Port of New York Annual, Volume 2Alexander Rogers Smith Smith's Port Publishing Company, Incorporated, 1920 - Harbors |
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American Anchorage average cost Baltimore Barge Canal barrels per hour belt line Berth boats Boston bridge Broadway Bronx Brooklyn bulkhead bunker coal bushels Bway capacity cargo coal cars cent channel Coast coastwise commerce Commission Company connection construction cost of loading Creek depth discharging docks dredging East River elevators engineers equipment existing project facilities feet wide Ferry freight fuel oil Hackensack River Hampton Roads handling Harlem River Hudson River improvement Jamaica Bay Jersey City Kill van Kull Lighterage lighters located Manhattan marine insurance mean low water ment merchandise miles Newark Bay operation Orleans Philadelphia Pier pipe lines plant Port Newark rail railroad ship Shooters Island shore Short tons South Staten Island Steamer steamship storage Street Syndicate TABLE terminal tion tonnage tons per hour Towing traffic transportation truck tunnel United unloading vessels warehouses waterfront waterway West width yards York City York Harbor
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Page 370 - Dollars, and from every schooner and sloop One Dollar from the first day of November to the first day of April In every year. In addition to the rate of pilotage established, as winter pilotage.
Page 487 - Such consent, approval or recommendation whenever required in the case of the city of New York shall be deemed to have been given or made whenever the board of estimate and apportionment of said city or any body hereafter succeeding to its duties shall by majority vote pass a resolution expressing such consent, approval or recommendation; and in the case of any municipality now or hereafter governed by a commission, whenever the commission thereof shall by a majority vote pass such a resolution;...
Page 335 - Joint resolution to exempt the New York State Barge Canal from the provisions of Section 201 of the Transportation Act, 1920, and for other purposes,
Page 363 - Rule or regulation," until and unless otherwise determined by the legislatures of both states, shall mean any rule or regulation not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States or of either state, and, subject to the exercise of the power of congress, for the improvement of the conduct of navigation and commerce within the district, and shall include charges, rates, rentals or tolls fixed or established by the port authority; and until otherwise determined as aforesaid, shall not include...
Page 374 - The established anchorages for naval vessels having been found inadequate at times when an especially large number of vessels are gathered for parade or other purpose, and the Navy Department having requested the establishment of a numbered series of anchorages for such occasions in order that a naval vessel may be ordered to proceed to a designated numbered anchorage in the harbor, the following arrangements have been made : A key chart for naval anchorages in Hampton Roads, which provides for the...
Page 361 - The future development of such terminal, transportation and other facilities of commerce will require the expenditure of large sums of money and the cordial co-operation of the states of New York and New Jersey in the encouragement of the investment of capital, and in the formulation and execution of the necessary physical plans; and Whereas, Such result can best be accomplished through the co-operation of the two states by and through a joint or common agency.
Page 289 - One proposed to provide for the termination of the suspension of the operation of the provisions of the section "in whole or in part * * * in the discretion of the commission, either on its own initiative or after full hearing * * * ." Hearings on this bill were held before the Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives.
Page 361 - An act authorizing designated authorities in behalf of the state of New York to enter into an agreement or compact with designated authorities of the state of New Jersey for the creation of the "Interstate Sanitation District," the establishment of the "Interstate Sanitation Commission...
Page 311 - Bay the channel is to be 10 feet deep at mean low water and 200 feet wide. From the...
Page 314 - The work done under all propects has resulted in making a channel 15 feet deep at mean low water and 400 feet wide from the East River to...