The Jersey City news., 1903-11-25
A new CHANNEL
New Jersey Shore From Kill
Won Kull to Liberty
Island to be I'm
proved.
STATE PILOTS BOARDS WORK
Great Advantages That Will
ACCRUE From This Inside
s-ssDsPs0t Waterway.
STATE PILOTS BOARDS WORK


sstsusags't Waterway.
The New. York Chamber of Commerce
the Maritime Association, the New York
Produce Exchange and the pilot commits
sioners of New York have received from
the New Jersey commissioners of pilot
age series of resolutions urging the
construction of a new inside deep water
channel along the New Jersey shore from
Kill Won Kull to Liberty Island. The
New Jersey commissioners request the
New York organization to take action
on the same general lines as contained
in the New Jersey resolutions, which fol-
low
ment has expended in improving
sBreoklyn side of New York Bay $6,S0o,
GEO. and according to existing surveys,
proposes to expend in addition to this
S8, leo, 900; and
Whereas, The New Jersey side of the
bay is more accessible to railroads and
commerce throughout the United States
than is the other side, and is therefore
more worthy of improvement; and
s'Whereas, An inside channel on the
New Jersey side would be Shorter dis
tanee between the Kill Won Kull and
New York City and make a smooth, safe
passage for. inside craft; therefore be it.
Resolved, That this Board hereby re-
spectfully petition the river and harbor
committee Of the United States house of
representatives to provide an adequate
channel from the mouth of the Kill Won
KulI west of Robbins Reef light to con-
meet Kill Won Kull with New York har-
bor''
Captain C. B. Parsons president of the
Maritime Association and who is also
one of the New Jersey Pilot commits
sioners, explained yesterday the proposed
new channel.
He understood, he said, that the New
Jersey railroads was first brought to
notice the advisability of constructing the
channel Captain Parsons argued, how
ever, that the questions of paramount inn
portance and should be the ones on which
the matter should be discussed
The channel, he pointed out would
give them an opportunity to convert the
New Jersey frontage, which would be in
contact with this channel, into valuable
property, similar as has been done along
the Red Hook fats, and which enables
vessels at the present time to go to the
South Brooklyn docks. "Uew Jersey
continued Captain Parsons, sis more nat
Long Island and the roposed improve
ments would be most valuable for the
trunk line railroads on the Jersey shore
"But the proposed channel would be
very great aid in moving tows to and
from the harbor. A captain brings in
a tow from, say, the Anboys; he arranges
it so that he comes up with the food
tide until he gets to may we may call
the dividing line in Kill Won Kull.
Then he was fair tide until he gets
out into the Hudson river, or the bay as
you may call it; then he has to round
Robbins Reef and has to come outside the
chorage hmitc, where he has a good,
strong ebb tide to stem all the way up.
Besides that, those boats which come
from the Raritan and Delaware and
Elizabethport and Port johnson are all
low sized boats, and when they get to
Robbins reef if the wind is blowing south
or east they are in rough water which
makes it unsafe, and they have to get to
harbor or run the risk Of coming outside
Robbins reef and stem the tide into the
Hudson
'This proposed channel close around
from Constable Hook coming up inside
with the shoals between it and the bay
gives protection from rough water all the
way up and tows are taken out of the
strength of the tide. Just the same con-