The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-29
IS
MOVING INLAND
indications That New York, the
Worlds Greatest Port May
Become Transfer Point.
GRIM WALL STREET JOKES
HOW PLEA OF GUILTY PROVED
PROFITABLE.


New York, July 2S-Is New York des-
tined to become an inland city with Eu-
ropean freight loaded and unloaded hun
dred odd miles to the eastward? This is
question which hobs up periodically with
the chance of positive answer some day.
1t is not expected that the metropolis is
to suffer any geological upheaval which
shall plant IT in the middle of the state.
but rather that the extreme eastern end
Of Long Island will be made the American
terminus OF transatlantic steamship lines
1t would be a vast undertaking to con-
struct at MOntauk port bearing the same
relation to New York that Southampton
does TO London, but il is hardly more Wis
1onary than tunnels under the river were
considered ten years ago. Its great ad-
vantage would be IN decreasing the time
or the European trip by eight hours. The
truth of the matter is that New York har-
Dor is proving too small for its needs.
Even with the generous appropriation
made this year as a result of the cam
paign waged so vigorously by the national
rivers ana harbors congress, New york Is
only barely able to keep up with its
needs. Without this assistance II would
already be moving inland since even now
It's channels are not deep enough for the
largest ships under construction. As an
illustration of the tendency of the port
/ business to move eastward may be cited
the millions now being spend on Long
Island harbOrs, whose commerce already
.
Examples of private development are also
| plenty, the most prominent perhaps being
| the Bush Terminal property in Brooklyn,
with Its miles of docks, twenty miles of
/ railroad and its vast manufacturing, stor-
/ ing, receiving, shipping and transfer plant
forming industrial center In itself
/ where the manufacturer can lease any
| kind of property wanted with assurance
of good freight facilities. All these de
velOpments, it should be noted, are to the
/ eastward of Manhattan island and if the
present movement continues what is now
| the greatest port in the world may be-
come little more than an inland city so far
as transatlantic commerce is concerned.
Emperor in New York.
! Jacques Lebaudy, self styled His Royal
| HlghnesS Jacques |. emperor of Sahara,
| EurOpes most troublesome and peripatet-
/ ic ruler after having vanished from the
/ face of the earth for year, thus causing
| much uneasiness in royal circles abroad.
| was accidentally discovered here this
| week. An emperor IN New York, even if
/ the title be of his own making and his
| crown and throne, with which royal re-
| gala he had provided himself, in cold
! storage, is something of a novelty here,
| and with the silly season. at its height,
| the city has been delving once again into
| the strange history of the man whose ca
! reer resembles that of a hero of modern
! fiction. Jacques Lebaudy's father was
| head Of the French sugar trust. and he
/ left a great many million francs to his
| son, who soon developed a fine faculty of
getting rid Of them firing of the or
binary means. however he decided to
| found an empire, and after casting his
| eye over the map concluded that the sour
bregions of the Sahara desert ought to be
| sWeetened by his sugar cured fortune He
| bought a throne and a crown, organized a
| cOlOniZing expedition, and sailed for At
| RIGA early in 1903 to establish himself as
emperor of Sahara. He never had a
| chance to sit on the TIN one, however for
| European nations made so much trouble
| for him that he was constantly on the
| jump He was harassed by means of ev-
cry known eXpedient of International pro-
cedure. The local sheiks took pot shots
rine tried to bar the seas to him. Swift
erland threatened him for recruiting Swiss
cOlOnists. France chucked him off the
frontier and hOrdes of automatically In
mitted for insanity. Things got so hot
even for Africa, that his royal highness
Jacques l, emperor of Sahara, quit his
kingdom, still cherishing his project how
ever, and still retaining his title. On the
latter point he was firm, and it is said
that ne even refused to accept a check for
a million francs because IL was made out
to Jacques Lebaudy instead of Jacques l.
Now after more than year of mysterious
silence this man of destiny has bObbed up
again to make European potentates IN
easy.
School of Diplomacy.
So far as consular agents, the men on
whom depend real commercial represen-
tatiOn, are concerned. New York is prob
ably on account of it's commercial inter
ests the most important city in the
country Washington, of course, has its
ambassadors and ministers whose sphere
is high diplomacy, society and entertain
ment but WheT it comes down to the
real business of gathering commercial
data. information concerning political and
economic conditions business opportuni-
-, Il,