Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-01

shown to make it of interest to concerns
as far west as Missouri who are in
terested in this traffic, to become familiar
with the advantages offered by Phla-
delphia for this business.
THE cities named in the schedule have
been selected merely to show the wide
territory which should use the port of
Philadelphia for this traffic.
PIGILADELPHTA'S SHARE.
while reciins the advantages of this
port, it might not be amiss to inquire
whether it is getting its proper share of
other inland traffic.
philadelphia has direct service by four
steamship lines with Southern ports in the
coastwise trade, via the Clyde Line
Southern Steamship Company, Merchants
and Miners Transportation Company and
the Ericsson Line.
rs it generally known that three of the
strongest and best managed railways in
the United States have large terminal ia
cilittes on our water front, and are equip
ped to give direct service from all the
great north central part of the country
right to the holds of coastwise steam
ers? And these three great railway lines
can exchange traffic with every trunk line
from the Canadian Pacific on the north to
the Seaboard Air Line on the south in
Guiding the shortest rail connections with
the great lakes. via Buffalo and Erie
Let the interior shipper investigate
the direct rail service from his locality
TO the port of Philadelphia and the facili-
ties offered by this port for his ocean
bound traffic.
Port development will come with a
larger cargo nucleus, and more traffic VIII
be coincident with Increased facilities for
handling It.
IN THE FRONT RANK
yet even now, with so much to be
done to place this port in the class where
it properly belonEs-in the front rank Of
the great ports OF the world--it Is second
In the list of North American ports in
the amount of tonnage handled and the
number of vessels engaged in commerce
arriving here each year.
1T is curious coincidence that If this
ports business is handled properly II win
not result in loss of income to any of
the railroads that now enter Philadef-
phia. 1t will be the railroads west of
Chicago and st. Louis that Will really
suffer as the result Of Canal competition.
With our particular railroads here, what
freight they may lose on shipments for
merly sent across the continent by rail
will be made up from freights received
for goods shipped TO and from interior
points via Philadelphia.
"The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
announced a few days ago that 1t had
opened an Office in San Francisco. and no
doubt the other railroads win follow, II
they have not already such offices es-
tablished. 1t would appear that the most
fertile field for our railroad freight So
licitors would be near their Western ter
minal.
"The development of the port OF Phila-
delphia is not a local Rffair; the entire
State of Pennsylvania should be inter
ested In giving every facility possible, so
as TO prepare for the largely increased
business that Is bound TO be handled
through this city"
COMPARISON OF RATES.
The following table gives a comparison
OF the all-rail, rail-boat and all-water
rates between this port and principal
cities within a radius OF a thousand
miles of the city, Canned goods and