2 tmmHimniiiimimiimtimiiiitnimmniiiiimHmtimnmnm TITTC nr rvn a MrvTMr I Passing Cargoes on Local aumiinHmiiiuiiimiif nuitiimnutiittiuiiiuuinintit la1 la " r v V7. "7 ' &4 fea By DeWltt Harry. (Copyright by Emma Hyatt Morton.) THE sea has not yet lost Its ro mantic appeal. Accessibility has somewhat detracted from the former yearning that most boys used . to possess to brave the bounding main, but adventurous spirits yet embark on long journeys that will take them into all seas. , Modern commerce has managed to bring the entire world closer together. Steam vessels of substantial size carry climes and seaport cities are rapidly finding themseJveB getting closer and ."closer to lands in former days con sidered remote. All ports on one body of water are finding much In common. Portland, along with the other commanding cities of the Pa cific ocean, is beginning to realize that she is bound together with other ' ports on the same body of water with ties of tradev that are not to be ignored. ' Foreign Trade I Sought. Ko longer is it possible for one commercial city to consider itself all eufficlent and neglect the opportuni ties that present to become better acquainted. A proven axiom of the modern business world, as true In overseas commerce as In land deals. Is that trade will not come without solicitation and where It is not de aired. Portland has her busy agents in all quarters of the globe drumming up business and she is showing to all -who care to know that she wants trade and is ready to do her best to cater to it In the proper manner. Development of cargo lines out of this port during the past five years has not been as great as would naturally be expected, but an inspec tion of the waterfront and of the character of the trade that Is carried on there will show the student of conditions the possibilities for further development, and demonstrate to the shrewd thinker, beyond a doubt, that the city is just entering on an era of overseas traffic that will eclipse by far any that has been had in former times. Cargo lines from Portland ply to all quarters of the globe. The prod ucts of Oregon and the Portland territory are urgently needed, and the present Unes making It their business to carry traffic from here, find that they have all the cargo offered that they can handle. For this reason" the. need for more ships has become imperative and with in dications assuring a profitable future for trade with other lands from this port, a concerted movement has been started to obtain the assignment of more bottoms to trade out of here. Immensity of Traffic la Shown. The Immensity of the scope of this port's traffic aa shown by the char acter of the cargoes being handled along the harbor front at almost any time of the year, will astound the average and unknowing visitor. The produce of almost every known land and clime arrives or Is dispatched from Portland docks. Destinations of departing vessels recall all the ports of world-wide renown and many seldom mentioned. The extent of the trade and its magnitude is astound ing. It is hard to comprehend the future possibilities. At one dock there will be a ship topping off a load for China, the busy crews stowing the last of the cargo in the holds as the oil barges alongside fill up the tanks with fuel for the long voyage across the largest ocean. Just a short distance away will be a tiny schooner, storm-worn and showing many signs of hard -weather, discharging a load of copra. Stacked in the docks will be arriving freights from the orient comradly bobnobbing'with cargo ready to cross the Pacific, a meeting of orient and Occident. Varied are the goods that meet on this common ground and wide Is the latitude of their origin. Chinese Eggs Come Here. Stacks of egg crates, made in Ore gon, starting on a long trip to China to care for the produce of the slant eyed hen. In a few months these same cases will reappear on the local ocks, filled with the oval result of the oriental.'chlckens' activities. From here the eggs are shipped to eastern trade centers where imported "fruit" of this character is in demand, as in Oregon there is usually sufficient of the fresh-laid domestic variety, to care for the trado. Paper from the Oregon mills, in hutfe rolls, destined for use in print- Docks Open Vista of Commercial Possibilities in Modern i 8 Oregon Hard What: Flout ing plants that employ queer char acters and have their news colums backwards, leaves on almost every boat. This state is supplying the disciples of Confucius with sheets for dissemenatlng their weighty knowledge and philosophy and even some of the paper Is used by Japa nese in the construction of light par titions In their bamboo homes. Oregon lumber in Immense quanti ties, some of the cargoes consisting of millions of board feet measure, de part almost weekly. Flour and grain for the hungry maws of oriental peo ples. Machinery and supplies of an agricultural character for the hus bandman of the overseas ranch. Chem icals, clothing, sheet steel and metals, wire, hardware, tools, paint and hun dreds of other commodities In demand ST ' '? iff i a U ' s-rvr V' I" y I y J- t - J - , lv-, -i ri I j v" f'- Sr'" I td a nr ttntt ivnHTT v s51 -5 offforOrientj 4 I .:.J ."J !f ---rY.