Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1901 — CHICAGO TO LIVERPOOL. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO TO LIVERPOOL.

Steamship Northwestern Begins Journey to the English Port. Buffalo, Montreal, Sidney, Cape Breton, Liverpool, England. This was the itinerary mapped out by the owners of the steamship Northwestern, which sailed Wednesday from Chicago on its long voyage across the Atlantic—-the first steamer, clearing from the port of Chicago, to carry the products of the West to the markets of the Eastern hemisphere. No formal ceremony, other than the regulations imposed by the United States government, marked the departure of the vessel which is to link Chicago by a direct line with the ports of the old world. Harvesting machinery nnd Chicago proi visions are included iu the first cargo of the Northwestern. The ship also carried about 50,(MX) bushels of grain for Buffalo. This was to act ns ballast for the lake trip, nnd its unloading at Buffalo lightened the steamer sufficiently to let it pass down the Kt. Lawrence canals. At Montreal the place of the grain was taken by other freight, nnd the steamer sailed for Liverpool with a full cargo. The vessel was expected to reach Liverpool in twenty days after leaving Chicago. .Whether the saving iu handling charget will offset'-the heawy expenses incurred In the navigation of the new route to th.i ocean is not yet known.