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In 1858 we find the New Orleans and Mobile Steam Mail Line organized by Capt. John Grant, and owning the low-pressure steamers Cuba, Florida, Oregon, California, Alabama and Creole, and a few high-pressure freight steamboats; also a line of small low-pressure steamboats plying between New Orleans, Mande- ville, Madisonville and Covington. These vessels were used by Confederates in 1861.
The Ouachita River Packet Company, organized 1870, ran six boats for a while. The Chalmette Paeket Company, of the New Orleans & Western Railroad Company, is also called the Belt Line & Port Chalmette Terminals. The steamboats Chalmette, Dewey and Valley Queen, of this line, make weekly trips during the summer between Port Chalmette, New Orleans and Sunny Side, Ark. In winter two trips per week are made. The first steamboat used was the old Pargoud, run because the steamboat interests would not make the same rate on eotton to Chalmette as to the eity front. The rates of the Pargoud were made exceedingly low for cotton, and the system has worked well. The officers of the company are : W. C. Dotterer, receiver and general manager ; Charles W. Towsley, general agent, and G. MeD. Nathan, treasurer.
Among the steamboat companies organized early in the navigation of the Mississippi river and its tributaries were the following :
The New Orleans & Yazoo Packet Company, in 1843, with four steamboats.
Kennedy, King & O'Donnel's Company, with three steamboats, plying between Brazos de Santiago and Brownsville.
The Cineinnati & New Orleans Express line, with ten boats.
The Lightning Line of steamboats, established in 1858, and plying between New Orleans and Louisville, a steamboat pool, with ten steamboats ineluded, owned by different parties.
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The St. Louis & New Orleans Packet Company, established in 1858, had nineteen boats, which connected at Cairo, Ill., with the Illinois Central Railroad, and at St. Louis with the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. This was also a steamboat trust, and was immensely injured by the Civil War.
The Memphis & New Orleans Packet Company, organized in 1844, in that year, placed four steamboats in commission, and in 1849 they put in commission a new set of boats, which in 1857 were superseded by twelve other boats.
In 1840 there were three steamboats engaged in the New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara trade, named the Brilliant, the Baton Rouge and the John Armstrong, the number of steamers engaged in this trade having sinee then considerably increased.
The Atlantic & Pacific Company, with 25 boats, 19 of which were used during the war by Confederates, many being destroyed in 1867, in 1869 was sueeeeded by St. Louis & New Orleans Packet Company, John N. Boffinger, President. This beeame Merchants' Southern Line Paekct Company, and finally the Anehor Line, which in 1892 had five boats running from New Orleans to St. Louis and five from St. Louis to Vicksburg.
The Oteri Pioneer Line, owned by Salvador Oteri, is composed of four steamers and one schooner, running in the fruit trade between New Orleans and Honduras and Bluefields, the business having been founded by Mr. Oteri's father in 1864.
Besides the Chalmette Packet Company, mentioned elsewhere in this ehapter, the following are the steamboat lines plying between New Orleans and other points on the great Mississippi river system :
The Crescent City Packet Company, of which Franke Watson is agent, with office at 821 Gravier street; the Grand Lake and Vicksburg Line, of which Lord & McPeake are agents ; the Lafourche Line, B. Rivet, agent ; the Lower Coast Packets, Paul F. Renaud, agent; the Mandeville & Covington Linc, W. G. Coyle & Co., agents ; the Memphis, New Orleans and Cincinnati Packet Company, J. H. Wright, agent ; the Mississippi Packet Company, James B. Woods, president, and John T. Hall, secretary ; the New Orleans and Port Eads Packets, Paul F. Renaud, agent; the New Orleans and Washington Packet Company, G. H. Quatreveaux, agent ; the Red River Line, Charles P. Truslow, president; C. W. Drown, secretary and traffic manager, and the St. Louis & New Orleans Boats, James B. Woods, agent.
The Crescent City Packet Company runs two boats, the T. P. Leathers and the America, the latter making her first trip September 2, 1899, both boats run- ning as far as Cariola, Ark. The officers of this eompany are Norman Eustis, president, and Simon Weis, secretary and treasurer.
