The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-27
A GREAT WATER FRONT
THAT EEW TORK so BADLY
 NEEDS.

4 Tearing DO.vu That is Transforming
 South BroohIyn-AtIansic Basin to
 Have the Biggest Pier tm the World.
 Down New York bay, along Butter milk channel, across which cows were driven at low tide, traditions say. two centuries ago, there is a sight that old New Workers, and latter-day ones as well, would gaze upon in astonishment if once they saw it. It is such re- markable phase of the progress of the metropolis indeed, that it is worth spare halliday some time in the near future down on the ferryboats of the rty-ninth-street (Brooklyn) line, from the foot of Whitehall street, and then returning over the Hamilton ferry, and thence on foot along the water front toward Erie basin.
 On Buttermilk channel. facing Cover nor's Island, there now lies heap of ruins, leveIed each day more and more. No fire or other disaster has brought this about, much as it looks as if the elements had been playing havoc. ln- stead the destruction has been deli berate. These ruins are all that is left of the half-mile of massive granite Eho-t hod fnT. | nearly 50 years, and all that time played a great part in New York's commerce. Their tearing down marks | an important change in the city's water | front.
 The warehousing on the Brooklyn shore is being replaced by steamship piers and railroad yards, and these are being extended along the shore from Hamilton ferry to the hills of Bay
 Ridge, where the Narows commence and the upper bay comes to an end.
 It makes a new water front for New York that is highly interesting.
 Grim and skeleton-like, useless and
 out of date, the grain elevators that
 once did such a rushing trade are
 standing waiting to be taking down. The Brooklyn shore was but few
 years ago the most important grain handling place in the country. But lat
 terly all this trade has slipped away,
 much of it gone Baltimorewards, and
 the elevators are idle.
 1 Storage, too, is ceasing to be of for
 mer importance along this water front
 In these days of the fastest steam | of nfal oln
 linked markets merchants do not buy
 in advance as much as they did. Gone
 by are the, days when cargo was put
 into storage as a matter of course.
 Now, in place of horse trucks slowly
 moving bales, barrels and bags from
 ship to store along this strip of water
 front freight cars are brought to the
 very matches of the ships, and the goods are whirled away, without an hour O
 delay, to be put into immediate con
 sumption.
 It all is making new water front , no longer the sleepy old Brooklyn shore , The old Atlantic basin, on the oute edge of which these ancient warehouse ,, have been pulled down, is to have tn biggest pier in the world Beside it tn huge new steamship piers on the Nort1
 river will be but small affairs. Tn
 White Star pier, for example, IS b5 feet long and 120 wide.
 This great new pier of Brooklyn, O. U one of the arms of the Atlantic basir | one side of it fronting on the channe will be t250 feet long and 160 feet wide and will have a concrete roadway 5 feet broad down it's center. It will b able to have three steamers of tn o largest type loading and unloading o each side. Across the zap" 9th entrance to the basin) there will b
 another pier $50 feet long and nearl
 150 feet broad.
 Buttermilk channel, after many year
 of discussion over it, is to be dredged b Il the government. Dreges are already 6
 work besides along these piers, givin = 30 feet of water clear for the big steam v ship trade that is being planned for. e Close at hand to all of this gres Q railroad terminal is being erected on u s shore. Three bridges are already q place to take the cars from off the floa t and run them out on the tracks bac S and forth along the docks. The'
 bridges" are nothing more tha \. massive ferry slips" that rise and ia n with the tide.
 !. One of the old warehouses is heir l. turned into freight depot that will r. one of the largest about New Tor IT with it's adjoining freight-yard buil If ing itself SEQ feet by 240. All over the if docks tracks now run, and locomotiv d push and pull heavily-laden trains ba, l- and forth. Streets have been new J. paved for the truckage that comes he le for the city trade.
 Over a length of three miles steamsh n piers are now being erected. On t
 piers themselves carloads are dai
 made up for all parts of the count
 directly from the ships. And it is b
 the beginning of a new era of improv 1e trade for the port.-New York Times ,d FOOTBALL NEWS OF INTEREST 60 Yale to Secure a Very Strong El as Player
 in Yale is to secure a first class end an it's football team in the person of liar ix Bauby of Waterbury. Bauby will e ue ter the Law school next Monday. nd is one of the best end players that eV