The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-13
SEEK TO HAVE
BARGE CANALS
TERMINUS HERE
Newark Will Probably Send Of
fetal to Urge Plan Be-. :.
fore Commission.
BAY AND MEADOWS OFFER
UNRIyALED FACILITIES
No! Other Place Available Near
New York to Accommodate
Vast Water Traffic.

Mayor Jacob Hapssling's project to
improve the 1900 acres Of now useless
meadow property and convert it into
an immense site for factories, using the
city'ss two and a half miles Of water
frontage for dock purposes. will recsiye
unlocked for impetus should the plan
new under discussion. Of having =
tsrninus of the sleo, oeo. oeo. barge canal,
being constructed in New York, located
at Newark, be carried out. such a
proposition maybe put up, to the Barge
Canal conanissinn. now sittipg In con-
rerence in the Governors room Aof the
New York stock Exchange. when the
Board of Works has given authority to
some Of the city officials to urge the
claims Of Newark for the terminus.
Word WAS received at the city Hall
yesterday that 1t would bel to New
ark's adyantase to have a representa-
tive at the hearing in the Stock Ex-
change today. Jamaica Bay. Staten
Island, Long Island and the Bronx are
each urging the commission to select
them as the location, blu as yet New
ark has taken no STEP 1t was decided,
however, rather than have any q
appe9r before the commission without
the authority OF the city to back them,
to wait until Official recognition has
been taken Of the matter. The hearing
will continue tomorrow when the oara
Of Works will meet, and there will
probably be hearings at later dates.
As far as ability to take care OF the
immense feet of barges that viii pour
down the Hudson as soon as the canal
is completed is concerned it Is con-
ceded that ne city is better situated
than Newark. There is no other avail
able place in the vicinity Of New York
Fay where such an amount Of water
traNc could be taken care of. Newark
isS the only ~undeyelQped 'harbor ae-.
cessible from the bay.
The canal proposition Is one; which
is already assured. For the :Iast five
years, since the floating Of the bonds
to cRrry on the work, the old Erie
canRl. from Albany to Lake Erie, hss
been enlarged and the work is still
going on. The plan Is to have baJges
al large as most steamers plying CON
stantly back and forth acrnssi the State
Of New York, entering the Hudson at
Albany and coming down the river In
the same way as the ,c4pal boats now
do. At present the terminus of the
canal is at Erie basin, Brooklyn. That
is barely large enough to accommodate
the present trsfic and Is out of the
question. the commission realizes, az q
terminus for the new project. Accord
ipgly the commission Is casting about
for q new location. Several sites have
been offered, but none with advantage
equal to those Of Newark. by the time
the canal iP finished the meadows will
have been reclaimed and 4,0A0 acres Of
land, dedicated to the use Of manufac-
lures and shipping, would be available.
With dredging the two and q half miles
Of water front could be turned to ac-
count to receive, the shipping resulting
from the opening of the new canal.
The Mayors, plan. while It would call
for the ultimate expenditure of MANI
miiiions of dollars, would, impose little
but the initial expense upon the tax
payers. He proposes that as fast as
land Is made available for building
urpos fit, shall be thrown open to
those desiring to build. In that way,
after the first two or three FEARS, the
income from the property would DO
enough to; keep the rest of the work of
Improvement going with little or no
further burden on the people at large.
giving the city, at the end of twenty
or twenty-five years, a. constant income
that would take care Of a large part Of