--v -f-r- r-'---miim,,mmmaifmmnTiu' i irn- fwiTMBM j rit 1-1 riThn,niiiTtfTi--rrt---Trt fnriiff fn rrt rritffn .r it- lain n - iiimii-"fT i""r-T-vinri-if 1 I - -- -... 7. kaawk-w ' - x- tifc-iiviitWi-tiiiiiiiiiiiTrr-i nT-ir Copra From Jbvtfi Sea Islands for Portland Factories '" 4- ft Crate. Going p China to Bring Back Fggs. overseas leave here In enormous ship ments and pass the .strange new ar rivals on the docks. Incoming are bale after bale of hemp or sisal fiber, copra, rice, ma hogany logs, iron bark, cases of eggs, bolts of cloth and dried fish. Silk cargoes frequently arrive, but they are trans-shipped at once into ex press trains and never lie on the docks. Hugs from the orient, curios and many strange commodities make their appearance from time to time and few of the dockhands are' sur prised at any extraordinary arrival in their ken. At one time lately there vii an assorted shipment of mum mies and souvenirs from ancient tombs on the docks. These attracted no more than passing notice. The most startling thing about the TIIE 3IORXIXG OREGOXUX, TIIURSDAY, JANUARY 1, Era of Rapid Steam Transport That Permits of Visiting All Corners of the A. 1 1 "if if 1 jrt rn - lJT- flTckev O'Pourke, Famed Engineer of lightship 77 a u r - Ar.. ftft,: local harbor of late years has been the transition from the windjammer age to that of steam. Nowhere on the face of the globe has this been accentuated more' than here, for it was to this port, in the fall of the year, that the world's shipping used to hurry to take advantage of the grain charters and carry the food to needy nations. The contrast between the old and the new in Portland har bor la a big on to those who are familiar with the olden days. When photographers used to want to show activity in the harbor they used to await the advent of a fleet of the sailing ships and then "shoot." Now the harbor does not present such a busy appearance as most of the cargo vessels making this a regular port of call are big steam tramps, and SlZWJ TI L1MW 1 amh pt ach nr. atuud wadt cm 1 LastKomenis. t 1 i-r r-7r- rr i , r-'rt I s Huge Grain Elevator under Construction at St. while they handle huge cargoes and the tonnage of the port is very large, the shipping scenes do not have the bustle that they did In the olden days when the fairway was crowded with the graceful shapes of the fast sailing vesse Is: Old-Tim "Crimp" Has Paeaed. Then the old time "crimp" has passed away. Its day of question able usefulness has passed. The sailor boarding houses along the boulder paved water front streets are vacant for the present day sailor would be considered almost a mollycoddle by the rough roustabout of olden days who used to stage a debauch at each port of arrival and would likely find himself the very next day aboard a strange ship and bound for some re mote corner of the world. In modern American steamships the 1920, 't S r? 5 , Print Pap?r and Mewing fori of Cargo and Taking, on fuel Oil. t' . if f. if . (MiFt - life of the ordinary deck hand is far from a hard one and the accommoda tion placed at his disposal even rivals that given the passenger of not so long ago. JThia change of heart on the part of the Bhip owners and operators has been brought about by necessity as they found that they could not get the crews if they forced them to live like animals. The close fo'castle of the days of yore is gone to return no nfore and the sailor has a better life and faster trips and less tediousness than was the case under olden con ditions. i Opportunity for Travel Given. Present day merchant marine is at tracting constantly a better class of men and younger fellows are grad ually taking it up as a means of B ...i-ififctM: ... X - . xy...i -t ... LVKKS Globe Harbor Holds Promise of Great Future 1 If!" Wire leaving for Japan. fii ' t t r 7' Johns Terminal . broadening . their outlook by travel. Government training ships that make it their business to furnish courses which fit the boys for the life on ocean-going vessels, make this a con stant port of call and offer many in-" ducements for those who become in terested. These hardy young men soon find their "sea legs" under expert supervision and are then ready to un dertake their duties in a far from lubberlike manner. Opportunity to em brace a gainful and healthy occupa tion are thus offered to many and they are taking advantage of It. though the nation's