Arizona republican., 1902-11-27
Leviathans of the Atlantic.

The Celtic, the Deutschland and some other monsters of the deep are bigger and have a larger carrying capacity than the ark which finally rested upon Ararat. The Book of Genesis does not record the tonnage of the huge vessel which Noah, the earliest of marine de- signers and builders on great scale, planned, constructed and commanded on the most wonderful voyage ever de- scribed in the annals of mankind. But the dimensions of that old-time armada concentrated upon a single keel, as the figures appear in the Old Testament, indicate that the largest of steamships now crossing the Atlantic are even bulkier than the immense craft which outrode the flood.
 But the ambitious heads of ocean transportation and the rulers of the shipyards of today are not content with having already surpassed the miracu- lous achievements or the patriarch whose leviathan of the waves was made of gopher wood. Transatlantic vessels of steel 800, 900 and ,0O0 feet in length and of proportionate width and depth are talked of soberly and seri- ously by practical designers and con- structOrs as possibilities and even prob abilities of a later generation, even if the first quarter of this century should not see the completion of a titanic hulk Q great deal larger than the biggest of those which now make their regular trips between the old world and the new.
 Thirty years ago none of the most enterprising and ambitious masters of oversea traffic believed that steam ships stretching a turlong from stem to stern could be profitably used n schedule ferry service from Europe to America and back again. But in this era of wonders New York harbor vel comes on carefully arranged time tables of trips several giants of the ocean which measure more than two hundred and twenty yards from one end to the other; and this port is in duty bound to make preDlTG tions for the putting together of piers of such size that stupendous hulls far exceed
 ing in length an eighth of a mile shall
 have abundant room on the water front The mayor. the dock depart ment and the corporation counsel in
 the present municipal administration realize the importance of building longer and broader piers and of utiliz-
 ing the shores of the North and East
 rivers to the fullest extent possible for
 the steadily increasing commerce of
 New York.
 Many boards of condemnation and ap- rraisal are now at work in so arrang-
 ing matters that the dock department
 can proceed rapidly in expanding the traffic facilities in this harbor. The spirit shown in these matters is of zeal and devotion to the highest in- terest of this commercial center, and such excellent progress is making that in a comparatively short period the docks on the east and west front of Manhattan island may not greatly suf- fer by comparison with those of Liver | pool. The channels of the port have been widened and improved, but q great deal remains to be done. Never l theless. the prospects are now reason ably encouraging that when the first steamship a thousand feet long passes | Sandy Hook the gateway of the Amer | icas will have wide entrances and 2 | system of docks and piers ready to af- | ford space and verge enough for hel accommodation York Tribune.