New-York tribune., 1908-12-13
MARINE COFFEE
POT BOILS OVER
SANTOS BAY FILLED WITH
LIQUID.
Steamers Cargo Caught Fire, Heat
Boiled the Water and There Vas
No Lack of Sugar.
BY Lewis r Freeman

Brazil has Just signed the contract for what IS
known the Sac Paulo coffee loan OF s75OOoo"
and 100000 of the loan will be placed In TINS
country, the American portion having been unoeF-
written by the National City Bank. the First Ma
tionaI Bank and J. P. Morgan & Co. Thls loan
represents consolidation OF several loans enecleo
by the Stats Of Sac Paulo since 1886 the proceeuS
OF which have been devoted to buying coIIee IrOih
the planters of the with view 20 saving
them from loss through drop In the price OF inc
commodity Seven million bags OF conee stored IN
warehouses in this city and In Europe hep 10
the loan
From Sac Paulo. capital OF BrazlIs great conee
province Of that name down to Santos. Its port IS
a distance OF thirty-four miles drop or TWO thou-
sand feet and run Of three hours by the express
This short bit Of composite railway running oo"n
10 Santos is the artery through which no"s lIlo
whole coffee output of the state OF Sac fauio'
more than so Per cent OF the worlds supply. ms
the SOS often amounted to over lO'UVoCoVs oae
a year-in excess OF 25.Os0 bags day. You VIII
probably be told that 100000 bags OF conee
weigh 1000. 100000 pounds. They also nave lH'
amount reduced to cups.
Thev are very ready with these graphic coffee
connparisons in Santos. and the merest slip OF
child can tell stranger how many times sucn anu
such a years output would reach around the eartn
II the berries placed end to end or now many
square kilometres OF land 1t would OiacAeh =
spread out to 2 depth of inch, etc The only
con,narisou recall however, is that II the output
of the year 1897 had been stepped up into mooeIa17
strength coffee IN Sac Paulo 1t would nave UAAeh
forty feet IN diameter, running al Nie -00,
to get It to Santos. and the whole merchant Meet ol
the world converted into ships to get II away.
Just previous to my arrival in santos tneie Us
Cured an event which added one more hohoT ~
Brazfrg list of achievements enent the coffee IN
dustrv 4 German freighter. Just ready 10 cast
loose and put to for Hamburg with fuli cargo
of coffee sugar and cocoanut OIL took nre anu
burned In the bay, converting that fine sevcn-Tlie
nocket Of water into vast stretch OF steam
ing fragrance.
The bay is locked from the ocean by all out the
narrowest thread of passage. and at the sane
time Is fed with clear. sweet water from the land
ward side by a great river. The bay proper bellies
out TO north and south like earthen pot; to the
east the seaward passage curves away like spout
while TO the west the river loops around an Island
to form a perfect handle
As soon as the fire beyond control the moor
ing lines big steamer were cast on from the
dock and she was towed into middle OF the bay.
From that point she went drifting off on week
long cruise about the great natural coffee pot. i'm
until they flowed brown and clear from the seaward
end of the spout. sending up clouds OF arohsuc n
cense to greet the inbound ships.
The flames burned away the sacks and roasted
the upper stratum of coffee to a turn in short
time raising to the boiling point by the same op-
Grafton the water that pouring aboard from
the score or more OF nozzles OF the hose played
from the freboats. As the sleeping process pro-
ceeded the barrels of cocoanut oil oblgngly ex-
ploded and blew the highly concentrated essence
out into the bay, where it gradually diluted itser
IN the proper strength. Then more roasting, more
water and another explosion, and the process was
automatically repeated its logical conclusion In
the exhaustion of firemen. coffee and cocoanut OIL