Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-01
NEW BOARD TO RUSH
TRANSOCEAN FREIGHT
Permanent Commission Is
Created to Facilitate
Shipping
WILL AID LOCAL PLANS
Adequate Terminals to Prevent
Repetition of Last Winters
Congestion
Washington, May I.

washington MAY l.
The four branches Of the Government
most vitality interested and the ship
owners have been brought together
through the creation OF permanent
commission on port, terminal and har-
tor improvement, with Edward +. Garry.
director of operations for the United
States shipping board, as its chairman
and representatives Of the railroad ad-
Iminlstration, War Department, Navy
Department. shipping board and ship
ping interests as members.
The members of the board, in addi-
: tion to Mr.. Garry. are:
/ Benjamin f. Wmchcll, representing
! the railway administration.
/ :. NJ. FELTON,, representing the War
/ Department.
/ Captain A. e. Hodgson representing
/ the Navy Department.
/ George S. Dearborn, president of the
/ American Hawaiian Steamship Com
pany, representing shipping interests.
j. II. Rossiter. president Of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company representing
shipping interests.
Edwin L. Gay, representing the war
industries BOARD and the United States
shipping board.
Plan Cooperation
Sitting in Washington. the new board
will endeavor to correlate the develop
ment of all the factors that can be
brought into play to improve the over
seas transport situation.
The principal aim win he to Cncour-
age activities of local port commissions.
so that every seaport may bc prepared
to do its share in handling the increased
business brought about by the war and
the immense increase in foreign trade
that is expected to follow the conclusion
of peace
The shipping board itself expects to
do a large amount Of improvement work.
The construction of drydocks and re-
pair yards will fall in this class. Real
izing that much of the traffic conges-
ton last winter was due to lack of
proper terminal facilities. the railroad
administration, under the guidance OF
the new commission, plans to enlarge
and improve existing plants Under the
general scope of the Garry board also
will come the warehouse construction
to be undertaken at the scaboard by the
War and Navy Departments
MT. AIRY Will pl Itt'S4liN ~ l'ItFu
to relinuuish his duties as director of
operations for the shipping board. His
successor has not been selected.
The statement issued by the shipping
board follows:
"The appointment or the commission
Is one of the results of the transporta-
ton and shipping congestion of last
to be inadequate. this condition being re-
sponSlble for some of the railroad delays
Secretary McAdoo and Chairman Hur.
ley, of the shipping board, have been co.
operating to equalize shipping condi.
tions. utilize all port facilities in the
most economic manner and COrrelate
rail transportation with overseas traf-
fic.
Army and Navy Interested
Not only the shipping board, but the
army and navy and the railroad admin.
, iStratiou have a direct interest I'm work.
ing out co-ordinated port and termina
program. The armys interest Is to see
. to IL that cmbarkatiOn ports are so ar,
ranged that there viii be adequate rail
road, warehouse and other facilities
, The commission will deal with bunker
age facilities, which is Of interest Il
! the may. The railroad administration
is working to avoid any waStcfu
journeys of freight. When the proper
2 ports are designated for certain ship
ment> the distance covered by SuCi
shipments will be shortened. The pro
gram llldl VIII Dt CONSIDERED bN I'M
! commission is designed to eliminate al
- waste motion.
The rearrangemcnt Of shipping port
will be as advantageous to the nHtiol
s after the war as during the war. Whei
t. the ships now under construction ar
S in service they VIII be able to go int
ports that are equipped with the mos
: improved machinery for bunkering, dry
| dock for repairs and the most muder
e loading and unloading methods for han
. ding CargoeS,
THE State Of New York recently an
z propriated 100000 TO be spent in con
@ uecton with their New York and NeN
Il Jersey Port Commission and it is tn
p intention Of the commission to co
r operate In every way with the New Yor
4 and New Jersey Port Commission an
other commissions organized for thi
purpose