El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-04-12
WILL
MAKE LONDON
GREATE5TP0RT
Plan Enormous System of
Docks With Latest
Facilities.
MANY MILLIONS
TO BE INVESTED

7 oNDoN. Eng. April 12-Some Eng
Il Hshmen may pretend to have {
contempt for Americas commercial
Dersisteney. but when IT come to go
Ing after big business hard England
IS no SLOUGH herself.
Right now she Is going cut hard
and fast to make the port OF London
probably the greatest in the world
Certainly II not that tbs Thames
river soon win be able to boast OF i'm
provsments along this line that New
York has been endeavorinE to obtain
FOR years great docks and terminals
where the largest steamships in the
world may 90 right IN dump their
loads. turn around and go right out
again Docks viii be constructed
where transatlantic passengers prze-
tically viii be able to step right off
the great liners onto = railroad train
and be switched to their destinations
hundreds OF miles away without the
nuisance OF a cross city journey or
overnight delay. to say nothing Of
the additional Inconvenience OF bag
gage relaying.
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Extensions and improvements are
now either under way or IN contem-
plation at a cost OF something ap-
proximating $50. 00O 900.
These will bring the biggest ships
up as far as the Royal Albert Dock.
close TO the city OF London proper.
The greatest scheme coutemplates a
new dock, 81 acres in extent. on the
south side OF the Royal Albert dock
Something Ike so. 000. 900 will be
spent here alone. II Is planned 70
have the whole tremendous. coordf-
mated service ready By autumn
These great extensions at the Royal
Albert dock viii give an extra quay
space two and a half miles long. The
new dock viii accommodate vessels
as large as the Aquitania. will have
50 feet OF water and contain IS snip
berths equipped with train sheds and
all the latest loading and dischargtng
facilities. including cranes capable OF
lifting 25 tons from the center OF the
dock
Immense Cold Storage.
Enormous cold storage houses viii
be put in, with latest refrigerating
machinery and a storage capacity OF
500. 900 carcasses- When these plans
are complete the port OF London viii
have cold storage accommodation for
1900. 900 earcasses. The construction
viii be such as 70 admit OF further
extensions whenever needed
Great extensions at TnburT prob
ably will be the most Interesting from
the public point OF view. Here the
passenger traffic viii be developed to
an extent hitherto impossible. A
great floating landing stage 11o0 feet
long Is TO be constructed with all the
most modern facilities and convent
ences for rapidly embarking and dis
embarking ocean-EoinE passenger
The largest ships win be able to reach
this stage and &c Is intended to extend
the present landing stage down close
to the river so that passengers prac-
tically may step from the liner onto
the railway platform Big new wait
ing rooms and baggage halls are 20
be erected and expresses viii be run
to speed up the whole passenger serv-
ice A great new dock is TO be con-
structed here. with an entrance lock
1850 feet long. The river jetty IN the
vicinity viii quicken the work OF
handling vessels landing port cargo
only This viii have two floors. the
upper equipped as a quay with rail-
way lines and electric cranes and the
lower as a transit shed for goods
Greatest interest viii be taken IN
this work in New York. because ef-
forts have been made repeatedly 10
adopt a docking scheme for the great
steamship lines that would make d.
rect connection with the large trunk
railroads possible