. Railway age . D—and also a group of the companys steamers selected as being typicalof four distinct types of service. The express steamer l>euisrb-land. Ti knots per hour, for some years holder of the Allantlrracing record. Is «t;i ft. long, and of gross tons register,with This vessel can carry 467 first class second class, 3UU third class, hnt owing to a large crew and roalconsumption and fine lines, she can carry less than tons ofexpress freight. The President tJrant represents a combination freight andpassenger ship purchased and fitted especiall
. Railway age . D—and also a group of the companys steamers selected as being typicalof four distinct types of service. The express steamer l>euisrb-land. Ti knots per hour, for some years holder of the Allantlrracing record. Is «t;i ft. long, and of gross tons register,with This vessel can carry 467 first class second class, 3UU third class, hnt owing to a large crew and roalconsumption and fine lines, she can carry less than tons ofexpress freight. The President tJrant represents a combination freight andpassenger ship purchased and fitted especially for the Hamburg-New York emigrant trade. This steamer, Olt; ft. long, grow ton-nage of aliout 17,540, can carry 324 first class passengers. 125 secondclass. 1,000 third class and fourth class on the middle andlower decks. This enormous steerage capacity is the dlrwt resultof the enormous westward movement of emigrants and the veaaelcan. at will, fill a large part of its space with low class passengers. Steamship President Grant; Designed Especially for North European Steerage Trade. The North German Lloyd was formed in 1856-7 by the consolida-tion of nearly all the steamship lines, local and otherwise. In 1827 there has been fairly regular sailing vessel traffic toNew York carrying emlgraiila one way and cotton and tobacco theother. Now that nearly all the lines of the i>ort, the assemblersand distributers of this trade, were consolidated, 11 was the mostnatural thing In the world for the company to reach out for theAmerican trallli—ami they reached again and again, in 1808 theystarted the steam service to New York ami in IStHi ll was madeweekly, 18G8 a line was sent to Baltimore, in !!! to New Orltans,1870 to the West Indies, 1875 to Brazil and Argentina, ami so thecomiiany has gone on reaching out until with lis partner, the Ham-burg-American Com|)any, it practically covers the world. The stronghold It had In the local trade of liremen and nea
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