Norwich bulletin., 1922-01-13
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
 FOR NEW HAVEN HARBoR

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 Reports from New Haven of the meet | ing held there this week by the harbor | commission appointed by Governor Lake | 10 investigate and report to the next | legislature as to the advisability of the | state spending money toward this de- | ye.opment at New Haven indicate that | the hearing cid not make much definite progress. ..e-s.
 The meeti.;g was held in Chamber of Commerce hall and there was a gencr- al discussion of the needs of harbor de- ye-opment by numerous New Haven men and the question seemed to resolve IT, self into whether it would be better to develop one side of the harbor or the other
 Waldo E. Clarke of New London. a member of the state commission. said that there are dozens of merchant ships out of about 1900 id!e ones, owned by t.-a shipping board lying at the state pier in New London. New London has -&1es that touch at South American ports and the California coast, and the Atlantic Fruit Co. is running ships to New London.'' He saw a future in Con- nec.icut water terminals, but the raIl- way and the personal factors were 90 per cent of the problem. It requires Loe.
 D. J, Carmalt, consulting engineer, said that the contributing territory to ! New Haven is not So wide as many think; for instance, the Norwich-w Will mantle shipments belong to New L0a- don. and Bridgeport will some day Ae q terminal.
 l Frederick F. Ford of New Haven is i chairman of the state commission the ! others present being:
 Waldo F. Clark, engineer of the state pier at New London; E. D. Gagel and George Dudley Seymour, Charles G. Bill oi Hartford, the fifth member of Gov. Lakes commission was absent
 John F. Sanderson, Judge Henry A. Hall and others set forth the claims Of the strip from Tomlinson's bridge tc the sea, which has been neglected for o2Dtur.es. It should be reserved for the people. they said. L. J. Ca-malt. con sulti1- engineer, William M. Hotchkiss and others of New Haven, proved by the blue prints and maps on the walls, hung by City Engineer E. s. Nettleton. that E the docks, warehouses, etc, which are to attend harbor improvement are located n the present business district and to le expanded the-e, !S means con- --z-ion. heavy trucking n the streets. more s7----E hing in the narrow cut east
 -he railroad station. Even Mfr. Sey- i1r0I", the champion of parks, was in- cined tothink the development should he on the eastern side of the harbor. 1 lLiHo-ta F. Chatfield thought terminal development along that shore need not interfere with a show driveway and parks on the higher ground.
 Little Cities Must Support Plan. 1 The commission is instructed to re. port Co the next legislature On the pos slbiIEiss Of New Haven harbor. Chair. man Ford made It clear that until "ur s-a-a' believed in the proposal and was convinced that 1t is not merely some. ith.rg to benefit New Haven it would not get on. He outlined a question. . naire which is to go to Connecticut ---1-u-7 cturers as to how much freigh 9 incoming and outgoing they would one, f coast and foreign shipping awaited !
 at the port of New Haven, whether wov=5 hy rail or truck, etc. George F
 Burgess chairman of the New RsveI Chamber of Commerce harbor commit
 f-.- offered to take from the commission
 thir detail.
 The discussion brought out that th
 federal government may be expected q
 6a.|zu the channels of New Haven pro
 v-d-s proper docking and warehousing
 City Engineer Nettleton referred {
 t1e lu-e expense 10 which shipping va sIor-af tr New York city. The Ney
 EzT-c channel now 20 feet deep shout = he G-=5rsd to a 3o-32 feet Eventuail % 7E-alo-sas to cost DIrhaps $i0o .00
 7c-l1 Dc needed, but g beginning coul
 o= 1ads with sheds. Piers would ztcor
 rooms For ships Of the largest dimer siors. The New London pier. 1920 fee
 ing a- 2o2 vile VIII aclImmodst - r1ur ships. 1Ir. Sanderson said Wash ~ .-r-ro 0eyIects New Haven "ecause the - r'i-i-H we're asleep and do not knoI - r- -~ear asset we have Tn cur haroor. g. -T~. Cha-fs,d, who has been delegated t
 -e rational waterways convention, gay - fEurss t7 show the money other citie v are spending. He preferred the vor
 .erminar' to harbor improvement. "l 9 w= proviSe the terminals. the ships vi II ooue.'- He exhibited map which show
 the short cuts already made and pisr
 ned ID the coast from Florida. Ne'
 Jersey Is to throw a canal across th
 state: New Haven Is on the route C
 -'i= procession of ships, domestic an foreign: that city may be a part Of hr providing facilities for the shin - -o enter the harbor anfl land tnei -ar-0=s. Fortunately the harho- hnttnr f= ~u7: land can be made as needed D = pumping this up.
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