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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1902)
How American Goods Are Handled in Liverpool ! ' r : r : 7fU i . j ! . ; . I. 'J r. ?! ': ) . h, I i ,,. . - ... r - r ' . . ' - ; V--, ? I i t) --Sr. (Copyright, 1902, by Frank O. IVEKPOOL, England, (Special Correspondence of Toe Bee.) The British are atlll wor ried over the aale of their great eit steamship company to Pier- pont Morgan'a trust. Nothing connected with the American Invasion has created to much real excitement and heartfelt alarm. The tale of the White Star la looked upon by many as almost treasonable and the gov ernment has been asked to Interfere, but so far nothing has been done. The White Star buildings here have been taken over by the trust and the offices will be remod eled on American lines. Liverpool Is one of the centers of the American Invasion. It is the chief port of England, outside London, and the port to which the most of our American goods come. It has long been second among the English ports, but the trust is now consid ering the landing of some of the White Star steamers at Southampton, and. If so, Liverpool may eventually lose Its prece dence. Southampton Is within a much shorter distance of London. It has about three miles of splendid docks, and In this respect can handle goods as easily as Liv erpool. Blsccst Docks of World. The shipping facilities here are one of the wonders of the world. The town, which is the second largest In England, Is on the sloping right bank of the Mersey, about three miles from the open sea. Just opposite the city the Mersey Is only a mile wide, but further Inland It expands and forms a basin about three miles across. It has two channels for the entrance of ves sel and the water la so deep that the larg est steamers can enter without danger. The tide here, however. Is very great It has a fall of thirty-two feet at certain VIEW OP THE DOCKS AT LIVERPOOL. Carpenter.) July 16. ' . V a - 'A ' L til ; I -.'it; LIVERPOOL FROM THE DOCKS NOTICE AMERICAN TOBACCO TRUST'S SIGN ON STREET CAR. la more like an American town than many of the others. Its business blocks are of three and four stories, made of stone or brick. One of the finest office structures Is the White Star build 'ess, now owned by the American shipping trust. It la a com 61natlon of red brick and sandstone, sit uated not far from the docks. The city postofflce of Liverpool Is, next to the London postofflce, the largest In Great Britain, having cost about a mil lion dollars to build. It is the govern ment telegraph office as well and con nected with it there is a government tele graph school. The telegraphs here belong to the government and In the postofflce the telegraphers have their own dining room, with a kitchen, a scullery and a grocery store. There are pneumatic tubes running from the telegraph department to the postofflce, the different newepaper offices, and thousands of telegrams which come to the press dally are thus trans mitted more quickly than by messengers. Among the other great buildings of Liverpool are the cotton exchange, where the brokers meet to buy and sell Ameri can and other cottons, and St. George's hall, which is used partly as a court room 'and partly for publlo meetings and con certs. In this hall la one of the largest organs of the world. It belongs to the city and is played twice a week for the benefit of the publlo at C pence per bead. The organ cost $50,000 and it has 8,000 I pipes and 108 atops and it is worked by a steam engine in the vault below the hall. LIVERPOOL'S MIGHTY LANDINO STAGE THE BIGGEST THING THAT FLOATS. John Ball's Shipping-. I have yet to meet a single Englishman the rallroada. ao that the goods can be amount of money, but they are owned by the United States, but they are true. The taken almost from the ships to the trains. the city. The total expenditure for mak- ordinary bale of cotton weighs 400 or 600 who is pleased with the shipping comblna- The largest of all Is the Alexandra dock, Ing them was more than one hundred lull- pounds. I saw a team carrying thirty tlon. I have talked with people of all which has a water area of forty-four acre. Hon dollars, but they bring In a revenue of bales as one load this morning, or .from classes and they all look upon It as a very v a I A - .VI. .V .. W. nnmt vf 17 KM. flOO THf Utt Vt All ttlB whnltlflV 1t tO ICfMl