The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-08-18
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Brunswick has practically all the elements for the
making CT great commercial port. Its location is ad
mrable, its capacity large The depth Of water in its
entrance channel and its anchorage basin is ample for
general shipping and it is quite possible
adequate all the demands of commerce. even the
most extreme Of modern shipping development What is
chiefly lacking is equipment handling large volumes
Of traffic adequate terminal facilities docks
houses, and railroad and facilities There
must be business available, however to warrant even
the most perfect port equipment That there is field
for such business development this section as to jus
tfy the building of a great port Brunswick must be
accepted beyond question. The material develop
of the South only just begun and there is bound
to grow up in this section a great commercial empire
In cotton manufacturing alone the opportunity is prac
ucally iilmitable If the South manufacture
siderable why, ultimately she should portion
on her cotton crop there is manufacture practically
the whole of it, and command the worlds market for
cotton goods she commands its market for raw
cotton But that is only consideration With the
opening of the Panama currents of trade be-
tween the of this country will be
changed, and much that is transported by 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
vast territory of South America to be supplied with
coal goods and other products of
the South and Middle West, to yield in return its
products for in the industries OF this region. A
vast volume of trade that trckes through many
routes could be poured through port equipped to han
die it,
In volume recently published by the Yale Univer-
sity Press, Mr. Edwin J. Clapp tells the story Of the
conversion of the of Hamburg medieval port
into a modern gateway Of commerce. 1t is very il
Eliminating and an intensely interesting story While
many of the conditions Hamburg are not to be found
at Brunswick, the whole the underlying prncplea
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 carriers cheap communicated by
water and rail from the Continent the sea- and abun.
dan use 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 to make its harbor
free to the commerce of the world, and adopted ana
German empire once established encouraged and
manufactures and commerce. and Hamburg spent vast
sums in making harbor which all the railroads and
waterways of the interior of Europe tribu-
ary while to and from its ports the ships bought and
carried freight and passengers at that that made
burg the first port of Europe and Germany pre-
emnence in the markets of the world by bringing raw
material and sending out manufactures Through the
wise and liberal expenditure large sums borrowed at
easy rates the security of port charges Hamburg
has he close friendship Germany and its colon
les and the foreign countries with which it deals 1t
has built steamships which carry trade and pas
sengers 10 every part OF the world; it
new center OF German shipbuing has pointed out the
way for the construction the great German navy and
has united the empire colonies and all foreign
ports
Hamburg is on the river Elbe eighty-ive miles from
the sea. Up to 1S40 the channel leading to its docks
had low depth of only and onehaf feet or
thirteen feet at high Today there is low water
channel TO the city, eghtyfve miles long, $50 wide
and twenty-sx and onefourth deep at low or 32S
feet deep at high water Except in sea
Hamburg So Brunswick 1.-THE channel records of the
two ports are practically the same. The ships that go
into Hamburg could into Brunswick including the
great vessels of the Hamburg line which con-
sute the greatest factor the commerce of the Ger
man port.
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