Albuquerque morning journal., 1915-10-22
More Merchandise Is Being
Shipped Now Than at Any
Period Since Panic of 1902
Halted Business,
TRAINS AND STEAMERS
LOADED TO CAPACITY
Figures From Books Of Trans
potatiOn Companies Make
Remarkable Showing for
Past Three Months,
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New York oct 21.-A general re-
yyM Of freight traffic, moqualed
since 1907, was reported today by al
most every railroad entering New
York city or with terminals on the
New Jersey shore across the Hudson
river
All the office Of the Erie railroad il
was said that tonnage figures for last
month. available today, showed that
the business done in September. 1915,
was the greatest ever recorded on the
books of the company during the op-
eraton of the road
Tonnage on the Baltimore and Ohio
Of shipments to New York ana for ex-
port has increased 40 per cent, it was
said within the past ninety days
Breaks Past Records.
The New Haven railroad is moving
more freight today, it was said, than
it has moved for years before. The
New York Central lines report that
business is so good that hundreds of
extra men have been added to handle
the traffic and that deliveries of the
five thousand to SIX thousand cars re-
Gently ordered are being hurried to
care for the traffic
ON the Central Railroad of New
Jersey the volume is equal, il is said
TO the previous high record Of the
company
The Pennsylvania railroad company
declined To- state the volume Of busi-
ness being done over its lines but in
railroad circles it was reported that
seldom in the roads history had it
been equalled before
steamship companies have pressed
into service every possible craft to
carry the enormous volume of exports
across the Atlantic and are working
the vessels at top speed.
Heavy Water Shipments.
Every vessel that sails out of New
York harbor these days for Europe
from clipper to passenger line, rides
low in the water with a cargo crowd
ing her holds Merchandise exports
from this port last month. according
TO figures made public today broke
all previous records Their value was
&l63,OOO,0O0. In September, 1914,
exports from this port We're a little
under S62,000,000.
Most of the big shipments coming
20 New York are for export and the
shortage of ships has been almost
acute though conditions today are
reported as better than month ago.
There is hardly q pier in the city
where merchandise is not piled high.
Grain and Steel Freight.
Enormous shipments Of steel and
grain have poured into New York
over the New York Central lines with
in the past fortnight Along the New
Haven, especially at Bridgeport, Hart
ford New Haven and other manufac-
turing eenters. the volume of ship
ments-mostly muntions-is in guam
Titles without precedent Many solid
trainloads Of munitions roll over this
line to New York City every day, an
official of the road said, and men in
the traffic department are working
day and night to move them prompt
N. Even heavier shipments of muni-
tions, boots, shoes wooden and other
commodities appear in prospect, it was
said, as soon as factories built and
building reach their capacity
Every road entering New York has
added many extra men TO its payroll
il is said, to care for the flood tide
of business.