The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-25
URGE MILLIONS
To MAKE NEWARK
GREAT SEA PORT


both on the upper Hudson and the
Brooklyn and Staten Island shores can
not be as advantageously made and
cannot as easily connect with as many
trunk line carriers, nor can available
land for railroad transfer yards be
provided for in any of these locations,
as would be the case on the Newark
meadows.
IA very large portion of the freight
handled by the numerous railroads,
both east and west bound, is either
import or export trade. and this could
be much more economically trans
ferred to and from vessels with a saw
ing of millions of dollars in extra dock
and floating equipment by such a de-
velopment as proposed on the Newark
meadows, combined with a terminal
operating company to provide for
transfer of cars from all of the trunk
line railroads. The steamships at the
Newark docks could have cars of any
of the trunk line railroads placed
alongside. thus eliminating expensive
lighterage and the maintenance of this
class of harbor equipment.
Developing Newark Meadows.
ITO obtain the most favorable re-
suits to make the development pro-
posed on the Newark meadows attrac-
tive to meet the conditions which are
confronted in providing facilities for
water transportation two important
factors must be considered; first, there
must be ample wharfage room and
deep, wide channels leading thereto,
which will not be liable to obstruction
by bridges, Ice foes or other impede
ments; second, there must be adequate
railroad connection directly to the
docks, and this must include, if pos
sible, some intercommunication with all
of the trunk line railroads"
1.-THE area of the territory proposed
to be acquired is 1926 feet long by
1000 feet wide, or 1,150 acres in all,
which will make possible a reclamation
of 40,0 600, 900 square feet of land exclu-
sive of water surface. The riparian
rights should be acquired for the full
1000 feet frontage on the bay.
Highway communication is to be ar
ranged for by having six main en-
frances; one on Peddie street at the
extreme west end of the canal with an
overhead bridge over the main line of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, one at Ave
nue. ID, one at Avenue II to connect
with South street, one at Bay avenue,
one at Avenue r, and a sixth to be an
extension of the proposed street on the
southerly side of the layout up to
Frelinghuysen avenue. For local use
there will be two main highways
parable! with the canal on each side"
Millions Are Needed.
The commission says of the financial
status of the case and what means are
available: Three primary factors en-
ter here to properly arrange a program.
First. a canal to improve the land;
second, docks to produce a revenue;
third. 1000 900 of allowable expendi-
ture. The first two must of necessity
be of variable quantities in their rela-
ton to the third, but it will probably
be wiser to keep the dock and canal
quantities constant TO themselves. IL
81, 900, 900 is used the following items are
constant and must be used to arrive
at a definite amount of docks and canal
To construct.
Land, $500, 900; dredging approximate
ly from bay channel to shore line, $152.-
900; temporary bridge over Central
Railroad, SIG. 900: digging open ditch
outlet for low level sewer, Sc, 200; i'm
proving Bay avenue, $S5, 900; engineer
ing and contingencies. $40. 900. Total,
$579, 900.
This leaves the sum of $421 900 for use
in the construction of canal and bulk
head, and IL is recommended to eXca-
vate one-half of the width of the canal
and fill the abutting front to the north
to the extreme 1000 feet limit of the
right of way. On the north side of this
excaYated canal recommendation is
made for the erection of a bulkhead or
dock wall
The specific recommendation is: To
excavate a 16-foot channel from the
bay to the shore line: to %excavate
the canal $50 feet wide. % feet
deep and 3,400 or 1000 feet long. dredged
material to be used for filling; to build
bulkhead for 30 feet of water 3,400 or
1000 feet long; to extend Bay avenue
from present terminus at pumping sta
ton to the canal with temporary tres
tie crossing over the New Jersey Cen
trai Railroad, including grading and
paving 20 feet wide, and to construct
an open ditch for the discharge of sew
age from the pumping station to the
bay.
The commission is advised of the
hearty cooperation of the Pennsylvania,
Lehigh Valley and Central railroads,
and a suggestion is made that for a
more perfect arrangement of freight
transfer between cars and vessels q
terminal operating company be formed
composed of all the railroads running
into the port of New York.