New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
Expect
liquor Ruling
70 Aid Canada
|a<.r.iosl of Traffic From
New York to Halifax and
Mautreal Foreseen il u. s.
auIe Is Finally Upheld
|r.Il.d ssOrder of Cranks''
a,a;culsies in Enforcing
yols.ead Act Outlined by
sh;p Publications Abroad

s,,,,ss steamship men denounce
.,r,;ea.ion Of the voistead act to
s..,sn sh,ps as aths orders Of cranks
.hs United States" which will not
/ accepted asasly BY the maritime
s..s oi other nations. II this law is
sr.,lv upheld. the result will be a
- trsslo 10 Canadian ports,
/ diversion a..s;ns Ii the Importance of
New New York, according to marine publ
cations .,.r ,s na+ ,r,x .haA
Ias &c gslssst rarts would suffer, but Amer
lean passenger vessels would be under
handicap from which they would find
Il hard to recover. The opinion OF the
English shipping world is outlined in
4 n editorial In "The Liverpool Journal
4 commerce" Of October Z, which says:
III the legal authorities decide that
| Imerican ports are barred TO steamers
nYying Iiauor-and IL the Supreme
sarrt upholds their decision, which is
su:ss another matter-the European
] Isser companies will be in an awkward
sea|tion. Meekly to accept the orders
4 tae cranks in the United States and
/ 5 refuse to carry liquor on board at
ii lis out Of the question, for the aver
=, European traveller would object
sry strongly to being dictated to in
lit manner. If any company took the
ssurse Of running it's ships bone dry
would speedily find itself cut out by
oAers who had found some way of
ssking round the regulations, either
~ running to wet ports or by making
.se sacrifice of dumping the balance of
tAoir liquor overheard as soon as terri
tYIsl water were entered. OF these the
lsttsr is not a very attractive scheme.
rar one thing, the expense is likely to
K very large, and for another there
would be the difficulty Of restocking
Tor the eastward run.
sThe matter of running the Atlantic
s.,yices to ports which are not within
IL male of the Volstead amendment
4 another matter and one which can
not BE dismissed lightly either as OF
NO Importance to the United States or
"a outside practical politics. It would
ba n very serious matter for the United
States. and especially for certain sec
tions Of the voting public, who are apt
10 make their weight fels in time OF
political stress. 1t would be quite prac-
ticable from the point of view of the
ocean traveller, as can plainly be seen
by the large and increasing number Of
American voyagers, from New York,
a. we'll as from the Middle West, who
travel IN the Canadian Pacific liners
from the st. Lawrence.
Il must not be thought that the lines
would like to make the change, for it
Is ohyious that New York is far and
away the most convenient Atlantic ter
minal on the whole coast, but at the
same time it is worth considering the
matter Id case they are forced into it.
Every ship on the Atlantic ferry can
use Halifax with comfort and it would
,e. be very long job to provide all
he terminal facilities that are needed
ihen Nature has begun the work SO
|atsly. Halifax is twenty-four hours
|Mrer the Channel ports than New
ffk, and that time could cover the
ssHin journey comfortably. The Cana
Gia authorities would be only too
bM of the change and would do every
Ding in their power to make the Gus
sns and other formalities as quick
ta convenient as possible. On the
kher hand, it must not be forgotten
hat underwriters still have a strong
Neiadice against all the ports in Brit
A North America and that the owners
would have to face heavy additional
Mll for insurance, The owners also
We not keen on the coast, for fog, ice
and every conceivable danger turks
there, and once ship is ashore, she
has very little chance of coming off.
All these matters must be faced, how
ever, il the worst comes TO the worst,
and after all, modern science in the
ihape of the leader cable would do
much to rob the coast Of it's dangers"