The Oregon daily journal., June 13, 1909, Page 16, Image 16

THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1909.
r.lDRE STEAMERS
LESS T
out
Mississippi mer Craft Lose
Long Haul Freight but
Gain Local.
Washington. U C June 12 -Captain
f r Ellison of Cincinnati, secretary or
the National fcivers an1 Harbors con
j .1,. i an vcars
areas, now ana i"i i - -- -
an operator
ind owner of tlfamowu
on the Mississippi river ann 11
taries. does not agree with H"" -Curtis,
a newPa,,er writer of note in
his conclusions based on the repoi t M
aardlng the decreasing tonnage of art
5 American rivers Captain KH son
commenting on an article recently pub
lished bv Mr. Curtis in several metro
politan newspapers, said toda .
Decrease of Tonnage.
The report of the Inland Waterway
commission, as it applies to the Missis
sippi river and the remarks thereon by
Mr Curtis are in the main correct.
. There Is no question but what there has
been during the past 20 years a steady
decrease in through tonnage on tne
Mississippi river. By through tiina
la meant tonnage from rvt Louis 10
New Orleans and from the tributary
treams to the same port, but to onset;
this there is a condition that the Inland
Waterway commission has failed to
take note of, which is a very decided
Increase In local and way tonnage,
which has increased In practically the
same proportion that the through ton-1
nage has decreased. There are today
more steamers engaged In local, short
trad routes from various points on tne
lower Mississippi river than were en
raged In the same business 20 years ago.
This Increase Is most notable at Mem
phis, Vlcksburg and Natchex.
Develops rield.
. 'This change In handling freight on
the Mississippi river has been brought
bout by various causes, chief of which
la that the city of St. Louis and Us
merchants formerly practically con
trolled the bulk of the business to Mis
sissippi river points between St. Louis
and New Orleans, Inclusive, with the
opening up of the new trade markets
west and southwest of St. Louis there
was developed a field to which the
transportation was permanent and reg
ular and the merchants of St. Louis,
turning to this regular and more pro
ductive field for tttelr output, aban
doned to a very great extent the Mis
sissippi River valley country, to which,
by the river, they never had a depend
able route.
Lck of Channel.
"The Mississippi river, never certain
for steamers of proper draft, was In
the years preceding the early 80s the
most dependable route to New Orleans
from St. Louis. In the years which
have elapsed there has been built upon
practically both banks of the Mississippi
river, rail lines, paralleling the river
throughout its entire length, and while
the river by the work done by the Mis
sissippi River commission, through the
engineers of the war department, is
today in a better condition than ever
,before In its history between Cairo and
New Orleans, no permanent work has
been done and no better channel sup
plied from St. Louis to Cairo, and the
aame condition applies to the principal
tributaries of the Mississippi, the Mis
souri from Sioux City to Its mouth, the
upper Mississippi from St. Paul to St.
Louis, and the Ohio rrom Pittsburg to
Cairo, together with Its great tribu
taries the Tennessee and tne Cumber
land. Easiness Chances.
"In this day and age of close and
keen competition in business, neither
the receiver or shipper of freight, even
!f the rate be much less, will undertake
to handle business on an obstructed
route when there are unobstructed
routes that can and do deliver the
goods. It is this condition that the
friends of Improved waterways are ear
nestly endeavoring to change. With the
Mississippi river Improved from St.
Paul to Cairo and the Ohio river Im
proved from .Pittsburg to Cairo, there
will unauestionably flow through theso
natural channels a great commerce, and
this statement is backed up by the ex
perience, not only of this country, but
by that of the older countries of the
world, for history does not show a sin
gle waterway properly Improved, eo
that Its navigation can be depended
upon by the receiver and shipper, that
Is not now doing a grpat business.
''Mr. Curtis, In common with a great
many writers who are not thoroughly
posted on their subject criticises the
mode of construction of western river
steamboats. It will perhaps be of in
terest to a great many people to know
that the western river Btyle of steam
boats is pronounced by experts the
world over as being the best craft for
navigating shoal waters.
Building- Boats.
