The New York herald., 1922-02-01
HYLAN PORT PLAN
RIDDLED BY Smith
in ALBANY HEARING
Ex-Governor Predicts Great
Future Under the ALL
thority Project.
SEES MILLIONS SAVED
Puts Annual Cost of Scheme
at S2O,352,543, Against
SIS, 100000.
MAYOR SENDS A LETTER
In Message to Legislative FL
nance Committees He At
tacks Railroads.
MAYOR SENDS A LETTER
Special Dispatch to TIE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.

NEW lOTk DuTehu.
Albany, Jan. 81.
Tammany was divided against itself
and Mayor Hylan's obstructive port
development project was smothered by
tho weight of the support back of the
Port Authoritys plan at the hearing
to-day before the legislative finance
committees in the Assembly chamber.
The city officials made weak and un-
impressive showing.
Alfred Il. Smith. member of the
Port Authority Commission, swept
aside the Hylan plan and called on the
Republican majority of the Legisla-
ture to adopt the commissions plan.
which, he said, opens a great future
10 the commercial supremacy Of New
York.
The Port Authority plan is backed
by two States, sound common sense
and the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, and will stand, the ex-Gover-
nor said. The Hylan plan is a tunnel
and hope, and falls, he added.
Gives Mass of Data.
Driving home the arguments made
by Mr.. Smith, whose speech of logic
and humor won great applause from
the crowded chamber. i. III. Outer
bridge, chairman of the commission.
presented an elaborate report of facts
and figures s~TIylan and the city off,
Gals have been crying that they had
no facts and details about the Port
Authority plan. Mr.. Outerbridge gave
them. He jammed them home. masses
of figures. He showed that the Port
Authority plan will cost $12S, $50. 900.
Including 3s,96s,O00 for the main tun-
mel under the upper bay from Green
vile to Bay Ridge. The branch tun-
ncl TO the marginal line in Brooklyn
will cost $s.000,o00.
The Port Authority Will make a saw
ing OF s6,700.00O in the handling of
1S,500,00 tons of freight. The city's
plan will cost s15s. 100000. The latter
calls for fifty-nine miles of belt lines, as
against eleven of the Port Authority
plan. The total cost of operation and
overhead of the Port Authority plan is
s15.204,0o0 and of the city's plan $780,
S52,543.
"Al' Smith was at his best. He
talked for an hour and half the time
had the crowd in gales of laughter.
big map of the two plans hung IN the
chamber. Unbuttoning his waistcoat and
wopping his brow. the former Governor
called to the demonstrator illustrating
the operation of the lines on the map:
NOW. professor. take "a rar1nad nf
cabbages just arriving back there in
New Jersey and bring it down the green
Inc tthe Hylan plan) to staten Island.
Yes, then across to Brooklyn then to
Manhattan. and where does II land?
rp there at 125th street in DR.. Berzs
district.
I"Now. take that cabbage and bring
1t down our line straight across into
Fulton Market. where ii will he near
ne--there you are, gentlemen. there is
cabbage worth eating. but that other
cabbage that has landed up In DR..
Bsrgs district-who wants that? And
besides who IS going to build the green
line?'
The Irishl' some one shouted.
No. they arn't working at that any
more" AL said.
Clean break with HyInn.
The break between Mr.. Smith and the
city administration appears to he clean
and wide. Tine favorite OF Tammauy
charged over and over again that the
Hylan officials had not tried TO CO.
operate; that they were obstructing and
not seeking to old In the development
OF the harbor. while all the time the
harbor facilities are getting worse
The Hylan plan Is nothing but an
obstruction plan. II does not stand. he
said.
Mayor Hylan did not attend Instead.
he sent a letter which was read by
Francis +. Bent, the Mayors friend
and employee Of the Board of Estimate.
In his letter the Mayor called the Port
Authority plan an Impractical scheme
and a grotesque nightmare"
John p. OBrien Corporation Counsel
was spokesman for the Hylan delega-
tion and Mr.. Smith for the Port Auth
ority side. Comptroller Craig and Mur-
ray Hubert, President of the Board OF
Alderman. were the chief speakers for
the Hylan plan.
New York IIarbor looks best on a
clear day. but II there Is as much fog In
the bay as there Is around this subject I
would advise captain to stay outside
the three mile limit" Mr.. Smith be-
gan. He took up the history OF the
port development. recalling the forgotten
case before the Tnterstate Commerce
Commission in 1917. which started the
whole agitation. Jersey had asked for
preferential rates and tho commission
ruled that all the waters adjacent 20
New York had been looked uron al
ways as one port and should have the
same rate. But IL the two States could
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