Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1921-09-20
n. !. GOVERNOR
|NSPECTS PORT.
Waterway Projects Around
N. Y. Viewed by Miller and
Other Officials

NEW YORK, Sept. 20-The inter-
dependents of New York and New
Jersey in the matter of port facili-
ties, and the necessity of coopera-
ton between the two states in i'm
proving shipping conditions was en-
phasized by Governor Nathan L..
Miller last night after an all day
tour of the waterfront.
New Jersey cannot get her full
share of possibilities without a re-
arrangement of the railroads,
bridges and tunnels. and New York
cannot get her full share without
better rearrangement of switching
yards, tunnels and bridges connect
ing the two states, in all of which
she needs New jerseys cordial help"
he said.
Motion pictures of congested con-
ditions in four terminals will be put
on public view by the Port Author
ity as means of securing popular
support for improvements in port
facilities.
Governor Nathan l.. Miller, in
company with the engineers for Riv-
ers and Harbors of the War Depart
ment and local district army engi-
neers, left this morning with COM
missioners to the Port Authority and
the engineering staff of that body on
the steamer Lancaster from the Jer-
sey City public wharf on the Hack
ensack river. The majority of the
party assembled at the Hotel Penn
sylvania and made the trip to the
dock in automobiles.
The list of those who made the
inspection of the port district was
as follows: Governor Miller. Col.
Charles Keller, Major M. C. Tyler,
Burr, Col. Z. T.. Winslow, Major
Beverley C. Dunn, Col. Mason N.
Patrick, Secretary A. H. Webber of
the Rivers and Harbors Board; L.
H. Smell, representing the Board of
Engineers for the Second District
(Jersey coasD; Capt. f. G. Cham
bers, u. S. N, associate to the Riv-
ers and HarborS Board as terminal
expert; Chairman Eugeneius H..
Outerbridge of the Port Authority.
and Vice Chairman j. Spencer
Smith; Commissioners Lewis H..
Pounds, Dewitt Van Buskirk, and
Frank r. Ford, Counsel julius Henry
Cohen, Chief Engineer b. f. Cress-
on. Jr.; Consulting Engineer George
w. Goethals; Francis Lee Stuart and
4>tlSOH IcWlS VI the
Advisory Board of the Port Author
ity; Secretary William Leary of New
York, Assistant Secretary Carl Ruhl-
mann of New Jersey, Chief Statisti-
clan J. E. Ramsay, Terminal Engi-
neer w. w. Drinker, Transportation
Engineers b. C. Bixler aand Elihu c..
Church, Jr., Billings Wilson, engi-
neering assistant to Mr.. Stuart; j..
A. Jackson, electrical engineer; Eric
Fl. Palmer, director of the Bureau OF
information; w. Ward Smith, sec
retary to the governor.
The party visited points along
Newark bay, inspecting all water
ways developments, including the
Raritan river, after passing through
the Arthur Kill; Perth Amboy. South
Amboy, Jamaica bay. Staten Island
and the Hudson river waterfront, be-
sides the New Jersey railroad ter
minals.
The trip went through by railroad
schedule" concluding at 5:45 o'clock
when the party went to the City Club
for dinner and the meeting of that
organization to see the port motion
pictures and hear Mr.. Outerbridge's
address.
An hour or more spent in Jamaica
bay, Where furtnef cnannel ufeuS-
ing work is to be carried out by the
federal and city governments. The
heavy draught Lancaster" went all
the way up to Mill Basin. 1t did not
ground there but there was quiver
when the boat struck ground off Sea
Gate on the return. due to what the
captain reported as dumping in the
channel off that point. The tour was
in charge of Engineer Bixler.
Governor Miller spent the morning
on the boat in conference with Chair
man Outerbridge, Counsel Cohen and
the other executives of the Port Au-
thority.
The tour will be resumed today,
The party will visit the northern and
eastern ends of the port district. At
1 o'clock a special train will be
boarded at Weehawken and a tour
made over some of the railroad lines
serving the metropolitan district.
during which trip the question of
new belt lines will be discussed. The
Washington engineers will leave the
party at Passaic.