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Show vV section ' f-- three EraNING NEWS. APRIL 5 1919 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SATURDAY PAGES Soon to be Accommodated- - Leviathan in the Thames Biggest Ship Afloat Landing Jetty Where She Can Come' Alongside Miles of New Docks Great Scheme Interrupted by War Now Facts and Great Thames, Little River to be Widened and Deepened So That Londons Port Will be Made Worthy of World s Biggest City Great Construction Scheme Figures a Self Made Business Man Under Control of Lord Devonport, ' MEASURE CJL OSZ VTDe t t l Re-earn- London as Atlantic Port. . 1 . .i ; (Special Correspondence). ONDON, March 27. The port o t Londoni continuing with increased vigor now that the war is over, a construction program that will enable it to dock such vessels as the Aquitania (45,647 tons) . .. to afford landing facilities to and r, M hCTaft as the giant If. S. S. Leviathan, liner Vaterland 54 82 tons). the Leviathan made it pos-t- o of sire the Formerly berth her only in three porta of the world, Liverpool and Hamburg. When the Port new passenger London Authoritys proposed completed at Tilbury, 26 miles down Ian jirg London Bridge; ifcw ill be possible tjg Thames from ihe Leviathan to be brought alongside and her "'sssengers Wbewhisked intothe rify byhoat trainsfnftiew trackage now planned by the Midland Kail- junction with the Port Authority.! if TO tenwilf be nothing in the world's harbors to There 1 this landing stage, when "it is finished. Thi -ficadng stage will be 1,700 feet long with a depth low water ordin- jj XT alongside of 85 feet belowenable to accom- Its will it length I ary spring tides. nodate two large passenger vessels st once, and Hie ' faeffitie with which it. will be equipped will enable passengers and their baggage to em-ocean-goi- lark wfthm an hour of leaving the city. If is to be !uaeetod with the shore by a number of bridges wtoch win be hinged in such fashion as to allow t fy stage itself to rise and fall with the tides. hotel accommodation will be available First ri i hack of toe landing stage for those passengers de ed quay walls aggregating 15,400 feet in length and 45 feet deep, reached by an entrance lock 1,050 feet long r ly 130 feet wide wrth a depth oL 55 Let. Certain important work ha- - been completed at i.ibury, however, despite the waruly of labor and niatcnal which the war brought about The southhgb-wate- tr west quavof JthJL- - rjili dick a '1 Hoary ha been iomkd tor a lcngb of l.nil feet and the corstrnc-t.o- n of thiee one ,torj tran-- u tried... cu.h about COO feet iohg bylJu feet wide, has be.'fi completed. The watei aro ha- - been extended by a'lOut 17 acres and ik it'ii t d facilities have been irta'led. In tne immediate icniiy of thi- - work, a jetty n-- now Ik c ,t.T TtCtne Tharnts with avTt to the predict ipthatge of JairiS'i landing part w.hr.-... being hu.U of re cargo on iv 1 hi-- - ani It-- a u, . w. nrwibn bvn-ri.e- r rooO wirn an upper Rod iowdeekfswBi boxed in to form u space The ujm r dtk is 1 icing equipped as a the intervening transit 1 shed. quay with crane tracks raPxay lines and electric cranes, the: shore connection for the railways being - jj obtained over a concrete viaduct at or.e end. A jjj, . dept of 30 feet at low water of ordinary spring tdes is provided at the front or the jeU for ships and a depth of 13 t between t!r jetty and the ebore . f forCaiges. GTAVT THAMES KWDUVG STAGE.. . TffJIXER LOVER JE1TI. On the front of" the jetty electric erartes of s Where the Leviathan On Come Alongside. Part of the Great Scheme for Improving London's Port. capacity are being provided of sufficient reach to tale up goods from the ship and doposf therp ers of compressed eoik. They were begun in 1913, for meat and is capable of housing 146,500 carcasses. cold produced by the evaporation of ammonia in either through hatchways in the upper deck on the the war, a large Vut The second principal building is a store about these coils serves to cool the air ,hich is circulated tiansit floor beneath or in freight cars or barges jrwrea has tares delayed by 300 been and however have the feet long, 120 feet wide and six stories high. over the cods by fans and distributed by cold air af the back of the jetty. At the back of the jetty completed, frTtiun of during tiue war they have proved invaluable in bous-h- g This ik also built parallel to the quay but farther ducts throughout the refrigerated chambers. electric cranes will effect deliveries further MAMMOTH COLD STORE. hug, stocks eg Kn and frozen meat for the from it, the main dock roadway and several lines to either barge or tram, 'siring it i - Outside of this of railway track intervening between it and the of London. f project, the erection of s new Thrs work" was commenced in 1913 but since is four itself divided into The " compartwhich communicait is hi direct i jock, now nearing