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Port of New York Annual 1919 by Alexander R Smith
Port of New York Annual 1919 by Alexander R Smith
Hard Cover Cover has some white marks
301 pages + Advertisements
Copyright 1919
CONTENTS
A
A Great Hotel and Home For Seamen 269
American Bureau of Shipping 242
American Marine Insurance 261
American Seamen's Friend Society 230
Anchorage Grounds for Port of New York 95
Anchorage for Explosives 99
Arthur Kill Anchorages 101
Kill van Kull Anchorages 101
Eastern Anchorage, Lower Bay 98
Naval Anchorage, Hudson River 97
Newark Bay Anchorages 101
Quarantine Anchorage 99
Quarantine Anchorage 102
Sandy Hook Anchorage 99
Sheepshead Bay Anchorage 102
Staten Island Anchorage 98
Raritan Bay Anchorages 102
Western Anchorage, Upper Bay 97
Area of the Port of New York 16
B
Bi-State Administration Port of New York 35
Borough of Queens, City of New York 184
Brooklyn Bridge, first to span the East River 57
Brooks Steamship Corporation 92
C
Campbell's Stores, Free and Bonded 192
Chamber of Commerce on Bi-State Commission 39
Chamber of Commerce of State of New York 211
Cleary, William E., U. S. Representative 259
Coal Dumping Plants, New York Harbor 231
Companies That Wrote Marine Insurance in New York State During 1918 247
Contents5 and 6
Copyright 4
E
Eastern Anchorage, Upper Bay 98
Elwell, James W. & Co 224
Erie Basin, So. Brooklyn 286
Establishment Department of Docks 51
Extending Manhattan Four Miles 245
F
Foreword 9
Free Lighterage and Floatage Limits 232
Freight Handling Machinery 254
From the Savannah to the N-C Flyers 236
G
Gross Tonnage, Registered, Enrolled and Licensed Vessels at New York 112
H
Hell Gate 91
"Hendrick Hudson," of the Albany Day Line 77
How Action on Port Treaty was Postponed 34
Hulbert, Hon. Murray . 116
Hulbert Opposes Bi-State Commission 46
Hulbert Port Development Plan 92
Illustrations7 and 8
Independent Water Transportation, To Destroy 243
International Film Service 287
J
Jamaica Bay, Long Island 176
Jersey City 202
Jersey City Maritime Potentialities 204
K
Kerr Steamship Company 252
L
Leading American Ports 173
M
Manhattan Bridge, Between Manhattan and Brooklyn 63
Marine Society of the City of New York 260
Maritime Association Port of New York 220
Merchants' Association of City of New York 214
Merchants' Association on Bi-State Commission 42
Merchant Marine of U. S 113
Morgan, William Fellows, on Bi-State Commission 48
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New Jersey's Contribution to Port Development 37
New Jersey Section Port of New York 193
New Jersey Section of Port of New York 195
New York & Porto Rico S. S. Co 240
New York as a Financial Center 241
N. Y. Board of Trade & Transportation 225
N. Y. Board of Trade on Bi-State Commission 44
New York City, Metropolitan District 13
New York-New Jersey Port Commission 18
New York Produce Exchange, By Edward R Carhart 218
New York Unable to Provide Wharfage 150
Number and Gross Tonnage of Vessels Owned in City of New York 115
Number and Tonnage of Vessels in Foreign Trade of U.S. 114
O
Officers of the Port of New York . 90
Ownership and Control of New York's Waterfront 54
P
Pier Cost, Philadelphia Vs. New York 149
Piers-Location, Length, Width, Occupant and Owner 103
Pioneer Staten Island Shipyard 166
Port Greatness 11
Port of Newark Development-Newark Bay Submarine Boat Co.'s Plant 208
Port of New York (Boundaries of) . 94
Port of New York, By Byron R. Newton 433
Port of New York Data 449
Port of New York Needs Modern Coal Piers, By Carl H. Stengle 154
Port of New York-Port Charges. Rates of Pilotage-Sandy Hook 91
Powers and Duties, Dept. Docks 52
Proposed Tunnel to Staten Island 127
Public Conferences on Proposed New Port Authority 25
R
Radio 192
Railroad Hostility to Water Transportation 111
Railroad Piers Available for Steamship Uses, on Jersey Shore of Port 474
Rates of Wharfage Within City of New York 93
Relation of Canal System to Port of New York, By Alfred M. O'Neill 139
Resume of Laws, Ordinances, Prior to 1870................50
River and Harbor Improvements' East River and Hell Gate 55
Ambrose, Main Ship and Other Channe's 60
Arthur Kill or Staten Island Sound 81
Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channe's 65
Bronx River .. . 72
Channel North of Shooter's Island 82
Cheesquake Creek 87
Coney Island Channel 62
East River and Hell Gate 55
New York Harbor: Ambrose, Main Ship, Bay-side, and Gedney Channels, including Upper Bay and Craven Shoal, and Channels between Staten Island and Hoffman and Swinburne Islands 60
East Chester Creek . 70
Elizabeth River 84
Flushing Bay... 68
Gowanus Creek Channel 66
Hackensack River 81
Harlem River 73
Hudson River Channel and New York Harbor 76
Keyport Harbor . . 87
Matawan Creek 88
Newark Bay and Passaic River 80
New Jersey Section-Staten Island 80
Newtown Creek 67
Raritan Bay . . . . . 85
Raritan River 86
Shoal Harbor and Pompton Creek 88
Shrewsbury River . 90
South River...86
Wallabout Channel 66
Westchester Creek 71
Woodbridge Creek 84
S
Sailors' Snug Harbor 237
Seamen's Bank for Savings 228
Seamen's Church Institute 269
Seaward Limit of Harbor 93
"Shamrock IV" at Shewan's Dry Deck 489
Shipbuilding in U. S. 115
Ship Fumigation 486
Spoils of the City at Our Feet 450
Staten Island-Future Industrial, Commercial and Maritime Center, By Cornelius G. Kolff 157
Staten Island Section of Port of New York Annual 155
Steamship "Cristobal," of Panama Line . . 438
Steamship "Lord Dufferin," with Her Stern Cut Off 207
Study of Port Charges, By C. O. Ruggles 131
Sun Rise and Sun Set Tables for 1940. January to December 481
Supervisor of the Port of New York . 260
T
Table of Distances to World Ports 174
Ten Leading American Ports 190
Tide Tables for 1920, January to December, inclusive 275 Title Page 3
Tow Boat Exchange, The 490
Trade Index 491
V
Value of Imports and Exports and Net Tons of Vessels at Four Principal World Seaports 114
Value of Imports and Exports at Leading U. S Ports by Decades 114
Value of Imports and Exports at New York and Percentage of U. S 113
Value of Imports and Exports of U. S 112
Value of Imports and Exports State of New York by Customs Districts 115
Vandam Warehouses 487
Vehicular Tunner Under the Hudson River, By T. A. Adams. 123
Vital Port of New York Need, By John D. Myers 138
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Walsh, Hon. Edward S., Statement by .243
Waterborne Commerce of Port of N. Y . 239
Where to Obtain Official Maps and Charts 137
Williams, Frank M., State Engineer .191
Williamsburg Bridge Across the East River 69
World's Merchant Marine . 113
ILLUSTRATIONS
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Albany Terminal, Barge Canal 141
A Land Cu t on Champlain Canal 143
Another View of Downey Shipbuilding Plant 165
Another View of Standard Shipbuilding Co's Plant, at Shooter's Island 164
Army supply Base, Looking Seaward 234
Army Supply Base, Pier View 235
Arthur Kill and Raritan Bay Anchorages 100
B
Babbitt's, B. T., Plants 244
Ball, Thomas P. 222
Barge Canal Terminal, Pier 5, East -River 92
Barge Canal Terminal, Pier 5, East River 94
Bascule Bridge Over Flushing River 187
Bedloes Island, Statue of Liberty13 and 19
Bird's-Eye View of Jersey City Shore and Hinterland 203
Bird's-Eye View Lower End Port of New York, Showing Port Newark 208
Bird's-Eye View of Portion of Queensboro 183
Boundaries of New York City Metropolitan District 15
Bridge and Gate Type of Movable Dam 142
Bridge Over Newtown Creek 186
Brooklyn Plaza, Manhattan Bridge 55
Bush Terminal Docks 29
Bush Terminal, to Be Duplicated at Jamaica Bay 178
C
Cantilever Crane at Army Supply Base . . 258
Chamber of Commerce, State of N. Y 211
Cleary, Hon. William E. 259
Coal Pier Adapted to Handling Carload Lots and Loading Ships 152
Congestion at Approach to N. J. Ferries 125
Congestion at Ferry, New Jersey Side 126
Congestion at Railroad Piers 124
Countless Craft of Every Sort 111
D
Dearborn, David B 222
Deck of Coal Pier. Showing Overhead Trolley for Pier Service Cars 154
Derricks "Century" and "Capital," Raising Tug "Transfer No. 6" 263
Diagramatic Sketch of Modern Gravity-Served Coal Piers 154
Dipper Dredger at Work 47
Dock and Breakwater at Entrance of Oneida Lake, Barge Canal 143
Docking the "Imperator" in North River 102
