New-York tribune., 1906-07-14
TO BE A LANE OF LIGHT
HIGHWAY TO THE SEA.
ambrose Channel Plans WW Make
1t O. Marine BouleUard.
IFrom Tha Tribune Bureau.l

Washington. July 1a-New York's future great
highway OF travel from the harbor to the sea-
through Ambrose Channel. Is TO be as brilliantly
lighted as a boulevard and made as safe for navi>
gators as is Riverside Drive for pleasure vehicles
under the provisions Of the omnibus lighthouse bill
enacted at the recent session Of Congress The new
channel, which have depth Of forty feet ana
a width OF 1900 feet will not be ready for heavy
traffic for year and a half. at the earliest. but
the Lighthouse Board has been ready for a long
time with plans for the necessary aids 70 naviga-
tOn along the channel. and the appropriation OF
sS2lo in the Lighthouse bill will now make u pos
sible 20 carry out these plans.
Instructions have been issued 70 Colonel Roselle
Of the sd Lighthouse District. engineer in charge
sc Tompkinsvlle. TO proceed at once with the max
ing OF contracts for the new lghtvesses buOys and
range lanterns authorized under the act. Colonel
Rosele has worked out his plans for the effective
lighting OF Ambrose Channel with great care. and
when the buoys and range lights are all IN 9 place &c
shps VIII be able 70 thread their way IN a9e oGI %
To the passenger travelling for pleasure the nghi-
viii even AFFORD pleasure as a spectacle. Along
the eight miles Of waterway red and white lights
will flare out Of the darkness on either hand. on
one side Of the steamer as she moves oceanward
there will be string Of 2atng buoys with t red ed
equal number Of buOys with white lights will mark
tbs way; Beyond these other great lights will be
seen high above the water and TO the navigator, in
his darkened pilOthouse. they will be guide as
street TSe light Vessels % and 1l range g lanterns viii
De so arrangsd that the lights at the entrance and
and when the ship rounds bend the turning lights
can be readily held in place.
The Lighthouse Board does not intend to take any
chances IN the placing of the lights in the new
scientifically. There has been complaint for years
used by most OF the vessels entering New York
Haroor The tortuOus and narrow channel and the
strong currents nave given even the most skllfuI
pilots difficult time of 1t bringing their ships back
and forth az night and the government has been
so persistent that the lighthouse people almost de-
SPARED of ever satisfying the shipping men.
fa1Po
channel and plant light on every picket is the
way one chief of the Lighthouse Board used to talk
Channel
It Is the expectation of those in charge of the
nv re ana par oor WORK t9aL me open
ditions @ for New York: The new channel is shorter
and @ more ore, direct than the passageway now used
pean liners and other large craft entering by Sandy
Hook Vessels OF light draft already able to
neering work has progressed steadily, and eventu-
ally deep channel will be dredged out for the
entire eight miles
The plans for lighting the channel to be carried
% ogt are IN detail as follows; AT the sea entrance
a15O00 is 70 be sta1ioned bis iH % 70 20 ,I Sc5e t6
navigator his bearings az The very mouth of the
Passageway Directly in line with the light from
TINS vessel the navigator will sight a beacon on
Staten Island.
The new law authorizes the construction of
nsntnouse on staten Island, in the hills at Rich
mono, at a cost not to exceed 100000. Midway in
the channel, at Swinburne Island at what is known
The Bend there will be constrUcred two range
lanterns and structures for range lights their cost
to be $1,000. For moving North Hook beacon light
$500 is appropriated and for a tank vessel $1,000
nant will be established at cost of $4,000 There
VII VIII pc thirteen gas buoys anchored in Ambrose
buoys in the Gedney and Main Ship channels For
temporary structure to maintain West Bank
for a temporary structure for North Hook beacon
Hsh WhlIe II Is being moved, dOO00 is appropriated.