The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-04-30
TO MEET SHIP GROWTH
Chelsea Section Opens Greatest Coast Mile
in World. Seamen Flock Ashore by Thou
sands Daily. Modern Hotel to be Their
Home and Refuge.

Chelsea Section Opens Greatest Coast Mile
in World. Seamen Flock Ashore by Thou
sands Daily. Modern Hotel to be Their
Home and Refuge.
NEW YORK, April ~. Entire rear
rangement OF the four hundred and
| fifty miles of improved water front in
| this harbor is to follow the building of
| the Superstruc ure and concours9 on
| the new Chelsea piers which has today
| been begun by the city. Into the most
| dense mile of trans atlantic wharfage
| in the world, between Christopher and
| West 23rd Streets, more of the big lin
ers than dock in the whole of any other
| port have already arranged to warp.
Plans to fill the old berthS of the ocean
greyhounds further down the island are
this week being made bya host of coast
and gulf lines that now lie scattered off
other points. Every foot of other avail
able dock room in this port is engaged
for years after the opening of the new
piers, shipping authorities declared to-
day, and soon steps are to be taken to
eventually improve the entire eight
hundred miles of harbor shore which is
available For wharfage here.
Although London possesses less than
half and Liverpool, Hamburg, Rotter-
dam and Havre each less than quarter
of New York's present docking front
age, this Chelsea district is to be the
most congested shipping mile III the
world, according to figures obtained by
| the American Seamen's Friend Society
| today. Within sight of the large home
for seamen which the society is now
putting up i'll the center of this stretch,
I. 800 sailors will be constantly arriving
when the building is completed. Fully
800. 600 merchant Seamen have entered
the port within the past year, the rec
ords show, and many thousands of them
swarm about tins section every day.
| Like great modern hotel the new
Headquarters for Jack-ashOre is today
rising in the midst of this shore line
that bristleS with the tallest masts i'll
the world. Private bedrooms for some
two hundred sailors, club rooms fo1
hundreds more, separate quarters for
officers, stewards and engineers, bill
lizards, bowling, showers and swimming
pools are some of the things which will
be set before the sailor host that presses
about the quarter. An honest ''Slor
shop''-the seaman's department store
"a shipping bureau, a bank and mod
ern restaurant are to be other features
of this sailors caravanserie, which Will
cost 1929 O00 Thousands of crimps,
steerers and boarding house runners
lie in wait at just this vantage point OF
the Chelsea district for the pald-otf sail
ors who swarm ashore, and it is the
idea of the American Seamen's Friend
Society to make their big building a
timely point of refuge.
New York is the third largest port
in the world with the largest vessels
and the most sailors in the world COM
ing into this section" said George Nc
Pherson Hunter, secretary of the So
ciety today "Now it is, l hope, going
to have the test facilities for looking
out for the men who move this tire
mendous merchant fleet direct to and
from 225 other ports. Our home and
institute is to be means of practical
good to the greatest host OF idle sailors
that set foot on any one bit of shore.
We have some $3.50, 900 toward its cree
ton already and hope soon to complete
it with the $751; 900 more which is need
ed. As headquarters for good to the
sailor, our new institute in the Chelsea
section will reach to every shore on the
globe"
Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup-the
cough syrup that tastes nearly as good as
maple sugar and which children like so wei
to take Unlike nearly all other cough
remedies, it does not constipate, but on the
other hand it acts promptly yet gently OIL
| the bowels, through which the cold is fore
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