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Eastern and Staten Island Anchorages, Upper Bay 98
East River at Whitestone, L. I . 188
East End Terminal Dock at North Tonawanda 147
East River Anchorage Off 26th Street 95
Edge, Hon. Walter E . . 37
Eight Cargo Cranes on Panama R. R 257
Electric Trucks (C. W. Hunt Co's) 254
Empty Gravity Return, Coal Pier . 153
Entrance to Chelsea Section Piers 53
Entrance to Mohawk River Pool 140
Erie Canal Lock, No. 2, Barge Canal 141
Extension of Manhattan Four Miles 246
F
Father Neptune Seeking Piers at New York 251
Floating Derrick "Monarch" Salving Tug "Shawanese"... 265
Four W-S-M Semi-Portal Bridge Type Dock Cranes 255
Fort Lafayette 83
Forty-Sixth Street (North River) New Pier 249
Freight Belt Railroad, Proposed 245
Frontispiece (Hon. Murray Hulbert) 2
Further View of Street Congestion 127
G
Glimpse of Passaic River Waterfront 197
Government Steel Barges, Barge Canal 139
Grain Elevators 285
Greater N. Y. and Long Island, Showing Jamaica Bay 175
H
Hackensack Valley (Diagram of) 194
Hunt Co., C. W., Inc., Ship Repair Plant 162
Interesting Views N. Y. State Waterways 144
K
Keel and Bottom of "Shamrock IV" 289
Kerr, Henry F., President 253
Kerr Steamship Company's New Building 252
Kill van Kull, Newark Bay and Arthur Kill Anchorages 99
L
Large Railroad Float and Yacht in Barge Canal 148
Looking North from Lincoln Highway Bridge on Hackensack 206
Lower Bay and Sandy Hook Anchorages 98
M
McWilliams' Dry Docks and Shipyards, and Verdon Machine Shops, North Shore, Staten Island 162
Manhattan Approach, Queensboro Bridge 71
Manhattan Approach, Queensboro Bridge 74
Manhattan Plaza, Manhattan Bridge 59
Manhattan's Crowded Waterfront 110
Manhattan Terminal, Williamsburg Bridge 65
Marginal Street, Showing Congestion 123
Maritime Exchange, Main Floor 221
Mary Powell (Albany Day Line Steamer) 224
Metropolitan Life Building's Tower at Night 301
Mill Basin, Jamaica Bay 180
Model Factories, Atlantic Basin Waterfront 93
Municipal Ferryboat "Queens" 51
Municipal Ferryboat "Bay Ridge" 182
N
N C-4 at Plymouth, England 120
Near View of Jamaica Bay 176
New Pier Development, 46th Street, N. R 227
New Ford Plant on Passaic River 201
N. Y. City Fireboat "William L. Strong" 25
Nightview of Queensboro Bridge . 185
North River Piers, etc14 and 19
North River Piers and West Street 14
O
Office Building, Staten Island Shipbuilding Company 166
P
Panoramic View of Shipyard of Submarine Boat Company 208-209
Pier A, Hudson River (Headquarters and Offices Department of Docks) 151
Plant of L. A. Dreyfus at Clifton, Staten Island 158
Port of New York Lighter (Typical) 31
Pouch Piers at Clifton, Staten Island 159
Produce Exchange 218
Proposed Pier Development East Side of Staten Island 156
Q
Quarantine Station in Narrows, Staten Island 157
Queensboro Bridge 75
S
Sailor's Home and Institute 230
Sailors' Snug Harbor Buildings 237
St. George Ferry Landing, Staten Island 161
Seamen's Bank for Savings 228
Seamen's Church Institute 269
Lunch Room 270
Third Floor Dormitory 270
The Clinic 270
View Including South Street 271
The Apprentice Boys' Room 272
The Institute Tender 272
An Officer's Room 272
Seamen's Wages Department . . . 272
Shipping Bureau 278
Chapel of Our Saviour 278
One of the Reading Rooms 278
Section Federal Shipbuilding Co.'s Plant on Hackensack River 205
Section of Erie Canal, Near Little Falls . 146
Sheepshead Bay Anchorage . 101
Skyline at Night, Manhattan 12
Skyline, Lower End of Manhattan 11
Southwestern Extremity of Manhattan 23
Southwestern Corner of Manhattan 41
Standard Shipbuilding Co's Plant 163
Statenlsland Shipbuilding Co. 166,167,168,169,170 & 171
Steamship "City of Tahore," Being Salved 261
Steamer "Commonwealth" 39
Steamship "Cristobal" . 238
Steamship "Imperator".. . . 45
Steamship "La Lorraine," French Liner 21
Steamship "Leviathan," Largest Afloat 43
Steamship "Minnesota" 27
Steamship "Morro Castle" 33
Steamship "Nieuw Amsterdam," Dutch Liner.. 38
Steamship "Santa Cecilia," of Green Star Steamship Line 130
Steamship "Wasco" 48
Steamyacht "Noma" as Torpedo Boat Destroyer 49
Stern View of "Shamrock IV" 289
Storage Battery Tractor In Use 255
Submarine Boat Co's Plant at Port Newark 209
