. The ocean carrier; a history and analysis of the service and a discussion of the rates of ocean transportation . iled through thecompetition of the North German Lloyd. Thisstrong company put on steam service from itshome port to Baltimore in 1868, to New Orleansin 1869. In 1870 the Mississippi and DominionCompany started steamers from New Orleans toLiverpool. In 1868 the Boston & AmericanSteamship Company started a steam service toLiverpool, but it did not survive many years. In 1871 came the establishment of the AmericanLine, running from Philadelphia to Liverpoolin connection with the Penn
. The ocean carrier; a history and analysis of the service and a discussion of the rates of ocean transportation . iled through thecompetition of the North German Lloyd. Thisstrong company put on steam service from itshome port to Baltimore in 1868, to New Orleansin 1869. In 1870 the Mississippi and DominionCompany started steamers from New Orleans toLiverpool. In 1868 the Boston & AmericanSteamship Company started a steam service toLiverpool, but it did not survive many years. In 1871 came the establishment of the AmericanLine, running from Philadelphia to Liverpoolin connection with the Pennsylvania 1872 there came a line from New York toBristol, and the next year another from NewYork to Cardiff. In 1872 the Holland-AmericaLine started its service from Amsterdam andRotterdam to New York. In 1873 also the StateLine was started between New York and Glasgowand the Red Star Line between Philadelphia andAntwerp. But the most significant and epoch-making member of this group of new services wasthe White Star Line. The company back of thisline had for several years been planning innova-. 5s Line Traffic Developments 137 tions and in 1871 they launched and sailed fromLiverpool to New York their first steamer, theOceanic—larger, longer, faster, more luxuriousthan anything afloat and with improvementsin design that had to be copied in all passen-ger ships thenceforward. Before that time thesteamer had merely continued the practice of thesailers and they the practice of the merchantships of the ages. These vessels had put thecrew in the forecastle and more elegant quartersfor captain, officers, or passengers were erectedin the stern of the ship. So in the steamer; butthe White Star Oceanic ended all this for thebetter class passengers by appearing with cabinsamidships, where the motion in all directions isminimized in the same way that there is littlemotion in that part of a seesaw-board that restson the fulcrum. The period of prosperity and boom that wascentra
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