. Review of reviews and world's work. opes for much from it. Sheexpects the Mississippi Riverand its tributaries, and thegreat railroads from theNorth, East, and West whichfocus there, to be like somany endless chains of buck-ets bearing all manner offoodstuffs, raw materials,and articles of manufactureto her wharves, there to betransferred to mighty oceanliners for reshipment to thewestern coast of SouthAmerica, Australia, and theOrient. It is then that shehopes to be able to throwthe gauntlet to New York,challenging her to maintainher supremacy among Amer-ican seaports if she can ! Ofcourse,
. Review of reviews and world's work. opes for much from it. Sheexpects the Mississippi Riverand its tributaries, and thegreat railroads from theNorth, East, and West whichfocus there, to be like somany endless chains of buck-ets bearing all manner offoodstuffs, raw materials,and articles of manufactureto her wharves, there to betransferred to mighty oceanliners for reshipment to thewestern coast of SouthAmerica, Australia, and theOrient. It is then that shehopes to be able to throwthe gauntlet to New York,challenging her to maintainher supremacy among Amer-ican seaports if she can ! Ofcourse, Mobile, Pensacola, and Galveston have great expectations in thisdirection, but the place of more or less crystal-lized ambition is in New Orleans. Her greatfinancial institutions like the Hibernia Bank &Trust Company and the Whitney National Bank,two of the strongest south of the Ohio and Poto-mac rivers ; the fourteen and eighteen storybuildings ; the new Belt Railroad ; the increas-ing docking facilities and other improvements.
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