New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-03

THE HIGHWAY OF COMMERCE.
Az URGENT NEED OF THE PORT OF NEw-YoRH
CNDULY DELAYED

The Huh W Al Of CON NLi>~A>'
Az URGENT NEED OF THE PORT OF NETWORK
UNDULY DELAYED
To The Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The editorials which appeared IN your issues
o. September q. upon the wide interests Of COM
nerce. and Of September %. upon the commercial
advantage that the port Of New-York has over that
Of Newport News. OF the greatest interest.
The importance Of commerce 20 d country cannot
he overestimated in considering its power and In
fuence. In Ike manner the city best situated and
best organized TO attract commerce becomes by THIS
Influx # products and the business attendant there
TO the most powerful and important Many kinds
Of industry are fostered capital centres IN Il as
well as wit and grit Natural advantages must
be taken advantage Of and improved, and some
times entirely superseded by artificial means. as In
the case OF the Manchester Canal
II grain merchant wishes 10 ship five or ten
million bushels Of grain from the West 10 Eu-
rope ne Will choose among the routes by way OF
Boston, New-York. Philadelphia. Baltimore, New
mort News or Canada ,hat which will be
cheapest and best. the way. in short which has been
rayed the snooihest for his convenience. Canada
FOR instance. has spent some 100000 10 make It's
route attractive 70 commerce. II Is not New-York
that commerce cares for but pounds and shlllngs
and dollars and cents.
Trivial circumstances often lead 10 romentous
events. as when Commodore Perry and his handful
Q. men by a we'll executed demonstration in Jap
anese waters opened that powerful nation 10 the
influence Of Western civilizat lion; or when Dutch
man at Suffers Mil. near Sacramento. stumbled
upon 4 chunk which the drst find Of that i'm
rnense treasure Of virgin gold which relieved the
National credit at a moment when Il was pre-
cag.Ousy low. or in the case when the Great
Eastern entered the port Of Ncw-York by the
deep waters Of Long Island Sound. Nhen TINS
"ity.alhan Of the deep" first came over TO show
her greatness she entered the Bay Of New-fork
.l-fe o-r7i~r IN he fats which
stretch from Coney Island TO the Jersey shore
through the Sandy Hook Bar Channel Being dis
satisfied with this difficult and dangerous entrance
her second and third visits she entered the
Sound without let or hirdrance from the tides and
anchored in the commodious harbor Of Port Nor
RS thus demonstrating without a peradventure
the fact that the port OF New-York has good
deep sea entrance and Of the best harbors on
the Atlantic Coast. An ocean liner could leave
Port Morris daily except Sunday at o'clock In
he afternoon. full freiahted. on q schedule time
10 London via Bristol. Of five days for passengers
and mails and Of six and seven days for express
matter. fruits fresh meat and assorted cargoes
with less friction and greater economy In time and
expense than by any other route. To make TINS
fouie available. however. necesstaies the compile
ton Of the Harlem River waterway. ncNdlng the
spuyten Duyv channel. and the building o. the
Harlem Kills canal, $40 feet IN length. together
only about six miles. which piece OF work the
United States engineers have had in hand over
twenty-one years When this six-mile waterway is
completed If II does no. prove too great Work
10y the United States engineers TO accompish ana
al railroad connections are MADE lEul's Cp..1 "
sent from California ard intermediate points, as
vel e. the choicest beef. mutton ana olltl W.aas
lae world produce. dairy lFpducts anu Vt.e'
delicacles for the Londoners table. 10 the aayan-
,sge Of the producer. shipper ana consume, tie
me ocean liners under the req Wni'e anu -, 49,
could be made to fy back and forth ike q weaver
shuttle. !.
This route and arrange ment were IN The mind Of
ne builder Of the Erie Canal De VIZ Si'"1 rh
Enen he instituted legislation thereon III I'D ne
New-vork State LEGISLATURE had the same luea
When asked Congress 10 appropriate moNey ,9s
ior IN 1876 and In 1875 and the city OF New lV,h
appreciated its importance and it, prominent GU
1ens well az the commercial men OF ny "a" 2
efn and Western States signed petiNoi 49, a,nd
Influential constituencies the NI.Ntb congress
promptly Appropriated 10000 for THIS Wolh, re
writer IN ls1S said that IL seemed to him that II
would be the solution OF the Somiferc.a- H., he
ruth Of these statements or aVoiu the 'os'0'' wi
cnsions from these facts? , 1000, tho
!glhlment Of the promise OF the Hebrew pIOp',,V,
Prepare We the way make straight IN IN"
Desert highway. Every valley shan be [nai Iow
and every mountain ano hill shall be maze V 10
and the crooked shall he made straight ana ,Lc
rough Places plain May IL not ne saiu - ,h.
fully that the man who attempts TO block t,"
wheels Of our american commerce Is a trat1< to
our co1ntry's veal. and the man VINO s"'9 ~ ~
Dc done IS a moral coMardE s,o,es Atlantic
Commerce has not even one ocean inner OF IL. M NJ
o1ld What you going 10 90 ABOUT = ~. can
about f. We going 10 build vessels. II We ~
nsld swift and seaworthy battlesh'Ps ri'u veil
efs. We not also build ocean hneIs a. a., " Gu
81 England or Germany. ano SAL mem rs a" Arnerjcan
tsct;ons New Orleans commanded hisi'ei tis,e
10Y cotton freghts than dd foreign ehiteri're
We retrogradcd in skill in naya! arc ot da,e
snce then? This do-nothing pocy y ~ ti;r(
New-York Oct s. 1899.