Sunset Lighterage Co., Gasoline Lighter, "Cedarcliff " 284
T
Terry & Tench Co 284
Tier-Lift Electric Truck 258
Troy Terminal, Showing Railroad Connections 147
Twilight View of Statue of Liberty 89
U
U. S. Army Supply Base 233
U. S. Naval Pier at 97th Street, North River, Manhattan 268
U. S. Navy Fleet Supply Base, Brooklyn 137
U. S. Seaplane N C-4, at Far Rockaway 116
U. S. Seaplane N C-4, at Far Rockaway 118
U. S. Steamship "George Washington" 61
Upper Deck of Manhattan Bridge.. 192
V
Vacant Meadowland on Hackensack 207
Vandam Warehouses 287
Vessel Wharfing to Receive Fuel Coal 153
View of Car Dumper Unloading Car 153
View of Downey Shipyard Plant, Arlington, Staten Island 165
Views of Existing Piers at Stapleton, Staten Island 160
View Near Lockport, Barge Canal 148
Views on Barge Canal, State of New York.. . 145
Vincent Astor's Steam Yacht "Noma" . 34
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Washington Bridge, Spanning Harlem 73
Washington Plaza, Brooklyn Terminal, Williamsburg Bridge 67
Waterford Section, Barge Canal 140
Webster, Rev. Geom S 230
Western Anchoragt, Upper Bay 97
West Street Congestion Graphically Presented 149
What Is Expected On Hackensack River Five Years Hence 204
Whitman, Hon. Charles S 35
Williams, Hon. Frank M., State Engineer 191
Winning Crew of U. S. Seaplane N C-4 122
Woolworth Building. Home of Merchants' Association of New York 215
FOREWORD
WE launch our PORT OF NEW YORK ANNUAL confident that there is a very needful place for such a volume.
The greatest port in the world-which New York is-will willingly and gladly support an ANNUAL solely devoted to its welfare and development, especially when such development is not, although easily it may be made, adequate to the Port's needs.
Much depends upon the character of the material asembled within the covers of this ANNUAL as to its future success. For that reason great care has been exercised in the selection from an overwhelming wealth of data of the material presented here. Yet it is possible that things have been omitted that should have been included, and things included that should be omitted. If this proves to be true the necessary corrections will be made in succeeding ANNUALS. The publishers will welcome from users of this PORT ANNUAL suggestions of material to be included in subsequent volumes.
We hope, through the wide distribution of this volume, greatly to increase and sustain public pride in the wonderful greatness of the Port of New York, a sentiment that we believe is dormant rather than dead.
We expect to stimulate clearer realization of the value of the Port of New York among officials having control over or a share in the administration of the port and its maritime and commercial interests through our PORT ANNUAL.
Port pride must precede permanent port betterment.
Appeal for greater consideration and recognition through more generous space devoted to strictly maritime and related matters, and especially port development, is made to the press of the entire Port of New York. The reason this appeal is thus made is that the greater publicity, the more detailed publicity, given to purely port matters by the press, the better the public will come to understand the enormous benefits they enjoy because of the location and the many natural and acquired advantages of the Port of New York; and then the better able the public will be to safeguard and increase their port facilities.
Through its administrative officers the City of New York has been grossly neglectful of the waterfront of the city for many, many years. This neglect must be remedied, and our PORT OF NEW YORK ANNUAL is expected to help remedy it, and thus prevent, in succeeding years, recurrences of such indefensible neglect. The more attention the city government gives to the improvement of the waterfront, we realize, the more attention the newspapers of the Port of New York will give to its affairs. In that way the people themselves will become much more familiar than ever before with essential facts and valuable details regarding their port, knowledge essential to their helpful and effective support of acutely pressing port betterments.
