Pilot lore; from sail to steam . t that the president of theLloyd Sabaudo is one of the greatest scientists of all times, Gug-lielmo Marconi. PEIRCE BROTHERS, Inc. THE PEIRCE LINE is one of the very oldest Italian SteamshipCompanies in service from Mediterranean to U. S. Ports. TheSicula Americana Societa di Navigazione ed Imprese Mari-time, with head office in Naples, is a Steamship Line which has hada regular passenger and freight service between Italy and the UnitedStates since 1907. Grande Ufficiale Giorgio W. Peirce is the owner of these twoLines. Peirce Brothers, Inc., of No. 17 Battery
Pilot lore; from sail to steam . t that the president of theLloyd Sabaudo is one of the greatest scientists of all times, Gug-lielmo Marconi. PEIRCE BROTHERS, Inc. THE PEIRCE LINE is one of the very oldest Italian SteamshipCompanies in service from Mediterranean to U. S. Ports. TheSicula Americana Societa di Navigazione ed Imprese Mari-time, with head office in Naples, is a Steamship Line which has hada regular passenger and freight service between Italy and the UnitedStates since 1907. Grande Ufficiale Giorgio W. Peirce is the owner of these twoLines. Peirce Brothers, Inc., of No. 17 Battery Place, New YorkCity, with long experience as steamship people, are the GeneralAgents for these two lines, besides handling other tonnage. Peirce Brothers, Inc., also engage in purchasing very large quan-tities of American coal for export to the various organizations ofPeirce Brothers throughout Italy. The managing director of the New York office is Cavalier LouisCosta. — 222 — 09 in nO H o eninO o Wf o k!0 09 O d o> 09 oo. W. <R. GRACE & CO. WR. GRACE & CO., whose activity extends over seventyyears of remarkable history, covering nearly every phaseof trading, transportation, banking, and merchandising,began its development in the adventurous determination of Wil-liam Russell Grace, who was born in Queenstown, County Cork,Ireland, May 10, 1832. He came to New York at the age offourteen and then, returning to Ireland, found his way to Peru,where in Callao he became a clerk in the employ of John latter ran a ship chandlers business and general store. Itwas during these times that guano was shipped from the islandsoff the Peruvian sea coast to all parts of the world, and W. was sent by his employer to the Chincha Islands to super-vise the loading of ships there. It was at Mr. Graces sugges-tion that the Down East ship builders increased the size of theirships, as it took very little longer to load a ship of 4,000 tonsthan one of 2,500. After twenty years
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