completion, in the system of docks One of the tw principal buildings of this project transit shed, with the outbreak of the war ts progress has been sub- tion by means of two inclined overhead covered ments by fireproof walls and these are further bon as the Royal Victoria and Albert Bocks, which is a transit shed 1,100 feet long, built parallel to the greatly delayed. The jetty itself; however, is prac divided into five floors, each capable of containing I i Ft cdy 7 miles down the river from London Bridge quay and in two stories, the upper floor being de- bridges. complete and will be shortly brought-int- o tically whole in the or 250,000 12,500 carcasses of mutton, - i In these two brides,eledrieaIy-drtYe- n 5 miles by road from the heart of the city is signed to 'ccmfhm 250,000 carcasses of mutton if conveyconnow Work is use being for storage purposes. content of the upper . the used entirely for storage. The normal function of ors work, so that from the time the carcasses leave building, making with the greatest item in the Port Authoritys program .centrated on thfe approach viaduct. of the floor the and of floor transit a ground portion The existing this floor, however, hi to serve for the sorting of the ship's refrigerator holds, until they are examinsev actually under construction. A scheme for the deepening of the Thames is' , carcasses. 4 . Eayal Victoria and Albert Docks constitute the meat enabling this operation to be carried on under ed, classified and placed in their proper pika in the shed a total capacity of 646,500 also under way and is expected to be completed in j When completed, this scheme will bring the cold greatest enclosed, water, area in Any port and . refrigerated conditions instead of on the open quay. stores, they are throughout carried by mechanical five years time. When finished, the mighty little thus storage accommodation owned by the Port of London a freezing temperature, This budding occupies the length of two stretch over three miles.. For the new dock which Thamcs wlll have the following, depths and width: Its million carcasses, and as Authority up and the ground floor is designed to take general eliminating the risk of deterioration through excesSes to the south of the existing- - docks already over From London. Bridge to Tower Bridge, 450 feet fe- it has been borne in mind that the future developtbee and one half million cubic yards of 'earth V merchandise in order that these berths may accom-lav- s sive handling and exposure. wide and 14 feet deep- ment of the port may call for still further increase A separate building contains the refrigerating modato vessels carrying mixed cargoes, only par bees excavated, and the concrete walls have re- From grower Bridge to Thames Tunnel, 500 in cold storage facilities, these buildings have been machinery, consisting of ammonia compressors tiaHy consisting of fnnen goods. To meet the abqnired for their construction about 500,000 cubic feet wide and 14 feet deep. driven by electric motors of an aggregate capacity of so arranged as to be capable of practically unlimited normal conditions of the war, however, as an emyards of gravel and 70,000 tons of cement The From Thames Tunnel to the Greenland Dotlc, ... extension. undertaken measure the 1,006 horse power. Thetnmoma is led in liquid at new dock proper will have a water area of 64 acres of the request ergency 500 feet 'wide and 16 feet deep. , The de.-- .pments projected st Tilbury include a end a depth of 38 feet The entrance lock is to be ministry of food,, a Uarge portion of this ground form by insulated piping to batteries' of evaporator From the Greenland Dock to the Royal Albert 800 feet Jong, 100 feet wide and 41 feet 8 inches, floor has been temporarily converted to cold storage coils placed In the storage buddings. The intense vast new dock J38 acres in extent, surrounded by Dock, 600 feet wide and 20 feet deep., . . below high water of neap tide. It is to be dividFrom the. Royal Albert Dork to Goldharbor Point, ed into two compartments, 550 feet and 250 feet 6i0 feef unde and 30 feet deep. in length, by three pairs of steel gates operated by From Coldharbor Point to the No re, 1,000 feet w ide and 30 feet deep. Fydrsufic machinery. 