Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-02
CUSTOM HOUSE TONNAGE
 DUE FOR BIG INCREASE.
New London to Be immediate Port of Entry-To Have One Foreign Line of Steamships.

With it's unsurpassed water ad-
 vantages and railroad facilities, to-
 gether with established and pros pective manufacturing industries, there is no reason why New London should not rank with the leading cities of the state in the matter of general im- provement during the year 1911. At the present time forty-eight passen- gen trains arrive and depart from the Union railway station every twenty four hours and during that same period an average of twenty-six freight trains arrive and depart from the city, which gives a fair idea of the importance of New London as a rail- road center.
 During the past year, in addition to the regular commercial business from the Central Vermont wharf, just 3,150
 car loads of bonded freight have ar rived and departed under the super vision of a deputy collector and in l spector of customs connected with the New London custom house. This will be of small consequence in mparison with the volume that will come when | New London is operated as an inn mediate port of entry
 | In addition to the railroad traffic there is regular line of freight | boats in connection with the Central Vermont road to New York. There is | also a line of passenger and freight
 
 | York, New Haven and Hartford rail- | road. Their boats have aceomoda- | tions for 1900 passengers each and 800 tons freight capacity. The freight | and passenger boats of the Chelsea | line also make stops at New London l on the trips to and from New York. | There is also a daily passenger and | freight steamboat service to Long | Island and regular steamboat
 route to the forts in the New London
 Artillery district. all combining to | make the facilities for freight and l portance.
 l With New London as an immediate port of entry, the business at the GUS | tom house will be materially increas- l ed and there will be at least one line | of foreign steamships in the near | future. At the present time there are 1 one hundred and thirty eight vessels | registered at the custom house with | a total gross tonnage of 7S,509. and a net tonnage of 56,145 This is the | largest tonnage ever credited to the | port of New London, although there l have been times when a larger mum l Der of vessels have been registered l These fifures are for the coastwise | vessels. In addition there are eleven yachts with a total gross tonnage of 2,363 tons and 1,31S net tons.
 In connection with the government marine interests of New London is | the United States Local Inspectors l office, that has special charge of the l steamer and motor boats Of the dis | trict The volume of business in this ! office for the year 1910. which was
 not regular year for the issuing oi | the ffve-year licenses has been as fol- l lows: Number of vessels inspected 1 104; number of first class pilots li- censes issued, 10; second class. 13; special pilot, 1; chief engineers, IT; | assistant engineers, Il; special engi-
 neers, 2; mates, ,; mates and pilots 2; master of sailing vessels. :, op- orators of motor boats, 1G7; engineers
 of motor boats, 19; investisations f | The steamboat tonnage is 30,330 tons With the prospective industries ant the foreign marine trade the freigh and passenger service of New Londor l promises even greater results in 191- | than in 1910.