BENSINGER CODES Extend Foreign Trade E CREOSOTE rail WE road ties, piles, poles and wood paving blocks in any quantity at our NEWARK, N. J., plant. We can make deliveries at the buyer's convenience, as we keep a large stock of untreated material on hand. Our prices will satisfy you. American Creosoting Co. 17 Battery Place, New York Hudson Tunnel Progress AND SHIP NEWS The big shield that is boring the north vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River has crossed the State line from New Jersey and appeared in this State. The shield is now approaching the layers of rock which have kept the crews on the Manhattan side from making the same progress toward the west. It was reported by the tunnel engineers that a new record was established by the sandhogs in June. They bored their way through 1,150 feet of soil and rock beneath the river during the month, exceeding by 203 feet the next fastest record, which was made in April. It is expected that the north tube will be through this month and the south tube some time in January next. Digging for the undergroud approaches has been begun and rapid progress is being made. All of the work, it was stated, is practically up to schedule. New Oil-Engined Grace Tug The Ingersoll-Rand Company, 11 Broadway, are building a directly reversible marine oil engine for a tugboat to be owned and operated by the Grace Lines. This engine is a 320 h.p., six cylinder, 13 inch bore by 19 inch stroke and operates at 250 r.p.m. Outstanding features of the engine include direct injection of fuel oil, single lever control and low head room, all features which are essential to a tugboat oil engine installation. The builder of this tug is the Spedden Ship Building Company, Baltimore, Md., and it is understood that the boat will be in service by the early fall. It will be operated by the Grace Lines for shifting lighters in New York harbor. The engine used in this tugboat is similar to the engines furnished the Diamond "P" Transportation Company for the tugboats Hustler and Sonnitep, both of which are in service. New Mexican Merchant Marine Plans of the Mexican government to build up a merchant marine by the construction of ships and through subsidies to shipping lines are outlined in a report from W. R. Long, of the transportation division, to the Department of Commerce. It is proposed to put into service on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts three combination steamers of about 3,500 deadweight tons capacity, and on the Pacific Coast two other ships of similar tonnage. According to the decree of May 29, the steamship lines are to receive a subsidy of 75,000 pesos monthly during the first six months and 50,000 pesos for the following six months. Panama Canal Traffic Traffic through the Panama Canal for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1924, set a new record. Vessels passing through the waterway numbered 5,230, and the total tolls were $24,290,963, or more than 38 per cent greater than the total for the last fiscal year. The number of vessels passing from the Atlantic to the Pacific was 2,740, paying tolls of $11,799,194, as compared with 2,490 going in the other direction with tolls of $12,491,769. The month of June had the lowest figures for the fiscal year, with 377 transits and $1,792,921 tolls. CLEARY BROS. River and Harbor Transportation Scows and Barges for Freight or Charter THE 'HE value of shipyard service to you depends upon experi- TODD SHIPYARDS CORPORATION Ship Builders and Repairers-Engineers-Boiler Makers-Parsons Turbines (Terminal of Union Transport Company at Stapleton, Staten Island, Port of New York) Best Location in Port. Deep Water. Easy Access Under All Weather Conditions. Direct Rail Connections. Ask for our flat rate per ton for complete handling of your steamers and for our despatch schedule. Better facilities-better despatch-less cost. "A NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL REAL ESTATE SERVICE TO MANUFACTURERS" 270 Madison Ave., at 39th St., N.Y. CROSS & BROWN COMPANY Essex Bldg., Newark, N. J. Caledonia 7000 INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT Market 3008 AND SHIP NEWS VOL. 3 No. 9, Whole Number 33 SEPTEMBER, 1924 Twenty-five Cents a Copy A Century-Old Intracoastal Canal Project About to Mature F Conceived by George Washington, President Monroe, Albert Gallatin and By J. HAMPTON MOORE OR a century and a half great Americans have dreamed of an intercoastal waterway of priceless defensive value to the nation, as well as a commercial highway teeming with business. With those earlier patroits it was largely a dream, although Washington actually surveyed the territory through which afterward Hon. J. Hampton Moore President Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association the Dismal Swamp canal was built, at a time when railways were undreamed of, and although the first President was personally interested in the Chesapeake and Potomac Canal, the construction of the several other links necessary to continuous navigation was largely a dream with him, and those of his time. Then came the indomitable DeWitt Clinton, and the construction of the Erie Canal, bringing the Great Lakes into continuous navigation with the Hudson River and the sea, across New York. Still later, not particularly intended as links in great continuous inland waterway paralleling the Atlantic coast-line, but as local enterprises, followed the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, connecting the Chesapeake Bay with the Delaware River; also the Chesapeake and Albermarle canal, linking the Sounds of North Carolina Canal projects were from time to time started in and between other States, and probably no national enterprise is more deep-rooted in the public mind as a commercial necessity than the construction of still additional canals, linking great bodies of free water, some with Federal aid and others wholly local to the States themselves. Some of these would connect the Great Lakes with the Ohio River, others would connect the Chain of Lakes with the Mississippi, while our great neighbor to the North is equally imbued with the need of canals, some of colossal proportions and only attainable at vast cost. In the Puget Sound region canals are regarded as of inestimable importance. In Touch With the Spirit of the Times This explains, therefore, the reasons for the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, and why it has performed a most useful work in focusing public thought upon a thoroughly national project-that of a continuous inland waterway all along the Atlantic coast of the United States -the realization of which in due course is as sure as that night follows the day. The coming of the railroads for a time rivaled the canals, and then passed them by in importance as national highways of transportation. The aftermath of the early jealousies between canals and railroads for half century acted as a brake upon the development of artificial waterways. But the railroads are not now equal to the normal requirements of the nation as a transportation agency, so that the canals, with their infinitely cheaper cost of tranportation, their accessibility to private individuals, firms and corporations, assure to the country an independence in transportation which the public ever more clearly understands and appreciates. Railroad Building Checked-New Waterways Unchecked For the last fifteen or twenty years we have seen little growth in new railroad construction in the United States. Federal regulation and supervision have practically eliminated the speculative element from their construction, and so now they are turning to consolidations in great systems that will, it is to be hoped, result in greater efficiency and economy. Besides, the younger generation of railroad men are losing their traditional attitude toward waterways, and in time it will wholly disappear, as the commanding importance of the latter, and their freedom from possible monopolistic control, and hence their popularity |