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of the sons and daughters of earth dry
of all, including life itself, and inter
marrying so as ito keep the money
in the family No plutocrat is so
hard as your Irishman when he is a
bad Irishman, for the Irishman is al
ways saint or devil.
These gombeen kings pulled the po-
litical strings. They sat on benches
as Justices of the Peace. They nomi-
mated the District Councillors and
members of Parliament, and God help
the man who dared to oppose them.
The landlord owned the land. but the
gombeen men owned the people. There
was more graft in the Rosses than in
the East Side OF New York
Then came king Coop" in 1903 in
the form of n cooperative bank. The
bosses chortled. Let it come" they
said. IF 1t helps the farmer to make
more money from his land it will all
come to King Gombeen in the end"
Then the gombeen Goliath one fine
morning woke to the fact that the
little King Coop was second Da-
vid. a sling in his hand and stone
in the sling, and that he meant bust
ness. Then he girded on his armor
and went out to do battle--the result
being that to-day King Gombeen lies
on his back, a stone in his forehead
and there were plenty Of stones for
the Coop David from which to choose
at Templecrone, the place of rocks
the Cooperative Bank Is doing fine
business with nearly zoo members,
good reserve and a sound loan turn
over at moderate rates.
Then in 1906 came the Temple
crone Agricultural Cooperative Society.
There Is champion in the Rosses
known locally and colloquially as
Paddy the Cope the shortening for
Mr.. Patrick Gallagher. Cooperator,
to wit. The society began in n tiny
cabin six miles from Dungloe in
rocky boreen, or narrow road, which
could find. They began selling tea
and sugar. meal and flour, and 10 and
behold! within a few weeks they had
pulled down flour from SO to $2.25 a
bag and everything else in proper
ton. Bare legs travelled up the boreen
first as single spies. then In battal-
ions, In the Irish twilight, for the place
was open only in the evenings. three
or four members of the society TAX
ing II in turns TO act as shopkoepers.
Then the gombccn men put their
heads together and issued ukase
that no more eggs were to be bought
from any members of the Coop. In
stantly the society started the sale OF
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America. and some day a business in
formation center will be established in
London for the information of Eng
lish capitalists who wish TO put their
money. in Ireland. The future Irish
Government, whatever be it's final
form. will have power to make tariff
and trade agreements, and even to i'm
pose tariffs against importation of
English goods IL it be so minded. 1t is
rot shut out that America will be CIV
en- favored nation" clause.
A whole article could be written
upon the financial possibilities of fish
curing in Ireland the Irish fish always
securing the highest prices, as also
upon the tobacco industry in a coun-
try which to-day consumes 100000
of cigarettes each week unfortunate
ly), which, apart from pipe and other
tobacco, represents an expenditure of
$500 900 a week by the consumer FOR
which the maker receives S630,000
weekly, or $31,50O,0o0 "A year. GUM
esses. the brewers, have already made
colossal fortunes in Ireland. and the
tobacco business should at least equal
this if run on modern lines. AT pres
ent 1t is left to run itself.
Its possibilities to the investor are
shown when it is remembered that
each 1000 cigarettes takes 2h mounds
Of tobacco. the cost to the maker of
1000 representing at the wholesale
price to-day Of $40, less l2i1 per cent.
a revenue of sS.75. or a profit of s1.75
per thousand. AS the modern machine
turns out 100000 cigarettes a day the
output of one machine represents
roughly a profit of $3.50 a day. which
means on 5h day week s1,430 week
ly profit or the imposing total of S74,-
$50 from a single machine per annum
The dressed meat industry also Of
fers one of the best opening for capi-
tai. and already the Irish themselves
believe 80 much i'm the idea that the
first OF these dressed meat factories
has raised a share capital of nearly
s1,o0o0oo, and has secured site on
one OF the longest river fronts i'm Eu-
rope-that at Waterford - the plans
being prepared for the buildings by a
well known firm of American engi-
neers. these plans including provision
for slauchterhouses for cattle and
sheep and extensive cold storage. Tho
new company has some thousands Of
members in the counties of Cork, Tip
perary. Kilkenny. Carlow and Water
ford. Up to this time there had al
ways been a difisulty in raising even
few hundred pounds for a creamery,
even In rich dairying districts. To-
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ness of which will present it's own diff
ficuties now unforeseen. We shall be
doing so even when we state that
many millionaires will be made by the
Irish hotel business within the next
twenty live years.
