New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-27
PIER PLANS UP TODAY
Believed Estimate Board Will
Approve Some of the Sites.
T0MKINS OPPOSES UPTOWN
Thinks There Will Yet Be Wav
to Avoid Going There to
Accommodate Liners

The Board Of Estimate at fits -o.,.,.
meeting, which is to be held TO-DAY ;.
cause tomorrow is Thanksgiv,po ",
give consideration to the proportion -
construct long piers for the big 60
steamships in the Hudson River bo,r,.-.
44th and 9th streets Comr,s~o.
Tomkins OF the Dock Department, rtr
submit to the board plans for inc ~.
struction Of piers Of various lengths a..
1t is not unlikely that definite action ,,t,
be taken looking to the immediate ca,
rying out of some of the plans. :
Commissioner Tomkins, howeve, ..
his report TO the board points on, nh.
he considers certain disadvantages a.
using the uptown site for the new piers
II have bluntly stated facts as , s.o
Them" he says, mot with the intention =,
transferring an irksome responsibility n
others, but so that the board NAV ha "a
vised Of the disadvantages Ordinarily a.,
pense) which are involved in uptown IA.
cation; and in the expectation that 70 ~.
city, in the face OF these DISADVANTAGE
shall promptly proceed with plans sor
such uptown location and declare Its e.
tention TO go there If necessary-tha, m.
federal government may carefully cons,a-
er the ultimate effect of it's final decision
upon port development at New York
which Is the national port of the country
am not yet convinced that uptown locs.
ton is unavoidable"
commissioner Tomkins's sketches show
plans for three whole piers and two
half piers, each 100 feet in length. "a
cost total Of sl4. 4s3, $50, also, as an altar.
native for three whole and two half pisr,
each 1900 feet in length, at total cost o,
~ i35,9iO. The dredging necessary is esn.
mated at about Si5.O0o,OOO. These piers
are planned for the stretch between Nth
and 50th streets.
The Commissioner calls attention IA N.
fact that to put piers between 5Oth and
57th streets would require legislation IN.
Volving the removal Of Dewitt Clin,on
Park and the repeal Of charter desIgna.
tons OF docks for canal boats between
DIST and 9th streets. For this stratcb
the Commissioner will present plans Sor
eight l,OOO-foot piers 10 cost so, on. go. also
for six whole and two half piers 5O0 Zoe,
in length, the estimated cost OF which
would be s46,O6O,525.
The committee on terminal irnrovs.
ments Of the Board Of Estimate viii bold
another public hearing on the South
Brooklyn freight terminal scheme OF Com.
missioner Tom<ins in the Aldermane
Chamber at 2:3O o'clock this afternoon.
Representatives Of twenty-five civic and
commercial organizations Of BROOKLYN
met yesterday afternoon at tho ofTces
of the Brooklyn League, No. a Cour,
street. and formed the United Civic and
Commercial Organizations, TO oppose ac-
ton to make extensive pier Improvements
along the waterfront of Manhattan at the
expense of the plans for the South
Brooklyn waterfront development. Ex-
Senator Charles II. Fuller was elected
president of the new body; William H.
Cleary. of the New York Board Of Trade
and Transportation. vlce-president ana
John +. Gels. secretary.
Many OF those present yesterday will
attend the meeting OF the Board OF Estl-
mate and Apportionment to-day 70 pro-
test against the adoption OF the plans fog
the Improvement OF the Manhattan water.
front. Before adjournment yesterday
committee OF five was chosen to consider
the advisability Of starting injunction
proceedings TO check the city II to-days
protest proves unayalling. Another COM
mittee Of three members was CHOSEN 70
prepare for a mass meeting 20 be held
at the Academy of Music In case Brook
Iyu fails to get her rights.