New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-08

New York has met in the past the
steadily growing demands OF the COM
mcrcc and the industry which have
made - grea.
But now the time has come 90 take
counsel for the future. Things cannot
go on amy longer as they have heen
going. there ls uD room for further
expansion 90 our gigantic business m
tore O. D. Us continue to cling 20 the
idea thai Manhattan IS All OF New
Norl for commercial and industrial
Durl osc-. and Manhattan below 10th
81 90 thai.
Our way a. doing business there Is
chaos and worse, for ~ Is driving
trade away and preventing new inous-
.riea from coming o. The waste Of IL
is conceivable.
liarhor Handicapped.
e.. railroads direct 10 steamship
t..r-, ... +.rtcric. near wharvcs. In
a.es.. . .e.-ls,on o. i.gLtcr'ng across
Sad uI ..- -oUn rivers, ~ trucking
.r-o .i. .~ and down town; dc lays,
storage. ..l..r.. unloading and reload
.I, a-,cc r-r expenses.
AL t.s- teuDc.,s New York ~ It's
c.Ultttul with c+Gor .eaports which
arc being developed. according 20 we'll
cons dared. scientific plans, al Philadel-
phia. Baltimore. Newport News, Nor
folk. New Orleans, Boston and Mon
treal. Cotton Tor export no longer
passes through This port; our share of
the export o. the crops has greatly
diminished.
And when one considers what Liver
pool, Hamburg, Antwerp and Rotter-
dam are doing 20 enlarge their trade,
the harbor works they are carrying out,
the facilities they ere planning, New
York seems not only % stand still, but
20 go backward.
That rrea. end useful body the
Merchant Association OF New York
tells ua tia. "tle city D. constantly
compelled 60 deny Implications for dock
iacllitic, thus driving commerce 10
We ha' ,re something, Of course.
In nltof r- $50 have increased our
whaIfa .mm0dations a. much as
% per while our foreign com
mcrcc has increased during that
pcriod .r cent.
And al. been haDhszard, hit
or-miss ul. below the commercial
death . Oh. Manhattan. We have
torn o. .aor- piers and built longer
oues. and nor" Hacc tf" government
has forbidden this, Wc axe engaged IN
the oA1el,.y, and tuDlc proceeding Of
cutting into t'e Manhattan shore front,
the mos. costly re.. estate IN tho
world.
No- trace OF am orderly. alien
hrac ing plan for permanent relief and
growth can be seen in 10 all.
What IS more, we have driven away
large industries 90 New Jersey and
elsewhere, for with this overcrowdlng,
this pihng up of costs from factory TO
steamer, has come also an enormous
increase in land values and rents.
The Singer Sewing Machine Com
pany migrated 20 Elizabeth, y. j., long
ago; the Colgate Scan Company and
the Lorillard Tobacco Company moved
to Jersey City. The printing plant of
g. J. Putnam's Sons Is at New Ro-
chcllc; that OF Doubleday, Page &
Co. at Garden CITY. Newark is devel-
oping AN elaborate and well consld
eyed system OF factory sites near deep
water.
New York Is stlll the greatest man
uiac-uring city in the country; the
number OF its industrial plants still
exceeds those of Chicago, Phila-
delphia. Boston and st. Louis COM
bined It's annual output still amounts
10 over S2,000000.0 900. 1t still ! avs
out each year in wages and salaries
over S445 100000.
But its industries have become
mostly small ones, carried on in lofts
and old buildings Real estate and
rents are far too high for the sue
cessful establishment Of large, sani-
tary, modern industrial buildings. New
York is oyercrowded, says Manhattan,
which still believes itself TO be what
Il once was. the whole of the city.
Greater New York IS not overcrowd-
ed along rs waterfront, OF on ITS acre
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