The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-29
FOR PHILIPPINE TRADE
NEW YORK COMPANY ORGANIZED
TO AID u S. COMMERCE.
Company Has Expended Half MIL
lion in PreparatiOn-Neyy Line
of Monthly Ships-Other
Enterprises.

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.- Within two
weeks there will sail from this port for
Manila a steamship owned by the Phll-
ippine Transportation and Constructor
company. which will carry the first IN
stallment of steam lighters, with which
it is proposed to revolutionize conditions
of commerce in the Philippine islands.
The company has built nineteen of these
lighters, at an average cost OF S2S,cOo.
Lighterage charges at Manila now are
about $780, Mexican hundred tons.
With these new lighters the company
promises to reduce the charges to IL
cents, Mexican, hundred tons.
The company, it is stated, has already
expended $500,90O in preparing to do bust
ness in the Philippines, where it intends
to do a general harbor, l1ghterage and
interisland business. The company will
establish a huge monthly steamer from
New York to Manila, beginning next
month.
Russell Tolegrove, who is to be the
traffic manager of the company at
Manila, was in this city today with the
general counsel for the company, Frank
lin Brooks, of % Broad street, gave out
the following statement:
"All lighterage at Manila and through
out the islands must be done with the
casco. The casco is leaky, unstable
native boat of thirty tons burden. Every
ounce of merchandise that it taken to or
from Manila must be lifted over the YES
sells side by Chinese or native coolies,
and then lifted from the cascO to the
wharyes again. The caseos cannot work
in bad weather. They are towed in and
out of the harbor by launches of Asfatic
manufacture. The breakage and waste
account through their employment is OF
oil
British, German and Chinese merchants
and no American cargo can enter with
their aid except at charge that is pro-
| hibitive.
.arEe results are shown by fgures fur
| nished to us by the insular commission
For the fiscal year 1Se0-01 the imports Of
| the islands were 32,S1S,4 Al. OF this the
| United States controlled sS,o34, $50; Eng
| land had s19,661.162, and the Germans ant
the Chinese had the rest.
.sThese lighters of ours are steam self
propelling steel barges with Lloyd rat
| ing of AL They have steam hoists, ant
! they can do their work in any weather
| the CAPACITY of each is 400 tons. Nine
! teen of them are completed and are nov
| awaiting shipment at the Morgan lroi
| works. Nine of them have been takel
| apart to be shipped in sections, the othel
| ten viii be shipped as deckload. we VIII
| send four on a ship until they are al
over Our first ship, which is owned BY
this company, will leave here about Jan
10, and the next a month later; they VIII
go by the Suez canal.
with these barges will go complet'
machine shop to be set up in Manila
! There is no up-to-dates machine .shol
! there. We are going to be able to repai
| cur own boats and those of other folks
| too We will also ship our own electric
| lighting plant for the machine shop, an(
| a complete outfit OF wrecking gear; The
gear will include a screw hoist dry docl
| for small boats. A full complement O.
| American skilled " orkmen will be takel
| along.
I'VE mean tes make American trad,
| felt in the new American i possessions
| Our barges will be the only American
bottoms out there except naval vessels
| We hope to see a lot more there soon''