The sun., 1919-03-19
WOULD CREATE NEW
STATE IN PORT PLAN
Hjalmar Skougor Gives Views
on Project to Improve
Harbor Facilities.

A scheme OF development for the port
OF New York that not only embraces the
fundamental ideas that have been ad-
vanced. but which involves several novel
and unique features. was presented last
night at the regular monthly meeting of
the Society Of Terminal Engineers, 20
Yves. Thirty ninth street, by Hjalmar E.
Skougor of the Chile Exploration Com
pany, which Is one Of the Guggenheim
concerns.
Until of command and control Is the
underlying principle to the success OF
Mr.. Skougors scheme and to this end
no suggests the consolidation of New
York and New Jersey into one Stata
which he says would eliminate the
heretofore insurmountsble barrier which
up to this day has proved to be the di-
rect cause of our inadequate port IA
ciliities."
Features OF the Plan.
As a final factor in the success OF
the scheme Mr.. Sko1gor recommends
that the affairs of the port, after the
completion of the improvements he sug-
gests, be vested in the hands OF a gov
crnor OF the port to be appointed by the
Governor of the State or elected by the
people.
In presenting his ideas Mr.. Skougor
said: Most OF the plans proposed so
far have been more or less local in char
acter and have not formed part of
comprehensive coordinated development
Nf he diafr Of ha
been sufficiently flexible TO permit the
gradual increase from the present time
to that of the next generation"
Among the chief features OF tho
scheme are the contemplated construc-
ton of double track marginal railroad
on Staten Island connecting by tunnel
with New Jersey at one end and with
Brooklyn at the other, and freight
tube TO be constructed between Brooklyn
and Staten Island to be SO arranged that
it will accommodate the proposed extern
sion of the Fourth avenue subway to
Staten Island.
other Recomm nda tions.
Among the other recommendations are
the following:
That the construction OF the New
York-New Jersey vehicular tunnel be
proceeded with, but not until there is
assurance that the terminals have been
so located that they may form part of
tho ultimate port scheme and that more
tunnels be planned for future needs.
That the non-essential freight now
accommodated along the shore OF Man
haitian be diverted elsewhere by creating
a steamship freight centte where the
loading and unloading as we'll as rail-
road freight handling will make 1t I'M
profitable to remain along the Manhattan
shores.
That only passenger steamers, Sound
steamers, ferries and such steamers as
carry freight essential to Manhattan
be accommodated along its shores.
That the crosstown subways from
shore to shore of Manhattan be de-
veloped.
That the proposed marginal railroad
for Brooklyn be considered part of the
port development. and that II be con-
nected at one end with the Pennsylvania
tubes and tho interconnecting railroad
bridge over He'll Gate and the other end
be connected by tube with Staten Island
That the railroad now traversing New
ark Bay from Bayonne to Elizabethport
be diverted over Staten Island TO facili-
tate connection between Staten Island
and Manhattan by way OF the Hudson
tubes.
That Newark Bay be considered the
main freight steamship centre OF the
united port because of the fact that It's
shores are served by some fifteen rail-
roads.
That free zone be established In
Raritan Bay and properly protected by
a breakwater extending from Sandy
Hook toward Staten Island.