The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-09
new YORK'S OCEAN
TRADE IS AMAZING
Single Days Cargoes Reack.
ed $3,OO8, OOO-Coun-
try's Gateway.

OF the port OF New fOrks commerce,
showing itself In throbs and bursts of
rapidly coursing traffic. az the hearts
blood responds to healthy stimuiant,
was illustrated one day when fleet
Of thirty.five steamers. either heavily
laden with rich freights or coming In
ballast to relieve overlooking stocks OF
exports. passed quarantine in twenty
proceeding the fleet of merchantmen
approached and passed three score
vessels. A favorable turn OF the
weather acted in the concentration OF
this unpreceded aggregate OF arrivals.
but the primary cause was the steady
Increasing growth OF business with
foeign and domestic ports.
For these two consecutive days the
total net tonnage was more than two
hundred thousand tons. which would
have been the aggregate for year in
the old days.
In 1910 the total number OF vessels
arriving In the port OF New York was
1914. Of which $50 were steamers
and 1866 sailing vessels. This was
an increase OF GAG vessels compared
with 1909. OF the 6459 steamers SAT
were under the Stars and Stripes and
1872 under the British flag, with the
remainder divided among German.
Norwegian, French, Danish. Italian,
Dutch. Cuban. Belgian. Spanish, Aus
TRAN. Portuguese. Swedish. Panaman,
Brazilian. Russian and Greek bottoms.
the Germans leading with 5S4 and the
Panamans falling off with three bot.
toms.
Something Of an Increase.
In 1893 the average number of YES
sells arriving each day of the year was
eleven. In 1910 the average had in.
creased to more than seventeen yes.
sells q day.
The foreign commerce for the port
Of New York for the last fiscal year
increased more than 1901, 42S.SS9.
while the total foreign commerce OF
Boston. the second port OF importance
Of foreign trade relations amounted to
1s9.522.9737. The city's share OF the
total foreign commerce OF the country
was 4S.45 per cent, against 47.41 per
cent. in the previous year and 4s.11
per cent. In 1900.
However fascinating and stimulat-
ing to the fancy the old days Of the
woven winged merchantmen may have
been when favorite clippers each
brought their own brands Of tea from
the spicy cast. and the Flying Cloud
made the rounding OF Cape Horn. un-
der Skipper Creesey. in eighty-nine
days and eight hours from Sandy
Hook to within the Golden Gate, and
Bully Waterman In the Seawitch flew
from Canton to New York Tin 1S49) in
seventy four days and fourteen hours.
and Captain Eldridge in the Red Jack
ct (186D crossed the Atlantic from
Sandy Hook to the mersey in thirteen
days and twelve hours. the rolling
swelling commerce of the present day.
with It's infinite variety Of Injuries and
constructive necessities In steam yes.
sells. presents a grander picture.
The advent OF the clipper may even
have been considered les picturesque
In her day than the types that proceed
ed her. for human nature is prone to
lament the passing of the familiar pic
ture. The coal burning argosy, the oil
fed freighter and the motor boat,
which last will necessarily be small
In her first trips across the oceans.
daily grow more pleasing to the eye
~ well ~ more filling to the purse.
Now markets. new colonies are fol-
lowed by the organization OF new
lines. the starting Of which causes
hardly q ripple in the interest Of the
public.
Increase in population. the develop
ment Of Cuban. Porto Rican. Philip
pine. West Indian. South American
and African commerce. the surprising
growth OF the tourist business to the
subtropics. the approaching opening OF
the Panama canal. the Cape Cod canal,
the projected sea level waterway to
Delaware bay. the improvements on
the barge canal. the restoration of in
ternal river traffice-all these and a
hundred and other causes turn the
greedy eyes OF new foreign and do
mcstic enterprises toward the open
banded port of New York.
British Travler Arrives.
New flags flutter at her docks. and
11Su WYNN cNCu JOuu dull lTdWIeT,
which had scooped in her cargo Of
fresh fish on the very edge of the
deep water to the eastward. saucily
turned her nose toward the rich me.
tropolis. selling her catch at hand.
some profit. after paying duties and
port dues. This trawler. the first un.
der the British flag ever seen at Full.
ton markc. now boldly carves permits.
sion to "clear from the custom house
for the open seas" and come back
again and again TO sell her catch in
competition with the Yankee fisher.
men. thus going one better. at least.
the provisions OF the last decision OF
The Hague tribunal.
All these commercial myrmidous tax
the capacities and dockage of the port
probably almost faster than the city
can maintain its docking facilities and
the government can dig deeper chan
nels.
In the fiscal year 1885. the Ameri.
can ocean steamers entering this port
numbered 22s. Of total tonnage of
3%3.447: foreign, steam vessels with
cargo S54. with total tonnage of g.
%3l.O74; foreign steam vessels in bal
last %, OF total tonnage Of 1926.