Evening journal., 1900-02-22

on the Atlantic coast. Even New YORK
shippers realize this fact, and the busi-
ness is constantly increasing. The two
leading shipping companies operating
here at present are the Chesapeake and
Ohio Steamship Company and the
United States Shipping Company. The
former is represented by the Furness
Witty Company and operates a large
Iand improved feet OF steamships be-
tween British ports and this city. The
United States Shipping Company repre-
sents the following lines Of foreign
steamships which sail regularly all the
year round: Union Line. Of
Hamburg; Lord Line. for Belfast
and Dublin; Phoenix Line, for Ant
werp; Forenede Virginian- Baltic Line
for Copenhagen and Reval; Donaldson
Line for Glasgow, Oranje Line, for
Rotterdam and Amsterdam; Gale
donian Line, for Leith. and Avon Line,
for Bristol
The water front for over half mile
is lined with piers and wharves. most
! ly the property of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway Company, and new ones
are in course of construction now. The
chesapeake and Ohio is building three
new piers below Fourteenth street. A
new million-bushel grain elevator Is
also being built by the railway COM
pany. its present half
bushel elevator being unable to carry
all the business.
lCHEsAPEAl<E AND OHIO SYSTEM
Newport News is the deep-water
Terminal OF the great Chesapeake and
lOhio railway system, and this one sys-
81. 4 uf gIfu q A.
lnesa that Newport News frequently
franks second or third during a month
In exports and occasionally leads all
the Atlantic coast seaports, including
New York and New Orleans over this
company's tracks come millions OF
bushels Of grain from the
West and freight from all sections oi
the land comes here by the same route
IChicago ships to Newport News via The
big -Four. and so other lines connecting
with the Chesapeake and Ohio reach
their deepest terminal at Newport
News, where great merchant vessel.
crowd the docks and the harbor Is
lalive with vessels OF every kind await
ing their turn at the piers to take OF
cargoes for foreign lands.
The local transportation facilltie.
are not surpassed anywhere on th'
face of the earth where there are az
many people living as in Newpor
News and the immediate vicinity. Thl
streets OF the city are alive with elec
/, trie cars. and trolley lines connect will
: all trains and steamers while lines o
street cars run from this city to Ole
Point Comfort some fifteen miles dis
tant. passing through Hampton ant
Phoebus every few minutes Hampton
Roads and James river are alive witt
ferry steamers and Norfolk and Ports
mouth, across the Roads. can be reach
ed at any time from Newport News
either directly by steamer or by troll
ley TO Old Point and from there b.
water.
AN IMMENSE ABATTOIR.
A short time agO-in fact, less thai
!. a year in the past-Thomas b. Henley
one OF the best-known local real es
. tate men. gave to the press state
ment that he had almost closed a dea
4 by which Newport News would secur
!, another immense enterprise, but a
y that time he would not say what il wa
: or even give the least intimation OF Il
I, nature and for months nothing NOR
j, was heard of the matter. Finally how
= lever, E. $. Palmer, of Philadelphia
- who had been constant visitor I
y Newport News for some time, wa
, questioned by a newspaper man. an
y the whole enterprise became known tn
= following day. II was announced thl
u a concern known as the Newport New
n Abattolr Company had been organize
with large capital and would erect an
If,sa faf lItn t,In
here to compete with the Armours an
Swifts.
The capital OF the company under ii
charter is $l,50O,0O0, and already not
little work has been accomplished {,
= ward the establishment of the plan
" The concern is working in touch wit
" the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Con
= pany and from the main tracks Of tn,
line to the site OF the abattoir. ju
y above the city limits. there are now tv
I, sidetracks extending along each side
/" the property upon which the building
i. are being erected
y When the plant is completed and
= full operation there will be at lea
twelve large buildings in use. Il
foundations OF some OF them havir
n been started The excavations for Il
p entire plant have been made and n
u work is being pushed as rapidly as pc
q sible, although several delays ha'
n- been caused from time to time by q
s. weather The contract for the ma
ne and largest building of Il
)r plant was let some time ago to Ccl
- tractor Bradley Of Richmond, and a
le structure is TO be completed and reat
y tor use by April L. and the entire plal
NJ will be In operation in about s
+ months. according TO the present expe
ys tations OF the company
~ The buildings. one for each depar
te ment OF the business. will be groupl
90 and will have an aggregate floor ar,
~ of nearly ten acres. divided into killiI
rl pens, packing rooms and refrigeratiI
'e boxes, with storage rooms adjOinin
;, The requirements Of the plant I'm m
lli chinery will be six 150-hOrsepOw
er steam boilers. three ten-tCn refrigera
IL ing machines. combined capacity 8
Ne tons refrlgerating power. fully equi
re ped; three l.000-light dynamos al
H. multipolar type machines.
eh The establishment of the plant W
omen m n new epofipn nf anunfrxs