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Show oo MANY SHIPS IN v NEW YORK HARBOR Now" York, March 15. The port of usTew York has broken all records during dur-ing the past two days for tho number of steamship arrivals within 4S hours. There has been what steamship men describe as almost a continuous procession pro-cession of vessels passing- in the Narrows Nar-rows since Monday. The grand total net tonnage, for the two days is more than 250,000 tons, Thirty-one steamships steam-ships arrived on Monday with a tonnage ton-nage of 145,000 and thirty-three on Tuesdav with a tonnage of 115,000 In this number there was not an express passenger steamship, nor a single one of the giant -ocean liners The majority of the arrivals wero freight steamships from nearly all parts, of tho globe nnd their cargoes were of the most miscellaneous character. |