The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-17
Norfolk the Center of Greatest
Trucking District in World.
MOUNTAINS OF FREIGHT
Transportation Companies Have All
They Can Do to Handle It. and the
Banks Are Flooded With Money
ii Brings Into Them.
Bv WALTER EDWARD o HARRIS.
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SoRFOLK. VA, May 1G.-"The panks
Of Norfolk viii hnd it hard to take care
az all the money pouring into TINS CITY
aud section now in payment for truck.
said banker OF this city to-day.
mean. VIC will find 1t difficult 10 secure
Investment for the increased deposits.
The total win be enormous"
Nearly 5000 gallons OF strawberries iei'
,,oro q, ono train for New York Tuesday
night. About as many went out 1or Ne"
York by steamer at the same tit'ie' a''eu a''eu
Tho Boston steamer carried nearly &c
great quantity of the luscious = w.
Tho baltimore boats also the sam ai.e. 's
,,oo,, were heavily laden with the berries
.on ,ritut,nc to swell to incredible proper
tons the shipment for q single Gay.
Tho foregoing refers only to perrles.
mt the shipments OF kale, spinach anu
cabbage. are as remarkable IN polh' q
r,ze and. united, in point OF Value' as
,,,,r rhe truckers are supplying all the
.ao, ,roceries that go on the tables
tn the north these days and, ms conss
nuence. are full in the pain VI ~.
,nr, stream that Is flowing soutn"aiIu. 1liIl
80. nan who has a patch OF any.
49,. prowing In the neiGhborhooo OF
na,.so,t "a smiling. and. however. Hucll ,,'
no hank men may worry over ma o.i,ty ~,
- toto caro- of the money conlitis .i's ,l
sroy there Is no sign of uneasihess On .lte
faces OF the truckers. ,.r
Tbere Is not In all virginia !, 'o-uas'
nrohably, q more interesting t,'.is -
49, In n
Norfolk. I have seen all OF theIh ~ .ns
,,rsa of the past six or eight houts'
.,aau, cutie ready to believe that saw
..that 49, time more gallons OF straWperrles'
ara heads OF cabbage, more s1Anach'
o iio. ,atture more kale, than the aver
80. man sees In the course OF iois
,ife / did not know there was 50 iiiuen .l'
a. the world and had not realHeo nov
much of grass-eating ahll'iai - -
whom is given DOMINION oSet Wv NV
of the field. .o, 400 ,,,ra,s ~
sr,,nach grown within short distance
~ Norfolk, were shipped to northern mar
kets. ,a etaamors
carried from Norfolk to the north, lo9,-
Ss7 barrels of kale. grown IN thls im'he-
dlate vicinity. a.
nf the entire crop of lsale raised In the
Il /.
shinped from Norfolk, and Norfolk sup
n,ies' to the American people ffty-one pei
cant Of all the spinach they eat In year
STREETS CROWDED.
THO streets are crowded all day now
with wagons and drays piled h'gh Win
crates, baskets, boxes ana palreis "
trnck lust starting towards the eager
h,,vars Of the North. Every species OF
craft that can be secured to transport
Frairh. Is plying the waters OF the mar
(. nor on the way to the wharVes, heaViiy
laden with the earth's bounty or hurry.
ing back to the farms for tresh loaus OF
frnits and vegetables with which to help
n,,aw the clamor of the hungry and im-
notient neople of less-favored cline.
HIIndreds and hundreds of men are LABOR
ing day and night to diminish me noun
taIns piled up by wagon ana boat put 10
little purpose. ,.,, .,a,
Tho big steamers sail away Win lnei,
holes stored to the utmost caphn'ss, ,',n,, a.u
with berries and vegetables hlndeh away
in every spot that offers resting place,
hut other vessels take their places at the
wharves and wagons and schooners anu
Bloops keep up their trips TO ana irola
the farms and continue to pile IN me
sheds the produce that keeps the solueh
stream settling towards Nofolk,
spent an hour to-day watching the
unloading of truck from wagons ana
boats at the Old Dominion wharves and
watching the negroes wheel the boxes
md barrels up the gang planks into the
holes of the steamers, There are many N,
thousand square feet of space on the
wharf and tho packages of freight are
piled high one upon ,another, but 1t is
by no means an easy matter to get a
vacant spot where one may stand undis-
turbed and observe the busy scenes
\ around him. 1t is said the sensation OF
being run over by a truck pushed by a
negro stevedore Is chiefly that of humi-
liation, but it has never been claimed that
1t has any humorous features save. for
tha negro and the oniookers Probably
tl,ree hundred brnwly negroes We're at
work at the wliarves to-day handling tho
freight not including those on tho sloops
hosting it to the PLATFORM nor the drivers
with loads from nearby fields.
SCllNFo OF ACTIVITY
8 The scene was one of utmost activity.
"A half dozen foremen and two or three
policemen seemed to be the only people
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