Twenty-two years ago a study of statistics of the foreign commerce of the Port of New York by the writer led to his discovery that for seventeen consecutive years there had been no increase in the foreign commerce of the Port of New York, a matter that he ventilated publicly so thoroughly as to lead to the appointment of a temporary State commission to investigate the matter, following which there was a normal growth of the foreign commerce of the Port of New York until the beginning of the European war. Owing to alleged conditions of chronic congestion in the freight situation at New York the Federal officials are pursuing a policy of diverting to other competing ports commerce naturally tributary to the Port of New York, the first year's result of which was shown in a loss of imports and exports during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, of over $522,000,000, a loss so colossal that if suffered continuously for seven years would entirely wipe out the foreign commerce of the Port of New York, a loss that only two other customs districts of the United States could stand without losing their entire foreign commerce.
Twenty-one years ago the writer was a member of this State Commerce Commission charged with the duty of examining into the subject of New York's commerce, the cause of its decline and the means for its revival. At that time the three heads of the Department of Docks of the City of New York testified that some thirty-five applications were in their files from steamship and steamboat lines who desired permanent wharfage facilities which the department was unable to supply. At that time a condition existed, and there is good reason for believing that it had even then long existed, of indefensible neglect of New York's waterfront improvement.
The present Commissioner of Docks in 1918 stated publicly that between thirty and forty applications were in the files of his department from steamship and steamboat lines that desired permanent wharfage facilities in the City of New York which the city was unable to furnish. There is good reason to believe that the condition mentioned by the present Commissioner of Docks has existed continuously for at least twenty-one years.
It would be a reasonable conclusion, from a study of this situation, that the City of New York is neglectful of its responsibilities to the people in respect to the greater improvement of its waterfront, the better facilitation of shipping, and the necessary accommodation of commerce. As the promotion of each and all of these is essential to the progress and welfare of the people, unless some effective remedy is applied the shipping and commerce of the Port of New York will steadily shrink, and then New York will suffer incalculable losses in industries, population, real estate values and wealth that will make the present city indebtedness unbearable and inextinguishable.
The city government, however, would not dare to neglect to improve its waterfront if the press were alive to its responsibilities in exposing official neglect and suggesting effective remedies therefor. But the press attempts to excuse its neglect to direct public attention to New York's conditions and requirements by pleading that the people themselves are indifferent to these matters. The people are only indifferent because they are uninformed. The press is one of the most useful corrective agencies in the situation presented by New York City's neglect of its waterfront development. The PORT OF NEW YORK ANNUAL once a year, at least, therefore, will present its case and make its suggestions, if the public sustains the new undertaking.
The chronic neglect of the City of New York to increase its wharfage facilities has become unbearable. A remedy must be found. One that is being seriously considered is a plan of control to be exercised by the States of New York and New Jersey, jointly, over the Port of New York as a whole, the area of which includes an important part of each State. To that end amendments are proposed in a treaty adopted in 1834 by the States of New York and New Jersey the adoption of which would gradually place authority over the entire port in the hands of a permanent bi-State commission whose powers would include the raising of the necessary money by the issuance of bonds to the payment of which the two States would be jointly pledged, the proceeds of which would be used to develop and co-ordinate the wharfage facilities of the whole port, to increase the same wherever found desirable, and to administer the port as a whole, rather than as a section. Because, bad as the City of New York has been in neglecting its waterfront development in response to urgent demands from vessel owners, agents and managers for increased wharfage facilities, the different municipalities, boroughs and towns of New Jersey embraced within the boundaries of the Port of New York, as well as the State of New Jersey itself, have been a great deal worse, because they have done almost nothing to provide wharfage facilities in their area of the Port of New York which the City of New York has failed to do within its area of the Port of New York.
The final adoption of this revolutionary plan of control of the Port of New York has been deferred until the early part of 1920. One of the features of this, the first, issue of the PORT OF NEW YORK ANNUAL, therefore, is a presentation of the proposed amended treaty that would vest authority over the port in the hands of this bi-State commission, with the arguments that have developed and the views that have been expressed in favor of and against it from responsible and influential sources. This is featured in this detailed manner in order that those interested-which should be every intelligent citizen of the Port of New York, as well as many outside of the Port of New York, but who are interested in it as the greatest of our national gateways to and from the world at large-may study it during the coming months in advance of action so as to be able to express intelligent judgment as to the wisdom of its adoption.
We have sought to embellish our PORT OF NEW YORK ANNUAL with illustrations typically local to the Port of New York, neither the number nor the character of which is as complete as we would wish nor as we plan in subsequent ANNUALS to include.
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