'The lock has been so deigned as to he capable of extension, by means of a The rise of the tide from iouVisater springs to "ff; floating caisson, to 910 feet thus allowing the dock- high water neaps vanes from 13 feet 6 inches at j icg vessel of the dimensions of the Aquitania, i, Southend to 17 feet 2 inches at London Bridge, to 868ti fort between stem and stern and 97 feet that it will be seen that! there will be ample depth ' beam. ' The passage or cut communicating with the Statistics show that the better paid for thd" largest vessels afloat. (Special Correspondence.) s' (Special Correspondence however, be but a drop to the ocean. "m has of ONDON, March 25. Now that working class families and the lower the river March 25. It Is common and for the moet part this of deal existing Royal Albert Dock is also 100 fee A dredging good this monad will 49 per consume middle classes nearly the end of the war has practi- cent more tea and ground among the Allied pow- -' haTe to be obtained bv direct or In- a number of new .Tilth, and isto J.used.tomporariy to afford en- sugar than the unalready been accomplished, en cal tAxat1n tnm th tJertnan ciU- been "reached, " aequired.T-Dredging- s. there skilled laborer class, and If an addiera that Germany is to be com trance to the new dock. Work on the lock gates, havlng--beother t plan and, ' comes the bill for and will be paid by film In the . and tion is made in respect of confection-e- r. dredgers payment, to -- opening to madtesuch taken ont ! lie. peiiea have was held up by Jhe from the Thames bridges and machinery reparation currency of his country, (bat is to say. condensed milk and mineral waas Ties ln her power to France, Bel- -, ,n marks the far reaching effect of four years ter it mould probably be equal to 50' and , British government daring the war, but six months of about 70 distance a sea at at dumped glum. Italy and Serbia - for the de- - f Tbe fact that this U the case forms of the most expensive war ever waged per cent London .. ago special facilities were given and the work is miles from T as? at ion that she hasindelible Bridge. their considerable embarrassment to ln history have left The sugar duty has been raised to wrought in on a smaller bow being pressed with all possible speed. A number of other improvement pre-w14 territory. The powers that England. 25 financiers, for unless German its times $1 finance cwti, national on per mark hve been longest t in the trade is the mark ts incurred figure." 25 TON CRANES. though of no less importance have been com-Uk the rest of her Aliie bas war, soch as FVanoe engaged and Great Brit- - valueless. Tou cannot redmild a ruln-aiof alcoholic debt The . new of outbreak the consumption of since docks also hope that she may be fore- an immense burden plated arthe various French factory or equip a Fer-e- d At the western end of the new dock, a great of taxa- liquor lends itself to Itbudgeting less to to until not' prospect been farmer" new bian has it every recently contribute a is -. with but there in and and is naOn a plotnch the war, ! new poible something than does tobacco, as point dry dock is nearing completion. In fact, it is ture of an indemnity to help pay tor It In marks unless either the tion being heavier than ever known which people are most sensitive. In give the desired prominence to them. The old Tofifcdied except for Hie caisson for closing its enthe heavy burden of debt liquidate 1 904. the incurred Plough Is of Gorman make and the the working average year in her history. bacco Dock passages have been widened and deep- contribute! o the reveclass trance and the machinery for pumping out the bv these countries during four years factory rebuilt with German bricks, This is In spit ef the fact that nue infamily alof hostilities. of The taxation unices of r German the bv the ened and five new bekh- - have been constructed of this respect exporting justice fourT Bator. -- .This machinery, consisting of electrically-- ; dahn seems Incontestable. German other goods has established a credit her revenue ha been multiplied are coholic liquor. 15. a lower middle by the building of a. jei;v at Ducks where i indemnities a drives pomps, is to be boused beneath the quay of the and class forced war on Europe: in the enrrenev of the country wher fam.lv. 420; family aggreesion fold. Even if large stanew a and sheds sum a new of impounding also transit $70. class income lax some ' turf ace and . will he capable of emptying the dock Germany by military preparedness the plough and the bricks are made, year I burden for paing ecurk and unscrupulous violation of treaties Therefore it would seem that if the During the past year the conditions tion to increase the depth of water in certain of be will coloss. come is three hoars. The dry dock is 750 feetlong by to of supply were wholly artificial, and gnee ceded, in having the . . war waged Allies wish to recover any substaa-r- : The great problems will be so there are no datk of anv kind as to the London Docks have also ben built. About -- 199 feet Outside ber owq territone,The Ual part of the cost of the war. they wide and 35 feet deep over the sxtmst the taxation that principally the comparative consumption of altiiose of 350,000 square feet of shed accommodation have shoulder d i. tt will fall on the ? mw coholic liquor by :he various classes r.ram, the bear to teen added to the Surrey Docks. A new passage, beet able of the population. The present liquor B8Cg equipped with cranes capable of lifting loads shoulders. She should pay, the price j Germany with raw material and must least hardship on the duties the in to are inflicting estimated bring has been made into the. East India Import Dock- -, f her crime: but can she? he prepared to see Germany buying winners. bg to 25 tons."