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Show CARRY VERY BIG CARGOES That Is What the Ships That Sail the Pacific Aro Said to Be Doing. Tho steam schooner, u vessel whoso build and hublts nro peculiar to tho pacific, often goes to sea "with her londllno over her hatch." Which means, says Ralph D. Palno In Outing, that after her hold has been crammed with cargo, a deckload ot lumber Is piled half way up tho masts, so that her skipper puts out with tho water washing green over his main deck, uud nn occasional comber frisking across his battened hatches. Along tho harbor front or Seattlo runs tho story of u passenger who loped down to tho wharf in a hurry to got nboard a departing steam schooner. schoon-er. Ho balanced himself on tho string-piece string-piece for nn Instant, then hove his gripsack down tho only opening In sight. Ho was nbout to dlvo after It when a lounger on tho wharf shouted: shout-ed: "HI there! Where do you think you'ro Junipln' to? That's tho smokestack smoke-stack you tossed your baggage down." "Hell!," gasped tho passenger, "I thought It was the hatch." Tho yam has a slight flavor of exaggeration, ex-aggeration, but It mny servo to hint that tie commcrco of tho l'aclllc has ways of Its own Until recently nn-othor nn-othor distinctive feature of this shipping ship-ping wns that thoro seemed so very llttlo of It for so much water. On n recent voyage tho Minnesota carried to tho orient 70 locomotives, moro thnn n hundred railway cars, 10,-000 10,-000 kegs of wlro nails, and ?500,ono worth of hardware, ninchlnory, flour ond other products of tho mills, tho mines, tho farms and tho factories. In 1897 tho total tonnngo of American Ameri-can steam vossels engaged In tho Pacific Pa-cific ocean was 23,120; lu 1905 It had Increased to 149,085, by which tlmo moro vessels in foreign trado wero owned In Washington than In any other oth-er stnto of thu union. Now ships nro building to moot now demands, nnd yet with nlmost every voyage tho liners leavo behind them waiting cargoes for which thoy havo no space, whoso bulk is moasured by hundreds of carloads. In tho first half of last year ton ships were filled with frolght loft behind by steamers nut of Seattlo and Tacoma. |
