Show WHAT FOREIGN SHIPS RECEIVE FROM US JS current disc discussion a of american extravagance trava Kava gance in high prices includes citations as to the money we pay for freight and passengers to foreign or eign ships coming coining to our ports some are said to be as high as Z a year A common figure has been these estimates are characterized as gross exaggerations by a man mail of long experience in the transatlantic trade who Is quoted in a ie IC cent number of the new york uen evening post ife he says as to freight I 1 t 3 1 a the ques question floril at issue is what does the ignited united i j states stages pay to ae the foreign steamship companies it if it does not pay the hundreds of millions which have formed the totals of previous estimates ti in the first place it 11 pays and can be expected to pay the 11 fret freight lit charges only on its exports ar or its imports not on both now as a a general proposition the re receiver celver of oc goods pays the freight charges most of the imports of this country are shipped f 0 b in new nev york of 01 the exports perhaps or thirty jiler per cent are shipped prepaid pre paid but even een in this tin s case the ultimate cost of shipping is borne by the receiver of the goods through price adjustments A consideration of the statistics of imports I 1 c eals the following facts imports for the last ear amounted to if then the estimate of the shipment cost on these imports palato foreign lines line be placed at it is equal forty per cent of the total imports and it if it I 1 be placed at it equals sixteen per cent either pio proportion portion is manifestly absurd the true proportion is from one third to one per cent on oil expensive and valuable goods and not more than two and one liaa per cent on the cheapest cheap sf eam n thus aitio freight on a lill shipment ament of line fine silk containing ta ning one uble cubic r motor or to 0 cases a shipment toe 11 va beof which I 1 Is say 2060 Is 7 0 or on one third 01 0 one per cent ou on a shipment the quality or of which is less fine and chichis which chis is therefore worth say aay 1 0 the freight charge Is the same ta 7 or one halt half 0 oi one leiper per cent this authority then discussed passenger traffic ile he accepted the cutill her ber of cabin passengers carried cairned annually to europe as and believed would cover the number carried in both directions including children tor for whom halt half tare fare Is paid and infants tor for whom nothing Is paid the average price for passage being placed too the total item could be put down as in the second cabin are arc about persons of whom about go eastward and I 1 whose total tare fare of 50 0 each would amount to ile he obtains as a grand total for passengers and freight combined and believes this to be an estimate formed on n the most liberal basla basis A large part of 01 this ibis money however I 1 never lever alro 0 o to europe much 01 01 the expenditure I 1 or of th the e groat foreign ship lines bring being on this side of the water ikee one great german line for instance keeps ps from to 1500 men steadily em employed loyed in I 1 llo boken men in the tae new york office and a large tores force in its echt other offices in ili the d the salaries of all these men must be paid bei here e anti and they live in this country and spend their money here rent must also be paid for all the offices and taxes 0 for o the locks docks and other property in addition the vessels are supplied and oat outfitted fitted on oil tills this side no small item of expense ei pense niico han it ft Is remembered that thai it ft costs I 1 from to to supply a single large passenger vessel in season geason the same may be said ot of other lines it is therefore ther elore plain that th the e statements rie n ts of 0 sums paid annually lly by the united ted states to her foreign carries aro are grossly exaggerated literary digest |