Six Ships For Canal Line.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 9, 1913:
Chileans Arrange for Route Between New York and Valparaiso.
    WASHINGTON, May 8.— R. H. De Ferrari, President of the South American Steamship Company, a Chilean corporation operating between ports in that country and Panama, has arrived in the United States to arrange for the construction for his company of six large vessels to ply between Valparaiso and New York by way of the Panama Canal.
    Commerce between Chile and the United States has been growing during the last few years. No other South Americans, it is said, are looking forward to so great an increase in trade with this country as are the Chileans. In nitrate, a fertilizer which the United States probably will buy in increasing quantities, Chile has a monopoly; and the vessels which come here loaded with it will return down the west coast of South America, touching at ports in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Chile, loaded with American manufactured goods.