The Brunswick news., 1919-05-17
BACKED BY RAILROAD
ADMINS STRATI0N HERE
Enters Field For Foreign Trade
With Money Backing of Big
Southern Interests-To Over
come Indifferent Support from
Coastal Cities.

Vital questions affecting the re-es-
tablishment OF American merchant
marine and hitching up Of the South
Atlantic ports to trade routes Of South
American are being threshed out by
the ra lroad administration and ship
ping interests of the South
At a recent meeting OF the prom
inent railroad managers Of southern
sections Of the country representatives,
Of maritime ports including the port
If Brunswick were brought together.
The financing Of q league CT conner
{ al interests was the result and the
project has the backing of William
F. G. Harding Of tie federal reserve
beard B. L. WincheIl, regional direc.
tor Of the railroad administration. Ray.
mond b. Stevens. president of the
shipping board and Others
The cities Of Jacksonville. Savannah.
Ckarlestono, Wilmington and Bruins.
wick were represented and the move
ment to secure ships for the carrying
trade cf these ports was consolidated
urder the leadership Of Matthew Hale,
president OF the South Atlantic Mari
time corporation.
The popularity of the trade situa,
ton appears to be that cities enjoying
tie monopoly Of export did not re.
spond to inducements and some diff
ficulty was felt in getting the support
OF shippers in securing cargoes that
would make success
The city CT Brunswick was a natural
port fer tie export of domestic prod
uct. Ii was hard to get shippers to
abandon their old method Of sending
everything that went abroad from the
South through the ports Of New York
o. Baltimore.
It thus appeared that shipments to
Porto Rico passed twice through that
pert in the case of boxes used for
packing fruits. finally arriving in
Brunswick The monopoly CT rai.>oads
i'll this practice was attacked in the re.
cent conference.
lnccrCorators say there is no rea-
sen why the congestion Of freight in
Nv Yorok should not b. relieved.
ODpsing interests point to the failure
of ports like Erunswicct and Savan.
: to furnish cargoes to new boats
OF the American corporation while YES.
sells of foreign shippers are trading
III these ports and doing a lucrative
business. It was apparently. they say.
case CT being there with the goods.
THO English shippers cornered the
market in certain lines of naval stores
and commodities and it was difficult
to find anything for the American bot.
tens was one of the arguments for
failUre to patronize
Feeling they never would get the
stips if they did not get them now.
American interests sent Matthew
Hale To New York to interview SHIP.
ring interests. Tho Shipping board
demurred an Application of the mum.
he1 of ships asked for the South At
lartic ports on the groun' there was
nc evidence to warrant removal Of yes
ssje from other waters.
Mr.. Hale was formerly manager O;
the Bull Moose party when Roosevelt
was in his prime and he got the ships
ha was after. Now, the reports from
the capitol say the fight for the com.
mercial independence or the Southern
shipper has entered its last stage. YES.
sells will clear from New York anc
carry enough export freight from the
slrplussage of that overgrown port to
pay the expenses OF the operation OF
the ships.
Ports IN the South Atlantic section
will contribute what they have to.
wards completing the cargo. If one
one-hundredths of the total freight
can steadily be diverted from the
maw of the northern railroads and be
handled by the ships from the south
err ports the commerce of the South
can be saved say experts who are
tying up to the proposition.
The infinitessimal diversion of traf.
f'c will be enough to make the small
cities of the southern coast rich thew