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Show gflew York as a Port Has Much to Learn From Seattle I Mnderful Strides in Harbor Making and J Freight Handling Made by Energetic Pa-.1 Pa-.1 cific Coast City Furnish a Striking Object Lesson to America's Greatest Entrepot &m rameTc:al crts 071 tbeajtern coast may learn much from the story J' ,.rprise in harbor development that accompanies ihis and which tells of what SSK? ? done- und dome Slurry rim, e-r- tally, should be inter-lot inter-lot the writer contrast's sharply the inert::, t.iat ma'ks America's greatest the acttvty that fairly hums in one of the newest Pacific coast cities handling machinery is the particular pent stressed by the write! W?fi'"'Pf,on f ' cEF,c'ent devices '"stalled ts one of the most importart r of his story SM,,V, , lore N- Vnrfc-s back ir.l fadllti" hiivc been a source of concern to shinning authorities ih.-M ,f ,:,r'r'' " ,1L'V' n Ui,rn,n'! WL ,r,rn' ' bB ' Virk Twain' commfm on paraph" TSB.fcTV' " " r'orl- l: ' 5KV, i,as !''" : it :.t- enterprise ilgjEjoMi-d 1 ,s accomplishing nu. li mCM' i ,. ns Ruf Ihc pmlii in f : ii I'o soo r "... w. ;,.. In England ' ' ' I. lK, ,, . i NVw Yo Sjcl lhl' i,r'"'- ' ' u.m, Ycrl Oieit Opportunity yWt Arouses But Little Enthusiasm Kmlu" to ul h I'l l1' K A tud.f the ,;, and with no "ilKi crd Uit'e vil' rn : i" .!: ikfaE; the "UajH"' i, . : If". ' ' I HKT - i - fiKOOffalih I'li-r lliere is a modi . - tKj. fVM ,. r.- I f- jJfei'ng a'll. i c" -sk- i i Jprf i.BhE-ia h V rii r of thi? prirt Then E3)rr. rut m Hb. Stall 3t:d i iriBct: timlBilkf rwi nii'-i n fo tli Bl H nr Its finrmriunli v nnil -c:.-r-ii il i Mrtinlir Rllh pnorcy ar;d InKcnuPv It ' I r0T in ihf S'a'f no: tn- monoy tin: 'iX iti?ilal flijrhorifv lr --'r;,sp It- ft o! enirprise. Bv an of th l.eei-l.i-jl M? that rear the el'v vmi, r , tja Caslnpial corporation known as t h- Pori . 2 " ' ' . - M Ufrwnt th- f-a'tlp mon'rlp-i lit -. i.wii n oierit- i; in u .., M- oi h t&l rtf n thrlvinc i-.ii ari 'P'"? "arj is wnrklns win p of t? tn t Pit'Oc Mp ownins concern? for (he ra "to of onp of the ar..-indoiird war frt3 K Ihlpjard f;fe into nw icrmln il r - rvlc- This is W J5.0f0 mnro Without tills. manlrtp.il:' , , n lwo ,,,,,, , H gl'tnfy shlp ni encf t h mo5t am brM S tlUnz r,i their kin.) Ii ,- ,,,-t in Tjt 'v "T vv 'r "' v' " " r:' "'' ? lIln "'' -.trip oto1 '"v" v ' ' ' -I'-m ( Tinace unknown to '! m f. r gjj W Xf Vr.rlj pr.t, Fr-nrNr0 Nf fir- Wm K4 the Cut ports. f-U.sfon Bn I f Im nro tttj JftlitMphi, hn,, n nf.,,,() n fl r,',M """'I I'l tl- finire. millions rtttJ J Ip 1redrln8 ,0 krr.p oh:innP, f4 I a"" 'cran lhl. henw It. rn of Ut.H 3 minimum d.-pih of r,r, reel U U r 'n '' ... lr,r.-i , .... r0."''"1 rr"1"' pr,r' ru"1 n'"! r' tfi '' T' 'rf" 'ho Japan S3 ZZ.X c"w"tf- mild and the harhor f J am with ic. "' H'8(f the Government ItliM ''n harbor Enterprise !S bSih' harbor oro two ,,r' kTl Sn,,' ,in,J ,nf' Government j cut a canal-bul,t ,oc:;s 5 tJw.! vr'FS",r uc' ,0 a It-nKth of mi e3, i' J,lnlni: ,he": ,r,Ucs tc ''u""i lMr 3 ,hc'"Pr'l lnnrr harbor f AT fc frrn 3y 'Jnln;"1 wlthour inoonven-1V inoonven-1V ! rie and fa of tldrB ThHr if ni it be ,r,s of marine ii " k ui A !,hlps mriv be f,,or,ld wncn h coup 's no,mnR r':e IIIcp It ,iSfcw.v i, . L8,er the Seattle vli anal to ?"ndntion for nl-, - rlk," ..." Wt af ,ow UfJo- nnd W hbtfl tr":''r:"'r' "Vor-,rr,..r,. im meei. muni'Mpal lorks. the ' " "TJ'Pmrnt oonslstlnc of i N- ''or'c,r I'' wnreho.,. - t Sh Cld t0S Planta a ic cn th ,h a cjp:iclt ff milllrn rL0?' 01,8 f ? WatCrS f Pugot ! C?m?ftb(n!t lt ,h Port Com-I Com-I Sho- A t?rL,,helr entt'-P'-sc with ,8-.sno, (Ton"lDQl llnlt tK-v In out of a pier with n wnrehouso on t rheae were mult, and then backed by tne special stdragc houso? tho olovntor. tho nil t.tnks with n capacity or 2.600.000 frail one a oompletc houslnw ror poods Even tb w.--not enough, xo port pronts by trade 'n l .ppnq if it Is nothinj? hut nn enti v pnhn ror pood, incoming nna promptly acatter-n io raanufacturlns -.r donsumlng centres en-ivhore. en-ivhore. its pmt radl'tlea must u,. backed by Industn,.., ror ronvPrrinc fhe rt.w maleriHd receivea !mo rinLshr.; wealth Arcordln-.. the rar sighted Port Commission bouirh . BOh de.able a. ivayo of lan.l conv. nlr ni .. i i c - f ft'.-.