New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-26
Under Agreement With the
Hartman Interests, Oil
Company Will Seek to
Recover World Trade
Freight Service First
Storage Passenger Traffic
10 Start January l; u. S.
Interests Are Protected

sno N0iNhelce corporation and the
Hamburg Amcrican Line will clear for
Hamburg next Tuesday. This an
,ouncement was made last night.
The sailing of this vessel, freirhter
OF 900 lightweight tons, marks the
FIST sign Of life the Hamburg
Gan Line has shown in this country
since 1914, when war swept the house
Gag OF the great steamship concern off
the seas.
If present plans of the American
Ship and Commerce Corporation do NOT
miscarry. vessel Of the same line.
also a freighter, will clear from Ham
burg for New York simultaneously
with sne che leaving here.
Passenger Service January
This is The beginning of maritime
project which,, if successful, will re-
vive the Hamburg-American Line and
place Germany in q position to win
back at least portion of her merchant
marines lost prestige. According to
statements made Yesterday at the of
fees OF the American Ship and Com
MERGE Corp Grafton, of which ". Aver
ell Hartman, twenty-eight-year-old son
Of the la'e +. II. Hartman, is the head
TIE New YorkHanburg freight service
Will have regular weekly sailings from
both ports by January /.
About January l the Hartman con-
Germ expects to begin its New York
Hamburg passenger service, starting
with three vessels and catering only
10 the third-class trade When this
has been established the line will
branch cut into the first and second
class trade and. according 10 present
plans. VIII be accorded the privilege of
calling - French and British ports.
such rs Plymouth, SOUTHAMPTON and
CE0r1orr-.
For is passenger service the Shin.
ping Board has allocated to the Aneri
can ~alp and Commerce Company the
De h4l5. former German liner Of
- GOO IONS. There also will be placed
T. operation TWO vessels of 10000 tons
each which are now in course Of CON
ste~c-ien al the yards Of the Merchant
Seirooi-l'ng Corporation, in Chester,
Tie l090o-ton steamships were de-
isnel originally to be cargo carriers.
IL when The working agreement was
a-1ea between the Hartman inter
3nlDurg-A american Line
It vas decided to make passenger
liners Of them. They viii be ready for
by january !. and will be OF con-
'aerable value in making the enor-
demand for westbound steegage
-ccmm dations
n
American Ship and Commerce
npany said yesterday that the new
e's would have q sustained speed
about thirteen knots and would
have the best equipment available for
the work OF catering to the third-class
trade
While details Of the company's plans
TO enter the first and second class pas
seneer business have not yet been
given out, it is considered probable
t.At ct least two former German ships
o. the greyhound" class viii be placed
n this arVice. and later on tire CON
Germ VIII build its own Floating hotels
MI Robinson Will visit Germany in
the near future to ascertain the best
type Of vessel for this service in point
OF size, speed and carrying capacity.
lie also Will take up other phases Of
the agreement already entered into
with the HamburgAmerican Line.
Splendid Docks Obtained
The first and second class business
viii come later" said Mr.. Robinson
Yesterday The backbone Of the trans
atlantic passenger trade is the steer
age passenger, and when we have this
service thoroughly established we win
automatically branch out into the other
classes
Under our agreement with the Ham
burg American Line we viii have the
use OF their excellent docking and pas
senger handling facilities in Hamburg.
Inc German docks and equipment are
probably The best in the world. For
the present, in the Port of New York
We VIII make use of the three piers we
now control here. One is in Manhat-
tan. another is in Brooklyn and the
third is in Staten Island They Will
meet our requirements until we branch
out considerably However, we are
Planning for the future, and have al
ready made application to the Shipping
Board for the use of some of the for
mer German piers in Hoboken. The
board comes into possession of these
piers January l."
When the first ship Of the American
Snip and Commerce Corporation is
heading out toward Sandy Hook on her
INITIAL voyage to Hamburg as part of
the new freight service, the personnel
of the business office on the thirty-sec-
ond floor Of 1870 Broadway will be busy
moving its complicated effects from
that address to its new home, 80 Broad
way. This is a new structure, recently
erected for CASTOR, Williams & Wig
more, shippers, and was purchased re-
Gently by the Hartman interests for
the purpose of housing the American
Ship and Commerce Corporation. The
new Offices will be formally opened for
business September 6.
While the working agreement with
the Hamburg American Line is re-
garded as giving that concern an OPP
portunity to reenter the active shipping
field. it probably will be long time
before the once famous house flag Wall
again be seen on the high seas.
The Hamburg Line is by
TO means defunct concern said W.
A. Hartman yesterday. ut still has
splendid equipment in European ports
and the network of its great trade
routes that once encircled the globe is
stlll in existence, and it viii not be
dliticult TO put in motion again the ma
chlnery that once operated it.
L. S. Interests Protected
an our agreement with the German
concern the interests of America are
thoroughly protected, and in taking the
step we did we merely effected an ar
ranQement that would certainly have