The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-02

FIags of Three AdmiraIs Displayed at
 Oncc-NatlOnal Association of Man
 ufscturers Demands River and Har- X DOT ImprOvement-Largest Steel
 Bradge in the World to Cross East
 kfver-Washfngton Experts Counting
 uncle Sam's Cash--W0rk Horses Pa-
 fade on Fifth Avenue--Flat to Rub
 Elbows With vanderbilt Mansions.
 New York. June ..(special. )-- Fighting ships of four nations and the nass Of three Admirals appeared in .his harbor at the same time during the present week. Both Broadway and the Bowery have been making the att tempt to do the honors in the most. approved nautical fashion. Opposite Forty-second Street in the North Riv- CT is the Kleber with the French tri- color flying. She has been here so long that her stock of cap ribbons and buttons Is almost exhausted. although constant stream of hopeful visitors. both French and American. climbs her nigh gray side daily. When Vice-Ad- miral IJufn of the Japanese Navy dipped his flags to Governors Island on the way out and hastened over to Germany to cement good relations with the Kaiser, Rear-Admiral Hermann von Pleskott took his place with two ships showing the scarlet and white flag of Austria. Admirals Evans on the Connecticut and Emery on the ohio. both new and crack battleships or Uncle Sam's Navy. remain to do the honors for the visiting foreigners, while little further up the river are the Indiana and the Iowa. a little be- hind the times. it Is true. but both of them with good fighting records. Over Tn the East River Argentina is repre- sented by the cruiser Presidente Sar- mfente. Never before in the history of the country has an event like the Jamestown Exposition afforded tie op- portuntty for International naval dis play, and the glittering lights of
 No resolution passed by the National Association of Manufacturers at it's two days convention. which was held In this city last week, met with more hearty approval on the part of New York's commercial Interests than the one which expressed the association's commendation of the timely and effi- cient work of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress in awakening pub lie sentiment to the need of system atic and comprehensive development of our great waterway courses on the part of the National Government. un- til our worthy harbors shall have been deepened and our great system of in- land waterways shall have been com prehensfvely and efficiently improved" As the greatest manufacturing as well as the greatest shipping centre of the country, New York Is vitally interest ed In whatever affects the receipt of raw materials or the transportation of the finished products of her factories. According to recent statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. the importations of raw materials, chiefly through the port of New York, for the current fiscal year will exceed by fully s1eo, 100000 the imports for the previous year. Exports have in- creased in much the same proportion, and the feeling Is general that the harbor improvements now under way by both the municipal and national governments have been too long de- layed. Only few. days ago the out ward bound White Star liner Baltic was grounded on bank in Gedney Channel and was hoated again only af- ter much expose and loss of valuable time. A few days later, to escape a similar mishap, the Celtic. of the same line, was forced to anchor directly across the narrow passage, and the two S00-foot Cunaders which are rushing to completion are not only bigger than e1tner, put too long Co De property dC- comodated at any of the docks.
 
 As part of the comprehensive scheme of transportation Improvements which will some day make New York a city of magnificent distances a few days ago plans were filed with the Munici- pal Art Commission for what will be the longest and heaviest steel bridge in the world. This bridge will form part of steel viaduct more than three miles long: which will connect the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road with the Long Island and Penn sv1vania Systems. When 1t Is com pleted and the last. spike has been driven in the four tracks which will cross it, for the first time there will he an all-rail route through New York. linking together New England and the South. Eighty thousand tons of steel will be used in the construc- tion of the bridge. which will have carrying capacity twenty times as great as that of the Brooklyn Bridge. The tracks will be 140 feet above high water, and will pass through steel arches which will themselves rise 150 feet higher. Some of the steel mem bers of these arches will be nine feet in diameter and will weigh 100 tons