Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-22
HOUSE ADOPTS
CHANNEL BILL
Appropriates S10,400, 900 for
Bigger Channel Through
Raritan Bay and Sound
BY GEORGE H. MANNING
washington Correspondent of the
Perth AmbOy Evening News)

WASHINGTON, May 22-The
Hause has adopted the pro-
visions in the rivers and har-
bors bill authorizing the appropria-
ton of $2,150,000 for improving
the channel in Newark Bay and
Hackensack and Passaic rivers. and
100000 for establishing cham
mel thirty feet deep and 400 feet
wide through Raritan Bay, Arthur
Kill and Kill van kull, between
New Jersey and Staten Island.
This particular project Will pro-
vide for the deepening OF the cham
mel from Sandy Hook TO Perth Am
boy and from Perth Amboy
through the Arthur Kill and Kill
Won Kull into Upper New York
Bay" said Congressman T. Frank
Appleby, in addressing the House.
There is probably a greater de-
velopment of Industrial plants along
these waterways than in any other
part of the United States. Many
large manufacturing plants of vari-
Gus kinds have located there in the
last few years. These channels at
the present time are not of sufficient
depth to carry deep-draft ships
which would like to enter. This
project was recommended in 1881,
and in 1905 by the war department.
which improvement calls for a thir-
ty-foot channel for incoming steam
ers from the Atlantic Ocean opposite
Sandy Hook via Arthur Kill to Up
per New York Bay. 1t seems to me
there is no more greatly needed item
in this bill than this particular one.
The possibilities for the further de-
velopment of industry and increased
number of plants are immeasureable.
At the present time the oil coming
into the Standard Oil establishment
at Bayonne has to be reloaded into
the ocean-going ships from the boats
of lighter draft in order to reach the
refining and storage plants. Any one
familiar with the volume of busi-
ness done by these oil companies.
and the coal companies as well. to-
gether with the great number of
plants located along the Arthur XIII
must know that this project is a
necessity. and will save thousands of
dollars annually through the cost OF
transportation. In fact, it is the
most important item in the entire
bill, as a great project calling for
such a harbor improvement as this
must of necessity be. The. country
in general will be well satisfied if the
House approves this project which
l have so hastily mentioned
These two projects represent the
greatest single stroke congress has
probably ever taken for waterway
Improvement in New Jersey. The
completion of the two projects will
open up the greatest avenues of
water traffic in New Jersey. to ves-
sels drawing up to 80 feet which will
include all the coastwise and ocean
steamers with the exception of about
half a dozen giant Atlantic liners.
The item providing for improve
nent of Staten Island sound was
already in the bill as reported by
the committee, but the provision for
Improvement of Newark Bay and
Hackensack and Passaic rivers went
IN as an amendment to the bill.
Representative Dempsey of New
York, chairman of the rivers and
harbors committee. offered the
amendment for the Newark Bay
project. 1T has been the original
Intention of the committee TO in
cIude the Newark Bay project in the
fill, he said. but this could not be
done because the board OF engineers
Tor rivers and harbors was unable
10 complete its investigation and
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