploni-hin- her coal supply and never
the less maintaining an average speed q
10 knots an hour.
The Great Eastern, which was tn
wonder OF us time, and has been "a ira
diton ever since could match none @
these figures, her then prcdiglous "apac
t. being only about two-t hirG~ G.