| Show I To TodaY TodaY- y- y Nations Nation's Pulse Pul e I Throbs in New NewYork York Port 4 ER and anduN uN B ECKLEY lO W f EV YORK Aug 22 The Tel- Tel j Ln's gam ams am's Special News Service Service- I western of New York a Th nort rt Britain's lifeline and 55 0 of supply do door r for Ameri Amen gge gest t Is Sucking Bucking in raw can industries defense als for cad fending sending end forth finished w wea- wea a- a I d democracies democracIes' M 3 and food for the V steadily Increasing pace it r a the W. W Past the thc statue rp ply freighters from the corners of the world laden taden with fth rubber tin copper hundred other sUgar and a rw ee sugar gar vital to the defense d health of the nation Down Hudson and out to sea slip gray freighters be bearing ring the a of 48 states to the Vast ense of democracy food democracy food for people le and md sinews of war warM warber M oi her ber armies le Ibe e burden of feeding raw mals ma- ma I ls to defense Industries which I running steadily faster and Ii 11 the job of handling ter r and 4 rising ig flood of aid to the democracies have been ded ei to j the great ports port's every- every burden The task of feeding I and supplying the 12 inhabitants o of ot the metro- metro tan area with necessities and andies Lf lea ies goes on as usual rk Moves fO Smoothly I f e Port area Includes the test concentration of Indus- Indus in the world i b task of supplying materials T these factories and carrying products to all parts of the fi t atry ij and many flung far-flung sec- sec i of the globe is he heavier vier than ear r before beCore Shut But the huge port into which p cut European harbors of Ant- Ant r could be bej tr rp and Hamburg j ped ped with fth room to spare Is doto do- do to s job smoothly Working the handicap of secret hang fi cg schedules with some ships LL ng and ind departing 1 or on onery very ery short notice t still sYll is moving smoothly id ti without delays Poi Jair materials arriving in the miry are shipped out promptly prompt prompt- ly f io waiting factories The flow for export has been care- care Illy controlled and jammed diks and clogged railroad sid- sid p of World war been except for a few scat- scat red instances due to un fore fore- developments iHa These bot- bot have been remedied The drama of ot the port enacted I n I t broad stage stretching up upi ui i d down both sides of the Hud Hud- I B the East river Newark bay ken Jersey City Brooklyn n Bayonne Yvonne and Staten Island is ariely overlooked by visitors to NewYork Even the native cliff looking down on the theM M Fast st river or the Hudson from toll ill II apartment buildings miss the I cance Yet let It is isa a mirror of the com com- t life of the greatest in in- nation In the world It ItI I difficult to exaggerate the role ch New NeWYOrk'S Yorks York's waterways play the traffic which swirls into cf ot or through the congested eisaw won mUon l Jew w realize that eight trunk te railroads whose branches u ud connecting lines stretch out the Industrial and agricultural ons like a huge nervous to come to stop on the west g of the Hudson river There no nG connection for bringing freight across the river eio the railroad bridge at P 70 miles to the north The only railroad tunnel I II w lor passenger trains only From Pron om railroad yards which fan fanon out ut o on tb the west bank of the Hudson Hudon Hud- Hud son IOn building materials for New York or i skyscrapers coal for its a ea food and clothing for tI Li millions lillions of inhabitants and Wt for outbound ships must tt 30 Upped ChIpped by truck through ver vehICUlar ve- ve r tunnels under the river by Merry ferry ferry- or in barges it its surf surface ace I trucks bringing railroad freight der wr the river add to the steady of long lonS and short haul tor i trucks which are carrying a larger larer portion of the freight Ir 7 1 Freight to tn for exP export rt C goes es direct- direct or Is s unloaded on Ule dock and and then reloaded on Doard ard ship Freight for delivery q 4 the city is unloaded on docks nd c carted d by truck to its ulti- ulti nUe nate destination rt ver NIght brings little little respite to the theAs b front As portly ferries Ne New w Jersey commuters dwindle d to a 2 thin fruit and vegetables for e e Yorks Yorke tAble are being trans- trans from lighters and car teres fer- fer es to Manhattan attan docks In the thee ot of the e morning hoarse hoars auctioneers irs are aie selling the to dealers who cart the ProduCe from the docks on its step toward ard the evening din- din le |
