Show NEW CHANNEL INTO NEW YORK Only a few years year i a ago o the channel into New Kw York harbor was deepened to thirty feet and New Xe York figuratively el patted itself on the tho back and said Now we are read ready for the biggest ships that men can cnn build our harbor is ample for the worlds world's ships and all aU the commerce that can be crowded upon us But within the past three years it has been heen found that the channel was not deep enough for the II biggest ships and that the increasing traffic was I causing much congestion among the shipping S So a new channel called the Ambrose channel has been opened at it a cost of It if is not yet ret quite completed but the dredges were hung up I the other day dar to permit the er Caronia drawing drawing drawing draw draw- ing thirty feet of water to pass through The I Caronia met with no mishap and demonstrated b by her soundings that there thero was thirty-five thirty feet o of water through the tho whole seven se miles of the channel The sharp turns in the old channel arc are eliminated in m this and New Y Yorkers are arc confident that when the great Lusitania arr arrives ves she may mar pass through this new net route without any lightening of cargo a awas as was expected c It is expected c too that with this channel for the heavier ships the shallower channels will be greatly relieved of the crowding of ships that now prevails It gives gics New York a fourth channel for ships going and coming from her ner port and establishes anew the pre eminence of her port for the worlds the Worlds world's commerce |