The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-18
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B.gn5Eck ms p-1cic2lly all the elements for the
lLzzEg great commercial port lis location is ad-
1n.rz5e lis capacity large The depth OF water in its
entrance channel and lis anchorage basin is ample for
genera SHIPPING, aid i IS quite possible TO make them
adequate al the demands OF commerce even the
most Of modern shipping development What is
chiefly lacking equipment for handling large volumes
Of traffic adequate terminal facilities docks and ware
houses, and railroad connections and facilities There
be business available however to warrant even
the most perfect port equipment That there is field
for such business development in this section as TO s
tfy The building OF great port at Brunswick must be
accepted as beyond question The material develop
eni Of the South has only just begun and there
10 grow up in this section great commercial empire
IN cotton manufacturing alone the opportunity is prac-
ncaHy lAmitable If the South manufacture con-
siderable reason why ultimately she should portion
OF her cotton crop there is manufacture practically
the whole Of il, and command the worlds market for
cotton goods as she now commands its market for
cotton But that is only one consideration With the
opening OF the Panama canal the currents of trade he
tween the coasts of this country will be
changed, ad much that is transported BY rail will
be brought and carried between Pacific and Atlantic
ports by ships. The Pacific trade with the South
Atlantic region should be distributed through port like
Brunswick and the goods for the oriental trade
is
vast territory Of South America to be supplied with
coal and grain and goods and other products of
the South and Middle West and to yield in return its
products for use in the industries OF this region
vast volume Of trade that now rickles through many
could be poured through port equipped 10 ham
die it.
In a volume recently published by the Yale Uniyer-
sity Press, Mr. Edwin J Clapp tells the story Of the
conversion of the of Hamburg from medieval port
into modern gateway OF commerce Il is a very H.
Illuminating and intensely interesting story While
many Of the conditions Hamburg are not to be found
at Brunswick on the whole the underlying prlncipez
of the problem which the German city has solved and
which Brunswick has yet to solve, are familiar
Harbor facilities and close contact between inland
railroads and ocean carriers, cheap communication by
water and rail from the Continent the sea- and album
dant Of freight handling machinery were the ele-
ments Of the problem satisfactorily solved in Ham
burg One Of the five free cities of Germany" it seized
the opportunity of unified Germany 10 make its harbor
free to the commerce of the world and adopted ard
carried plans that secured its -eminence The
German empire once established encouraged trade and
manufactures and commerce, and Hamburg spent vast
sums in making harbor which all the railroads and
waterways of the interior Europe were made tribu-
ary while to and from its ports ships bought and
burg the first Of Europe gave Germany its pre-
eminence in the markets of the world by bringing
material and sending out manufactures Through the
wise and liberal expenditure large sums borrowed at
easy rates the security of port charges Hamburg
has ne close friendship of Germany and its colon
les and the foreign countries with it deals 1t
has built steamships which carry trade and pas
sengers TO every part OF the world has become the
new center OF German shpbuding pointed out the
way for the construction Of the great navy and
has united the empire and colonies and all foreign
ports.
Hamburg is on the river Elbe eighty-fve miles from
the sea. Up 1840 the channel leading to its docks
had low water depth OF only six and oneha feet or
thirteen feet at high Today there is low water
channel to the city, eghyfve miles long $50 feet wide
and twentysiX and onefourth deep at low or 1928
feet deep at high Except distance the sea
Hamburg So brunswick lathe channel records of the
two ports practically the The ships that go
into Hamburg could come into Brunswick including the
great vessels of the Hamburg American line which
sttue the factor in the commerce Of the Ger
man port, &C.;
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