Kenna Terminal

Increases Port Newark Tonnage Newark's new acquisition of one of the greatest berths on the Atlantic Seaboard has materially assisted the nation in solving its distribution problem.

During the month of June the steamship Tolima with a million and a half of spruce Canadian lath docked and discharged this material to one of the largest North Jersey lumber dealers.

One of the largest distributors of denatured alcohol in the industry, Wm. S. Gray & Co., of New York, have leased 24,000 square feet of storage space and have installed several pumps for the continuous handling of tank cars of alcohol to drums at Kenna Terminal. During the month of June their inbound traffic amounted to fifteen carloads or a total of two hundred seventy-five tons.

The Globe Sales Company of New York, dealers in metal beds and da-cots have leased 48,000 square feet of space for a period of two years. Their outbound traffic for the month of June amounted to ten carloads or one hundred forty tons.

Lease has been executed with Wemlinger, Inc., of New York, dealers in sheet piling, whose tonnage for the month of June amounted to twelve hundred fifty

tons.

Another lease has been executed with the Brown & Sites Co., of New York, also dealers in sheet steel piling, whose tonnage for the month of June amounted to two hundred fifty tons.

In addition to the above Kenna Terminal has stored on the account of A. W. Fenton & Co., of New York, seven hundred fifty tons of imported rags.

A lease has also been executed with the Pembroke Lumber Sales Company for a portion of the open yard storage at Kenna Terminal for the handling of their North Coast shipments of lumber for distribution in the greater New York territory.

A lease has just been concluded with the American Magirus Fire Appliance Co., Inc., of New York, importers of fire apparatus, and several other large leases are pending that will be concluded before the end of July.

Negotiations are under way and which should be concluded at an early date, to lease 24,000 square feet of space to the Limestone Products Corporation, cov

ering a long period of years for the distribution of Limestone products from Kenna Terminal.

During the month of August the Terminal has in prospect two lumber steamers with four million feet direct from the Pacific Coast together with one steamer loaded with three million Canadian spruce lath due August 3rd.

Ship News

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During the fiscal year that ended on June 30, a total of 4,673 vessels transited the Panama Canal, on which tolls totaling $21,400,523.51 were paid, as compared with 5,230 vessels paying $24,290,963 in tolls in 1923.

The White Star Line, it is reported, has contracted for the construction of an 18,000-ton new liner for service on its Montreal route.

The New York Dock Company reports for the six months ended June 30, 1925, net income of $315,740, after charges, equal, after preferred dividends, to 99c a share on 70,000 common shares outstanding, against $279,521, or 42c, for the same period of 1924.

On her last westward trip the Luckenbach Line freighter l'alter A. Luckenbach covered the distance from New York to Los Angeles with 7,725 tons of freight in fifteen days and two hours, just one hour behind the record of the Dorothy Luckenbach.

The title of largest motorship in the world is to be claimed by the Navigazione General Italiana for the Italia, a 31,000-tonner now being built at the Ansaldo. Works.

The canal was the first engineering achievement of the human race. Inscriptions already deciphered show that canals were built at least 4,200 years ago.

The Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines report net income of $280,905 for May, as compared with 168,005 for the same month of 1924. Total net income for the five months ended May 31 was $920,252, as compared with $469,490 for the same period of the previous year.

story of New York's congested facilities for the transportation of commodities through the thronged streets of that narrow city.

Surely the people from Maine to California, from Puget Sound to Key West are all familiar with conditions in the most minutely described and "written-up" city of the Continent. They know of its banks, its money, its hotels, shops, crowds and ships.

They know that New York City is the common mart or market place for people who have something important to sell, be it brains, beauty or beef-steaks. They know that if huge sums of money are needed by foreign governments, or our own states and citizens, railways, electric light or water power enterprises, it is through New York City channels the hoarded millions of the country's capital and savings can best be reached.

But like other "Golden Idols", New York City has "feet of clay". Her very corpulence impedes her transit facilities. Her city elections hang upon the transportation problems attending the movement of the human corpuscles of her civic body; i.e. the physical atoms, the men and women, constituting her over-population.

So insistent and clamorous are the demands of her people for more subways and for five-cent fares that other policies seem to be side-tracked.

Here do the "feet of clay"" peep forth, because the fact is disclosed that little appears in recent New York City politics to show that the slightest attention is given

to the real duty of New York, which is not to live selfishly to itself, but for the country which supports it.

The Port of New York is the chief Ocean Gate of the United States. It has to be, because the daily needs of the many millions who live within its purlieu are a magnet which attracts ships from all parts of the world into the Port. In-bound ships afford out-bound service which the manufacturers and producers of America cannot afford to disregard.

In so far as hotels, theatres and amusements are concerned New York does its duty to the traveling public of America. So also do the banks, insurance companies and foreign commission firms, as relates to the financing and marketing of exports and imports.

But when it comes to physical connection in the actual transfer of commodities from railroad to ship's hold, New York is shockingly expensive and dilatory.

This is not altogether New York's fault, although the water front labor unions are not entirely without blame in the matter of increasing costs in the Port.

Old New York harbor, admirably situated for the water craft of the 17th and 18th centuries, became increasingly inadequate in the second half of the 19th century, when railroads began to bring the products of the interior to her wharves. With only one railroad entering Manhattan Island proper, and all others halted on the west shore of the Hudson or the East shore of the Harlem Rivers, it became obvious that some system of lighterage or float