The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-11-04
New York Builds Airport as Hub Of C|obaI Skyways
SeopIone Basin, Runwoys
Hove Enormous Copocity
Thousand Croft Dolly Gould
Lond on Gothom's New Bose

COO or SO people Il will take 20
run the place
From here YOU may motor inn
30 Nauhattau-just % minutes
away or YOU may take q hell
Coptcr-taNl or bus go q dcstlua-
ton distant enough 90 make
tina, worthwhile
RuuWays go around the adj
miulsiration building and occupy
the eastern side of the base
There are eight Of these. 200
fee, wide and 10000 feet long.
arranged in pairs for safe. Sic
muitancous landings and take
offs regardless OF wind direction.
Fogdispclling equipment viii
make had-Ucathcr operations
safe.
Operations VIII DO directed
from mobile auxiliary control
towers as well AS from the ccn-
trail one. Probably there viii
Doe, too, a trafnc-separation point
about so miles outside IdlcwIld.
which viii both prevent cross
traffic over New York City and
serve the traveller convenience.
IN the main. giant passenger and
freight expresses VIII be rout-
oh into IdlcWlld. "sbort-hauI'
traffic into LaGuardia Field.
Bat the traveller VIII bc able TO
switch at the junction If ne D.,
coming east from Chicago TO
Manhattan, hc may land at Idle
wild; but II he is going home 10
WcstchCstcr, he may take Il do
cal' from the junction 10 La
Guardia Field. which is nearer.
Freight loading docks are at
the extreme western edge OF the
field Warehouses VIII be near
by; officials say goods will get
gong by air cargo express with
IN two hours after IL is ordered.
TRAFFIC WILL BIZ TRIPLED
Mavor LaGuardIa. a few
months ago, said scheduled
flights beginning and ending at
the terminal viii reach the stag
gering number of $50 daily
and officials now call that a
very conservative figure. La
Guardia Field at peak does 325
operations a day, and the new
base is designed TO handle event
uaIly five times as much traffic
Four thousand passengers now
are accommodated i'm LaGuard-
ia Fields peak day. A federal
official recently estimated II
500 viii be New Yorks daily
postwar load
Hundreds Of pilots, city plan
nerS. airway executives have a
hand in keeping the blue
prints zap TO date under the di-
rect supervision Of Mayor La
G|uardia; his Department of Ma
rine and Aviation head, Com
missioner John Mckenzie: and
his Aviation Director. Major
Elmer Haslett. The Mayor jok
mgly remarked that LaGuardIa
Field was out grown before it
opened In December. 1899.
Within about a year. the L.. $.
Navy began negotiating for the
city's other field, Floyd Bennett.
and LaGuardia set his Marine
and Aviation Department to
hunting seriously for a site for a
ncW base. They found this one
al IdleWild. a bleak stretch of
marsh surrounding a golf course
ON Jamaica Bay.
Tentative plans were drawn in
December, 194l Dredging and
filling the $500 acre site began
10 months ago. The former
swamp is now raised about -
feet above sea level over 90
600 600 cubic yards of sand
have been sucked in water from
the bay bottom, carried ashore
in huge pipes on pontonS, and
dumped.
Estimates Of final cost vary,
bat experts say ~ viii not run
20 anything Ike five times the
cost Of LaGuardia, around 500
.OOO OOO.