El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-02
DOCKS
TO PRESERVE
GREATNESS
New York's Foreign Trade
Menaced by Inability to
Care For Vessels.
FAKE GOWNS BEAR
THE PARIS LABELS

New York, Nov. 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 threat
ened.
So rapid has been the growth in the
size OF ocean going vessels in the last
few years that New York docks have
failed to keep pace with them and
when the 500 foot dock arrived there
were many who held that the limit
had been reached. Hardly had these
docks been completed, however, when
the need of still longer ones appeared
One transatlantic line. for instance,
will have a 912 foot monster in Ope-
ration 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 levia-
thans to dock here and New York has
been confronted with the choice of
lengthening her docks or seeing her
foreign commerce diverted to other
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
cult 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
II too narrow for the movement of the
huge vessels. 1t is only after long de-
liberation that the army engineers OF
the New York harbOr line finally de-
cided to recommend the extension OF
certain docks to the thousand foot
mark
So New York can again breathe cas-
lly, at least temporarily. 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 a physical
impOssibility to build docks big
enough to handle them on the North
river, so that New York may even
tually be faced by the necessity Of
losing her commerce or selecting a
new harbOr.
Paris Gowns Made in America.
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 mere OF a trade that comes so
iittle short Of a downright swindIe
that nobody but a customs officer can
tell the difference. But though this
questionable trade has been brought
TO light no one has yet been seen rush
ing to the front TO do anything about
II, and it. seems doubtful whether
any one will
1t seems that women's tailOrs and
clothing manufacturers here have =
habit Of sewing the labels of wei
known Partisan firms into suits that
are made on our own soil, and sending
the garments out 10 the retailers as
Paris creations. Not only do they do
it. but they do it openly. They i'm
port the labels in bundles. Not only
that, but the fraudulent labels-Or
rather the labels which obviously can
only be used for fraudulent PURPOSES
rra = hr-
legitimate goods, are named as dutf-
able commodities under the tariff and
hundreds Of dollars Of duty are coll
lected on them every season
a clothing manufacture who has
collection of several thousand Of these
labels showed samples bearing the
names OF Worth, PaQuin, CaIlet, Al
phonsine. and a dozen or more others. /
1t is said that the high duty charged I
on these imports has given rise to a
new industry here and that 10 or u
American firms now manufacture /
similar labels which counterfeit the 4
not so great as that to be made from
counterfe it money the trade is absO- Z
lutely safe 1t is said to be growing ]
rapidly.
COstIiest Animal sails.
The highest priced animal in the 1
world, valued at nearly a sixth Of 1
million dollars, sailed from here the I
other day as q passenger on the liner 4
Minnewaska- Lamentations long and I
loud have gone up over that Depart I
ure, for Rock sand, the worlds prize /
stallion, goes as an emlgrant tc I
France. and unless something very [
much unexpected happens he will new /
er come back. Rock Sand. a stunning {
piece Of hOrseflesh, has been owned 4
for years by August Belmont. Since /
the anti gambling laws have put an 4
end 70 horse racing here on anything [
like the old scale, race horses have. !
of course, been a drug on the market, 3
and the loyal betting men who insist /
ed that the breed of American horse /
flesh must be improved have had an .
opportunity to lament the exporting /
of many fine animals before now And ]
they are lamenting Rock Sand. There {
was a moaning of the bar when he put I
out TO sea that would have done +
credit to the prophet Jeremiah OF a
trustworthy Wall Street man just be-
fore election. The anti gambling peO-
pie have always cOntended that the