The west of Ireland is the gateway
of Europe for the New World. She
has at least two harbors, those at Gal
way Bay and Black Sod Bay which
are capable of housing the largest
navies. Apart from these she has
literally a chain of endless harbory
with deep water right inshore, full
shelter and easy of access. unparal-
leled in Europe, as anybody can see
by studying the charts of the Old
World. Some of the figures OF the
richest of fisheries have already been
given in the last article, and If State
bureaucrats and lack-vision politicians
had not done their worst in the past
we should to-day see Ireland one Of
the most prosperous countries in the
world. But this very lack of exploita-
ton leaves all the richer harvest to
be garnered by those who come after.
already far advanced. is to put five
million dollars into a chain of hotels,
beginning with four, one in Killarney,
one in Lisdoonvarna. one i'm Dublin and
another in the North. The capital will
be issued both in Ireland the United
States, and finally long line of hotels
is contemplated to meet the new
American and extra European tourist
traffic which will come the moment
stable government is assured and the
hotels run upon scientific lines--some-
thing that has never been done in Ire
land. At the present moment ! know
of two brothers, themselves born in a
wretchcd hut. who. borrowing money
IN order to open hotel in South Wa
terfo-d have made a big fortune with
in few years.
The Irish Government will give
Americans first preference in foreign
investments in Ireland, and the Ameri-
cans now organizing the new hotel
scheme are doing so upon "coopera-
tive" lines, under which Irishmen
themselves can take up just as much
stock as they wish and increase their
holdings as they are able.
In the month of April alone nearly
10000 passports for Americans to come
to ireland were issued. and right
through the summer special thirty day
and otAer excursions to Ireland from
New York have been planned. Vt Is
now stated in the Irish press that
seven of the ocean greyhounds OF one
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ireland Will Be Developed
Largely by American Capital

One thing here should be noted as
in all the planning of the future Ir.s-
land-the substitution OF the spoon
feeding state" by ''individualist-co-
operation" 1t is the man. not tho
State, who will rule the future Ireland.
With the economic Coop" power Is
going, as always the power political.
II is to the cooperative society the Of
ficials and politicians are turning for
information upon and help in the run
ming of to-morrow's Ireland.
prophesy that before fifty years are
out Ireland will be covered partly by
network of cooperation and partly by
large stores and factories run chiefly
on American capital. which, competing
with the "co-ops" for the business ,f
Ireland. will help to keep the latter
from getting self-satisfied and rusty.
There are many undertakings which
to-day II is quite impossible for "a
cooperative society TO run--undertak-
ings requiring the individual brain and
intensive expert knowledge, such rs
hotels. These are the fields open 20
the adventurous American.
Let us here keep our feet on solid
earth in reciting the possibilities of
the Ireland OF tomorrow, the busi-
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of the lines that ceased to call at Ire
land will go direct from New York to
Cobb (Queenstown)."
With the modern ocean flier IL is now
realized that in the near future Galway
can be brought within four days of
New York, and many Irish business
men confidently expect to see the day
when Ireland will be a sort of Ameri-
can Riviera. as indeed it is already
being called. If we see, as the au-
thorities predict, a safe passenger air.
plane. capable of carrying hundred
passengers or more, with a service
from New York to the west OF Ireland,
within the next ten years, then New
York will be brought within twenty
four hours of Galway. Already the
recent experiments in helicopter flight
bring the safe airplane within dis
tance, and Edison himself at a recent
interview the writer had with him
stated that the modern airplane was
only at its beginning.
