The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1907-06-09

New York, June 6.-lTo the general
public, peace IL supposed to reign over
the downtown business district from
the hour when darkness falls until Of
nee hours approach next morning. Yet
at this time Of the year pandemontum
reigns In one section Of the lowest
West Side during the midnight and
early morning hours. This territory,
which embraces six blocks on West
street, n the primary distributing point
for all the garden stuff eaten In New
York az well ne In other towns, rang
Ing all over New England, out into
Pennsyltania. and up into Canada.
Boats from the South loaded with
fruits and vegetables arrive in the ear
~ evening, and from that time until
midnight the longshoremen are busy
unloading them, and the commission
men. or their employees, yelling. push
ing, excited mob, like that OF the
stock exchange multiplied by q thous-
and and then gone mad. are busy seq
ing that they get all that Is consigned
to them ana that 1t Is taken to the
right places. This same region IL the
rendezvous Of the farmers who drive
IN from Ing Island and New Jersey
with loads Of produce. often from
points twenty miles distant The 1000
wagon men, the hucksters who cry
their wares up and down the city
streets during the day are on hand, "a
well as all the jobbers who are goinx
to take the great bulk OF what Will
feed New York for the following TWEEN
ty-four/ hours, ready to transport 1t 70
the various wholesale markets 70
which the scene Of activity is trans
ferred at 8 o'clock In the morning, and
TO one or another OF which repairs
every retail dealefs in New York; for
his days supply Of garden truck. Inc
business is one OF tremendous proper
.tions and It reaches out to every sec
,tion Of the country to secure Its sup
plies.
Because II Is extremely hazardous. II
not Impossible for the gigantic liners
which are now under construction on
the other side of the Atlantic to enter
this port, even under the most favoe-
able conditions of wind and tide, New
York stands face to face with the pros
pect of big loss in commerce ana .ne
permanent diversion of q large amount
of trade which i.shtfully belongs to
her. The later and larger vessels OF
the trans Atlantic fleet draw thirty
i've feet OF water when carrying full
cargo: but tEeyi are compelled to re-
fuse freight which would make the
draft greater than thirty feet because
vessels with greater draft cannos
hone TO clear the shoals of the chan
mel. except under the most favorable
conditions A few days ago the North
German Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse went aground In the main ship
channel for the seconi time since
March, and the rapid succession oil
similar accidents which recently &C.
CURED in causing much concern to New
York,s shipping interests. The only
hope OF relief appear to lie in the
movement inaugurated by the National
Rivers and Harbors Congress Tor more
liberal and regular appropriations for
waterways Improvement in which pre-
stimably New York would have a share
Among the other steamers which have
recentiv stuck In the sand and mud
which choke the entrance to the har-
hor for deep draft vessels are the White
star liner Baltic. the Atlantic Trans
port liners Minnetonka, and the Cum
nrder Caronia.
south street resorts of master marin
ers are discussing the great $4,000
mile ocean race of the three square
ringers. the Inverness-shire, the Stron-
sa, and La Perouse, which left Oregon
in December for voyage around the
Horn and across the Atlantic to Eng
land, where they arrived early In May
The tale is told by the second mate
Of a British tramp which has Just
reached her berth in South Brooklyn
dock The three windjammers were
all up in the Astoria river in Oregon
loading for the Mersey when the cap