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EXERCISE 5

One of the great needs of

ocean-carrying marine is much meeded by the US
In one yr we paid to foriegn companies $169,000,000 for
freight+age, and $45,000,000 for fares

marine
insurance.

worth

passenger) and

In the very same yr the country sent to for
bought
eign lands over $600,000,000 more of goods than it reed
them
writers
from these countries; and ee some call this the balance

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of trade in our favor. NY has most of the regular steam
ship lines between Eur and the US. It received a larger

our
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proportion of the imports, and is the outlet for over one-
third of our domestic exports, Breadstuffs, provisions,
cotton, and petroleum form one-half about of the exports.

of

and as

The pame

its

The city has about 353 mi water front, of which the half
improved
may be used for shipping, the piers of Jersey City and
Hoboken, in N J, practically are a part of port, Its
ninety mi of piert may be very largely extended. The for-
eign movement of the port, which is very large is more than
three times the tonnage of its nearest competitor, which is
the city of Boston, About fifty steamers in the foreign
trade every week leave the port, Half sail under the Brit-

ana.

eighth

of which

ish and less numbes under the American flag.

the world, is the port The second largest city

passing all other ports,,

already sur.

EXERCISE 6

Po dept Mshington
DC Jany 16 1893

Harble Sno Smith
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Duisiones do

inquiry of the 30 (I have the honor to state
"grants leafs of absence exfore thing
"Railway accidants while
on dutey which inespacchales them for.
service permanently or temporarily

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