a ten acre plot, fronting on a new concrete dock, upon which it is proposed to erect a $5,000,000 sugar refining industry. The backers of this project have been working on it in Newark for several months, and have placed with Director Raymond of the Department of Streets and Public Improvements, the responsible official in charge of the port development, their application for the property. It is understood New York and Philadelphia capital is financing the sugar project. In the event Newark leases the ten acres to the refinery a ten-story concrete building will be erected in the coming spring, and operations will be under way shortly thereafter. It is proposed to bring in the raw product by ship and, after refining, distribute the finished product by rail. The congested eastern section of this country and some parts of Europe will be the markets for the product.

Other applications for land on file with Mr. Raymond include: paper-mill, manfacturing newsprint, employing 400 men, five acres.

Magnesite mill, manfacturing magnesia and by-products, 50 to 75 men, two acres.

Molasses distribution plant, 50 men, three acres. Fuel oil and gasoline distributing plant, 100 men, three acres.

Creosoting plant, 150 men, fifteen acres. Furniture manfacturing plant, 500 men, ten acres. Coke ovens, manfacturing fuel and by-products, 100 men, three acres.

Cement and reinforced concrete steel plate manufacturing plant, makers of plates used in building construction, 50 men, three acres.

Metal novelty plant, 150 men, two acres.

The remaining six who will shortly apply for sites are: Cold Storage Food Terminal; Barge Terminal; Tin Plate Rolling Mill; Iron Foundry; Oil Refinery; Grain Elevator.

It is needless to say that everything is being rushed

to dispose of the vast amount of detail work entailed in the handling of such a large and diversified number of industries. And it is a safe prediction that 1924 will see a majority, if not all, of these plants already on the ground or at least under construction at Port Newark Terminal.

Port Newark Proves "It Pays To Advertise"

On a scale commensurate with the size of the whole undertaking, and marked by the same vigor and enterprise as have characterized the building of Port Newark terminal since its beginning ten years ago this month, is the work of exploiting the advantages and facilities offered on the Newark waterfront.

Through the establishment of a Bureau of Information a campaign of advertising has been conducted for the past two years. In this manner information and data relating to the new port development within the New York harbor district has been circulated all over the entire world.

Systematic Methods E plcycl

Various types of mediums have been used, but the Newark bureau depends largely on industrial and shipping magazines to carry its message to the market it desires to reach. Supplementing this, pamphlets and booklets have been distributed in large quantities through the mails, and some billboard and newspaper space has been used. At all conventions of the large and important organizations of port, shipping and industrial interests Newark has been represented as part of its campaign of publicity.

The hundreds of inquiries which are received by Director Thomas L. Raymond, who, as head of the Department of Streets and Public Improvements, is in direct charge of the Port Newark development, are turned over to the Real Estate Department, and are followed through thoroughly. Executives and others connected with indus

tries interested in locating on the Atlantic seaboard, with direct rail and deep water facilities, are put in touch with every phase of the Newark development by this department, and the negotiations are carried on up to the final action in the transaction, the adoption by the Newark City Commission of the resolution confirming the deal. Practically all the red tape incidental to the usual run of governmental transactions is eliminated by the Real Estate Department by reason of its power to negotiate prices, terms and conditions of sale.

Newark Has a "Trade Consultant"

Another branch of the exploitation work is that of the Trade Consultant, whose duty it is to induce the shippers of the country to "ship via Port Newark". In this work Newark manufacturers are put in touch with business interests in other cities throughout the United States desirous of handling Newark-made goods, and, conversely, Newark merchants are connected with manufacturers elsewhere for the purpose of aranging mutually satisfactory business arrangements. The above illustrates one method employed in the work of stimulating trade between Newark and other points.

City Improvements Under Way at

Port Newark

Newark district was started late in the fall. In co-operaConstruction of new city improvements in the Port tion with the Bureau of Docks, the forces of the muniof Water invaded the port area with their equipment. cipal bureaus of lighting, and sewers and the Department

Chief Engineer James W. Costello had arranged to provide the new development with the necessary improvements. Accordingly, in conference with the various other engineers of the department, he mapped out the systems desired for lighting and sewering the port, and furnishing the many industries that are to locate there with city

water.

The paving of the several new roadways has been planned and directed by Mr. Costello himself.

Light and Power Available

Definite assurances have been given the city by the Public Service Electric Company that it is equipped to furnish all the light and power any number of manufacturing plants on the terminal will require. The Public

Service is at present constructing a $20,000,000 superpower plant in the immediate vicinity of the city's property.