There are just two points which
'hould be made clear. The first, that
is not the intention of the Irish
authorities. under any circumstances,
to allow the industries Of Ireland to
be taken from the national control
in other words, TO be filched from the
Irish people. The fullest individual
freedom will be given to the foreign
capitalist, but the rights of Ireland
are never to be abrogated. as was
demonstrated recently when some
friends Of the writer. wishing to estab-
lish a flying service to Ireland from
England We're informed unequivocally
that Ireland would have the final say
In all arrangements so far as final
rights were concerned
The other point is that. as a dis
tinguished Irishman put II recently,
'it is not our wish to see Waterford
another Chicago" In other words. II
is intended that the factories of the
future ireland shall not be congested
in cities but spread over the country
side. so solving the problem of modern
civilization-how to bring the city to
the country.
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same potatoes to Jersey from Michi-
gan.
Former Gov. Alfred f. Smith is a
member of the Port Authority and
he is New Yorker. Furthermore, he
knows, because of his present con-
nection with one Of the largest truck
ing concerns in the country, much
about the handling of freight and the
distribution of such things as milk,
vegetables, cereals and the like. Just
short time ago he spoke of the
astounding way in which the city had
outgrown many of its facilities, using
the New York Centrals overburdened
terminal as an illustration and men
tionng how absurd it would be to pre-
pose bringing the freight cars of other
railroads into Manhattan on the sur
face. He held, as the PortsAuthority,
of which he is a member, holds. that
there is only one way in which the
thing can be done. He said in part:
THE Manhattan freight problem
must be solved by subway, and, ac-
cordingly, we have recommended what
it known as the Automatic Electric
System A brief explanation of it )
this: The construction of classif
cation yard back of West Hoboken,
and there freight for Manhattan TO
be put on trailers and put into auto
matte electric trains. to move across
at a point around Fifty-ninth street
under the river. coming down the west
side about block back from the watcr
front, stopping at eight different ware
houses to be constructed up over the
tracks. returning to Jersey at a point
approximately about Cortlandt street,
and to work automatically. To save
the additional handling the trailers can
be drawn from the automatic trains.
passed across the platform and put
upon the tailboard of truck to be
trucked away. If to be stored, the
car and all can be taken upstairs in
the warehouse and the trailer taken
off and the stuff remain on the trailer
until it is ready to go out again.
Personally. ! really believe that the
automatic railway is a good way off.
but II is the only solution, and Of all
the plans submitted it is the only one
that is practical, and ii is the only one
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freight in New York. particularly in
the city Careful planning by the Port
Authority has been done with an eye
to possible developments of industrial
centers about Flushing Bay. for in
stance, or in furthest Bronx. in ar
ranging for the inner belt line. as
the larger feature of the immediate
plan is called. The picture printed
herewith gives an idea of the terri
tory that will be benefited when this
phase Of the Authority's plan is car
ried through
To get an idea of the problem con-
slider:
BY rail 75,00O0O0 tons OF freight
move into and out of the port an
nually.
BY water 100000 tons of freight
enter and leave the port each year.
There are 105 municipalities within
the area under the control of the Port
Authority.
Daily $50 carloads of foodstuffs are
brought into the port.
One-twelfth of the entire manufac-
turing of the United States is done
within the port.
There are received annually at the
port 5,973176,929 pounds of cereal.
There are received annually 1885.
502.011 pounds of fresh vegetables and
S4.569 626 pounds of fresh meats.
The inhabitants of the port consume
$4,000 pounds of butter day.
There are received at the port 579,-
622 900 pounds of bananas year.
OF milk the port receives 2,670,S26
quarts daily.
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may bring the total as high as
$500, 900, 900. Where is the money to
come from?
All the work proposed is not even
to be undertaken at one time. Some
Of it will be accomplished quietly with
in year or eighteen months and
the public may know little about it,.
