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Xotwithstunding llie handicap, 

 however, nearly half of the foreign 

 commerce of the I'nitetl States 

 passes the Ambrose Channel and 

 Scotland Lightships swinging at the 

 enlraiue of the two pathways into 

 the harbor. It is not until one stops 

 to realize that New \'ork's foreign 

 commerce is equal to that of 

 Portland, Me., Boston, Providence, 

 Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, 

 Newpcjrt News, Wilmington, N. ("., 

 Charleston, Sa\annah, Jackson- 

 ville, Tampa, Mobile, New Orleans, 

 Galveston, San Francisco, Port- 

 land, Ore., Seattle and Tacoma 

 combined, that one can appraise 

 that statement at its worth. De- 

 spite the fact that all raw ma- 

 terial must be transported many 

 miles to its factories. New York 

 City is the greatest manufacturing 

 community in the United States. 

 At least one-tenth of all the 

 manufactured goods ])roduced in 

 this country are fabricated within 

 its borders. It has been asserted 

 that the city is the food market for 

 15,000,000 people. And yet only 

 f)ne of the great trunk lines can 

 run its freight trains directly into 

 M a n h a 1 1 a n . 



K^ a n k i n g 

 first in some 

 resi)ects among 

 the four chief 

 ports of the 

 world, its 

 w a t e r s a r c 

 p r b a b 1 >■ 

 busier than 

 those of auN' 

 other port, for 

 a large [jrojior- 

 l i o n of i t > 

 freight mui^l In- 

 (listributedand 

 collected upon 

 them. Therein 

 it resembles 

 Venice. Oni' 

 Salurda\ after- 

 noon the \\ riter 

 ^to^d III!' ,in 

 hour on the 

 Battery Wall 

 watching the 



Instead of loading and unloading freight several 

 times during trnnyit from New Jcrrey to New 

 York city, Mr. Wilgus would send it by rail 

 under the river directly to its (innl destination 



The Wilgus freight subway for New York city 

 is to extend throughout the city. Branches will 



various types 

 of vessels rang- 

 ing from great 

 ocean-liners to 

 snorting grimy 

 motor- l)oats 

 moving over 

 the ever-shift- 

 ing surface. In 

 the course of 

 that time, l.S_^ 

 |)assed on one 

 s i tl e or t h e 

 other, an a\er- 

 age of more 

 t h a II I h r e e 

 per minute. 

 There is i)rob- 

 al)l\- no busit-r 

 bit of water in 

 the world. The 

 l.ij-l report ot 

 the .\ew N'ork 

 Stale Commis- 

 sion to In\es- 

 I iga I e Port 



