Arizona republican., 1907-06-09
BUSY NIGHT SCENES
 IN NEW YORK MARKERS
Handling City's Food Supply-Strand- ing of Big Ocean Liners Demands Remedy-An Old Time Ocean Race Between Windjammers.

New York, May 31.-To the general public. peace is supposed to reign over
 the downtown business district from the hour when darkness falls until of flee hours approach next morning. Yet at this time of the year pande- nonium reigns in one section of the lower west side during the midnight and early morning hours. This ter ritOry. which embraces six blocks on West street. is the primary distribut- ing point for all the garden stuff eat eI in New York as well as in other towns, ranging all over New England. cut into Pennsylvania. and up into Canada. Boats from the south loaded with fruits and vegetables arrive in the early evening. and from that time until midnight the longshoremen are busy unloading them, and the commis- sion men, or their employees. a yelling. pushing, excited mob. like that of the stock exchange multiplied by a thou sand and then gone mad. are busy see ing that they get all that is consigned to them and that it is taken to the right places. This same region is the rendezvous of the farmers who drive in from Long Island and New Jersey with loads of produce. often from
 points twenty miles distant The 2000 wagon men," the huclisters who cry their wares up and down the city streets during the day. are on hand
 as well as all the jobbers who are go- ing to take the great bulk of what will feed New York for the following twenty-four hours, ready to transport 1t to the various wholesale markets to which the scene of activity is trans ferred at three o'clock in the morning and to one or another of which repairs every retail dealer in New York for his days supply of garden truck. The business is one of the tremendous pro portions and 1t reaches out to every section of the country to secure it's supplies. "s-,.
 Because it is extremely hazardous, if 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 favor able conditions of wind and tide, New York stands face to face with the prospect of a big loss in commerce and the permanent diversion of a large amount of trade which rightfully be- longs to her. The later and larger vessels of the transatlantic fleet draw B feet of water when carrying full cargo: but they are compelled to re- fuse freight which would make the draft greater than % feet because ves- sels with greater draft cannot hope to clear the shoals of the channel, ex- cept under the most favorable condi- tions. A few days ago the North Ger man Lloyd liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse went aground in the main ship channel for the second time since March. and the rapid succession of similar accidents which recently oc- cured IS causing much concern to New York's shipping interests The only hope of relief appears 10 lie in the movement inaugurated by the na- tional rivers and harbors congress for more liberal and regular appropria- tions for waterways improvement in I which presumably New York would have share! Among the other steam CTS which have recently stuck in the sand and mud which choke the en- trance to the harbor for deef- draft vessels are the White Star liner Bal tic, the Atlantic transport liner Min netonka, and the Cunarder Caronia.
 South street resorts of master mar iners are discussing the great 15.OOO | mile ocean race of the three square, triggers, the Invernessshire, the Stron-