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The United Fruit Company's Steamship lines comprise the following com- panies : The Snyder Banana Company, the Tropical Trading and Transport Com- pany, the New Orleans, Belize, Royal Mail and Central American Steamship Company, limited, the Oterie Pioneer line, and the Planterst Fruit and Steamship line. The traffic manager of this company is M. J. Dempsey.
The Interstate Transportation Company has the towboats Henry Marks, T. A. Hendricks, Alarm and Crescent, and the tugs, Governor Nicholls and Lovey. It also has a number of pumpboats for irrigating purposes. The officers of this company at the present time are S. V. Fornaris, president ; W. C. Dotterer, vice- president and general manager ; G. McD. Nathan, secretary and treasurer ; Charles W. Towsley, traffic manager, and Victor von Schoeler, assistant general manager. Recently a consolidation has been effected between this company and the New Orleans & Western Railroad Company, both companies being now managed by the same officers.
The Mississippi Packet Company owns the large steamers Imperial and Whisper, running between New Orleans and Bayou Sara, and the steamers Comeaux and St. James, the latter a fine new boat, built in 1898, both plying be- tween the upper coast and the Bayou Lafourche. The president of this company is James B. Woods, and the secretary, John T. Hall.
The Lower Coast Packet Company owns the steamers Neptune, Louise and Grover Cleveland, which ply between New Orleans and New Canal, a point about ten miles below Fort St. Philip, bringing to the New Orleans market rice, sugar, oysters, oranges and vegetables. The agent of this company is Paul F. Renaud.
The Red River Line is composed of the following steamboats: Valley Queen, 800 tons ; Sunrise, 800 tons ; Electra, 600 tons ; Halctte, 450 tons; W. T. Scovell, 350 tons ; and Gem, 300 tons. This line plies between New Orleans and points on the Red River. The officers of the Red River Line are: Charles P. Truslow, president ; Charles W. Brown, traffic manager ; W. F. Dillon, general freight agent.
The Morgan Line of Steamships, plying between New Orleans and New York, Cuba, Central America and Galveston, was established previous to the war by Charles Morgan, hence its name, with only a single boat. In those days one ship per week was enough for the traffic between this city and New York, but now five or six are required. And the number of ships plying between New Orleans and Havana is now two or three per week, while the Central American line has now two per week plying regularly between New Orleans and Central American points. The ships of this line are among the largest and swiftest freight carriers in this
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country, and at Algiers the facilities for handling freight are most excellent, it being possible for eight ships to load and unload at a time. The vessels of this line are now as follows : Algiers, tonnage, 2,299; Arkansas, 1,156.78; Chalmette, 2,982.96; Clinton, 1,187.11 ; Excelsior, 3,263.95; El Paso, 3,531 ; El Monte, 3,531; El Dorado, 3,531; El Mar, 3,531; El Sol, 4,522; El Sud, 4,659; El Norte, 4,659; El Rio, 4,664.88 ; El Cid, 4,664.88; Gussie, 998.07; Harlan, 1,163.02 ; William G. Hewes, 1,117.61; Morgan City, 2,299; Morgan, 994.31; New York, 2,344; and Whitney, 1,337.64. The El Cid, El Rio, El Norte and El Sud are new, having been built recently at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company's yards at Newport News, Va., to take the place of ships of the same names sold to the gov- ernment during the war with Spain.
The officers of the line are: A. C. Hutchison, president; J. Kruttschnitt, gen- eral manager; C. W. Bein, traffic manager, New Orleans; and Mark A. Morse, Algiers, superintendent.
The Cromwell Steamship Company has its office at No. 313 Carondelet street, and its landing at the head of St. Louis street. It maintains a regular weekly line between New Orleans and New York, having four fine iron steamships, the Louis- iana, 2,840 tons; the Knickerbocker, 1,650 tons; the Hudson, 1,872 tons; and the New Orleans, 1,440 tons. In 1894 the agent was Alfred Moulton, but at the pres- ent time Alexander Harris is the agent.
