The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-05
MORE DOCKS NEEDED
Hoboken Interested in the Re-
quest for an Extended
Pier Line.

The application made to the War De-
partment by Counsellor George L. Record
on behalf Of the New Jersey StatefARiv
parian Commission. Hoboken Land and
Improvement Company, Hoboken Ferry
Company and the North German Lloyd
and neutrality-suspicious. Steamship Com
panies to have the pier head line along
the New Jersey side of the North River
extended two hundred feet has created
a great deal Of interest in Hoboken. AS
has been stated in The News" the War
Department has granted the application
OF the New York Dock Board to extend
its pier line and the authorities on this
side of the river want the same privilege.
The new Secretary of War, General Rus
sell A. Alger, will refer 1t to the New.
York Harbor Line Board for report.
1t Is known that the application granted
the New York Dock Board was made be-
cause of h fact that the Hamburg
American and North German Lloyd
Steamship Companies of Hoboken had
applied for dock facilities in New York
city, where they intend to land their pas
senger steamers. Mr.. Palmer Campbell,
president of the Hoboken Land and I'M
provement Company, when interviewed
yesterday regarding the petition made by
the New Jersey authorities, said
If the steamship companies move part
of their business to New York it will
certainly be a great loss to Hoboken. OF
course we annot stop them If they have
decided to so, but the least we can do is
to obtain the privilege of extending the
pier lines on this side of the river, the
same as in New York. In our petition
which we presented to ex-Secretary La
mont of the Wa Department we ask for
permission to extend our pier lines 200
feet from Castle Point to Sixteenth
street. Jersey City. We want to enable
steamship companies to extend their piers
so that they can dock steamers 700 feet
long. The New York Dock Board opposed
u application simply because it thought
that our petition, coming in when it did,
would delay the Secretary Of War in act
ing on the New York petition. We, how
ever, went to the Secretary of War and
asked that our application be taken up
at the same time as the New York appli-
cation. Secretary Lamont considered that
as the application of the dock department
came in first it should be considered first.
We are now going to push our petition
before. the new Secretary of War and
think that it will be granted. It is abso-
lutely necessary for the life of our great
steamship business here to have our piers
extended in order to accommodate the
modern steamships, which are about 700
feet long. The permission we ask for
does not Interfere with the flow of the
river and we consider that our request
is very lttle.'
Secretary Eldridge, of the Hoboken
Ferry Company, said:-"We signed the
application for the extension of the piers
because we believe that the steamship
companies should be given every encour-
agement to remain here. They are Ger
tainly a great help to the city,"
Mayor Pagan is also in favor of the pier
lines being extended. st don't see,n said
the Mayor. why we should not have the
same privilege to extend our pier lines as
New York has. If the steamship com
panies move to New York it viii be a
great loss to this city. They give en-
ployment to a large number of ouI, citi-
zens and have made valuable use of our
water front"