tonS. The baleS WCTB Dlfcd SertOlia thlnff tnr Rlt Britain lil i.uic. ui iu. " great gran inlp, come. The grain is ur may be said to be a fairly good Invest- up to tne neignt or our nay wagons wnen mat it may mean the loss of her supremacy the building of the d00"' loaded by meana of enormous revolving ment. They are controlled by the dock In full load at harvest time. I saw equally on the ocean. They fear that the other These docks now flank the Mersey for a wh)ch uk u un,ieP the roadway and board, consisting of men who are elected large loads of merchandise, tobacco and great ships of the country may go the same distance of seven miles. There are sixty u t elevat0rs, situated about a by those who pay dock duea to the extent lumber. The horses apparently had no way, and that, through our trade asaocta- of them, great vats of water, each covering trtep of a mlle from th landing. I went of 150 per annum. trouble in pulling them and walked con- tlon with France and Germany. Great acres, surrounded by masilve walls of stone oyer th ,arfeU of theM .itors during The city is contlaually buying new tentedly along, directed by their driver.. Britain will lose her large carrying trade, and entered by iron gates, which can be tr(p aJofcf th QuaTi M modeled ground for docks and Improving the port who moved on ft DeB,(l8 them- Today the British have more ships than elossdtokeep out Use tide. The gates work afUr tho6 bu,lt ,n tna Vnll4 States and in every way. It Is now clearing away These Shire horses are costly. The price any other people of the world. They have, just like the lock of a canal, and when shut iQme ftf lt macninery Is American. By several blocks next to the landing stage for the average work animal is from 60 to all told, about 85.000 veaaels In the United the water within them is as quiet as a ntlina ot tneg- At and an endless and putting new streets through them. A 100 guineas, or from $250 to 1500. Somo Kingdom and the colonies, and their ton- mlllpond. There are In all 888 acres of such cha,n of bucketg ft stream of grain la part of this ground will Increase the dock- sell as high as 150 guineas, there being nage amounts to mora than ten millions, docks along the Mersey and twenty-six carrje(j almost directly from the ship ing space and another part will be given one man in Liverpool who uses horses only They carry about two-thirds of their own mile of quays. under the street to the tops of the eleva- up to publlo baths, including what promises of this class. goods and a large proportion of those ot Thera Is an elevated railroad which runs tori u u ner6 emptled Into BOO great to be the finest Turkish bath of the world. Tne cart ariTerg ar, noted for their other naUo,I- They carry mora than 50 from one end of the docks to the other. It gUog( each of whlch will hold about .00 This Turkish bath will be operated by the care 0f thelr horses Indeed It is said pep cent ot our XDorU na imports. They Is built upon a wall high up above the tong From th gliog lt can De let" out city at a little more than cost price, for they treat them much better than they carry 44 per cent of the foreign trade oN. ireoi, iu .- mto bag oy tne turn oi a lever ana inus the benent or tne puDiic. lAiiverpooi ai- Q their wives The harness Is kept shin- "uu "mouui oi mai ot uei- dera of iron. The trains are somewhat like .hipped over the country. All of the ship ready has public baths, where for a few in the .kin. nr th .nim.i. r. iik. ..tin ,um nd Holland, 43 per cent of the lin- thoae ot the elevated railroad ot New York. plnB. our Wheat through the interior la cents you can have a swim or steam, first. an1 tueir manea ,nd talis are often porU nd xPrt of France, 29 per cent of aave that tha cars are first ana second- ln Dagg. A -eat deal ot it goes on the second and third-class, according to your braided. The hoofs are kept oiled and class. cars, some on barges through the canals pocket. blacked and the legs are washed down I took a ride on this road today to get a an(1 not little on carts and wagons. Tbe clty owng many of the warehouses. several times dally. The horses are not View ot the Liverpool shipping. We went hauled by the enormous horses for which It owng tng gtreet carg an(1 charges from pushed and they look uniformly well. On by warehouse after warehouse, and dock England and especially Liverpool Is fa- s centg to 4 centa a rje. according to dls- the 1st of May, the time of the draft after dock, passing steamers from all parts mous. . tance. It has technical schools, public horse parade, the carters decorate their of the world. There were enormous build- LTerpoo.B Floating wash houses, where poor women can go to horses with flowers and ribbons and prlaes lnga filled with cotton from the United i.n.n, laundry their clothes, and It has built a are given to the best team. States, grain elevators covering acres at f0M" ' " ."