AND SHIP NEWS and cheap method of forwarding freight shipments to the markets on the Pacific Coast of the United States. Fast Combination Service to South America The South American service of the Munson Lines has grown to large proportions, and is now a permanent link between the two continents. There is sailing very two weeks with a combination freight and passenger service. The steamers employed in this route were acquired from the United States Shipping Board, and are excellent tributes to the skill and artistry of the American shipbuilder. These liners are the American Legion, Western World, Pan America, and Southern Cross. Regular calls are made at Rio de Janiero, Santos, Montevideo, and Buenor Aires. This service to South America is fast, and as comfortable as trans-Atlantic travel. It fills a distinct need for commercial travelers to Brazil and the Argentine, and offers the American merchant a better opportunity to compete with the shrewd salesmen from Europe. A weekly freight service is maintained from New York to Havana. The service to the Cuban ports is on a fortnightly basis and regular stops are made at Matanzas, Cardenis, Caibarien, Sagua La Grande, Vita Manati, Puerto, Padre, Gibara, Nuevitas, and Antilla. During the winter season, a weekly sailing is made to Nassau in the Bahamas, but from April to December this schedule is reduced to a sailing every two weeks. The fast liner Munargo is used on the Nassau line. The Munson Line operates on a regular schedule out of the ports of Baltimore and Norfolk to Havana and Matanzas. The direct line from Mobile to Havana and The Munson Building-One of the Most Beautiful Structures in New York City. triumph. Moorish towers and motif bring an exclamation of awe and admiration from every visitor. The structure has 300 rooms with every convenience known to American hotel comfort. There are pavillions, tea rooms, tennis courts, golf links, boating, unequalled bathing and fishing. The New Colonial is easily the finest hotel in the Bahamas, and is patronized by the most discriminating crowd of winter tourists. Since the end of the war, the Munson Line has made greater expansions. In cooperation with the McCormack Steamship Company, it maintains an intercoastal service, calling at the principal west coast ports. This service is via the Panama Canal, and provides a quick, Nassau-The Fisherman's Paradise. The New Colonial Hotel at Nassau, other Cuban ports is also maintained on a seven or four teen day schedule. There is a weekly passenger and freight sailing from New Orleans to Cuban ports, and a fortnightly clearing for the Mexican ports of Tampico, and Vera Cruz. New Orleans is an active Munson Line port and it also has a fortnightly sailing to South American ports from Mobile. Regular sailings are also maintained from Philadelphia or Baltimore to Jacksonville and Miami, Fla. In addition to its line activities and ranking high n mportance n the operations of the Mun son Steamship Lines is their chartering business. A large number of American and foreign steamers is annually chartered for the carriage of full cargoes between American ports and ports in West Indies, South America and Alcove Corner in the Colonial Hotel. Owned and Operated by Munson Lines. other ports of the world. The Cunard Line is not alone in owning its own office building here in New York. The Munson Building is one of the most individual structures on lower Manhattan, making a distinct contribution to the alluring New York skyline. The Munson Building may not be the tallest skyscraper, but it has a refreshing architectural note. It is a building of unusual character, and arrests attention from the horde of visitors coming into the financial and shipping districts of Manhattan every day. The Munson Line also has offices at Havana, and many other Cuban and South American Cities. Munson Attracts Tourists to Nassau The Munson Line with a palace afloat and a palace on land has the ideal combination for the winter tourist. The S. S. Munargo is the most beautiful passenger vessel operating into tropical waters, and the New Colonial Hotel at Nassau is without question a fairy castle in the most beautiful setting that nature could offer. Once out the winter weather of the North Atlantic, the traveler on the Munargo feels the warm, fragant breath of the Gulf Stream. The day is tempered a warm sun and cool breeze adding a zest to the appetite. One can lean over the rail and watch the antics of the graceful porpoise whom some one has called the "poet of the Occasionally an enormous sea turtle is sighted paying no attention to the strange ship passing by. But at night under the tropic moon! There is a magicry in the air when the huge, red disc climbs over the dim horizon. Resting back on a steamer chair, there is an uncanny charm to the soft vista of the water. Out on the deck wearied nerves are at last content. Even in sleep one senses through the port hole the comforting sound of swishing water. At night when there is no moon, the traveler is alert for the wand of Neptune. Soon the surface of the water is alive with a lambent flame, and though sailors have AND SHIP NEWS seen it hundreds of times they are still subject to the lure of the phosphorescent sea. The Munargo has every conceivable appointment which appeals to the traveler who expects the best? The cuisine is equal to the finest metropolitan hotel, and service is on the same high standard. The same atmosphere is maintained as the tourist leaves the ship to go to his or her quarters at the New Colonial hotel. The Munson Line considers every traveler a guest, and affords him the best service possible. There is no half-hearted, or standardized form followed. The Munson Line employees are instructed to give careful attention to the wants of the individual. Nassau is indeed the jewel of the Bahamas. Its coral reefs, its translucent waters, its gleaming sands, are natural attractions and to these are added golf, tennis, fishing, boating and every major sport and recreation of the winter vacationist. The traveler is annoyed only by the approach of the sailing time for home, and that is balanced only by the certain determination that he is coming back next year for a longer stay. The ordinary newspaper announcement such as the one which was taken from a local paper on Feb. 25, which gives the reader an idea of the class of winter vacationists who go to Nassau on the Munargo. "The Munson liner Munargo sails for Nassau, Bahamas, today at 3.30 p. m. from Pier 9, East River with a full list of vacationists. The Munargo replaces the Pan America regularly on the South American run, which has made one trip to Nassau and resumes her schedule to Rio and Buenos Aires tomorrow. Among those