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March, +910 FOREIGN SHIPS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO GRAIN TRADE. The havoc which recent years have wrought in America's foreign shipping on the Pacific coast is graphically illus- TAE Marine REvIEw Of late years the total grain movement of the port has greatly declined and in face of this decreasing market the Am- erican ships, devoid of government aid, were unable to hold out. As a result, the foreigners enjoyed the little revival iZs them are the identical vessels that have been driven out of the grain business by foreign subsidized competition. In the fleet illustrated are some of the ships be- longing to the Alaska Packers' Associa- tion, formerly engaged in the foreign AMERICAN VESSELS Rotting Away aT ANCHOR IN OAKLAND Harsor, trated by the accompanying diagram and photograph. The diagram shows the number of American and foreign ships engaged in the grain trade from the port of San Francisco for a period of 35 years from 1873 to 1909. The' dia- gram was compiled from statistics furn- ished by the Merchants' San: -Francisco,... The :steady decline of Exchange of American shipping from. 1883 when 169 American vessels were engaged in this commerce down to 1906, when the last ship flying the stars and stripes had been driven out of the business, is plain- ly shown. The foreign shipping inter- ests, aided by liberal subsidies, granted by their own governments, finally got a strangle hold on the American ships in 1905 and since that year have enjoyed a monopoly of the grain business of San Francisco. The number of foreign ships engaged in the trade shows violent fluc- tuations, but always, throughout the en- tire 35 years, the foreigners were ahead. The nearest the American vessels came to equalling their foreign rivals was in 1878, when there were 50 American and 59 foreign ships employed; the greatest discrepancy is exhibited in 1907, in this year only 24 American ships were used, while the foreign bottoms numbered 226. in business during 1907 entirely without molestation. The photograph shows the great fleet of American ships rotting away in Oak- land harbor, San Francisco bay. The writer counted 46 of these vessels in one fleet, including eight steamers. Many of San FRANCISCO. trade, but now finding employment only for a part of each year carrying canned salmon from Alaska to San Francisco. A view of the forest of idle masts in Oakland harbor is about as disconsolate a sight as an American cares to wit- ness. THE DECLINE OF AMERICAN SHIPPING ON THE PaciFic Coast. NY Xa) NY. Ka N Ee S a oe ao 8 eG S a 2 SS S33 ee | | | | | | | : ; | | | 4 ! | | | | | | | \ | | | | | a | ' | se | ee a4 | ! | | ae : aa | ie | e9 ; I S11 1 Faceign / 2A a s 200-4 thew hf ft -- TS a oy = lh a---f - 920 | | | | | | | | OAL: pied MBEAN Fa! ! , a ee Ce a ae! Se ee Ny POT SN ea 1 ee et 5. bog! ; Lebel Teac eet Nee se | eh : | Sk | | | | | | | | | iViltl Ee ee or as -" | St AP ee Me | Ose | | § | | | | | | LQ ay | oso aA ther ee ee ae 40 eee ee ee ee i | | | | | | | | | | | 0 Cha \ | | | Or L | | O CurvE SHOWING NUMRER OF. AMERICAN AND FOREIGN SHIPS ENGAGED IN THE EuRoPEAN GRAIN TRADE FROM SAN FRANCISCO FOR THE PAST Tutrty-FivE YEARS. 4