Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-11-22
OCEAN TRAMP IS
FAST BECOMING
RELIC Of PAST
Liners Now Running to All Parts
of World Crowding Wander
ers From Ocean Highways of
Globe.

I Clo VII OCCdll lSllWdyS VI
Globe,
I Especial Correspondence to sIornfng Journal!
New York, Nov. lS.-Down in an
I old-fashioned office overlooking The
water front, where the official chron-
icler Of the dwindling American mer-
chant fleet has his headquarters and
where retired sea captains drop in
every day to swap warns about the
good old days before forty thousand
ton boats and five-day trips across
he Atlantic were dreamed Of they
were talking the other day about the
I passing Of the good ship Philadei-
phia 4 three-line dispatch in the
morning papers had conveyed TO all
the world the announcement that the
sailing ship philadelphia" of 1850
tons burden, built ia New York in
1919 had been sent to the scrap
heap. TO most of the world. pausing
Tor moment over this brief obitu-
AIRY, the Information had been mean
ingless. \ few elderly readers per-
haps recalled some incident i'm the
earlier career of the old sailing ship.
her record as one of the crack boats
In the trans-A tlantic trade sixty
years ago. her adventurous voyages
around the Horn. or her hair breath
escapes as a blockade runner In the
civil war. only the few gray haired
men in the old-fashioned downtown
otiice grasped the chief significance
OF the announcement which lay in
the fact that the breaking up Of the
Philadelphia marked the passing
OF the last full-risged ship OF Ameri-
can registry. She was the last sur
vivor of that great fleet of Yankee
clipper ships that dotted the seven
seas with its sails three-quarters of
century ago and whose boast il was
that they could outsail or Outright
the ships of any other nation as oc-
casion might require
The old captains discussed the !
matter a little sadly as though they
felt a personal loss at the passing Of |
an order with which many of them |
had been identified
she had to go. said one. 'just as |
All the others have. Sail can't stand |
lfore steam The liners took the |
cream Of the business and the steam |
ramp came along and gobbled the
'est, ana now there's only the odds
md ends of the lumber trade to keen
Few coastwise schooners going"
Yes, It was the tramp that done
L. added another. hut the tramp's
urn is coming. too. With the liners
ettin' bigger ana faster all the time
nd running to all sorts OF places
qhere they never used to go. tho
ramp has got mighty little show left.
nc liners took away the West Indian
rade and now they've taken the
outh American trade. Pretty soon
hey'll take the rest of the trade
18th Australia and the east and then ,
he tramp will be where the sailing ,
nip is uow-on the scrap heap II
Whether this prediction is likely to- :
o. realized for many years to come +,
/ not may be a question. There are
lauy tramp Vessels--a few sail. but :
iostly steam ploddiug the high seas p
ill There many out-of- the way, J.,
lrncrs that the liners are not likely !,
penetrate soon where the sharp ;.
red wanderer can pick up profitable j
rgo. But IL is true beyond question III
at "a decided change has takon
ace within the past few years IN ~
e hnndiiue of ocean traffic. The a
isincss rs expanding. is being organ ii
'd and systematized in accordance 81
th the methods that prevail in n
her lines OF human industry The "A.
eat maritime companies are sendina q.
cir fast boats to ports and over ST
utes that formerly had to depend A.
ION the casual service Of the tramp -,
d the tramp is beine crowded into a.,
q back ground, off the main routes y,
a into the less desirable trade just =,
the sailing ship was crowded out Il,
genera tion ago when the operation =,
tramp steamships was in It's prime n,
profitable business. Romance -
Will be the loser by the ~
ange. hut the commercial inter-
= of the world will be the gamer.
il is resulting in the more rapid ~
q more economical conduct of the >
Eat business of interchanging the
rld's products.
rhe tramp as a distinctive class of
.an steamship is OF British origin
d its greatest numbers still hail
m the British Isles and from the 81
,ndinavi Wan countries of northern IA
rope. The term was originated TO at
ply To- the freighter of the type Ha
i figures frequently in Kipling's "
ries They We're brought out in 49,
period of the great expansion OF Nj
am navigation during the latter or
of the nineteenth century. The Ht
Is ones were the cheapest things as
I could be made to float" Cheap foi
built, they We're as cheaply OUT dr.
ed from the sales of refuse naval sh'
'es and cheaply manned by sail ma ma
who could not get a berth from e,''
lectabie agents They disregard -
the requirements of the Plmson 10
-ks and every severe gale sent far
lbers OF them to the bottom Hun
as of them are rotting now in the
tbs of the Atlantic, and. as an old
igntor phrased 1t. there is
.e OF them extending from Bilboa. owe
in To Cardiff and Swansea. where old
/. ran IN the coal and iron ore ent
'c. Thus IN its origin the tramp DIG
true outcast OF the sea. com 81,
ng the greed OF constituencies ~,
ers and the reekiessness OF worth
mariners They represented the
rich-Quick idea in the develop Al
70 ci ocean trade. but many OF Rol
n were so ruttenly constructed lacci
they defeated their builders pur- 400
hy going to the bottom in the here
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