- entertain annum. The bia4 per . . A French estimate of the cost of and selling freely with the whole , dock Luniur the last four years, the ba.c ments duty expected to produce for where new quays and transit sheds have also been, y. Bf 11 when fully equipped will . world. of total the Allied fhs ofthe Britirii ta budgets the last ear $30,600,009. expenditure of new quay .with three principle constructed. A half-mil- e row berthing accommodation - forI3 large ships But If they doth! they are encour- Powers and the 15 K. A. on war pur-- T has been to do so without excesve taxa- amount revof the indirect That modern sheds and increased equipment have been, now a that formidable of trade revival the but aging friction, 4 transit sheds of capacity sufficient to handle poses reaches the stupendous figure! is more it to be raised, bil-will and have 1 enues hundred prejudicing two and thereby of competitor nearly forty lhefr cargo without congestion. Three such sheds, yw the necessary than ever to sorev lion tolar. (In franca, the amount their... own , industrial position. The as to give personal habits of the Individual, is improvements to the West India and Millwal! Dk SH whole of fiscal principles too enormous for the brain German business man has always been is laving an aggregate floor area of four and one-ha- lf obvious. The working man who doe are contemplated. , wf dangerous commercial rnal. and in et, Justice to all classes The imposition to take In). Though this estimate Post-aeres are approaching completion on the south side sure not smoke or conume alcoholic liqtrade be will curiously.-yof any new form of taxation is That somewhat be inflated. uors pay That it is possible to modernize this ?ystem o?J of course, a far smaller may possibly dissatisfaction. ef the dock. One of them, in fact, is already in use considerable much derive cause assistance to there seems little reason to doubt enough and this renders it percentag of hi income in taxation own currency from the fact that-bicannot docks, one half of which were constructed to relieve the congestion in nearby sheds. Another that the figure is. gigantic one. Brit has care than his Jess abstemious neighbor. that every so more neeenaary become depreciated. the all serlousty ago, is a' marvelous testimonial to tho en Briu,n Under the British system of inditod larger shed, two stories high and of the length fch avnnrtw cbmui C"1 Before tho war. an English sovershould be exercised to make new taxado-the share alone at forty billion Clearly. eign would exchange for 20 German with and class classes the rect every .to taxation, Just tion perfectly gineenng skill which went into their original . ,ef two is to be erected on the north quay. Germany cannot .pay this sum off mark fact of the the Now that in of ft,-community. section intmplawl within any reasonable time; the most the sovereign hasspite A feature in the design of the dock is the of the bill to be footed vahi ln fallen amount itself The H there revenue than the classes immediately cost over 10 million dollars at .pre-wprice . that the Allies can expect is to ob- aa compared with the dollar, it is equal is not yet definitely known, and on the sooth quay of seven concrete jetties, about a dividend thereon. nature of thing be much above them. The war has basin at thf k 30 mark the tain least to at a in must form to intended large turning S2ST direct-taxatiJ foct long which have been constructed parallel what the actual doubled the percentages of Various attempts have been made This fact will militate against guess work as to will It east end of the import, export and south docks o Ger- German manufacturer when he bast(e The bill be. to paid by the working rlasse amount required the quay wall, with an intervening space of 32 to a&ess the extent to which ,kh or more the this group, and to connect it with the Thames bxrf j has multiplied three-fol- d forced otic. into without be will a raw outside can. material being Germany, heavy buy many I feet for barges. Ships will berth alongside the jet-ke-s, (he gulfs and but In all purchases Inside Germany The present sources of revenue. taxation on earned Income of $2,596 mean of a new entrance lock which iseta be 35' is j iiiade-Totabor tt the' imrm whlcSTwill be equTppc3with electric cranes- on a rising scale feet long and 84 feet wide. A communication pa5colossal rum. For example, the ex-- j continues generally she has done, and it seem probable sill confer on. him an enormous advan- e Earned capable of transferring cargo from the ship either ees profit duty Is estimated to yeid op to rttre largesr-Incomcan sum industrialist she that j outside will also ' be ' made into the