The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-16
A HUGE WATER FRONT SCHEME.


rations With Extraordinary Powers.
Special to the jersey City Ne,us.
| TRENTON, April 16. 1890. -Ex-G Governor
Rodman M. Price has been here during
almost the entire session advocating q
measure which seeks to improve the vast
water front of Hudson and Essex coun-
ties. The measure is Senate bill No. 22s
and it provides that corporations organ
lied under the laws of the State may
build and own dredges and contract for
dredging to deepen channels and to con-
struct basins and docks, bu1kheads.
wharves and piers, and reclaim lands
within and without this State. They
may also construct and use railway
tracks and tunnels to connect their con-
structions with the tracks Of any other
railroad corporation, with elevators and
terminal facilities for shipping merchan-
disc. Authority is given to cUhstruceand
use tunnels under the lands or waters OF
the State, or bridges The company may
also make and operate connections and
cancellations with other corporations.
In speaking about the bill today Cover
nor Price sails-..The object of the bill is
to afford facs for shipping. cheaper
the handling OIL .Sargoes. to bring freight
by rail to the ship in dock and alongside
the warehouses and elevators, to receive,
discharge and store freight The New
Jersey shore possesses unrivalled advan-
tages for commerce and shipping. The
shores of the bay and harbor Of New York
and Hudson River commands the CONT
mental terminus of the railroad system.
We witness freights of all kinds arriving
from the extremes of our continent to the
shipping point of the Atlantic, opposite
the city of New York, port said to be very
expensive for handling goods. Most all
the freight so arriving on our shores is
freighted across the Hudson River to
New York for shipment at heavy cost to
producers. We see the manufactured
City, Newark, Paterson, Trenton and
other places sent to New York for ship
ment. Ferry-hoats. barges and tugs
loaded with freight leaving shore which
can afford greater accommodation to COM
merce than the island OF New York. Be-
sides the natural advantages of our own
geographical position, the railroad system
of our country has increased the CONNER
cial value and Importance of our locality
as q port. Why then is it, may be peril
nently asked, that the water front of New
Jersey, which first receives the freight, is
not the shipping point instead OF New
York; Why Is it tnat Jersey City, Hobo
ken, with their extensive and superior
advantages, are not doing this trader
Simply because their greater advantages
have not been developed in way to ac-
commodate shipping.
Inc Dill lntSrIereS Win no rights
private, public or corporate, it harms no
interest, but benefits all 1t is general in
its character. as provided by the constitu-
tion of the State, which is mandatory
upon the Legislature in their discretion
to sanction. A large amount of capital
is ready TO be expended in the enterprise,
with the most advanced engineering skill
and science, with appliances of the most
modern inventions of dredging, ready TO
do the work in the best manner and in
the shortest practicable time. await the
passage of the bill.
The bill passed to second reading to-
day and the Ex-Governor is very sanguine
that 1t will become law before the ses-
sion adiourns.