Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-15
FACTORY SITES WANTED
 NEAR OCEAN TERMINAL. F. V. ChappeII Tells Park Church Men That Big Developments for This Section Are Coming.


 F. " ChappeIl of the New London ocean terminal commission gave a a most interesting address before the Mems club of the Park Congregational church in the Osgood Memorial Friday evening, speaking on the preparation for the new deep water piers and the value of the development of the termi- nal to eastern Connecticut At the close of the address an excellent sup per was served in the dining room un- der the direction of the entertainment committee
 Mir. Chappell stated that the com mission had been approached by a large number of big manufacturing concerns regarding factory sites on the river, as they wished to be located near an ocean terminal. There is almost no such opportunity for manufacturing concerns in New England as will be found at New LOnden and along the river to Norwich with the docks com pleted. The speaker exhibited several maps and explained the piers, tracks, etc. Eighty acres of land have been secured for switch room. With the exception of one natural bar which must be removed there is enough water nearly everywhere.
 Mr. Chappell told of the appointment of the commission in 1911 and said that there had been many hindrances to prevent an earlier start on the ac- A visits to the ports of Providence, Bos- ton, Portland Philadelphia and New York In connection with his remarks on the increasing demand for trans portation by water. he said that the time would come when in proportion to it's length the Connecticut river would be the greatest commercial highway in the country. With naviga- ble water to Springfield, 90 cents a ton could be saved on the necessities of life and the people are going to demand that the river be opened.
 Ships Guaranteed to Come.
 Ships he said are guaranteed as soon as the piers are in. The demand for dock room is bigger than the sup ply and New London, the Thames river and Norwich will develop when the piers are there. In December, 1912, five ships were ordered away from New York by wireless owing to lack of roOm Three went to Boston and two to Portland. All five would have accommo odations.
 Grain the Staple Shipment.
 The staple which will support the port is grain. Wheat is rotting- on the ground in Manitoba and Saskatchewan because there is more of it than the ports can handle.s It is not a question of whether they want to ship to a cer tain port but a question of shipping to each port as much as that port can handle. At New York the great prob lem is facilities Grain brought through the lakes to New York city can come to New London at an additional cost of five to seven cents a ton with an immense saving in the transfer at New London. One cargo of sugar amount ing to 10000 tons was unloaded at New York on lighters, transferred to the Central Vermont steamers, brought to New London and loaded on trains for Canada. The steamer could have put into New London, under future conditions, and transferred her load direct to the cars with a saving of 95 cents to a dollar per ton In New York lack of rooom makes it impossible to transfer direct to train. New York is driving away the ships that handle the necessities of life in inviting the great trans Atlantic liners. These yes sels which handle the Coastwise trade, tramp steamers. South American trade vessels. will come to New London.
 We are asking the government for 40 feet of water in New London: why not include request for 20 feet of water all the way to Norwich and make it one vast project? At the close MT Chappell explained the maps more in detail and answered numerous ques=- tions on the project. His address was heard with much interest.