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18 MARINE REVIE W. GALLEY ON S. S. CHATHAM—COMPLETE ship company and is therefore of value in building up a true record of the American merchant marine. The Baltimore-Boston service of the company was re-established immediately after the Civil war, but the service between Baltimore and _ Providence was not resumed until 1878. In 1876 a line was established between Baltimore and Savannah, Ga. From the beginning the services of- fered by the company were well re- ceived and patronized, and the high reputation established, for fair deal- ing, reliability, expeditious movement of freight and care for the comfort and convenience of passengers, has IN EVERY DETAIL AND WELL PLANNED continued up to the present day and is now a firmly rooted tradition. Step by step the company grew and pros- pered. Then came the Spanish-American war and several of the company’s ships were again taken over by the government, but this time, unlike dur- ing the Civil war, the regular sched- ule was maintained without serious interference, and a period of most active growth and expansion began shortly after peace was declared. In 1900 a line was established between Philadelphia and Savannah. This line and the one from Baltimore to Savannah. were extended in 1905 to January, 1927 take in the city of Jacksonville, Fla. Two years later the Philadelphia- Boston line was added to the service of the company. Growth in population, industry and prosperity of the sections served com- bined with the enterprise of the man- agers of the company in anticipat- ing the increased demands of traffic, contributed to the progress of the Merchants & Miners to its present strong position in coastwise trade. The company was quick to see the necessity of additional seaboard links of transportation when the initial development of great transportation activities began immediately after the Civil war. Cotton, lumber, cotton- seed oil, resin and other raw mate- rials from the South were shipped to industrial New England. Pig iron was brought from Alabama and Vir- ginia. Wool from Ohio and_ other inland districts went to New England textile mills by way of Newport News and Norfolk. Boston was the dis- tributing point for oysters from the Chesapeake bay country and with other northern cities furnished a mar- ket for truck farm products in large quantities from Virginia and_ the Carolinas as well as for Florida citrus fruits. This was only a start of a shipping business that was destined to increase far beyond the expecta- tions of the men who pioneered it. Thus for ten years prior to Ameri- can participation in the World war the services of this company included all the important East coast Ameri- can seaports and centers of com- merce with the exception of New York and the Carolinas. These services ex- tended over the entire length of the S. S. DORCHESTER—AT LEFT—A GAME OF SHUFFLE BOARD ON DECK—AT RIGHT—PASSENGER DECK IN WAY OF STATEROOMS —FOUR OTHER NEW STEAMERS, THE CHATHAM, FAIRFAX, BERKSHIRE AND ALLEGHANY ARE SIMILAR IN ARRANGEMENT EN OPT Et ee ee