Staten Island In The Making
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membership campaign which will be the foundation. for the reorganized chamber.

Staten Island's Real Estate Boom

In the meantime our real estate men have been ac

tive in every section of the island and have pushed the fortunes and the possibilities of the community in every direction. If some enterprising member of this fraternity would write a story about the thousands of transactions on Staten Island following in the wake of its present development, the publication should bear the name "Fairy Tales," because the increased values and the profit-making features of the market have been such as to warrant a title of this kind.

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In many cases values have not only doubled or trebled, but have increased tenfold and in cases a hundredfold. Land that was selling in 1907 for $400 acre recently sold at $4,000 an acre and recently only within the last six months there has been an advance in values in St. George, Port Richmond, Stapleton, and other places which is beyond the understanding of the old fashioned real estate men. It is clear that a new era and a new price level have come to Staten Island and it is quite amusing to notice that it is the newcomer, the stranger that comes from without, who recognizes the advantages most, whereas the native himself with few exceptions, has never quite been able to see the advantages of his own community until, shaken and awakened from his lethargy, he suddenly comes to realize that he has something worth while having.

The year just closed has been one of the most prosperous which Staten Island has ever experienced and with the plans under way, it should seem almost as if Staten Island had only just entered the threshold of a development which its destiny has prepared for it.

Mr. Thaten is a traffic expert, having been connected with Staten Island's waterfront, pier and warehouse properties for the past quarter of a century. In addition Mr. Thaten is president of the Richmond Borough Board of Trade and Transportation, and prominently identified with other Staten Island civic organiations.

Ward Line's Havana Express Service Beginning January 9 the Ward Line will operate an express service between New York and Havana, with the sister ships Siboney and Orizaba. The former will leave New York every Wednesday, arriving at Havana the following Saturday, while the latter will leave New York every Saturday, arriving at the Cuban capital the following Tuesday.

These steamers were recently reconditioned by the Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co., of Brooklyn, recently described and illustrated in THE PORT OF NEW YORK AND SHIP NEWS and have a large number of staterooms equipped with all modern conveniences. The dining saloons of each vessel will accommodate the entire passenger list at one sitting.

The company will continue its Mexican service with weekly sailings of the steamers Porto Rico, Monterey and Mexico, between New York, Progreso and Vera Cruz, with stops at Havana. These ships were especially designed for service in the tropics. The Porto Rico formerly of the Porto Rico Line, is a 9,000 ton vessel.

May Double Mississippi River Improvement Appropriation

Although inclined to stand by budget estimates, President Coolidge believes it might be advisable to increase the amount allotted annually for improving the channel of the Mississippi River and its chief tributaries.

The President has been impressed by the necessity of expediting waterway development in the Mississippi Basin and, in addition to the $10,000,000 provided annually for work on the Mississippi, he is hopeful that it will be possible to increase, and perhaps double, this amount. No final determination can be made, however, he believes, until the tax bill is enacted and the future state of the Treasury determined.

Specialized Freight Service World-Wide in Scope

ORE than a million tons of ship

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ping operated with that finished skill and knowledge of shippers' re quirements made possible by more than 54 years' experience.

Ships aggregating 106 in number including fast combination passengercargo liners and many specialized types catering to individual needs

Mail liners sail weekly for Southampton, London and Liverpool. Other sailings so frequent that prompt forwarding is always a matter of courseThese are some of the outstanding characteristics of the service offered by the White Star Line, Atlantic Transport and other lines associated in the International Mercantile Marine organization.

Plans For A New High Bridge William Wirt Mills, Commissioner of Plants and Structures of New York City, has had plans and specifications prepared for submission to bidders for the reconstruction of High Bridge, the old aqueduct bridge across the Hudson River near Morris Heights. In addition to continuing the aqueduct feature of the bridge, and its use for pedestrains, Commissioner Mills' plans provide for its use for vehicular traffic.

First of Its Kind in America

The aqueduct is notable as the first to be built in America. It was the first to deliver a gravity supply of pure water to the City of New York. Water was brought over the bridge in 1848 to the extent of 30,000,000 gal lons daily. Now 90,000,000 gallons daily are brought

over.

The problem presented to Commissioner Mills is to maintain the aqueduct service of the bridge, to remove the river piers which obstruct navigation and to substitute a long steel arch to support the aqueduct over the channel, to provide the same clearance above the water as now provided and to leave the channel unobstructed. The solution is fully outlined in the plans now being considered by the prospective bidders.

Briefly outlined, it is purposed to underpin the aqueduct in place and to suspend the steel arch from the un

Dick Chiarello, Pres.

derpinning until the arch may be joined at mid-span and swung on its own abutments. After swinging the arch, the old spans will be removed from within the new.

Bold engineering methods have been devised to meet the conditions imposed by the complex nature of the problem. During the work the old bridge will be tied lengthwise at the spring line against progressive collapse, leaving sixty feet clear headroom in the channels.

Each old arch will be carried on the steel frames and towers so designed as not to encroach on the present navigable widths of the channels. The archs will be unbuilt in a manner exactly the reverse of that in which they were built.