One of the largest steamship agencies in New Orleans is that of A. K. Miller & Co., formerly A. K. Miller, Meletta & Co., having their office at No. 303 Carondelet street. Each year this company dispatches from 200 to 250 ships from this port to European ports, of which number about 100 are liners, running regularly between New Orleans and Liverpool, London, Havre, Bremen, Hamburg, Antwerp, Cadiz, Barcelona, and other ports. The Hamburg-American, formerly managed by this company, is now managed by Meletta & Stoddart, and has eleven vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 26,680 tons. Meletta & Stoddart are agents also of the Anchor line, of the Austro-American line, of the Pioneer line, of the Prine line, and of the Wilson line.
Hammond's Steamship agencies were established in New Orleans in 1875 by the firm of DeWolf & Hammond, who were succeeded by William J. Hammond & Co., and this latter company by William J. Hammond, who has been in New Orleans since 1869, and now is agent for a fleet of 150 ships. These steamships ply between New Orleans and Liverpool, Bremen, Hamburg, Antwerp, Havre and London, and are known as Hammond's lines.
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The Harrison line is represented by Alfred Le Blanc, whose offiee is at No. 829, Gravier street. This line eomprises eighteen ships plying between New Or- leans and all parts of Europe and Asia.
The Elder, Dempster line, which is owned mainly in Liverpool, England, has for its agents in New Orleans, M. & R. Warriner, who have been connected with the firm for many years. They operate steamers from New Orleans prin- eipally to Liverpool, Bremen and Havre, from two to four leaving weekly during the season. The office of the Messrs. Warriner is at No. 823 Gravier street and their fleet is composed of 110 vessels, twenty-five of which are chartered; in the aggregate they have a tonnage of 225,000.
The Argo runs six vessels of more than 12,000 tons, to Bremen and Antwerp via Cuban and other ports in the West Indies, and is really a part of the Elder, Dempster line, which is mentioned above.
The Forenede Gulf-Baltie Line to Copenhagen, has a fleet of eight vessels, having an aggregate tonnage of more than 15,000 tons. The business is principally in grain between New Orleans and Copenhagen, Charles F. Orthwein & Sons being the New Orleans agents, with office in the Hennen building.
The Chargeurs Reunis (Freneh) Line has been long established in France and has a large fleet engaged in carrying both freight and passengers between Franee and the United States and the various South American republics. The agents of this line in New Orleans are S. V. Fornaris & Co., with their offiee at No. 827 Gravier street. They operate five different lines, that from New Orleans having direct sailing between New Orleans and the ports of Havre, Bremen and Antwerp. This line has lately established a line between New Orleans and Brazil, which materially increases the coffee trade of this port.
The West India and Pacifie Steamship Company, Limited, of Liverpool, England, has a fleet of fifteen large steamships carrying passengers and freight across the Atlantic Ocean, making altogether about seventy round trips a year between this city and Europe, six of the largest steamships being engaged in this trans-Atlantie trade, while the remainder make regular voyages to the West Indies and South American ports, and thence cross direet to Liverpool. A special feature of the business of this line is its passenger business, tiekets being issued either to England and return direet, or to return with tourists' tickets by way of the most interesting points in the West Indies, Spanish main and Mexieo. M. J. Sanders is the New Orleans agent for this line with office at No. 225 Carondelet street.
Orthwein's Gulf Ports Line comprises forty-one vessels running to the various
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European ports, and handles grain in bulk mainly. The tonnage of this fleet is more than 75,000 tons. Charles F. Orthwein & Sons are the New Orleans agents, with office in the Hennen building.
The Head Line (British), for Dublin and Belfast, Ireland, comprises five vessels of more than 18,000 tons. This line of vessels makes connections with various other ports in Ireland, and also in Scotland, such as Dundee and Glasgow. Charles F. Orthwein & Sons are the agents in New Orleans. This line has six ships running to Belfast and one to Dublin.
