Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-11
FREIGHT ON
LOCAL WATERS
Improvements to Raritan Bay
and Woodbridge Creek---Se
Girt Rifle Range.
(From the NEWS correspondent.)

port OF the engineers OF the wal de-
partment to the work that is being
done to deepen the channel of the
Arthur Kill to t~wenty-one feet. 1t
is estimated that the cost to complete
the project will be $696,OO0, and the
amount expended to June 30, 1905,
was $93,53S.3O. The maximum
draft that could be carried through
the waterway for the last fiscal year
amounted to ~14,129,67S tons valued
at s327,477,73S
The amount on hand June 30,
1904, was $~333,024.59; of which
$3S,275.42 was expended, leaving a
balance of $~244,749.17 available. 1t
is estimated that $3.50 will be
required to complete the reject and
that 100000 a be profitably ex-
pended for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1907.
Woodbridge Creek Freight.
1t Is stated that the freight on the
Woodbridge creek for 1904 amount
ed to 165,313 tons, valued at ST.
143,658. The amount expended in
dredging the creek to a depth of
eight feet was $~13,49S.57. On July
1, 1905, there was a balance avail
able of $~S,141.97, and it is estimated
that $4,000 will be required to com
plete the project of deepening the
channel to twelve feet.
Freight ON Raritan Bay.
In 1903 the freight on Raritan
bay amounted to 4,4S4,152 tons val
ued at $1O1,S42,455. The maximum
draft is 81 feet through the Wards
Point channel and 20 feet through
Seguine Point and South Amboy.
There is available for improving the
bay the sum of $4,000 which, it is
stated, can be profitably expended
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1906.
Senator Dryden's name has been
mentioned for the vacancies of the
committees on finance, public build
ings and grounds, and post offices
and post roads. He will retain his
place on the committee on immigra-
ton and also on in%teroceanic canals,
as well as chairman of the commit
tee on enTOlleu DIS.
Colby Visits Roosevelt.
Everett Colby, senator-elect from
Essex county, took luncheon with
President Roosevelt Saturday. He
came down with Fellows Morgan, of
Short Hills, a class-mate in college
of the president. Mr.. Colby, when
seen Saturday evening, said he had a
most delightful talk of an hour with
the president after the luncheon and
he vas much pleased with his visit to
New Jersey on a late train Saturday
night.
Sea Girt the Place.
That the national match will be
shot at Sea Girt next August is be-
lieved to be practically assured. The
announcement will not be made Of
ficially for the present, and it is eX-
pected the matter will further have
further. consideration in the middle
of January when the board of direc-
tors of the National Rifle Association
will meet in this city. General b.
w. Spencer, of Passaic, the president,
and Lieutenant Albert S. Jones. the
secretary, will attend. The selection
of Sea Girt for the national match
will be due largely to the efforts of
General Spencer, and the fact that its
facilities are superior to any range
in the United States.
Could BE Improved.
uNhnrA a.a IN, ,YnNnp1nnto fhnt
might be made at Sea Girt, however,
In talking about the range a promi-
ncnt officer of the District of Column
bia National Guard suggested that if
the plans of Captain w. f. White
more, of Hoboken, who is on the di-
vision staff of New Jersey, were to
be carried out the range at Sea Girt
would be a model range. The plan
of Captain Whittemore provides for
one firing point for all the various
ranges, so that the firing point is one
base line and the different targets are
arranged at their proper distance
from it, instead of there being sew
eral firing points. Then the plan
calls for a tunnel from the firing
point to the various rife pits so that
markers may pass to any point with
out danger and without stopping the
shooting.
The suggestion was made that the
range at Sea Grit could be made a
model range by moving the club
house of the New Jersey State Rifle
Association and the stables and ware
house near the club house to the road
leading to the ocean along in front of
the site of the old governors cottage.
There is plenty of room for such a
change, and this would permit of the
firing point being laid out on the line
of the present thousand yards fir
ing point. The advantages of such
a plan are apparent to all rifemen,
and it is possible the department of
rifle practice will give the matter due
consideration.
New Jersey National Guard.
In the report of the secretary of
war, Just issued from the printing Of