Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-10
DRAFTACT MAKING
ENTRY PORT HERE
Board of Trade Takes Steps to
Interest State in the
Project.
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COOPERATION OF THREE
OTHER CITIES PROMISED
NoiseIess Pavement for Broad
Street Will Be Asked of
Works Board.


adjacent meadow lands the Newark
Board of Trade last night drafted
O bill covering these improvements
which they will seek to have made
under State auspices. A request will
also be made to the Board of Works
to repave Broad street, leaving the
selection of the material to be used
t. that body. The Trade Board reso-
luton covering the improvement will
recommend that a n~oiseless, durable
and sanitary pavement be selected.
Efforts will now be made to inter-
est the citizens of Elizabeth. Jersey
City and Bayonne. the cities which
with Newark would be included In
q Newark bay port district. A spe-
cial committee will have this work
In hand and will report back at a
later meeting. Calvin Tomkins, dock
commissioner of New York: Con-
gressmen Eugene r. Kinkead and
Walter I. Mccoy, former Congress-
mar r. Wayne Parker, George w.
Reeve and James w. Howard, all
spoke in favor of the boards legisla.
tive bill.
AAC INV "a thC PAOPoSrU att WtllCll
has previously been published In de-
tail, explains briefly its objects. 1t
is An act creating the Newark Bay
port district and board of commits
sioners; comforting powers to plan
port development of Newark Bay, to
construct wharves, docks, terminals,
railways, canals, streets, to dredge
channels or harbors. to buy, sell or
condemn lands, to construct and OPP
crate, sell, or lease lands, buildings
OF railways within said district; to
assess for benefits. to employ en-
gineers and others, to raise money by
tax upon all property within said
district, and to operate and maintain
forever the public works provided for
In this act''
Must Be Unde State Auspices.
The importance of this project"
declared Dock Commissioner Tom
kins. lis second to none in New Jer-
sey. This is a subsidiary port of
New York and second only to it. 1t
can be made a magnificent port of
entry, as they have made the port
of Hamburg. The improvement must
be made under State auspices, which
In many ways is better than under
city auspices. 1t is on the financial
question that the complexity of the
matter will be manifested.
AS Mr.. Howard has said, this is
the only port on the Atlantic coast
which has not been developed, and
that is fortunatesrather than other
wise, for now you can go ahead and
do what you like; this is your OPP
portunity. Don't consider 1t as mere
ly a waterfront project, but include
ample backlands, which are necessary
for the industrial development of the
communities concerned.
1T is very evident that you must
act quickly, for development on the
meadows is proceeding rapidly now;
vacan land is being filled up and
every delay makes it more difficult
to impose such a plan as yours.
1T Is unfair TO the riparian owners
along Newark Bay to continue their
property in its present condition by
refusing them the right to fill out.
Either the State must take their
lands for public purposes or they
must be allowed to fill them out
themselves. Railroad improvements
are proceeding rapidly. Railroads
have suggested classification yards
for their freight on the meadows.
Then there is the question of a
commission. Do you want another
State commission? You already have
q State Harbor Commission, which is
very effective, and the members Of
which understand the port problem
better, I believe, than would any new
commission. In a short time this
commission will be out of a job, and
then. with all its experience, II would
be waiting for you. All that is neces-
sary is for the State to provide this
commission with S25, 900 with which
to employ a technical engineering
staff and set it at work Immediately.
In this way you would avoid the crit
icism which would attach to the crea-
tion of a special commission"
support Is Promised.
Congressman Kinkead promised the
support of the Mayors of Jersey City
and Bayonne and of the twelve AS
semblymen to be elected from Hud-
son County, stated that he was heart
lily in favor of the plan and would
do all he, could in Congress in work
ing for appropriations for rivers and
harbors In this sections. Congress
a Mccoy promised similar support
in Congress and said he had been
astonished since being q representa-
tive at what little attention had been
paid ito this stream here" Mr.. Par
ker in favoring the general pro-
visions of the proposed act referred
to New Jersey as the potential gate
way TO the whole country.
In the matter Of repaving Broad
street, a thoroughfare which it was
agreed is in a poor condition. the
committee ON internal trade, headed
by Frederick T. Ward, submitted a
report providing for paving With
wooden blocks. and a similar report
was submitted by the committee On
municipal affairs, of which Henry G.
Hines is chairman.
When these reports had been read
they were accepted and the sugges-
tons contained therein adopted. but
then opposition came up. and when a
vote was later taken 1t was found
that the board, MS a majority, didn't
favor wooden blocks. after all.
Wood Most Expensive, He Says.
James w. Howard, a consulting
engineer, voiced his objections to the
wooden block paving at length. say
ing they were in the end the most
expensive, needed much repair and
very insanitary. If they were to be
used just because they were noise
less it should be only on certain