The Mediterranean and New York Steamship Company has been recently . established. It runs its steamships from New Orleans to Venice and Trieste. Charles F. Orthwein & Sons are the New Orleans agents.
The Pioneer Line runs its steamships from New Orleans to Manchester, England, the cargoes consisting of cotton, cottonseed oil, grain and pig iron, the design of the managers of this line in England being to prove the superiority of Manchester over Liverpool.
The Wilson Line between New Orleans and Hull, England, connects at the latter port with vessels running to the Baltic Sea. The Creole Line has three vessels plying between New Orleans and Genoa, Italy. The Freitas Line (British) has twelve vessels with an aggregate tonnage of more than 19,000 tons, plying between New Orleans and various continental ports. The Compania Bilboa de Navigacion (Spanish) transports most of the cotton used in Spanish mills as well as a considerable portion of that used in the mills of France.
The Companie Messagerie Francaise has twelve vessels of more than 32,000 tons burden, a large part of which are running between New Orleans and Havre and Bordeaux, France; the Glynn Line (British) has eight vessels of an aggregate tonnage of 16,000 tons running to Liverpool, and the Larrinaga Line (Spanish), also running to Liverpool, has five vessels of an aggregate tonnage of about 10,000 tons. The Holt Line (British) has eleven vessels of an aggregate of more than 18,000 tons, plying between New Orleans and Havre, and the Cuban Steamship Line has four vessels running to London and Antwerp, via of Cuban ports, the aggregate tonnage of the four vessels being nearly 8,000 tons.
The Mexican Gulf Steamship Company, of which O. F. Spindler is agent, has ships running to Tampico, Mexico, connecting there with steamers for Vera Cruz and other Mexican ports and with the Mexican Central and Monterey & Mexican Gulf Railroad.
The Central American Commereial Steamship Company plics to Honduras and Colombian ports, and particularly Bocas del Toro and Colon, the fleet consisting
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of six steamers of more than 6,000 tons burden. The Costa Rica Steamship Line, of which Snyder Bros. are agents, has four steamers plying to Port Limon, Costa Rica, of somewhat more than 3,000 tons burden, two or three of which leave New Orleans every week.
The New Orleans Belize Royal Mail & Central American Steamship Company, limited, of which M. Macheca is president, and O. V. Fernandez, secretary and treasurer, is under subsidy by the British government to run regularly, trans- ports all the mail and most of the freight to Belize. The fleet is composed of six vessels of an aggregate of 4,500 tons, which run also to Puerto Cottez, Honduras, and Livingston and Puerto Barrios, Guatemala.
The Pioneer Line to Santo Tomas, Ceiba, Truxillo, the north coast of Hon- duras and the Honduras Bay Islands, has four steamers aggregating 4,740 tons, which leave New Orleans three times per week. The Bluefields Steamship Com- pany, of which S. Steinhardt is president and E. H. Merrick, secretary, is composed of the Weinburg Steamship Company, the Caribbean Fruit Company, and Orr & Laubenheimer, uses six vessels of about 2,100 tons in the aggregate, plying to Bluefield and other ports on the coast of Nicarauga. They are small in order that they may enter the shallow waters of the Central American coast.
The Creole Line, running steamships from New Orleans and Galveston to Genoa, has four steamships, the Citta Di Messina, Sicilia, Citta Di Palermo and one other running from New Orleans, and others from Galveston. Charles F. Orthwein & Sons are the New Orleans agents.
The Hamburg-American Line runs steamships from New Orleans and Galves- ton to Hamburg, having four ships on the line between New Orleans and Hamburg, the Emma, the Tuskar, the Galicia and the A1. Charles F. Orthwein & Co. are agents for this line.
The Florio Line has a line of steamships plying between New Orleans and Palermo and Genoa, and the Gulf Ports Steamship Line between New Orleans and Galveston and Rotterdam, and the Texas Transport Steamship Line has four vessels plying between New Orleans and Galveston and Bremen and Rotterdam.
