Show WHAT MIGHT BE I Ih Tire The h opening ing of another another- r immense department store in New New- NewYork York ork City supplies a suggestion of l how ow private private- citizens mig might lt establish re-establish our shipping ship ship- ping on at le least t a a few most important routes To begin with a 30 ton ton steamer is quite as safe if no not quite as s comfortable as the thc gr great rca t t a-t liners finers The The shi ships s which Great Britain and Germany German send to the of South America are arc of ot from io 10 o tons measurement But jf if a few American mer c n merchants and manufacturers manufacturers manu mann wo would d organize to build five first class but small small say say tons tons tons-ste tons steam steamers m rs ls and would then establish great t department stores at Para Pernambuco San l Salvador Rio Santos i 1 Buenos Ayres the Ayres the stor sto be supplied sup p plied i d by the ste steamers m rs direct from the United States the idea behind all to 10 build up a business which I might involve ten years years' work before grea great profits could be expected sta start this with capital enough behind it to k keep ep it flourishing until th the co company pany could obtain t n all the tiie needed knowledge e of the trade and of ithe resources resources and and opportunities to to-be to bc util util utilized Iz z l d on n that thaI at great great- southern continent it it would would s succeed S lt lt- t would require a a large capit capital I. I The Tho I. I e ships would cost ost perhaps each or for forth forthe forthe th the fleet the thol stores should have have- each in stock and aud money ney each eath and some brilliant m manag mana nag I ers ers eL- B But t s started arted and pushed that company within five years would handle the tho the coffee coffee sugar and rubber rubber rub ruh ber be trade of that coast and probably the wheat I and meat trade of Argentina it wo would ld supply th that t coast with flour salt m meats ats agricultural al hual household furniture automobiles and cloth cloth- in it became able to give details of the thc op por l S for for the thO passenger lists on the the steamers steamers would increase in ten years Jears i it would have e a a mighty might trade and a n world orId w wide fame The cb chance t ce for success S is the best in the |