26 THE CUBA REVIEW 



SUPPLEMENTAL ANNOUNCEMENT 



Following the issuance of its announcement dated December 19, 1917, the Joint Committee 

 on West Indies Transportation is now able to amplify the terms and conditions relating to the 

 movement of raw sugar from Santo Dominican and Porto Rican ports. 



As previously intimated the Joint Committee on W^est Indies Transportation, appointed 

 by the United States Shipping Board and the United States Food Administration, has been 

 organized with Mr. Alfred Gilbert Smith, President of the New York and Cuba Mail Steamship 

 Company as Chairman. The other members of the Committee are Mr. Frank C. Munson, 

 President of the Pvlunson Steamship Line; Mr. B. R. Stoddard, President of the West India 

 Steamship Company; Mr. Ernest M. Bull, Vice-President of the Bull-Insular Line, Inc.; and 

 Mr. Franklin D. Mooney, President of the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company, also 

 General Manager of the Clyde-Santo Domingo Line. 



It is understood the Committee will take general charge of the movement of West Indian 

 raw sugars for the season of 1917-1918, and in co-operation with theCubanProducersCommittee 

 Mr. Manuel Rionda, Chairman; the Santo Dominican Producers Committee, Mr. J. Percy 

 Bartram; the Porto Rican Producers Committee, Mr. F. A. Dillingham, Mr. John Farr and 

 Mr. Alfred E. Lee, and the International Sugar Committee, Mr. George M. Rolph, Chairman, 

 will work out plans for loading, discharging and movement of the sugars so as to accomplish 

 maximum efficiency in order that the'necessary transportation be given with a minimum num- 

 ber of ships. 



The headquarters of the Joint Committee on West Indies Transportation will be at 111 

 Wall Street, New York City, which is also the headquarters of the International Sugar 

 Committee and the Cuban Producers Committee. 



The Joint Committee on West Indies Transportation will receive requests for assignments 

 of vessels to take care of sugars which will be offered for shipment by shippers and producers 

 through the intermediary of their respective Producers Committees. 



The official rates from Santo Dominican and Porto Rican ports as determined by the Joint 

 Committee on West Indies Transportation are as follows, payable on gross landed weight, per 

 100 lbs. 



FROM SANTO DOMINGO: 



Santo Domingo City and San Pedro de Macoris to New York 51c 



Ocoa, Azua and Palenque to New York 53c 



To Boston 



Above rates plus 6c 



4,000 bags of 320 lbs. each., or equivalent, per day loading, and 7,500 bags of 320 lbs. 

 each, or equivalent, per day discharging. 



FROM PORTO RICO: 



Provided American steamers are employed 

 From all customary ports of loading in Porto Rico 



to New York 40c 



to New Orleans 40c 



to Boston 46c 



Rate of loading to be as customary except not less than 5,000 bags of 312 lbs. each, or 

 equivalent, per daylight working day; discharging 8,000 bags of 312 lbs. each, or equiva- 

 lent, per working day. 



GENERAL CONDITIONS 



Any additional loading and /or discharging expenses over the present rates, or any change 

 in conditions of loading and /or discharging causing extra expense to steamer, to be reflected 

 by a proportionate increase in freight rates. 



The cargo or cargoes shall be received and delivered alongside vessel, where she can load 

 and discharge always safely afloat, and proceed and return always safely afloat, within the 

 reach of her tackles; and lighterage and also extra lighterage, of any, shall be at the risk and 



