Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-27
GAIN
IN EXPORTS Of
MANUFACTURES
Records Smashed This Year.
New York Harbor Facilities
Inadequate.
Especial Correspondence to Marniax JournaiI

Especial Correspondence 10 MnfhAn& Journalt
New York. Nov. 22.-An important
gain is reported in the value OF manu-
features = hipped from the United
States during the present year. Ac-
cording to the bureau of statistics OF
the department of commerce and
labor, the years exports of manufac-
tured articles will cross the $780,
600, 00O line and eclipse the records
The group classified as "manufac-
lures ready for consumption" during
the nine months Of the present year
total $i02. GOO, 600, as against $341,-
600, 900 in the corresponding months
of 1910. The manufactures ready
for consumption' totals S2l1, 900. 900
in contrast TO S1Sf, 100000 in the
same period last year. Marked gains
are also shown in the imports. both
OF manufactured materials and fin
ished manufacture. Crude material
for use in manufacturing totals $413,-
000, 900 for the same period as against
S379, 600, 600 for the same months OF
last year The manufactures for
further use in manufacturers in this
period amounted to $2l4, zoe, 900 as
against $1S2. GOO, 600, which is GER
tainly a very gratifying trade ball
ance.
Is New Works Harbor Inadequate?
New York harbor, despite its mar
velous equipment for handling the
worlds commerce. finds II difficult TO
keep pace with the development OF
the modern ocean liner, The fore
sight of the government in deepening
and s%hortning the channel Out to sea
has anticipated the development in
the size of steamers for some years
to come. The difficulty is in finding
docks long enough for the trans
A I A,.afy ItaARa tantts hntIl.e. MI
largest steamship in the world now
under construction. the Europa of
the Hamburg-American line, win be
500 feet in length and would pro-
trude nearly 100 feet out beyond the
longest dock in Manhattan. Hereto
fore the government refused per-
mission To extend docks further out
into the river, but it now faces the
question Of doing SO or seeing these
great liners go elsewhere. They need
not leave New York, however, since
they may dock in South Brooklyn.
where a wharf LOO feet in length
is available. The convenience of
landing nearer the great business
center of the metropolis, make II
most imperative that room be found
for them, one plan is to construct
docks capable of accommodating
liners on the south shore Of Staten
Island, where their length would not
be restricted. The same objection will
be made to this location, as the
South Brooklyn dock, that passengers
on landing would still be an hour dis
tant from the hotel eenters.
The Panama Worlds Fair.
Where win the Panama canal ex-
position be held? Although the open
ing of the great waterway viii not
place until 1915, rivalry among
the great American scapoTts for The
honor Of holding the fair IS already
New York, Boston and
Washington seems ut present out of
the running and the question appears
be narrowing down to the merits
Of New Orleans or san Fracisco, With
itself there Is a strong posi-
bility. While all of these ports viii
undoubtedly benefit enormously by
opening of the canal, the claim is
put forward by New Orleans and Gal
weston that the geographical location
Of these harbors makes one or the
other of them a logical choice. AL
ready civic committees have been
formed and money appropriated in
both Of these cities to push their
The opening of the canal
promises TO be the greatest event in
he history of American
and doubtless the Worlds fair viii
be worthy Of IT.