New-York tribune., 1916-07-10

the traffic Of her nearest home COM
petitor.
7. Annual imports Of a few single
commodities:
Crude rubber. $40 900
Coffee .............. 69,000,0OO
Sugar and molasscs. 65,O00,ooo
Hides and skins ...... $4,000, 900
&. Annual exports Of few single
commodities:
Iron and steel products.sl41 100000
copper '...'''''..'.'' go'oOooV9 80 oOo oV9
Meat .........-....... f9,ooV,oVo
(b) Domestic T-ade.
/. Coastwise and river trade are
much larger than the foreign.
! >. Twenty coastwise llnes-very ire
qucnt sailings.
3. Large number Of river and harbor
/ lines.
4. Estimate Hudson River section
carried 58,00000O tons freight, value
I (cstimated) $4,000. 600, 900.
Estimate East River section carried
/ 10 900 900 tons.
Estimate Arthur Kill carried 100000
| 900 tons.
(c) Railroads.
New York is a railroad centre second
only TO Chicago. Railroads totalling
10000 miles have their principal ter
minals here.
I'D New York as Manufacturing
! Centre.
1. Known as great population and
commercial centre, but few realize i'm
portance as manufacturing centre.
?. Back in 1910 had $4,000 manufact-
| uring plants. with 100000 hands.
3. Back in 1910 factory investment
$4,000 100000 and annual output
/ $3,OOO.OOO, 900
4. Growth rapid; 20 per cent greater
in 1910 than in 1900. (This refers TO
factory investment figures
5. This single city produced more
than any state in Union, except Penn
| sylvania.
6. Produces over one-tenth entire
output of United States.
Z Handling raw materials and An
ished products of New York industries
alone would keep great systems of
railroads and steamships busy.
b. Lack of Coordination.
|. New York has one of the best
natural harbors in world.
.. In early days none could foresee
congestion OF present, and haroor
frontages were leased and sold with
no conception of what tho future
growth would be.
8. Very few piers in New York Har-
Dor TO which ships can come having
direct railroad connection inland:
4. New York has terminals for 39,lSf
miles Of railroad.
c. Congestion Of Streets, Docks,
Railroads. Useless Expense Through
Delay.
1. Because OF lack OF coordination OF
/ facilities enormous amount OF unnec-
essary work is done.
,. other ports better showing; New
/ York has more waterfront than these
/ three ports combined, but
Hamburg handles almost equal ton
mage with twenty-four miles water
front;
London handles almost equal ton
+ mage with twenty-elght miles water
/ front. though handicapped by eighteen
| feet tidal range;
/ Liverpool handles almost equal ton,
mage in small area, though handicapped
by twenty-six feet tidal range.
/ These ports are better equipped, es-
pecially with warehousing facilities
8. In New York over 1000 hgnters'
car floats, floating grain elevators OIL
4 barges, coal barges, etc, are needeu 10
I handle railroad traffic alone.
Much OF this activity is due 20 work
twice done and slowly done.
4. While congestion of freight on
niers and bulkheads is great, conges-
/ lion of trucks waiting 70 receive or
/ deliver freight Is likely TO DE greater
/ These delays waste money.
:. There is an element OF truth IN
tho saving that the merchant in Man
haitian pays more to get his freight to
or from the railroad piers than he pays
the railroad company 70 transport II 20
almost any point in the country
s. situation so strained that SERIOUS
freight tie-ups occur on the slightest