Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-12-13
NEW YORK'S OVERFLOW.

HeTtH AHuOy oHouiu 0AOiI O'NiS
influence toward getting additional
shipping here. Our harbor is an ex-
cellent one; it is close to New York
and the railroad facilities for hand
ling the imports and exports on land
is of the best.
The time is ripe for Perth Amboy
to get busy on the matter. Congress-
man Howell should be impressed
with the fact that this section wants
everything possible done in the way
of deeper channels and federal i'm
provements for furthering our ship
ping interests.
The reason the time Is now ripe
for such a movement is set forth in
the following editorial which appear
ed in the Philadelphia Record yester-
day morning. OF course the Record
is limiting at the improvement of the
Delaware river with the object of
drawing shipping to Philadelphia.
But Perth Amboy is far better sit
| uated to catch the New York over
| flow than is Philadelphia. The city
| should wake up to it's advantages and
by a little agitation draw a great vol
ume of trade here.
The Record Gays:
THE city of New York, the FEEDER
al Government and the great rail-
ways that have terminals on the Hud-
son river are yearly spending MIL
lions of dollars to invite and concen-
trate trade at that port. They have
been more than successful IN TINS
line of policy. 1t is one of the great
est commercial centres in the world,
if not the greatest; but there appears
to be a limit to the capacity of the
metropolis to do business. Fast as
New York has grown, and multiplied
as have been her commercial tacll1-
ties, it has been impossible to keep
pace with the growth of the country.
AS a result there is congestion, delay
and %stoppage. In The New York
Herald yesterday it was stated that
there Is now no open pier to be
hoped for for at least thirty years in
the North river save through legis-
lative enactment" The whole water
front is preempted. I'm the East
Side there is not now a single wharf
open to transient shipping" Charg-
es upon shipping in New York are
higher than at any other port in the
country. 1t costs $50 a day to dock
there.
so far as commerce is concerned
these are inhospitable conditions.
Matters are not as bad in New York
as reported by United States Special
Agent Crist at Kobe, in Japan, where,
owing to the desire of importers to
anticipate the imposition of higher
tariff rates, a fearful congestion ex-
lists, the water front being strewed
for miles with merchandise unpro-
tected from the elements; but ship
pers are forced to avail themselves to
some extent of the facilities of other
Atlantic ports. New York is over
done.
This situation should have its eff
feet upon the action of congress in
making appropriations of money for
d~eep-water entry to other Atlantic
and gulf ports. Money so spent in
deepening and lettering facilities of
ingress and egress inures to the
benefit of the whole country. The
cost of movement out of the
general pocket. No less the policy
of the transportation companies
should be modified. They are now
tied up and tangled up and choked
by the effort to do more business in
New York than New York can hand
lie. When the great rivers are filled
TO overlooking they find new chan
nels to the sea-"