The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-16
BENEFIT OF BIG SHIPS
WHAT SAVANNAH WILL DERIVE
FROM DIRECT LINE.
DEPENDS ON DEEP WATER.
NORTH GERMAN LLOYD DISPOSED
TO ESTABLISH LINE.

men-Savannah Has More Terri
tory Than Either One of These
Cities-Business Men Deeply In
terested in the Idea, and Matter
viii BE Discussed at Next Meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce.
The great benefits now being de-
rived by Southern ports from the oper-
alton of direct steamship lines to Eu-
rope. the saving in cost of delivering
imported goods to the Southern con-
sulner, the importation of a substan-
tial class of immigrants and speedy
and more economical exchange of COM
merce with foreign countries, is par
TALLY the motive behind the movement
| to deepen the channel of the Savan-
nah river to thirty feet, from the city
to the sea. On this depends largely
the putting into operation by the
North German Lloyd Steamship Com
Savannah to Bremen.
The North German Lloyd now oper-
ates a line of large passenger and
freight steamers between New Orleans
and Bremen and Galveston and Brem-
en-. Thousands and thousands of
tons of German exports are carried
by these steamers annually at a saw
ing of thousands of dollars to the con-
sumers. Thousands of healthy, thrifty
German peasants emigrate on these
ships to America, and readily adapt
themselves to various useful trades.
They are sons of industry, and make
most valuable laborers.
a Great Fleet.
This great corporation which owns
and operates fleet of ships almost
equal in tonnage to the entire British
navy, is anxious to get into the Sa-
vannah port. 1t has realized that
there are vast stretches of territory
that will draw traffic for it's immense
ocean steamers. Its ventures into
other Southern ports have been sue
cessful, and it has quickly built up a
line of business that has been most
pleasing. This is testified to by the
fact that each year larger and better
equipped ships are sent to the South
ern ports and their carrying capacity
has been taxed.
These steamers. of 1000 anC 5000
tons, demand deep water. a thirty
foot channel in the Savannah harbor
would be ali that is necessary to
bring about the establishment of this
line. The Coblenz, one of the
smaller ships of the North German
Lloyd fleet, is in the Savannah port
now, and ships of this type will make
this port at intervals until definite
plans have been formed for the estab-
lishment of a regular line.
what 1t Means for Savannah.
Business men of Savannah are deep
ly interested in the possibility of this
direct line to Bremen. 1t has been
discussed freely during the last few
days, and in all probability it will be
taken up at the next meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce. In addition to
the thousands of tons of kainit, salt
and kaolin that are brought to this
country for fertilizers annually, the
vast amount of imported manufactured
articles that are not routed by way
of New York, and thence to Southern
interior points would come by direct
route at a great saving in rail trans
portation.
There is tributary to Savannah ter
ritory covering an area far greater
than that which is supplied with i'm
ported goods through New Orleans or
Galveston. The establishment of the
Zine to supply this territory direct
would mean the building of docks,
warehouses and an increase in employ
ment to labor. 1t would mean largely
increased traffic for the railroads out
of Savannah. 1t would mean the es-
adjustment of a large number of i'm
porting houses here, the erection of
new warehouses for this purpose, and
nf oh
houses of the great New York import
ing firms. Imported goods could be
delivered to interior towns in Georgia
and other states in bond. and greatly
facilitate the handling and decrease
the margins added by every importer
and sub-jobber who handles them.
Germany's Efforts.
The mineral products of Germany
are rich and varied, and their exploita-
ton forms a most important industry.
The chief mining and smelling districts
are in Silesia, on the Lower Rhine, in
the upper Harz and in Saxony. Silver
is found in these provinces. Iron is
found in numerous mountain ranges,
especially in upper Silesia and in Rhen-
ism Westphalia, Alsace and Lorraine
contain great part of perhaps the
largest iron deposits in Europe. which
| stretch into France and Luxembourg
though not abundant. Prussia yields
| nearly one-half of the zinc annually
| produced in the world. Lead is found
in the Harz. in other parts of Prussia
and in SaXony. A little copper is
mined at Mansfield Tin and Tungsten
are yielded by the Ergebirge, maya
nese at Wiesbaden quicksilver in
Westphalia; antimony in Thuringia
| Germany is rich in CLAWS of all XII Ids
| from the finest the coarsest; the por-
celain of Meissen, the pottery of Thu
ringia and the glass OF Siles.a I'd Ba-
varia are celebratl d. Building stone is
we'll distributed; marble. alabaster
slate and lithographic stones also oc-
cur; and cobalt, arsenic, sulphur, salt
petre, alum, gypsum, bismuth pumice-
stone, Tripoll slate, kao in, emery.
| ochre, and vitriol are all among the
exports of Germany
| The Oldest and most important of
| the industrial arts is the manufacture
of linen and wooden goods, and vast
| quantities of these are imported into
this country. Germany comes next to
France in the exportat on of silks This
industry has its central point in Rhen-
ish, Prussia, with a special develop
ment in the district of Dusseldorf The
spinning is carried on in Brunswick. at
Nielsen and at Bonn; thread is manu-
| featured in SaXony, Silesia and the
! Rhine provinces; and hes cry is most
largely produced in Saxony and Thu
| ringia. The making of toys ard wood
en- clocks, and wood carving, which
may be regarded as almost a speciality