'To illustrate and prove this asser
tion it is proper to say that on quite
a number of the rivers of South Amer
ica, notably the Magdulena river, Amer
ican built boats or the ordinary Ohio
and Mississippi river type have replaced
the boats of Bnglish and Gorman design
to such an extent that one firm of boat
builders, located at Pittsburg. Penn.,
have in operation on the Magilalena 28
boats, which they built at Pittsburg and
Shipped knocked down to South Amer
ica. Less than two years ago a boat
building firm upon the Clyde sent One
of their engineers t thtx country to
examine our style of tow bouts, the
result being t tin t the Knglish firm paid
for denlgns. drawing and specifications
of hulls, machinery and general equip
ment, and built, under one order, 15
boats of our type for service on the
Hoogly river in India. The same Pitts
burg firm referred to above have within
the past oi days built and shipped a
tow boat for service on t lie Nile, to tow
coal abi've the Assouan dam. Moie
than 'H cais ago Russia adopted our
I oats for service on the upper reaches
of The Volga, the initial boats for this
service were built under the supervision
of mi American and the machinery was
made in this country and snipped there.
Need New Boats.
"1 think the foregoing Illustrates
that no Breat change In the form of
construction of western river hoats Is
needed. What is needed, however 4n
that the livers be Improved so that they
limy become dependable routes upon
which the commodities that are pro
duced can he handled t-o the advantage
of both tin producer and the consumer
This done, then the rivers that the In
land WRt-rwny commission now desig
nate as being devoir of traffic will
again become what they were In the
olden days, before rail competition, the
main arteries of commerce."
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magnates are making- arrangements to
remove across the Atlantic precious col
lections which, to avoir the tax collec
tor's rapacity, they had hitherto kept
mured hi k-urope, but through their
agents dealer are now more eager than
vpr to pillage countries like Italy of
thlr "ia.ter"lecen In every branch of
art. in Italian cities especially their
rr - i.c already been sacked to a
far greater extent than Is generally
known, so that hundreds of art works
pointed out to travelers are but clever
fakes of originals which have long dis
appeared and for the manufacture of
which a flourishing school of artists ex
ists In Florence and elsewhere.
The Springfield News Is making war
on tjlind pigs, of which It says there are
many In Linn county.
WOMAN WHITES
B06K ON TRAMPS
Chicago, June It. The latest contri
bution to the statistical works of the
Russell Sage foundation will be made
by a woman. Mrs. Edwin Holejiberger
of Philadelphia, who has prepared an
exhaustive book on tramps, beggars,
paupers and delinquents, entitled
Homeless Men," to be published with
In & fcTv weeks
Mrs. Solenberger, who Is the wife of
Edwin D. Solenberger, secretary of the
Children's Aid society of Philadelphia,
is a well known social Investigator and
worker, who was formerly superintend
ent of the central district of the bureau
of charities- here, and who came Into
prominence when President Roosevelt
appointed her a member of the commit
tee of 15 In charge of the Sage Founda
tion. Her work embodies much research and
Investigation. It deals with the tramp
problem from the sociologist's point of
view, and contains material gathered
In different cities of the United States,
where the compiler has had access to
police and municipal records and sta
tistics. Much of the author's time hus
been spent lately In this city, whero
extensive data has been collected.
The German Bundesrath has recom
mended the ratification by the Hele:
stag of the treaty with the United
States providing for full reciprocal pr
tectlon of patents of cltliens of the re
spective countries.
Italy Being Despoiled of flare Gems
and Many Churches Rarkrd
Fake of Originals.
Milan. June II. The outburst of pub-
lie feeling-. in England over the sale of
jtolbe in Ducrtes or Milan and its
threatened loss to the British nation has
roused a good deal of -interest here, it
Is remarked that the Dally Chronicle,
of London, while calling attention to !
th law which It has been found neces-1
wry to enact In Italy for the safeguard-
ing of the national art -treasures, has:
seemingly overlooked an important new j
fnct bearing very materially en thai
fresnt alt nation M regards Italy and
ireat Britain alike. This fact is the ;
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States, which altogether sweeps away J
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entering Nrth America. ;
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