Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-17
HARbOR PLANS
CONs|DERED BY
CITY PLANNERS
New Y0rk's Problem Presented
to Convention by Commits :
siOner TOmkins.
MANY FLAWS FOUND
IN CITY DWELLINGS
Problems of Housekeeping Dis.
cussed by National Housing
Association Secretary.

PHILADELPHIA, May 17.--Wharves
and docks were considered by the city
planning convention at the session In
the Bellevue -Straford Hotel. George e.
Rocker, secretary of the Chicago City
Club presided. 1t was given under the
direction Of the committee on traction
lines, railroads and docks. None of the
addresses, however. dealt with trac-
tim lines, all taking up the question
of docks and railroad facilities ad-
jacent to them.
The principal speakers were Joseph
Hasskarl, director of department If
wharVes, docks and ferries. of this city,
and Calvin Tomkins dock commls-
sioner of New York city.
Mr.. Hasskarl spoke Of the dredging
plant the city had installed He ex-
planned that IT was necessary for this
city ana the State to keep its channel
at a certain depth. In other ports, ne
contended, 1t VAS looked after by the
Federal government
According to the most recent plans
for Philadelphia's harbor improve
ments,' he continued ut is the inten-
ton to establish large steamship ter
minals, with the necessary railroad,
wharf and docking facilities, in the
lower part of the city, between Miffiin
street and the Back Channel at League
Island"
New York HRr1lor.
Mr.. Tomkins. spoke of the vast i'm
provements being undertaken by New
York for eliminating the freight con-
paSfinn a tho rfn ha
need of longer piers and the conditions
imposed upon the city by the Federal
with the view to safeguard
ing the encroachment upon the harbor
waters: the necessity for providing a
terminal for the s1O0.0O0,00O barge canal
across the State of New York, which is
now rapidly nearing completion; the
need for supplying better terminals for
local river harbor and sound COM
merce, and the necessity of terminating
the New York CentraIs surface track
nuisance in Manhattan.
He advocated the municipal owner
ship of all docks and piers and elevated
belt lines at the termini of the various
freight stations.
Meyer Lisner. chairman of the Public
Utilities Commission of Los Angeles,
made brief address. The other speak
ers were Edward H. Bennett, of Port
land, Ore, and George c. Skies, of Chi
cago. After the speeches there was a
general discussion of the plans sug-
gested
Lawrence WELLER, secretary of the
National Housing Association, yester-
day read a paper entitled Buildings
in Relation to Street and Site" In
which he advocated a number of revo-
lutionary changes in tenement and
small house building. He declared
there was a popular belief that ciyt
planning would solve the ills Of
the housing problem. which, he said,
was entirely an error, due to the fact
that the question of housing was large
ly sanitary problem.
In discussing this phase. he said:
ut IS chiefly the problem of good
housekeeping, the prompt re-
moval of garbage, rubbish and other
waste materials from the homes Of the
poor, the cleanliness of streets and al.
leys, the provision of adequate water
supply in convenient ocations, of
proper sanitary conveniences in the
place of antiquated expedients."