The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-28

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 A regular meeting of the chamber of commerce was held last evening in the rooms of the Builders Exchange, and it proved to be one of the most interest ing meetings held in some time:
 The following new members of the chamber were elected: E. P. Avery, J. r. Me Cusker, Robert $. Ives and F, B. Street.
 Henry c. Rowe of the harbor com mittee then presented the following re- port, which was discussed at length and finally adopted with some opposi- tion:
 To the Senate and House of Representa-
 tives of the United States in Congress
 assembled:
 We, the undersigned, the harbor comrnis- sioners, and the chamber of commerce, of New Haven, Connecticut, respectfully rep resent, that. by the River and Hatbor Acl of lS96 new survey Of New Haven harnof was ordered, to aid in ascertainlns what im- provementS are required to accommodate the commerce of this port.
 To further assist in determining the na- ture and extent Of tho, Improvements which are urgently required, your memorialists
 beg leave to present the following Facts, namely:
 That the channel of the harbor of New tliNeil IS tullEtlH luiuebullt III NlttH tliiu
 depth to accommodate the present com merce of this port; that said commerce IS steadily increasing, and unless extensive improvements are made it will rapiuiy be- come more crowded, inc0nVenient and dan-
 gerous.
 That the depth of the channel is insuiti-
 cient for many of the vessels which ire auent this port, when loaded, to come with in long distance of the wharves: that yes sels are built in this port, which. when load ed in other ports, can not return to New
 Haven and discharge, because of the lack of depth of channel.
 That there is no place for large vessels to come to anchor in the harbor except direct ly in the narrow channel rendering the
 passage up and down the harbor difficult We respectfully represent that the geo
 graphical position and railroad connections of New Haven render the availability and
 safety of New Haven harbor. of paramount importance, not only to the city of New Fla ven, but to the commercial interests of q wide extent of country-containing great | manufacturing interests. and requiring vast quantities of coal, iron. lumber and other | materials, and which ship from this port great quantities of manufactured products | That in addition to a large foreign trade, New Haven is the distributing point for T | great coastwise traffic, New Haven being | the most important railroad center In New England except Boston.
 l That beside the commerce to this port, l here as harbor of refuge; these vessels l Increase the crowding of the channel and furnish great additional need for it's widen ing;
 quate harbor accommodations, as | port for q large inland territory. the manufacturing and other interests of the city of New Ha- ven are very large, varied, and steadily growing.
 That the railroad connections of New Ha- ven are so direct and extensive in every di- rection, that if the harbor is made ade- | nta irrp tvpf xr be indefinitely enlarged especially as ocean commerce through the eastern entrance of 1 Long Island Sound increases. | We most respectfully refer to the memo | rial addressed to Congress by the citizens | of Connecticut, New York and other states,
 and by the chamber of commerce and the harbor commissioners of New Haven, dated | December 10th, 1S14 and call attention to
 the fact that the draft of vessels frequent | ing New Haven harbor has so far increased | since the date of the presentation of that
 memorial, that the needs of this harbor as | set forth in that memorial are now far
 greater than they were at that time-the | draft of q large proportion of the vessels
 now coming to this port being from eighteen | to twenty two feet, whereas formerly the | ordinary draft was from ten to fourteen | feet.
 l We respectfully present the following sta l tistics, showing the extent of the commerce
 of this port for the calendar year of 1895: l Vessels arriving and departing from New
 Haven harbor for calendar year 1895: | Draft from to P feet. l Tonnage from 100 tons to 26O0. l Steamers of all kinds arriving and de.
 parting farrival and departure counted only
 once), 14,40o. Sailing vessels, $500. Barges
 in tow and scows s,200 Total 31 400. l Tonnage of steamers, 3210,000 tons. Ton
 mage of sailing vessels, 5,250,000 tons. Ton
 mage of barges and scows in tow, 3.4O000O tons. Total tonnage. Il. .S6o,000 tons. Coastwise coal received and shipped, 9o3,- | 400 tons; value $3. 433 GOO.
 Iron received and shipped, 155000 tons; | value S4, $50 900.
 Lumber received 96ooo,ooo feet 144ooo | tons; value $2. 160,000.
 1 Oysters received and shlppeu. o4,O00 tons; | value S7900
 Miscellaneous merchandise received; | New York steamers and miscellaneous l vessels, 1,0S0, 900 tons; value SIS, ,8OO0O0. l Miscellaneous merchandise, shipped; i New York steamers and miscellaneous vessels $50, 900 tons; value $139, 300 GOO.
 T9s tonnage sSea saa a1d odo 1 Increase over calendar year of 1894. 92, 400 l tons.
 Two passenger and freight steamboat | lines, with six steamers: running daily to New York.
 New transportation companies started. | two, viz: Tice, and James Boyce Towing
 and Transportation. Co. of New York. 1 in view of the foregoing facts and sta | tistics. we most respectfully petition that 1 suitable appropriations be made to dredge | out the channel of the harbor of New Ha- l i water and width of fifteen hundred feet. | extending from a present depth of twenty 1 feet of water-in the lower part of the hal-
 bor-to point above Long wharf: thence to
 a depth of twenty feet and width of six | hundred feet up to Tomlinson's bridge: and | from Tomlinson's s bridge up the harbor--or | lower part of the Quinnjpiac river-to a depth of fifteen feet and width of three | hundred feet as far as Grand avenue i bridge, and to depth of twelve feet and a | width of two hundred feet up to Lewis
 bridge Also in Mill river to depth of if | teen feet and a width of two hundred feet l t0 just above the Chapel street bridge, so- | called: thence to the Grand avenue bridge | two channels, one on each side of the river, | each twelve feet and one hundred feet wide 1 Also from the main harbor channel up the l lower part of the West river to the Kimber.
 lv avenue bridge, channel seventy-five feet | wide and twelve feet deep. | Dated at New Haven, Conn, this 27th day | of January. 1S9l.
 Respectfully submitted: | GEORGE B. MARTIN, ! HENRY c. ROWE, | Committee on Harbor of the Chamber of Commerce.
 l Accompanying the petition was a list of a 1 nortion of the vessels drawing more than l the present depth of the harbor channel (1t 1 feet which frequent this port; comprisinc | 13O three. four and five-masted schooners l 4 barks and harkentines, and Is barges. 1 The following resolution was then of ] eora5 l,1y Mir Barnes and it was adont