The New York herald., 1876-12-20

HARLEM RIVER WIDENING.

MEETING OF THE PORT MORRIS COMMITTEE
yEsTERDAY-GESERAL MENTIONS OPINION
NEW yoRK's DULUTH.
A meeting OF the promoters OF the sport Morris
Continental Mail Route hed yesterday afternoon
at the offices OF Mr. 5. f. Lyon, No. 81 Wall street.
The meeting was unusually well attended, and mum.
Der OF gentlemen not heretofore connected with the
movemen, signided their hearty concurrence in the
scheme series of resolutions relating to the widen
ing OF the Harlem River and the Port Morris scheme
proper, which had been presented by special COM
mttce, were read. The widening OF tho river would
insure:-
Fra-A very annual saving IN towage in the
mec,s transactions between The Upper Hndson the Erie
Seco"d-A shortening Of routes between the West and
7dA increase Of the dock frontage Of this city
and hence eventually great saving by esapeninS dock
loading a q unoading carx"es
improvements and use Of the deep sea- rent Il Port orr
Wards and kandas Islands and the omery Bay Ward
adjacent and accessible 70 New iorK There are nearly
fVh-Such improvement would enable shipping In port
moving in out at anchor to escape all violently
ming tides 1t would lead eventually such fngess
Channels as IS TO escape the delays
by the tides in the channels Of the lower bay
The advantages of Port Morris place OF arrival
and departure Of ocean steamships would be -
First BY using New Harbor through
s S s n q
ing for high tide TO cross the bar and there being no
ance OF the necessity OF putting ous to sea IN case Of eastery
Serond-These steamers which are now obliged leave
their docks different hours each trip in order TO reach
specified Of the day whch would prove
ThPort Morris is the only available place in th. city
where these steamers connect directly with our great
prove OF ncs,imsbe value TO the mercantile community
and TO tho city
tive commttee:-Lewis G. Morris, Franklin Edison,
l. g. Mcdonald, Charles Stuughton, b. L. Ackerman,
tee appointed at previous meeting and the toll
lowing names were yesterday added Hugh \. Camp,
$: R FiIiey, !. n Dyckman, W G. Ackerman. Thomas
II. Faile, Mr. Coombs, Joseph Byrne J. L. Mott II. P.
DeGraaf and J. H. Cheever
1t is proposed ,nat these committees shall proceed
to take steps in securing federal and State
tion in the matter oil the Harlem River.
GENERAL NEwTCx's OPINION.
snrvcv Of The Harlem gives as his on,n,on
shat the opening TO navigation could be accomplished
for less than 600 GOO The following conversation
was held with General Newton on the subject
What would be the expense OF connecting the East
with the North Rivcr?"
estimate channel Is Ieet deep $50 feet wide
could made between the two for 81 TO- 0O0
''How long would It take to accomplish the mattcrY"
sThe work could be done IN TWO and a half years" I"
"Would u be work Of great magntudeS"
'.lt would not be great work Tor the city to do
alone"
..would thcro be any objectionY"
"Probably not, although the work should bo done
before bridges obstructing the channel are built
ADO you suppose 1t would be popular route with
ocean steamers? ~
sNinc out OF ten captains would object going out
th rough the Sound though there Is valid reason
why they should The channel dug out In the ST.
Lawrence not feasible as this, yet 1t was IN
con slant use and often crowded
Would IL shorten the disanccsn
eyes, tho distance shortened would be equal to
twice tho distance from Sandy Hook to Port Morris
and with the gain in tides would effect a saving or
twentyfour hours In round trip from Port Morris
Europe"
The General further sad that, OF course, beng In
the public service he could not recommend suggest
but IL he a private citizen he would most az.
surcdly urge the completion Of the enterprise The
whole West, the General thought, interested in
having the channel opened.