Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-26
NEWARK WANTS
SHARE IN HARBOR
APPROPRIATIONS
Trade Board Memorial Tells of
Increase in River
Traffic.

the rivers and harbors appropriation
bill The memorial was compiled by
the navigation committee of the
Trade Board.
1t cites Newark's position and re-
quirements. 1t also tells of the con-
stantly increasing freight business
on the riber and bay. According to
the report the freight tonnage had
more than doubled between 1900 and
1910. In 1900 the tonnage was $780,
724. In 1910 it was 2.77S.062 In 1872
it jumped to 1855, 90I. This same
ratio of business has been evident
during the past two years, official
records declare.
There is plan now on foot. to in
crease the depth of the river to TWEEN
ty feet at low water from short to
shore. Senator MARITIME has intro
duced an amendment asking for sew
eral millions of dollars for the dredg-
ing of Newark Bay. This is to be
done in connection with the city s
development of the meadows and bay
front The memorial of the trade
board asks that these requests be
granted wholly or at least in part this
year
The river anad hrbor bill was pass
cd by the House on March 26. It was
reported from committee in the Sem
ate last week. The bill provides for
the immediate expenditure of AS,-
600, 900 and the payment in the future
or more than $93,000,000.
Representative James A. Erear. OF
Wisconsin, attacked this years bill,
Just as he has attacked other bills IN
previous years The other day he
made a speech in the House and got
the privilege to extend his remarks
in the Record He made vicious
attack on the New Jersey appropria-
lions.
He said: The engineers reports
show that after spending S65,67 for
Matawan Creek, n. j., this year, we
are putting into that same creek
~, 900 appropriation to benefit several
factories. Shoal Harbor and
Compton Creek, n. j., caught the
spirit Of 1914, and after an expendi-
ture of S4S, 1927. this project gets in
the 1914 bill $50, 800. No public docks
are located on the project, according
to the engineers report, but House
document No. 40, Sixty-third Con-
gress. shows private dock in eX-
istence which belongs TO ]. Fl. Smith
& Co, manufacturers of fertilizer and
|
open to the public. A new fertilizing
plant has been built; and this s56.S0o
is to be spent. according to the en-
gineers' report, for these fertilizing
factories. New Jersey has several
luscious slices of pork in the 1914
barrel, and is also demanding $40,
100000 from the government for n
canal from its mosquito district to the
stream once crossed in a rowboat By
the father of our country
The memorial from the Newark
Board of Trade is a plan statement
of facts. 1t reads as follows:
- Trade Board Memorial. sesss
THE committee on navigation in
terests of this body stand for liberal
appropriations to improve hsrbor and
navigation conditions on all water
ways where the needs of commerce
warrant such improvements being
made, especially where surveys have
been made and the project favorabiy
reported upon by the Corps of Engi-
a neers of the United States army.
THE Atlantic seaboard has not re-
ceived anything like the attention
which it's commerce warrants, and
Congress should not hesitate to make
liberal appropriations for the i'm
proyement of suclf waterways as the
Harlem Kill and the Harlem River.
THE appropriation which you have
made application for to improve the
channel in the upper New York Bay
ant for Congress to be very liberal
and Hudson River and for the i'm
provement of the Kill and the Harlem
River should be granted without
question. The Increase in the size of
vessels makes 1t urgent and import
in its appropriation for the improve
ment of New York Harbor and tribu
tary waters, as the port of New York
produces the greatest return in rev.
enue to government, and there can
be no good argument against putting
back liberal share of the moneys
paid into the United States treasury
for improvements, which will increase
the annual revenues.
- There are millions of money car
ried in each river and harbor act for
the improvement of waterways in the
South and West where the commerce
does not fully justify or warrant
such expenditures, and the represent
atives from these sections certainly
should be broad enough and liberal
enough to take care of the centres
from which the revenues for the sup
port of government is received from.
This Board of Trade is emphatic
in its support of liberal appropria-
tons for further improvement of tide
water navigation, believing that every
dollar so expended under projects ap-
proved by the War Department will
return benefit to the people of the
entire country, whether located at
Inland points or on waterways.
'sIii6se members of Congress who
represent inland districts and who
oppose appropriations for such i'm
provements are misrepresenting the
interests of their constituencies, be-
cause whatever tends to lessen cost
to the millions of people in our cities
adds to the advantages the cities af-
ford as a market for the products of
our farm lands.
Speech Ridiculed.
Such speech made as that by Mr..
Frear, of Wisconsin, against ~Spro-
nriations for New Jersey waterways
is ridiculous, as the gentleman in or
der to build up wrong argument
made use OF letters relating to an ell
tirely different subject and tried To
discredit the improvement of naVl-
gable waters because of certain local
conditions referred to, which were not
considered advisable by individuals in
this State.
a 1.-THE commerce using Newark Bay
and Passaic River has increased con-
sistently with the increased improve
ment of both waterways. The tom
mage prior to the first Improvement
ordered by the government which re-
suited in the making of a uniform
depth of channel of twelve feet was
insignificant and with the compile
ton of this project there was an i'm
mediate increase, and with the COM
pletion of the sixteen-foot project
this increase became manifest; so
much SO that authentic figures COM