The larger work will be widely her.
aided, of course, but even that will. to
great extent. be a matter OF de-
velopment. The Port Authority does
not purpose setting a time. for the
completion OF it's labors and celebrat-
ing with flags and speeches the con-
summation of its efforts. 1t purposes
showing results every little while.
Some of the construction work, no.
tably that involving the tying up Of
railroads with branch lines and spurs
and the extending of freight lines to
open up new areas for industrial de-
velopment, will be paid for, and prob
ably gladly, by the railroads them
selves. for the railroad men have long
known of the need Of just such de-
velopment. A great part of the smaller
work involved will be for the welfare
of the railroads and will improve their
plants.
AS to the larger undertakings the
Port Authority will proceed just as a
great corporation would proceed to
finance a development. 1t will sell
bonds; sell them to the public. to in
vestors who want and expect a return
on their money. The bonds viii not
carry with them any control over the
Port Authority or any voice in the
management of it's affairs. They viii
be like city bonds or State bonds ex-'
cept they will not have behind them
the credit or the taxing power OF a
/ municipality or a commonwealth.
They will have behind them, however.
the property they are issued to con-
struct, and that property will be ex-
pected to earn, under the administra-
ton of the Port Authority itself, sufii-
cient to pay interest and, eventually,
to amortize the secureties. When this
is accomplished the tunnel or subway
or warehouse, or whatever it may be.
will pass to the ownership of the State.
The building of the belt line railroad
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Change of Methods
For Roads and Merchants

such a plan. however, may not
now be applicable to the highly perish
able freight arriving in refrigerator
cars. but it appears that t will apply
to ordinary merchandise freight.
The Port Authority has started to
collect the necessary data regarding
the origin, destination, volume of Man
haitian freight in order to arrive at a
definite conclusion as to the merits of
the system and its justification.
This is one thing that can be done
promptly without great expenditure
but with substantial savings. and the
Port Authority reckons it as one OF
immediate Importance to the whole
port. What it does involve is change
in methods now employed by the rail-
roads and by the merchants.
There are economies that can be
effected by better cooperation between
the carriers in the use of marine
equipment; light tug movements can
be reduced. greater loading of car
floats and lighters can be secured, and
the present marine equipment of the
harbor can perform more service than
it is now performing.
by the Inauguration of more
economic methods of moving and
handling freight and by the more in
tensive use of existing facilities it is
believed that material economies can
be effected in the movement OF freight
within the port district by the use of
the plant that now exists at the port"
It will be seen from all OF the fore
going that the work of .h,s Port An
thority is only partly one of con-
struction. perhaps the ior part be-
ing that of coordination and develop
ment. 1t expects 10 proceed somewhat
slowly, it was stated at the offices, II
Broadway, and has no idea when IL
will conclude its labors. 1t is start
ing much of its work now-by con-
ference chiefly. looking to the coop
Grafton of railroads that have been in
competition and hence have hindere1
rather than helped the development of
the port. In a year. it was stated, or
perhaps eighteen months. there Will
have been changes made that will
mean much and other changes will be
made from time to time. so that,
eventually, there will be brought about
great general change which will
mean vast improvement in the port
of New York.
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Many Years and Great Amounts
Of Money Involved in Plan

1t may be stated at the outset that
the Port Authority. which consists of
six commissioners who serve without
pay, has not the slightest doubt in
the world of its power or ability to
go through with what it has started.
The gaining of Federal approval Of
the plan. in the judgment of the Au-
thority, finally disposed of any doubt
there might have been on that score.
The belief is firm that the Port Au-
thority and it's plan are here to stay
and that there will be no material
change in the scheme as originally
unfolded or in the plan as finally ap-
proved.