leaving on the Munargo are Clarence M. Wooley, president of the American Radiator Co.; Philip G. Gossler, president of the Columbia Gas & Electric Co.; John E. Owsley, football coach of the Naval Aca demy at Annapolis; Walker D. Hines, chairman of the Santa Fe Railroad; Franklin Remington, of the Foundation Co.; Wm. Bradley Randall, president of the Security Transfer & Register Co.; Winthrop Dahlgren, president of Orvis Bros.; John J. Walton, director of the Fidelity International Trust Co.; Howard Drummond, N. Y. Stock Exchange broker; Frank Day Tuttle, trustee of the Brooklyn Savings Bank; Walter L. Johnson, president of the New York Cotton Exchange Clearing House Association. Also sailing on the Munargo are Judge James A. Lowell and James H. Lowell of Boston; Mrs. Elsie C. Woodward and Mrs. Ethel Fowler, two of the famous Cryder triplets well known in society; Judge Charles E. Sims of New York; Dr. Edward D. Warren of Springfield; William R. Blair, Jr., of Pittsburgh; Dr. William A. Downs, and Dr. Hamilton Coerr of New York; George L. Aspinwall of Boston, Henry B. Sprague of Boston; W. I. Mirkil of Philadelphia; Thomas Evans of Philadelphia; Spencer Borden and family of Fall River; Philip N. Knapp of South Norwalk, Conn.; John S. Gibbs of Baltimore. The clipping speaks a volume in itself. Munson Line is extremely proud of the Munargo and the New Colonial Hotel. Nassau is rapidly becoming the winter haven for the people who discriminate. The Munson Line has demonstrated that the American steamship owner and operator is. the equal of his highly touted European competitor. As the volume of freight grows the number of ships increase, and the lines develop. The present administration of the Munson Line has lost none of the ingenuity, and progressiveness of Walter D. Munson, year after year sees new ships added to the lines, and new lines added to the Sailing Schedule. 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THE AND SHIP NEWS PORT OF NEW YORK AND SHIP NEWS Published Monthly by THE PORT OF NEW YORK PUBLICITY CO. at 5 Beekman Street, New York ALEXANDER R. SMITH - Editor shippers and travelers. Every Munson employee is thoroughly imbued with the Munson conception of service. As carriers for American shippers they accept the full responsibility for the safe and prompt delivery of merchandise. Munson agents are a great help to both the American manufacturer and the consumer in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking people of the West Indies and South America. They are helping both shipper and consignee to understand each other's problems, and naturally both profit as a result. Frank C. Munson realizes that the 20th Century will see the nations of the southern continent, particularly Advertising Manager Argentine, Brazil and Chili, loom into powers of the first magnitude. In their formative years, these states can accept the American ideals with proper advances from the United States. The Pan-American Union is already a firm tie. Yet the countries of Europe are No. 3 fighting for a foothold, and one is often impressed by the fact that beautiful Buenos Ayres is a Spanish edition of Paris. The United States needs the friendship of the key states of South America, and they need our unselfish assistance. With a binding influence like the Munson Line, we are making distinct progress. It is to be hoped that the Munson flag will soon fly from permanent quarters in every port of South America. Telephone Cortland 1585 Advertising Rates on Application. Subscription $3.00 per Year in the United MARCH, 1926 CONTENTS The Lockawanna Railroad and the Port of New York. Munson Line Standard Bearer of American Merchant Editorials: The Influence of Munson Annual Report of Port Authority 3-11 ..13-17 19 19-20 20 Efficient Administration of Railroads Major O'Neil Joins Colburn Realty 24 26 32 In a little over a generation, the name of Munson has risen from obscurity to a commanding position in the maritime world. The network on Munson lines welding the commercial interests of the leading ports of the United States with the West Indies and South American tropics is an immense accomplishment in the lifetime of one man. The American Merchant Marine owes a debt of gratitude to Walter D. Munson, the founder of the Munson Lines. Upon the foundation laid by his father, Frank C. Munson has builded well. Under his progressive management in the past decade, the flag of the Munson Line has assumed a commanding position in tropical trade. More, the construction of a beautiful hotel at Nassau, the pearl of the Bahama group, to accommodate American winter tourists, is a popular innovation. Many travelers who sought the Riviera in winter now go to the closer and more beautiful playground basking in the Gulf Stream. A cursory review of the sailing list on the palatial Munargo will readily establish the type and standing of Americans who escape the rigors of winter via the Munson route. From a strictly commercial viewpoint, it is easy to understand the reason for Munson popularity among Efficient Administration of Railroads The whole world over, the railroads of the United States are regarded as the paragon of private administration of a public utility. When one analyzes the manifold activities, and the innumerable ramifications of railroad management, we must accept the compliment as one that is entirely merited. The country and its states grew and prospered in the ratio of the success of the pioneering railroads who crossed vacant prairie lands, who tunneled mountains, and who bridged rivers. Our national prestige is largely the result of the initiative of the men who built our roads in the formative years of the nation. And today, the executives who control the traffic of freight and people on the steel highways represent the highest type of American business men. They are possessed of keen business acumen and wide-a-wake progressiveness. The precision of railroad mechanism, the sacredness of train. schedules, the fidelity to freight tariffs are testimonials to the geniuses of our transcontinental systems and their operators. The railroad executive has earned a high place in the honor role of American business life. The man who spends a decade or more under the discipline of railroading receives a thorough schooling in the fundamentals of business honor and ethics. He acquires a sense of loyalty that is a part of him for the rest of his days. He will never violate the confidence of his employer or the public whom he is serving. The railroads of America fully sense their responsibility to the people of the country. They are operated as economically as any large industry and their huge buying power enables the pucrhasing agent to save thousands. |