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Following is a statement of the vessels belonging to the port of New Orleans July 31, 1899 :
Steam.
Number of Vessels. Gross Tonnage. Net Tonnage.
Ocean (wood)
2 18-20
1,557.00 20,115.00
924.00 12,859.00
Ocean (iron and steel)
106
12,771.00
10,251.00
River (iron and steel)
15-121
3,554.00
2,767.00
Total steam
141
38,197.00
26,801.00
Sails-
3
366.00
314.00
River (wood)
95
2,247.00
1,554.00
Total sail
98
2,613.00
1,868.00
Grand total
239
40,810.00
28,669.00
And as showing the growth or rather changes occurring in recent years it may be stated that on July 31, 1897, the totals were 241 vessels, with a gross tonnage of 41,233.54 and net tonnage of 29,391.89, and for July 31, 1898, the number of vessels was 231, gross tonnage, 35,009, and the net tonnage, 25,336. And also that vessels of less than five tons net are not taken into account, of which there were on July 31, 1899, about 200, with a gross tonnage of about 1,000 and a net tonnage of about 800. The largest number of vessels that ever entered the port in any October was 156 in October, 1899, of which 144 were steamships.
As showing somewhat in detail the movement of vessels to and from the port of New Orleans the following tables are of interest and value :
Number and tonnage of vessels cleared at this port by months for the year ending July 31, 1899 :
Months, 1898-99.
Coastwise Vessels.
American Vessels for Foreign Ports.
Foreign Vessels for Foreign Ports.
No.
Tons.
With Cargo. No.
In Ballast. Tons.
No.
With Cargo. Tons.
No.
In Ballast. Tons.
August
24
40,439
...
. .
...
63
82,188
13
2,189
September
21
40,617
5
2,947
3
1,342
58
85,947
13 6,803
October
18
27,291
4
2,825
5
2,436
70
124,252
6 2,125
November
25
41,176
14
8,462
. .
. .
.....
85
149,721
2
1,602
January
37
48,185
12
6,480
. .
.....
89
163,275
2
1,322
February
34
52,222
12
7,263
. .
...
72
134,579
6
2,534
March
38
53,368
16
8,793
1
266
76
131,909
7
3,703
April
32
44,323
10
6,118
3
1,044
49
75,416
10 7,215
May
31
45,936
14
7,574
3
881
58
80,017
7 3,610
June
26
35,974
13
7,783
1
538
66
89,440
3 1,127
July
27
41,316
11
5,841
3
933
67
97,153
6
1,812
Totals 1898-99 .. 342
512,015
120
70,498
19
7,440
828
1,346,180
79
41,000
Totals 1897-98 .. 340
481,990
117
81,899
27
13,966
916
1,530,919
50
22,145
Totals 1896-97 .. 285
517,547
97
80,697
34
16,162
806
1,284,043
46
17,911
78
132,283
4 1,060
December
29
41,168
9
6,412
Tons. No.
River (wood)
Ocean (wood)
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Number and tonnage of vessels entered at this port during the year ending July 31, 1899, also by months :
Months, 1898-99.
Coastwise Vessels.
American Vessels from Foreign Ports.
Foreign Vessels from Foreign Ports.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
With Cargo.
In Ballast.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
No.
Tons.
August
18
36,431
6
2,074
48
52,448
29
53,291
October
21
33,212
9
4,867
1
964
46
61,824
35
64,251
November
27
45,438
13
7,345
4 3,157
35
45,170
41
83,938
December
32
50,310
7
4,018
6 2,973
35
- 52,587
50
105,502
January
31
47,988
12
7,846
13
10,337
35
49,777
49
86,823
February
24
40,342
12
7,300
12
7,695
36
57,824
44
88,570
March
25
45,436
18
12,343
8
3,984
41
53,857
32
62,822
April
26
42,445
16
8,854
1
678
39
38,685
16
25,147
May
26
43,156
19
11,368
3
2,113
51
55,745
18
32,904
June
20
38,245
19
9,925
3
1,183
52
63,095
19
33,828
July
27
43,086
13
7,758
4
2,264
47
52,263
19
32,522
Totals 1898-99 .. 296
505,819
144
83,698
55
36,348
514
631,548
383
721,537
Totals 1897-98 .. 252
524,959
139
77,446
32
33,604
464
583,324
459
901,605
Totals 1896-97 .. 272
544,303
186
114,583
9
9,804
485
532,410
360
689,544
..