marine yet shows a shortage of men. True, the old time days of furling the sails in zero weather gales have passed, but there are few who be moan them.. Trips around the Horn ft -- - . " ' 'r-- 11 A - . i V ' I ill' M ttm . illlrllt1,1 i II I'M I I i;i ! I ilxs .. " . .liS- . X w dadtc I J TV H ''SI 1 are seiaoni neara rr tnexe aavH wit the canal and long voyages are the exception. The modern adventurer Into sea lanes finds it possible to view more ol the world in a shorter time than did any of the old timers, no matter how fortunate they were or how faet they worked. Shipbuilders Are Active. Then there is the activity in the lo cal shipbuilding plants, the constant racket of the riveters as they anchor the plites In place on the frames of the huge vessels that are to go forth and roam the world. Almost every phase o'f nautical life takes place in Portland harbor and the eeeker after interest can find plenty to occupy his time there. There are the fast patrol boats, the revenue cutters, the light house tenders and the occasional visit of the, light boats themselves after their annual overhauling. In this re spect Micky O'Rourke. engineer of lightboat ?s-o. 77, John Fleming Wil son's hero of so many briny adven tures at the mouth of the Columbia, will be sadly missed aa the doughty little Irishman passed away last sum mer, remaining at his post of duty on his beloved craft to the very last. Portland harbor, cans the Columbia river bar which is now out of exist ence, is now entering on a totally new stage of Its development as a real major port of. the world. The construc tion of the St. Johns terminal, admit tedly the best thing of its kind on the Pacific coast, will attract a great deal of shipping here and the change in handling grain, from the ' old method of shipping in jute bags to the new of bulk shipments, is also expected to have a great deal to do with making this a greater port. The present radiations of the lines plying out of Portland in their world traffic resemble nothing so much as a huge fan and the ribs are being con stantly increased. Duplication of lines is also another favorable indication and the increased number of firms en tering the foreign shipping field shows, as nothing else would, the possibilities for future development. With the goods needed by the world ( at large produced right here so close j to shipping, with the ships at hand ready1 to carry the produce where it lo wanted and a natural port eecond to none on the coast and constantly be ing developed, the future promises much for the ColumDia ana wuisra ette rivers as active ca.noro y rivers as active centers handling freight for the world y large. " Of late the main difficulty in nn ,.itv has been to obtain enough bot toms to handlethe traffic originating in the territory. Officials of th chamber of commerce and other trade bodies have been putting in their best efforts to obtain their rightful share of ships for assignment to local firms, and for this reason have been keep ing a strong delegation at Washing ton to watch out for their interests. The expected assignment will relieve the present trade to some extent, de pending absolutely on the number of. vessels that are oowmeo, im mo in dications are that a large number of ships could be profitably used, as cargo at this time is almost going begging and firms state that they can furnish much more. Him Shipping to the Fore. Development of the upper river nhirminsr In conjunction with that from the ocean is also certain, as the branches are dependent on each other. All works for a greater .fortiana. and assures the future of the port. In few other porta In the world "is the spectacle witnessed of a tiny river boat unloading cargo almost di rectly Into an ocean liner. With the aid of the river carriers products of the interior make almost an entire water voyage to their destination, a unique record. Boats assigned to this port by the United States shipping board have no difficulty In getting all the cargo that they wish, and with the cessation of war it is expected that a great number of the old-time foreign firms will have their vessels here after the J trade that they have let lapse. Off course It will be rather strange to miss the network of spars of the! olden windjammers, but the smoke j from the sturdy tramps will help to 3 maKe up lor men ni'ocutt, i the same time tell of the develop ment of commerce and that this port has kept up with the march. The dock commission Is preparing for a huge volume of business, and have huge volume of business, and has equipment to care for the certain in crease. The future is sure to treat For land's commerce well. and. with tJ opening of the world marts and tK resumption of commercial relation without hindrance this city will .be. hard put to care for the trade.