The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1916-01-20
TRAFFIC ON MISSISSIPPI
RIVER TO BE RENEWED.
Continued from first page.

IN keeping shippers advised OF
market conditions and directing
the transshipment of cargoes TO
take advantage of favorable de
yelopments. For example, if a.
shipper sends a cargo of wheat, or
any other product, down stream
consigned TO New Orleans. and
learns after shipment that his
cargo can be more pofiiably dis
posed of at some other market,
he viii be able 10 communicate
with the barge by wireless and
direct a change in destination.
BY the wireless also the oper-
ating officials of the navigaiion
company viii be aide at all times
70 know the exact location of any
barge. Through this knowledge
they can. keep shippers and re
ceivers of freight informed of the
time of delivery of any cargo. Ii,
too, a barge runs aground at any
point in the river, or suffers
other miShap, a hurry call for as
sistance can be sent out without
delay. The Importance of this is
evident when il is realized that az
cidents 10 barges are likely 20 o.
eur in desolate regions at points
miles distant from cities and
towns. Nearly every use 10 which
the wireless is put at sea will
have its value in the inland wire
less system, according TO Il. j..
Nally, vice president and general
manager of the Marconi com.
pany.
The proposal of the navigation
company is 70 compete directly
with the railroads. The idea OF
those financing the company is 10
facilitate the movement OF the
crops of the west and Middle west
and of the cotton and other pro
duets of the south. Shipments OF
wheat apples, etc., viii be taken
down the river for delivery 20 riy-
er ports or for rcshipment al
Now Orleans to New York or
through the Panama canal 10 Ia.
cific coast ports. Cotton and 9th
or products will be carried up
stream.
Not only will the freight rates
be lower than those of the rail
roads, it is said, but the company
promises 30 guarantee a speed in
transportation unusual in inland
water traffic. Each barge Is 20
be equipped with the SO-horse
tpower engines working separate
propelles. There will be an ex-
press and slower service the ex-
press barge being built TO make
eighteen miles an hour upstream
and twenty-four miles an hour
down stream. The slower barges
will 90 eight miles an hour up
stream and twelve miles an hour
down.
Captain j. III. Bernhard. a
Dutch navigation engineer, Is the
president of the company. lie
said that he had no doubt that
this enterprise would be success
ful.
Shippers who will Use our
barges," he said, "have already
pledged themselves for 100000
tons of freight, more than we can
carry in a year The 81. Louis
shippers alone have pledged 49,
900 tons, and each shipper, in maxi
ing his pledge, named the mini
mum number Of tons IN his est
mate. II is almost certain that
each shipper will actually ship
more than he has promised. "
Capt. Bernhard is an associate
member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers, and made an
address before that body last
August, in which he discussed in
land navigation. lie is said TO
be an expert on the subject and
has supplied the details of the
plan, among the hackers Of
which are several capitalists well
known in England and America.
The New Orleans Association
of Commerce has carried on a
campaign in its city, 1t is said,
which has resulted in the improve
ment of the terminal facilities
there, 80 that all freight deliver
cd by the barges can be cared for.
Other cities on the river have
likeise enlarged their terminal
facilities.
TO CURE CHILDREN'S COLDS.