49
48,273
31
51,939
September
19
39,730
The Ferry franchises were leased to Captain Thomas Pickles in 1877, he' being provided with landings in the Second, Third and Fourth districts on the business side of the river, and also for the Freetown ferry, and also corresponding lands on the Algiers side of the river. He furnished nine steam ferryboats, espe- eially built for the purpose, all of which he owned, as well as the improvements at the landings. Captain Pickles was born in England, but came to New Orleans in 1849, and besides his several ferryboats he was also the owner of the Algiers and Gretna street railroad, three and a half miles long on the right bank of the river. Captain Thomas Pickles died December 29, 1896, and since that time the ferry business has been in the hands of the Union Ferry Company, which operates eight boats, at Jackson, Canal, Second, Third and Richard streets. The president of this company is A. M. Halliday; secretary and treasurer, William G. Brothers, and assistant secretary and treasurer, Floyd W. Morgan.
RAILROADS.
Before entering upon the subject of railroads in New Orleans, we must take a brief glance at those historic railroads which were the precursors of all our present mighty line of travel. The Stockton and Darlington line in England first ran September 27, 1825, with a train of 34 cars and one locomotive, of which Stephenson was the engineer. A man on horseback trotted in advance of this wonderful train,
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whose greatest speed was 15 miles an hour. This was the first railroad in the world, but the Liverpool and Manchester, eonstrueted later (1829), had a greater effect in impressing on the publie mind the magnitude of the new invention.
The first railroad in the United States planned by Gridley Bryant and built with the aid of Colonel T. H. Perkins, ran in 1826, earrying granite from Quincy, Mass., to the nearest tide water. The seeond ran in 1827 from the coal mines at Maueh Chunk to the Lehigh River. Three locomotives were purehased at this time by the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company; one, built by Stephenson, arriving at New York in the spring of 1829; one, built by Foster Sastriek & Co., coming soon. after, going upon the railroad at Honesdale Railroad, and making the round trip with Horatio A. Slen as engineer. With these locomotives steam power was first introdueed upon the Ameriean railroad. The locomotive last referred to ealled the Stourbridge Lion, had four wheels, a multi-tubular boiler and an exhaust blast, and may now be seen in the National Museum, Washington, D. C.
Passing over the beginning of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in 1828, the building at Baltimore, 1830, of the first locomotive used in America for passengers, the animal power railroad from Charleston to the Savannah River, South Carolina, which was propelled at the rate of 12 miles an hour by a horse on an endless plat- form; the use on this same road, 1835, of a steam locomotive, ealled the "Best Friend," the first to use four wheeled trueks and the building of various other lines, among them one from Richmond to the eoal mines, we come to the New Orleans & Pontchartrain Railroad, four and one-half miles long, running April 16, 1831.
Though in 1832 there were 92 miles of railroad in the United States, and by 1852, 7,000, only one considerable venture was made during this time by New Orleans, and that proved a failure. M. W. Hoffman and the Hon. Clark Woodruff in 1835 obtained a eharter for the building of a railroad to Nashville. But after 20 miles of it had been built and were in operation, the enterprise failed disastrously, and in a few years no traees of it eould be found.
In 1852 an impetus was given to publie spirit by a series of papers published by C. S. Tarpley, urging the building of a road from New Orleans to Jackson, Miss., and a meeting was held at Montieello of Louisiana and Mississippi delegates. The following eommitttees were apppointed :
On Routes-John Marshall, Hon. E. Ford, W. H. Bowen, A. Steele, Love, S. M. Catehings, W. A. Griee, John M. Bell, and N. S. Edwards.
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