The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-04-18
FLORIDA and
new ENGLAND.
Henry c. Long Talks of Benefit Di-
rect Steamship Connection Be-
tween Boston and Far South
Would Prove to Both

boston, mass, says: Adequate steam
ship connections with other ports ar
needed by Florida's most southern
port, Tampa, is the opinion of Henr,
c. Long of this city, who has just re
turned from the south, where he wa!
called to lay out three harbors. Tam
pa Is the logical outlet for the prod
uctS of the western part of Florida
which is the winter market garden OF
the country, according to Mr.. Long
Direct steamship service with most
modern facilities of heating and re-
frgeration for winter and summer
respectively between Boston and Tam
pa would tend to develop Florida
tremendously and would decrease the
cost of living in New England Won
derfully, said Mr.. Long in speaking Of
the most tropical American state on
the Atlantic seaboard and his work
there.
Mr.. Long is a Boston lawyer by
profession and student of port de-
velopment. He is an active advocate
Of belt line railroads as furnishing the
highest efficiency to the commercial
advance of port and has given many
illustrated lectures on these sub
jects. He gave one on nearly every
night while in Florida.
Tampa, St. Petersburg and Saraso-
ia, the latter an important shipping
station, took advantage of Mr.. Longs
presence in Florida and had plans
for their harbor development drawn.
Although Tampa is the southern ter
minus for two railroads, one down the
east and the other down the west
coast, Mr.. Long says that the prod
ucts of the farms there in some
places spoil on the siding5 waiting
for trains to take them out.
A waterfront of eight and a half |
miles about confined shallow wa
ter area at Tampa is to be dredged |
and developed so that there will even
tually be five piers on one side and |
10 on the other of an estuary 600
feet wide. The piers are to be con-
structed on an angle of 40 degrees,
25O feet wide and about 1000 feet long
The slips are 300 feet wide.
The entire waterfront and its APP
Durtenance3 is municipality owned
and operated and will be developed By
he city A belt line railroad is 70
connect with all of the piers and with
10Th railroads terminating at the port.
The layout at st. Petersburg was
imilar to the Tampa plan and also in
confined space. Five piers 14O0 feet
ong, some 800 and others $50 and POO
Get wide, were laid out on an angle Of
3 degrees on one side of a broad
u lOpH 70 -i, |
long quay formed the other side
f the channel.
1.-THE piers at Tampa said Nj.
.ong, twill be occupied so fast as
hey are completed and when that +
evelopment is finished another will /
e started. This opening Of the state 7
abroad terminal will mean the es- +
ablishment Of Tampa as the metrop- Y
lis of western Florida and the be- f
inning of a great development.
1.-The people there hope that since =
'ampa is the nearest American port =
D the Panama canal it will be more
nd more used by those who wish to
each the canal by the quickest pos
Ible route. Either for passengers OF
Or freight, the Tampa route is from
ne to two days nearer the canal than
ny other large port. c
There are no steamships like t
hose Of the United Fruit Company o
18th modern systems of refrigeration
+ heating according as they are to 8.
e used in the summer or winter traf- O
The railroads will not allow the o
g