Amplest Water Supply Available

The water service also will be more than ample. At present Newark owns a watershed which produces 55,000,000 gallons per day, which represents a daily surplus of ten million gallons above the city's needs. Under construction is a new water shed capable of producing 96,000,000 gallons per day. This project is a measure Newark is taking to safeguard her future as one of the greatest industrial centers of the world.

Port Newark's Great Army Base Negotiations For Its Purchase and Use For Industrial Lofts and Warehouses

One matter which more or less distresses the Newark municipal authorities is the failure of the War Department to turn its giant Army Base over to the city for commercial use, or to private interests. This property, This property, occupying 135 acres on the Newark waterfront, consists of 11 warehouses having a total floor space of two million square feet, some 18 miles of railroad trackage distributed throughout the plant and along its 3000-foot dock, as well as roadways, loading and unloading plat

forms, etc. Representatives of several interests have visited the plant within the past year or two, with a view to negotiating for its leasing or purchase, but to date, for one reason or another, these negotiations have failed of consummation.

City of Newark Ready to Purchase It Newark has offered the War Department $3,000,000 for the property and is ready and willing today to take it over and lease it to commerce.

Inasmuch as the Army has concluded that it will not operate the plant as a government reservation, it is hoped that the department officials in Washington will awaken and realize what an important water terminal this can be developed into if placed under the control of commercial interests and will dispose of it without further delay. As the matter stands now, the Newark Army Base lies over there as the dog in the manger of the Newark waterfront.

Newark's Interest in Railroad Consolidation New Jersey Central's Future of Vital Importance to Newark's Development

Director Raymond, as head of the organization building Port Newark, holds the distinction of being the first official to see the greater advantages to be gained through

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ITH 25 of its fleet of 32 ships in operation, the Transmarine Corporation is demonstrating to the world the fact that Newark Gateway is the most logical and direct for shippers of the interior. The Gulf Service of the Transmarine Lines is still an infant compared to the other established lines to the ports of Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston, but the frequency of sailings and the volume of traffic in the T Line boats have displayed a steady increase.

Growing Traffic of Port Arthur and Pensocola Port Arthur, the leading port of the Sabine, is only 25 years old, but from a standpoint of tonnage handled it stands fifth in the ranking ports of the nation. Of course, a large volume of this business is oil, but with a regular weekly steamship service to Port Newark, the flow of general cargo is growing rapidly. Pensacola as the entrepot to the southeastern territories on the Gulf has always been known as a large shipper of lumber and naval stores. The Transmarine Lines has provided the shippers of this section with a direct service to the Metropolitan lumber district, enabling them to compete with mills nearer the market. On its northbound service the shippers of Mobile also are provided with an opportunity of selling in and about New York. Lumber shippers, of course, have the distinct advantage of the Transmarine terminal facilities at Port Newark. The enormous quantity of lumber handled, shipped and stored at Port Newark, is the most striking testimony possible of its virtues as a lumber distributing base.

Rapid Growth of Intercoastal Service

On June 12th, 1923, the Transmarine Lines established a direct service to the West Coast of the United

States with regular stops at the Pacific Coast Ports of Los Angeles Harbor, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle and Tacoma. Last month, Portland was added to the list. This line was advertised to the shippers of the country as a weekly service, employing a minimum of 13 ships. Extra Ships Needed

Since that date, a ship has left Port Newark every Thursday without fail, and just as regularly reported at Los Angeles Harbor 21 days later. The flow of freight from all over the East and Middle West to Port Newark has developed with a surprising speed, though there are 18 other established intercoastal lines operating from Should the volume of New York and Philadelphia. freight increase at the same ratio for the next few months that it has in the past six, it will be necessary to dispatch two ships a week from Port Newark. At the present time, six additional ships are employed as auxiliaries to accommodate surplus cargo.

Loaded Direct From Car to Ship Westbound shipments, originating from the steel districts of Pennsylvania, the tire factories of Ohio, the automobile, furniture and farm implement centres of Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, are loaded direct from the car to the ship. The same applies to the many tons of freight arriving via motor truck from the industrial points within a 25-mile radius of New York City. The westbound cargo is of a heterogenous nature, but the principal eastbound commodities are lumber from the slopes of the Cascades in the northwest; copper pig, canned fish, canned fruit and mineral earths.

At the present time, the weekly tonnage handled at