New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-04-13

Ohio Railroad. which acquired from me It's control.
Because It belonged to trunk line. and because
there was no real effort induce the diversion or
the freight from other lines. there has up TO this
time been general use made Of this great artery
of commerce Under the provisions of the law now
ever all the roads can It, and the proposal now
is 10 bring its services general This bridge
will permit access by the ten great railway ZINES
west Of the Hudson to Staten Island. and these
additional terminals would prove OF immense ad-
vantage TO Nsw-York In point OF receiving and
shipping.
THE PROJECTED RAILROAD.
my proposal provides for the construction OF a
belt line, or switching road. from the West Shore
road say at Little Ferry station. right across New
Jersey the Staten Island Sound. and thence, by
new electric road to deep water In the harbor. This
outer belt line in Jersey City would ntersect the
West Shore. Susquehanna and Western. Ontario and
Western. Erie. Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley Balt-
more and Ohio. Jersey Central. and Reading roads.
1t would be difficult imagine group Of instru-
mentalities in commerce having a wider sweep than
these great systems of INSTRUMENTATION. Yet.
under existing conditions. they all terminate in a
confined space in Jersey City. confined. in fact.
that it contain only two days receipts
from these lines and in order to be relieved trib
ute must be exacted. in the shape OF lghterage
VALUE OF STATEN ISLAND TERMINALS.
eft is TO reduce this lighterage If not entirely TO
II.
jected, and TO relieve the congestion at the crowded
terminals of Jersey City that the plan is pro-
posed to defect loaded cars. and even whole trains
to the Staten Island shore, where within the har-
bor with deep water and 1.-THE greatest economy.
the three great purposes of terminal can be sinful
taneously served namely. receipt. storage and ship
ment. The separation Of these three essentials to
the cheap handling of freight is the disability which
places New-York at a disadvantage great as
against other ports, where. as in Boston. Baltimore
Newport News. Norfolk. New-Oreans and Calves
In New-York Harbor we receive in Jersey City. We
store IN Brooklyn and we ship in New-fork II
more costly. more inconvenient and less likely to
be successful as against other ports.
not be- %here eans
annually is exacted for the cost OF transfer which
farmers and distributors viii not pay this money
every year. when by going 10 Newport News and
of ghterage TO the points Of receipt In Jersey City
and upper New-York to the point Of storage in
point Of shipment is a good deal more than $1,000
ton ad b am s OF w 0pn0n thar ayes very large
and shipments were made possible on Staten Island
ca HH S things ae se t The
Is the development OF canal traffic. to form
rail- freight 70 reach portion Of the harbor where
economy IN the cost o. transfer is poss BILE The
means OF the outer belt line now protected. all the
railroads west Of the Hudson would have access to
now that the pier and bulkhead line established by
Congress and the Legislature affords ample water
and wide spaces II is intended 10 build the best
class of terminals Piers 1000 feet long by go wide
Will invite shipping Of the largest class; ire-proo,
hoisting apparatus. and grain elevators; after the
latest pattern, costing 20 cents per bushel as
against 81 per bushe now. all butt on land costing
So) per running foot. as against 81 800 per foot in
inaccessible Brooklyn. and ten times much in
crowded New-York or Jersey City some OF the
advantages that will weigh with the people who pay
can help it,