The security of aqueduct service and of river, railroad and highway traffic beneath the bridge thus will be insured during the progress of the work.

Unusual Task Imposed on Engineers

The taking down of the high and heavy masonry arches alone presents an unusual task in that the load must be taken up on the frames before the key stones may be cut. The method of erection of the steel arch span is novel in that it avoids further obstruction of the river by false-work. The underpinning of the aqueduct in place avoids the expense of a temporary aqueduct at some other location. The stone removed from the old bridge will be used in constructing the new work.

Office Telephone: 4710, 4711, 4712, 4713 Bowling Green.

Night Calls: Bensonhurst 9934; Richmond Hill 0218

Southern Pacific S. S. Lines Reward Merit Steady Rise of C. M. Evans In The Lines "Effective this date (December 1, 1925), Mr. C. T. Evans is promoted to the position of Assistant to Traffic Manager, with offices at 165 Broadway, New York," read a notice issued by William Simmons, Traffic Manager of the Southern Pacific Steamship Lines, with the approval of L. J. Spence, Executive Officer of the Lines, and thus Mr. Evans steps one rung higher in a company he has served since October, 1903, during which time he has been successively promoted from contracting agent to chief contracting agent, and then to commercial agent; on Feb. 1, 1913, he was made general agent at Cincinnati, and in September the following year he became general agent, covering Birmingham, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga. On June 1, 1918, he was drafted for service with the Coastwise Steamship Lines, then under Federal control. On March 1, 1920, Mr. Evans was promoted to the position of assistant general freight and passenger agent of the Southern Pacific Steamship Lines, and is now assistant to the Traffic Manager.

C. M. EVANS, Assistant to Traffic Mana-
ger, Southern Pacific S. S. Lines

Briefly and succinctly, this is the steady progress of a "Cape Cod boy", who was born at West Dennis, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, a descendent of a seafaring family of two generations, during his childhood having made several voyages round the world with his father and mother, his father having been master of an American sailing ship. Mr. Evans still is in the prime of life with probability of many more useful years ahead of him as an American steamship man, with a love of the sea "bred in the bone," as of a time when American seafarers cut some figure in the world because they, like their famous ships, were "in a class all by themselves". In all probability Mr. Evans will live to see the American flag again restored to its former proud position upon the seas, meanwhile "doing his bit" as a cog in a great industrial wheel to hasten the dawn of that day.

Mr. Evans owes his advancement in the Southern Pacific Steamship Lines to close attention to the business of his company, a likable personality, being a "go-getter" with nearly a quarter of a century of knowledge and ex

perience that daily helps him more and more in promoting the interests of his great company, which is a subsidiary of one of our most famous transcontinental railroads,

the Southern Pacific Company.

Death of Palmer Campbell

Palmer Campbell, general manager of the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, Hoboken's foremost and one of its most beloved citizens, is dead. He passed away at his country home at Bernardsville on Dec. 15, the result of a stroke.

Stricken with heart disease last June, his condition. became so serious that he was forced to rest at his country home, and while he improved during the summer months, he himself realized that his active life had come to an end.

During the intense heat of last September, he suffered a relapse, and his anxious family believed that the end was drawing near, but he recovered, and was mending rapidly, although unable to take the vigorous exercises that had helped maintain his rugged health for so many years.

He was sixty-nine years of age and would have reached his seventieth birthday on Christmas Day.

Born in New Orleans, he was the son of William Patrick and Caroline E. Beers Campbell. Of ScotchEnglish parentage, his father's father being a native of Scotland and his mother's mother an Englishwoman, Palmer Campbell was very proud of the Scottish blood in his veins. He was only five years old when the Civil War broke out and never forgot the thrills attending the escape of his father and family from New Orleans.

Some of the family came North, but Palmer Campbell was sent to England, lived in Liverpool for two years and received part of his education in Perth and Edinburgh, Scotland.

The family fortunes suffered severely as a result of the war and Palmer was brought to the United States. The family located in Hoboken and young Palmer got a start with the Stevens family as a clerk in the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company. Working his way upward he got a close grip on the affairs of the company and for nearly a quarter of a century was the managing head of the institution which handles the waterfront and other real estate holdings of the Stevens family.

He also established the Campbell Stores, the big bonded warehouse which is located on the river front at the foot of Sixth street and of which his son, Eno, is now general manager.

In addition to his business connection with the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, the deceased was a director of the First National Bank of Hoboken, vice-president of the Hudson Trust Company, an officer of the Hoboken Paper Mills, a member of the Board of Directors of the Hoboken Shore road of which he was general manager until it was taken over by the Government, a director of the Hackensack Water Company and of the Mutual Benefit Life & Insurance Company of Newark.

He was a member of the Engineers' Club, of New York; the Somerset Hill County Club; Hoboken Lodge No. 74, P. B. O. E., Euclid Lodge No. 136, F. and A. M.; the Masonic Club of Hoboken, the New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, Hoboken Chamber of Commerce, Hoboken Rotary Club, vice-president of the Lincoln Association of Jersey City, and a number of other organizations.