!.. U?? "! number of worklngmen's dwellings, which The streets of Liverpool leading up which were being unloaded carloads of taga at "verpooi tne iarge tnmg u mt t a 1KUt more than o from h ukt of fl wheat from New York. PhlladelphU and I can we 11 ImIMt "- The Celtic. u poor Th- ferrle, croBglng tne Mergej, about a foot wlde fop the heavIer New Orleans, the largeat tobacco warehouse Weanl lo a na ;ik. th. f ned T tn town of Birkenhead, on but much of the hauling is done on streets ot tha world, fl led with tens ot tnousanas T""" i 7. k.if . opposite side. They are well ot hogshead, of the favorite weed ot our thta mighty raft It a more than halt a m TlZnTZ'. to-t wwl. It would just fill F street in vr,a l TflVth. ri., ifnTr. whtch Washington, from the pension office to tha Liverpool H.ra... rain TXlZT l T d it ha. it.e.f a The business ot Uverpoo, can be best v- T..tr.n. tnrti. rhina and the foaaway a. emoom ana aona as me seen along the wbarves. Tbe enormous i"P'i!U P'f. cargoes brought her. every da, are car- vye w. . V This enormous raft floats on 200 iron rled through the city In wagons pulled by 1 trAmlmCt.Vr,A.P.!tT.LtlJ, , Pontoons, rising and falling with the tide, draft horse, which have not their equals! v " : It ha. many bridge, connecting It with and tha tonnage which annually goea in and p.,..ge. for people ant out of the port aggregate, almoat 15,000.000 f arrlageg. Thege briigea ar, ,n th ihapa ton: of enormous hinges, so fastened that they U.oraaoaa Vata ot Waler. rU faU ag th, Unallg gU!g I wish I could show you one of these fom up and down with the tide. Upon the Liverpool docks. If you can imagine a line raft are waiting rooms, ticket offices, of fields ranging from an acre to twenty offlcea for the ferries and shops selling or thirty acres la area, surrounded by the newspapers and candlea. The steamers. as rough as those of New York. Liverpool la 1902. I am delighted with Liverpool. It Is one of the best built of English cities and the imports and exports of Germany and 23 per cent of those of Italy are carried In English bottoms. There are more than a quarter cf a mil lion men from th's country whose business is following the sea, and there are thou sands at home interested In ships and ship ping. The loss of the shipping trade would therefore imperil the llfework and positions cf these thousands, and also that ot the other businesses connected with them. The national feeling ln regsrd to British supremacy on the seas Is still very strong. As children they have been taught that tho oceans are to a large extent their property, (Continued on Eighth Page.) anywhere. They are Clydeadales or Shim horses. They are not so heavy as tue largeat ' Percheron or Norman, but seem much stronger than either. I have never aeen such loads. A single horse will walk off with from two to five tons with appar ent ease. The one-horse wagons look like billiard tables on wheels and the two horse wagons are much larger, some finest ot masonry, upon wnlcn. na. been which uaed to land their passengers by weighing as much as two tons. The ordl built enormous warehouses rising almost tenders, now come directly to the landing nary load for two horses i seven or eight from tha water's edge, you may have some stsge, the baggage being carried on an tons, and, with the wagon, a team some Idea of them. The ships discharge their endless chain to the custom house across times carries as much as ten tons through aargo directly into the warehouses and some the road. theae streets. I know these statements of tha docks have direct connection with These docks have coat an enormous will be looked upon as exaggerations ln PS 1 FucTlainnji .V.ASTfl c A Generation Ago Coffee could only be bought in bulk. The aoth Century way is tne Lion Gofico way sealed packages, al ways correct in weight, .1. t. i . I licau, iresn, umiorm and T I -z-THH retaining its rich 11 avor. grfSA
