Las Vegas optic., 1912-10-30
LARGER DOCKS TO
BE BUILT IN
GOTHAM
NEW YORK STRIVING TO RETAIN
ITS IMMENSE FOREIGN
COMMERCE.

New York, oct sO.--New York. it
is at last announced, is to have thou
sand foot docks and in this decision
the city is congratulating itself on
the satisfactory settlement Of the
greatest commercial problem which
it or any other municipality has ever
had to face, in which nothing less
than the supremacy Of the port was
threatened. So rapid has been the
growth in the size of ocean-going YES
sis in the last few years that New
| York docks have failed to keep pace
with them and when the SOO-foot dock
arrived there were many who held
that the limit had been reached.
Hardly had these docks been com
pleted, however, when the need Of
still longer ones appeared. One trans
atlantic line, for instance, will have
a 912 foot monster in operation next
spring to be followed by one $50 feet
in length, and another still larger.
Under the existing conditions it
would be impossible for these levi
athans to dock here and New York
has been confronted with the choice
Of lengthening her docks or seeing
her foreign commerce diverted to 9TH
er ports. Ordinarily the decision
would have been simple, but the
docks which now line the two sides
Of the river already jut so far into
the stream as to make navigation diff
ficult and often dangerous in the part
which remains available. Engineers
have argued that to narrow the fair
ways by another 200 feet through
the lengthening of the docks would
make it too narrow for the movement
of the huge vessels. 1t is only after
long deliberation that the army en-
gineers of the New York harbor line
finally decided to recommend the ex-
tension of certain docks to the thou
sand foot mark. So New York can
again breathe easily, at least tenn
porarily. Should ocean steamships
increase in size in the next so years
as rapidly as they have in the last
half century, it is pointed out, it
would be physical impossibility to
build docks big enough to handle
them on the North river so that
New York may eventually be faced by
the necessity of losing her commerce
or selecting a new harbor.
"Fakine" Paris Models.
That Partisan labels do not neces-
sarily mean Partisan gowns is the
most disturbing feature, from a femi-
nine point Of view at least, Of the dis
covery here of a trade that comes so
little short of a downright swindle
that nobody but customs officer can
tell the difference. But though this
questionable trade has been brought
to light no one has yet been seen
rushing to the front to do anything
about it, and it seems doubtful whetn-
er any one will It seems that WON
ems tailors and clothing manufactur-
ers here have nabit of sewing the
labels Of well-known Partisan firms
into the suits that are made on our
own soil, and sending the garments
out to the retailers as genuine Paris
creations. Not only do they do it,
but they do it openly. They import
the labels in bundles. Not only that |
but the fraudulent labels--or rather
the labels which obviously can onlF
be used for fraudulent purposes-are
recognized by the government as le-
gitimate goods, are named as duti-
able commodities under the tariff
and hundreds Of dollars Of duty are
collected on them every season. A /
clothing manufacturer who has a col /
lection Of several thousand of these
labels showed samples bearing the
names of Worth, Paquin, Callet, Al
phonsine, and dozen or more Others.
It is said that the high duty charged
on these imports has given rise to a
new industry here and that ten or
twelve American firms now manufac-
ture similar labels which counterfeit
the foreign marks. Though the prof
it is not SO great as that to be made