The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-02

Jersey Central. 5000
Delaware, Lackawanna and western........ 5000
Erie 3S, 1000
West shore . 5000
New Haven 5000
New York Central 4 5000
Harlem. e.. E. 1000
New York and Northern .................... 10000
Long Island tS'ooo
.".....e4o.oo0
In short. the daily average population of
New York is now considerably moro than three
ana a half millions.
ELEMENTS OF THE POPULATION.
People who wero not fully informed as to the
facts, and who were also moro or less irritatod by
a knowledge of things that were not SO, have at
times spoken of New York as n city of for
oigners. They have mentioned in what they
called n proof OF their assertions the prevalence
OF Irish and German names on the police force,
and of jewish and German pames in any list OF
business men. New York has got u whole lot,
IL we may use tho vernacular Of her traducers.
a whole lot Of Irishmen, Germans, and
Jews. She has been a Mecca for them
these many years back-and for all others who
knew a good opportunity when they saw 1t. If
any ono wants to know how well these people
have used their opportunities, lot him get on
a broadway car and count the business signs
with foreign names, or on an East Broadway
car and count the diamonds he can see worn
by people who dwell in east side
This done. let him examine the last census
rcport--the report of the garbled c~ensus-and
he will find that after leaving. out all the
foreign.born residents New York's native-born
Americans number enough to make her the
second city in the world.
This is not to appreciate tho worth. or tho
patriotism either. Of our foreign,born citizens:
Who knows New York knows that the blood
and the money of these citizens will be as freely
sacrificed for the gridiron flag as the blood and
what it was to live under Governments where
rulers came into power through birth, and they
choose their rulorr from among themselves.
Moreover, tho men who would have the nation
s s%sis as tho ia' R RGne@R,ne emblem or ses p %re rar ,Gs .n Il
ever, found among these foreigners"
m New m Yak not Sm only has son a Numerous A but o. 2
this fact a good deal is yet to be said.
THE WATER FRONT.
Turning now from the population to the city's
ali the harbor. Time was when a harbor was
considered great in proportion to the sheltered
Room for navies of the world to anchor" was
the old term of praise. In these days ships do
p port aR Where they me up an ne q P, IS q or po Mha Where A
cargoes are discharged into lighters and handled
sWered in the rs1 raonITem ans sho OF the ss oHd 9 aoTs n Sn:
fectly,, for she had wide and safe anchorage
GRAND pf u v She began sss eon to prepare sn for Gpo,d the
years ago. Of which a snug harbor FOR rowboats
s sna a ns thas works eae a aSs is ses s.ill e %ensased. pier Fer
SUCCESS is really the marvel of the world: ,o.
of water front. OF which more than n half may
be improved for the use Of shipping: This Is
new city. Manhattan Island has already i'm.
proved SO much OF it's part Of this line that we
II this were stretched out IN one wharf with a
proper depth. of water $50 OF the largest ships
beside it at once.
TRAFFIC OF RIVER AND SEA.
1t may help the reader to comprehend tho
OCEAN traffic OF the port II 1t DO told that the
nounced that 172 steamer would leave port in
the ensuing week. and that that was merely nm
steamers TO this Isf must be- b added the trafiic Of
the Hudson River and the Sound and the harbor
There are thirty.four lines OF Hudson River
steamers and thirty;two lines of Sound and
running 10 Long Branch-in nll sixty.six lines.
And then there Is tho sailing ship affic that ia
parts Of the Brooklyn water 'front.' mighty
fleet that cannot be enumerated here. and all
Manhattan Island alone, with its ffty.fve
miles, outranks in pier line all other ports in the
world. Liverpool stands next. with thirty.ave
to the wharfage on Manhattan Island must BIO
added the thirty-three miles on the Brooklyn
side. not to mention piers on Staten Island.
The Brooklyn Wharf and Warehouse Com.
pany alone controls two and n quarter miles Of
u u " hSo. tIlhcn thhl SlH VI
wharfage room. 1t recently built eight miles of
railroad to connect its warehouses; and piers.
at tho piers of this one company, besides fleets
Of tramps and single carriers.
times the wharf space of it's nearest rival.
end yet IT. the s, wharfage fSst of IN New ,r Hors does To- S no
York's business men, for the Jersey piers are as
much a p9rt Of the port Of New York as those
S SstWss" 1 siar's.h S Ths i ana rns n Of Sssw ON Y Yah:
amount to $500! DOC. 900 per annnin. and tho
ships that at by m the h ~ Ire. goes to .et the Port o t fna
And yet, in spite of all this room. commerce is
and tho prices paid for pier rentals are rising
steadily. The reports Of the Dock DEPARTMENT
are urgent In their call for increased facilities.
ROOM FOR BIG SHIPS.
Nor Is that nll. Tho growth of cargoes has
called forlarger ana larger ships until what was
in size by a practical carrier. and the Ss demand on
a port Is no longer for breadth, but for depth OF
Depth in if The s" old days iH"s AND @i' was %asu within "' r %,snat
years d~eepened to suit tho requirements of the
ships Of 1890. is found on this first day of 1905
not only too shoal. but also too %tortuous. The
At the Southwest Spit, should bo aban;
it is 1T at all stages of the tide and in all wealth
ers.. The demand for this improvement in the
harbor appears the moro imperative when 1t ID
considered that tho rise and fall Of the tide ibe
tween four and 1--WE feet in n, way in%terferes
that spur Is lacking when a ship has to wall
many hours for the tide to serve at the bar.
or warehouse capacity only a paragraph II IL
necessary. The long rows of storage buildings
b on the water front and around the Erie Basin
speak for themselves, especially when it is re
membcred that they are accessible at all stages
of tho tide. But there is one adjunct of sea
, commerce that must needs attract attention
whenever the advantages of IL port are cOnsid
cred. Tho largest ships are sometimes Obliged
TO go away to the Delaware for repairs. There
Is l. NO ,,I sasipy entirely Tith .S dry docks that At m SS
mands of the port that boasts its superiorily
IN all other respects. This is not to dcprecint,
dry dock there that measures $40 feet long and
90 feet wide on the bottom. Another is $40 feet
long and so feet wide on tho bottom. The mere
statement OF these figures shows the need q
more and larger docks. Moreover. the harbol
that loads all Others in II It have tho
r room. as New York's has, ought to lead all 9th
ers in. shipbuildlng. The, fact is. New Yorl
once did lead in sbipyards. but the ship car
, pointers union by repeated atrikcs drove tn,