A GROSS & CO. For over 60 years manufacturers of Stearic Acid Standard Engined Barges are an Eco nomic Success Red Oil Single, Double and Triple Pressed, Saponified and Distilled STEARIC and COMPOSITE CANDLES CRUDE GLYCERINE Sales Office: 90 West Street, New York Newly designed and built for the New York State Canal, Standard Oil Company barges, and lighting sets. Data on operating costs of existing boats; their speeds, type, size, cargo capacity, etc., give us known factors in canal transportation. Back of the STANDARD Guarantee is the STANDARD MOTOR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, Jersey City, N. J. The Prudential Insurance Company of America Incorporated under the Laws of the State of New Jersey HOME OFFICE, NEWARK, N. J. FORREST F. DRYDEN, President NEWARK AS A SEAPORT, PORT OF NEW YORK Years of preliminary work are expected to bear fruit in the rapid development of Newark as a sea port during 1921 as a result of a decision by the City Commission to deepen a part of the existing government channel to thirty-one feet at its own expense. This will permit free navigation of ocean-going vessels up to the docks already in existence and to those which it is proposed to build and the rapid leasing of large tracts of vacant land by individuals and corporations is expected to follow. It is also an evidence of the great faith the Newark city officials have in the future of their port as a result of the sudden boom brought about by the World War and the expenditure of $29,000,000 by This expectation is based upon the results of strenuous efforts which the Submarine Boat Corporation, through its subsidiaries, has already made to operate ships in foreign commerce from Port Newark and to the fact that the knowledge that other shippers are equally anxious to begin operations. NEWARK PROPOSES UNAIDED TO INAUGURATE WORK The decision by Director Thomas L. Raymond of the Department of Streets and Public Improvements, of which the Bureau of Docks is a part, to proceed with the deepening of the channel without waiting longer for Government aid marks an epoch in municipal enterprise in this country. THOMAS L. RAYMOND, DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF the United States Quartermaster's Department and the Emergency Fleet Corporation in the middle of the zone where the city had been gradually building up the foundations of a port for years. Prior to this war-time boom the city had expended nearly $4,000,000 in digging an inland channel and filling in meadow land, and since that time it has sold 133 acres of land to the Quartermaster's Department at $10,000 an acre and has put this money into further development work, including the bridging of railroad yards, the paving of streets, so that the zone could be reached easily, and the extension of new lateral thoroughfares so that a vast area west of the Central Railroad tracks will be opened for industrial uses. Work on Haynes avenue, one of these thoroughfares, is now being rushed at an estimated cost of $383,000. By early spring of 1921 the filling will be finished and later in the year it will be paved. In connection with this the Department of Streets and Public Improvements is proceeding with the policy of acquiring all the land it can secure. More than 1,000 acres has already been acquired. NEWARK'S PREVIOUS PORT DEVELOPMENT INVEST MENT The net investment by the city to date is $4,090,559, and it has been for the purpose of realiz ing upon this in full that vigorous efforts have been made during the past year to secure an appropriation from Congress for the deepening of the present twenty-foot channel to thirty-one feet at mean low water. Hearings on this request have been given by the War Department engineers on several occasions and early in December, 1920, Colonel J. C. Sanford, District Engineer of the Second District, again heard citizens of municipalities bordering on Newark Bay for the purpose of consolidating all the existing reports on the project into one formal recommendation. On January 15, 1921, members of the United States Senate Commerce Committee were entertained by Newark and Jersey City officials and taken on an inspection tour and were apparently favorably impressed by the port's possibilities. The City of Newark is unwilling to wait, however, for the possible action of Congress. DEVELOP |