Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-08-02
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SOUND MAY
BE IMPROVED

There will be a meeting of prop
erty owners along Staten Island
sound in the Chamber of Commerce
| building, SIS Liberty street. New
York. at 3 o'clock tomorrow after
noon for the purpose of furthering
a movement to deepen and widen
+ba channel. The movement was
by a number of interested
property owners on January L, last.
There aim was to make application
TO the Federal government fol- the
widening and deepening of the chan
mel in order to invite more traffic
through the sound. and also make
the local waters navigabie for war
vessels.
The movement has now been ia
ken I'D with renewed interest, n
a large attendance is expected at TO-
morrow's meeting. Clancy d. Boyn-
/ ton. of this city, Is a member or the
committee in charge of h project.
A CODY of the letter sent to n
interested property owners, FOL
lows:
''The Staten Island sound, by rea-
son of its geographical position, Its
proximity to the city of New York
and the railroads terminating on its
shores, has within the past decade
attracted the attention Of so many
of the larger manufacturing con
Germs of this country that 1t has be-
| come the second most important wa
terway as regards tonnage in the
| United States. The shores of that
waterway today are lined with some
of the largest freight-producfng and
distributing industries in this coun-
try.
1.-THE United States government a
few years ago made an %appropria-
ton to widen and deepen the chan
mel between New York bay and Rari-
tan bay to a depth Of twenty-five
feet, but the increased tonnage and
the Importance which that water
way has assumed and is assuming,
makes it necessary that this depth
should be increased.
ITO consider a proposition having
the above object in view, a meeting
was called in the city of New York.
in January, last. (Which was attend
ed by a number OF the large inter
ests located on Staten Island sound),
for the purpose of considering the
advisability of applying to the Fed
eral government to have the chan
mel of Staten Island sound made a
sufficient depth for all vessels, in.
Guiding wal vessels, for which pur-
pose it was thought it would be nee
essaTy to have a channel of thirty
FIVE feet in depth. This would give
the government a protected harboT
for its war vessels in time of inya-
sion, and give the millions OF dol
lars worth of manufacturing indus
tries located on that waterway in
creased facilities for the handling
of their import and export trade, as
we'll as coastwise distribution. At
this meeting the chairman, Mr..
Montgomery, was instructed to ap-
point a committee of five who should
formulate a plan for a permanent
organization, and then call a meet
ing of all the property owners for
the purpose of having the plan
adopted.
'"The undersigned committee have
formulated a plan of organization
which they would like to submit to
the parties in interest and have ar
ranged for a meeting to be held in
the Chamber of Commerce building,
in the city of New York, No. SIS Lib
erty street. on Wednesday, August
Sd, 1910, at 3 P. NJ, at which time
and place you are respectfully re-
quested to be present, for the pur-
pose of receiving our report and
lending your cooperation to secure
this much needed and most desirable
national improvement.
VERY respectfully yours,
"HENRY L. DUDLEY,
JAMES F. PIERCE,
III. C. GRANT, NJ
CLANCY D. BOYNTON,
edward S. SAVAGE,
ORCHARD M. MONTGOMERY.
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