The Port Authority has been given
power, by treaty between the States
of New York and New Jersey, over
1900 square miles containing about
100000, of population. The area is
confined, roughly in boundary ex-
tenQlnS from fOrC CHeSter ACROSS
through White Plains to Yonkers,
across the Hudson to Piermont. south
behind Paterson and Passaic to South
Amboy, back across to New York and
out on Long Island to line run
ming through New Hyde Park, Man
hasset and Port Washington.
The area includes all of that ter
ritory in and adjacent to New York
which has any appreciable industrial
life. There are included III miles OF
water front, or If measurement is
made around the piers, 991 miles. This
includes part of Long Island Sound
the Hudson River, the East River.
Newark Bay and the waters about
Staten Island and New York harbor-
the largest port ir the world.
Hudson River the Barrier
That Hampers Freight
It would perhaps be fair to say that
the chief reason for the existence
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of the Port Authority is the Hudson
River. 1t is the Hudson which di-
vides the great metropolis of the West
ern Hemisphere from the rest of the
continent and makes necessary the
unloading and reloading. the shipping
and transshipping of such vast guam
titles of freight that the mind hardly
grasps the figures. 1t is the Hudson
River that the Rort Authority will
strive to wipe out, ,lnot actually, but as
barrier to the Carrying on Of COM
merce. 1t expects to do for those who
handle ana consume merchandise and
foodstuffs what the Pennsylvania Rail-
road did for itself and its passengers
when it built the under river tunnels
and established its great passenger
station in Manhattan
Nine railroads come into New Jer-
sey, carry freight to points more or
less near the Jersey water front, and
stop Then the freight is trans
shipped, usually shunted to pier
loaded on barge. tuggcd across the
river or the harbor, unloaded on an
other pier and either shunted to some
other railroad or broken up and
trucked. The Port Authority plans to
cut out "a great part of this handling
and rehandling by tying together the
railroads, establishing joint belt lines
and terminals and providing dis
tributing system sometimes referred
to as store door delivery" in Man
haitian.
AS far as the immediate future is
concerned the belt line. with a long
and costly tunnel under the harbor,
and the store door delivery subway
railroad in Manhattan. are the i'm
portant features. With these go more
or less minor, but still important
plans for the utilization of dead ends
of railroads. spur lines and marginal
lines. the establishing of freight classi-
fication yards, the building of ware
houses and SO on. Roughly, the build
ing of the tunnel under the harbor
will cost $45, 900, 900. The freight SUBJ
way in Manhattan and the other work
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PORT AUTHORITY READY TO BEGIN ITS STUPF
WHAT THE PORT AUTHORITY IS
AND WHAT 1T EXPECTS TO DO

Authority Commissioners three
New York; md They without
authority purchase lease and
facilities and
jurisdiction New York CITY, New Jersey far west
Washington
Chester This the
of facilities extension thereof the end that freight
easily expeditously and cheaply handled.
line railway connecting all the rail-
the
Connecting Railroad
Brooklyn freight subways Manhattan
permit store door" delivery of freight
100000 carrying its plans,
develop
the Port Authority levy
or pledge o
beginning, Federal of
having July Coordination and the establishment Of
har Cd
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City Distribution
Considered Wasteful

These are just a few of the many
figures picked to clarity the tremen-
dous task of the railroads. steamships,
barge operating companies and truck
ing concerns in distributing simply the
necessities of life in and about the city.
1t is generally admitted that the dis
tribuion Of all things in and about this
city is done in haphazard way, waste
full and costly. For instance, it costs
more to transport 100 pounds of po-
tatoes from the Jersey water front to
The Bronx than it does to send the
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It's Aim toCheapen Freight
Handling Inand Near New
York, and the Territory
Under Its Control En-
braces l,500 Square Miles
Of the Metropolitan Area.

~ Port Of ! i
affairs that enter
upon for
followed naturally the receipt Federal approval
of the uhorty's l.
Authority has been engaged studies and
obtaining from the States and finally from the Federal
nformt The public o tasks
The PortA
to
mil of
in
at
city New York freight handling
accomplish this end which really the sole
existence explained