Show GREATEST PORT IN THE WORLD WORLD th the e port p 0 rt of Q f new york Y 0 rk is ia the th e greatest g r ca t tn in t the h 0 world v 0 rl al more 0 r th than n t twice vi c e a as s many maily vessels clear tho the port of Lon london donfon fon to lo be sure one every fourteen minutes as against one every half hour for foi now york but tho the average cargo value Is only v whereas that of now new york is in ill point ot tonnage now new york exceeds london landon by this la Is due to a dif difference terence I 1 in tile the character of the ports that must bo borno in mind in comparing them london Is En glands one commercial center and aside from liverpool its only great place of export arid and import it has too practically a 1 men monopoly op on the coastwise trade 11 of the kingdom for practically all manufactured articles tor for distribution to other parts of the kingdom cotton goods are shipped by water from birmingham to london from london they 7 are shipped by water to other parts of england ireland and scotland nl or to foreign ports on the other hand new york is not the he commercial center of america when the manufacturer or of shoes in boston sends ills his goods to baltimore lie he either sands them by rail or by vessel direct without entering new N cw york if he be wants to send his goods to france or germany he sends them from the port of boston that is the chief ports of the atlantic seacoast new orleans charleston mobile norfolk I 1 philadelphia and boston onga engage 0 o a coastwise and andl foreign trade in entire independence of now new york loss than 28 per cent of new yorks tonnage is represented in coastwise trade whereas fully 50 per cent of london londona Lon dons 9 I 1 is coastwise in other words or ol lon dons commerce amounting to sa 1371 cro 0 annually only rep rents foreign trade whereas oi new eat yorks annual commerce I 1 41 A ann alq r r rents ants foreign trade or an actual excess over london or of TA k ju to accommodate this enormous trade new york has miles of improved water frontage that is 40 1 miles of dockets this is half the distance between now new york and chicago I 1 london has less than miles of similar water frontage liverpool lias less than miles while hamburg Anti antwerp crp rotterdam and havre have each less than liverpool practically all the available water frontage of these foreign ports has been absorbed by their locks docks while new york has improved only a little more than one half of its available shore line broadway magazine |