Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-04-18

from here 10 Brazil, and German vessels
sail far up the Amazon. Most of the South
American ships are paying good dividends.
The Kosmos Company made profit of IL
per cent in 1869. and some other companies
pay almost as well.
The Asiatic Lines.
1t used to be that the English had tie
monopoly of the Chinese and japanese
trade They had the best steamers and it
was the aristocratc thing to go on the +.
& O. OF late years tie English boats have
fallen Off They are far behind the times in
comfort ard speed, and the Germans are
getting the travel. The best accommoda-
tons from Asia 70 Europe are now found
on the North German Lloyd steamers and
they carry large number of passengers.
both first and second-class. The same is
true of Australian ships of this line.
The Germans now trade along the coast
of China, and they are even trying to cap
ture the rivers. They are building steel
ships on the American plan for the Yangtse
Eiang which shall sail under the German
flag. They will make twelve kno's an hour,
and will have triple-eXpansion engines
worked by crude petroleum. They will run
from Shanghai to the great tea port OF
Hankow. about seven hundred miles in in
terror China. and there connect with small
German steamers, which viii go as far
up as the gorges of Ichang, or altogether
about one thousand miles from the coast
They have also regular lines of steamers
to kiauchau, their port on the Chinese
coast.
German Ships for Siam and Philippines
The Germans have ships which call at
Tien Tsin, and they regularly trade at the
japanese ports. They have recently put on
a line to the Philippines. The ships go
from Hamburg Gown to the Mediterranean.
and crossing that through the Suez canal
to Ceylon, Singapore and thence to Manila
They now practically control the shipping
of Siam. Five years ago the British had
SO per cent of this business, but now so per
cent of 1t is carried on under the German
flag. The German capitalists bought out
the British steamers and added more. The
service now is better than it has ever been,
and the Siamese trade is going to Germany.
1t is the same in many other parts of the
globe and were it not for the Morganiza-
ton of our lines, as the merging of the
stea mships by the Americans is called,
they would have fair chance to eventual
ly capture the commerce of the world.
Fortunes in Shipbuilding.
The Germans are not only making money
out of commerce. but out of shipbuilding
as we'll They have now some of the larg-
est of the shipyards. They make the big
gest and the best ships, and they are manu-
featuring them, not only for themselves,
but also for foreign countries The krupps
have big shipyards at Kiel, not far from
Hamburg. There are other yards at
Flensburg and Bremen, and the largest of
all at Stettin on the Oder, not far from
the Baltic. All of these establishments
have increased their capital within the past
year or so to the amount of more than
81 GEO 900, and they are all making money.
In 1900 the Flensburg yard paid eight
teen per cent its capital stock,
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greyhounds for the North German Lloyd
and Hamburg-American companies, paid
twelve per cent.
The kaiser is doing all he can to en-
courage shipbuilding. He thinks Germany
ought to depend upon it's own ships and in
case of a protracted war should be able to
make it's own gunboats. He frequently
visits the shipyards, and is very proud