MlTwaiFDocky?" tage. Every experienced the that tage $ a to 19.990 $25,000 Incomes year of .into barges lying between the jetties and the quay .'to the present financial year J,000.00,(M)0. This knows that the prime factor In the pay annually i anln most Vessels are the "suffered have dutiea death up to 625 feet in length will then be ablri heavily The calculation is based on the fact that cost of production" of. manufactured alr other source of great revenue all of these docks. It is also intended proportion . to enter were articles is the cost of labor, and if ln pre-wGermany pf savings the of taxation, As a detail of this improvement, if may be stated estimated st U.OOO.OOO.OO though. of course, they vary from year andAt the present rates goods 7" annually. exchange for aS.dollar" worth ofmanuthe latest bertha with three water ap? the condition deep equip under exciting to year. German that the Port Authority, in order to replace work- - w lier military 'expenditures will be sent to the 15 A. the a family of five and an pliance for the rapid discharge of grain in bulM with classes ay workman British 4 marks as be did working The not receives facturer the avcompulsorily reduced by another moat of their taxes Indirectly, snd it Income of $19 a week,hiswih , tens cottages demolished fat excavating for tho new before the war, but or even 7 mark and to erect a new reinforced concrete silo of arIt 't ciaas of ala year and the preesure of te a curious fact that the present sys- erage consumption of t-- as he will now. he will be able to'undock, has erected 204 houses on Garden City lines, ex be wm-rartipec r taxed and other of articles tobacco cohol. taxed initial storage .capacity of 40,000 tons as a first it, obligatory ecomony may 4599 manuof tem or American tbo British rationing a trifle over a dollar a week ed to bringTirye cle I near-bt S . ..." dgr0 . ruion 4 very mtu--h on facturer in ail neutral markets: Tkv Th rn annum. VuiOTii " with the actual amouin'ii f Extensive provision for cold storage is also being 900 perwill have to be levied by tax- depreciation of the mark virtually con U:- is of a under i a dollar and construction The entire week quarter, pre-wpays program per days Uonin money fers a bonus on the German exporter. Provided at the Royal Albert Dock,. Large, accom- - ation from the German people. For example, the amount of tea while the man with $25 per week pays Viscount Devonport, who has befi 5 , of Can this difficulty be surmounted? rvison rupt rt of it will without doubt Some-paavailable (or distribution at the pres- $2 per week. An English member of Parliament , jTnodation for frozen produce has already been per parliament will have toJdiscus how chairman of the Port of I.ondon Authority sini-h taken- - In mercantile whipping and vt bo is well versed in economic quesent time vt two ounces per head over-sof to svstem conform the in ix a value the little far in to Port vicinity existing 19jN Authority its estnblishfrent by an act of Parliament by tho, week, equivalent in raw material: the estimated, tions bas made a suggestion which of Justice between the various London' meat centers,' but the new warehouses at of the German- eoiontes will go to may help to meet it. die considers pounds per head per annum, which is the (aw and Lord Devpnport was food" controller during ,par; tt must that mind, Inarm the etaw. ha as much sum: the nearly Germanj's that the Allies should decide at Paris make up part of Albert Docks ore to accommodate mcaf-carrv Plan and was foruy ' of the war. He is a self-main the year before the .war. Colbert defined the art of taxation aa hoarded gold and foreign securities to impose an export dirty on all GerIs one consisting insm plucking the goose as - ring vessels which arc too large to come further, up . will .The present rate of tea Itduty chant. tea be transferred to the credit of the man goods exported to thair countries, a me) f j Is a well to get th largest amount of fealhers-wit- h crly and v even be per pound, necessary shilling of the It the country may snd currency Allies: warepeyabie.in ' liver. . It may safely be aud that these CLAIR PRICE. the lust amount of hiss nx. known tact hi England that the bigof her worke-o- ( are exported." This to which the goods to "her dispose for EATON FEARN. house are second to none in the world. They are gest consumers are . the working Oipyright, 1913, by Edward Marshall. .7 ij i art to the highest bidder. Cupyrigh. 11J. , li (Continued on page two.) The sums obtained in this way wm. buildings of reinforced concrete, insulated with lay lt - fe-e- cold-stor- e 1 rl j 1 . -- - j . L Al-the-u- ar n, r ked-block- g. . .i iirti as? .'s L2USr 3rii2isifassr.2f $273.-699.6- I .. m. ar s 117;-year- s .a ship-berth- pro-jnefa- ci ar " Tifgn-'iia'y'men- oi r $1,509.-009.00- 0. ar 50.-(100,0- 90 ! . ps ail-fou- y. ar . ed -- average-consumptio- ' . - - 'V n - ST -- q f |