d are many other leading green coffee firms.]

[Illustration: LOOKING NORTH FROM WALL STREET. HERE A FEW WELL KNOWN
COFFEE FIRMS ARE LOCATED

The trend of the trade is south from Wall St. rather than north]

[Illustration: FRONT STREET, NEW YORK'S GREEN COFFEE DISTRICT, IN 1922]

IMPORTS OF COFFEE AT LEADING PORTS OF ENTRY IN THE UNITED STATES

New York New Orleans San Francisco Total Imports
_Pounds_ _Pounds_ _Pounds_ _Pounds_

1900 676,227,269 44,335,717 24,562,578 787,991,911
1913 554,571,449 263,382,962 36,067,073 863,130,757
1914 633,400,209 308,008,145 46,721,824 1,001,528,317
1915 758,160,133 307,868,932 45,844,060 1,118,690,524
1916 814,394,074 308,513,290 71,346,788 1,201,104,485
1917 932,098,113 274,989,692 97,821,069 1,319,870,802
1918 779,025,781 219,330,461 134,729,019 1,143,890,889
1918[K] 757,710,001 146,621,857 130,178,288 1,052,201,501
1919[K] 804,177,446 356,608,477 160,426,467 1,333,564,067
1920[K] 767,242,636 380,293,701 137,043,281 1,297,439,310
1921[K] 790,559,919 331,036,770 139,069,286 1,340,979,776

[K] Calendar years. All others fiscal years.

New Orleans began her advance at about the same time that Baltimore
began to fall off, so that her rise to a place of importance as a coffee
port has been practically coincident with the twentieth century. Her
first big step upward was in 1901, from 44,000,000 to 72,000,000 pounds,
and was followed by another the next year to 115,000,000. Thereafter
there was a steady gain to 213,000,000 pounds in 1906 and to 301,000,000
pounds in 1910, and after that wide fluctuations, especially during the
war. In 1918, doubtless because of the draining of shipping to the North
Atlantic service, there was a heavy slump; but immediately after the
war, in the calendar year 1919, there was a big jump to a record mark,
up to that time, of 356,000,000 pounds. This was followed by the record
of 380,000,000 pounds in the calendar year 1920, although the 1921
figure of 331,036,770 shows a falling off of nearly 50,000,000 pounds.

San Francisco's growth, on the other hand, is of recent occurrence. The
story is told farther along in this chapter, how the city was definitely
placed on the coffee map by the provision of adequate shipping
facilities to Central America. The outbreak of