- ' W kf Aa i : 1 - . i The 125 ton shear leg derrick shown lifting a passenger car is one of the many new and gigantic mechanical devices which help make Seattle notable tor its port facilities. Iho harbor In order to enrou - ice such lnd:i Tli ij far eiTii piers havi ben rhnffirtli U d In thii novel mmmunlty 'ffo-t. All no la' cer than tim Kverafre ocean (erminiii In O'hi-r port-- ..f the Miniil And two nf tbafn, Smith Cove Pier A and Smith Co-e Pb;r P. outdo anything ye tiempicd In Carao handling Those two piers Hrc -pc- roupily hall a mile lone One of -hem Is 310 f -oi wldn. but lhe other tins wldtn ol 365 ct li.i'-h Is l.ned viih -i I m .ii r four "nlls of railroad rail-road track, with -p.i. for nii frripht car at a t'niM The two pier lOKeth t provide p-re at one time for Ivventv cririr-. vessels of rne 8 son ion tvr.e built rv 'he hipping Boar! Sxvtteh coniHw-tlops wlib "he yards ot the tranaConttjjpfJXaj trunk rail lln-s and handling han-dling ma hlnerv nf the most modern dejjlirn. enpbie these sh ps to be loaded and nnlnid.-d Mithouf conirestlon and wlih a minim an warte in time and power. Mechamcal Equipment Does Away Wuh Teaming and Hand Labor In themselves thee two piers nrp miniature minia-ture freight yards The Inner tracks may ho used for siorace of poods In cars n ih lwo outer tracks ihrouph or ruh freight can be hoisted from the holds of the vessels and landed directly In the waiting cars. No teaming or trucking is needed, and little hnnd labor Freight Is discharged by mechanical me-chanical means almost entirely. Examples of tills mechanlc.il equipment are a 3-5-hore power gantry travelling crane, a 125-ton 125-ton steel derrick, several 35-ton locomotive cranes, a 12-fon stlff-lec derrick. For crate and lighter package freight n system of traetoN and trailers Is employed, with Inclined In-clined conveyors for loose pralns and seeds and the like, electric stacklnc elevators for boxed poods cravltor roller conveyors and other devices. That genuine economics result from theso methods the records amply prove in Items such a6 these: 6. 70S barrels of oil unloaded from the steamer City of Spokane at a cost of nine cents a barrel; 2.000 tons of bean-cake bean-cake and supar from the same vessel, handled han-dled by tractors, trailers and unloading platforms, plat-forms, at 20 cents a ton: 1,000 tons of beans, rape seed and maize from a Japanese ship at 39 cents a ton. A recent feat was the unloading of si.x 55-ton boilers from car to Bhlpa hold at nn average rate of a boiler stowed every 13 minutes. Goods have been moved by tractor trains directly from shlpslde to the warehouse for term storage without touching the dock or transit 6hed floor. And as ships are kept walling at dock for shorter periods of unloading, un-loading, they become more profitable to their owners. About one-third of the water borne commerce com-merce of Seattle is cared for by these public terminals In the past throe years they have handled 60 per cent, of the transpacific transpa-cific freights passing through the port, in- The city of Seattle dug this canal connecting the Pacific Ocean with Lakes Washington and Union, and thc Government put in the Ion: - pictured here. These locks can accommodate vessels up to 780 feet in length. The building of the canal gave Seattle a combined water from of 192 miles on thc ocean and fresh water. varrt and outward in 1918. during wartime war-time strains, af! per cent, of the transpacific trans-pacific freljtht went through S.-atMe. with the result that In thai year at least It became be-came the second port of the country. High Pier Rentals Eliminated By Publicly Owned Terminals In New York haroor steamship lines pay rentals as lii'h as $300,000 a year for dock conveniences fnr lower than the roomy Seattle standard. Vet these municipal docks or the Western port are opernted on cen-erciys cen-erciys and eTunl terms to all commerce at all times. lp a word, these publicly owned terminal are a free hlchwav. oppn alike to freight connection and ship approach In other ports steamship companies are sublect to hlch rental for piers, to charges for prrforonf lal assignments, to charges for berthage From any place (n the world a sblf. may sail Into Seattle and berth without with-out charge for berthage at any of the mu-nklpal mu-nklpal piers. Altogether It Is nn Interesting experiment. Tn Soaltle Itself it has had a stimulating effect ef-fect on the privately owned harbor developments. develop-ments. And everywhere olSe the example set will repay study. Nor is Its valuo as on example vitiated by tho fact that Seattle Seat-tle was Inspired to this effort by a magnificent mag-nificent trade opportunity. An uncommonly fine natural harbor lay ready to hnnd. Seal tie Is fortunate, beyond this. In Its geographical geo-graphical location. In mileage to ports In tho Fnr East It enjoys advantages over every other Pacific port. It Is nearer to Vladivostok by 206 miles, to Yokohama by 273 miles. 302 nearer to Hongkong. 280 io Botavla. 476 nearer to Manila, and 800 miles nearer to Alaska. Seattle has its eye on China. Manchuria nnl Siberia Returned army engineers havo brought back to Seattle newspaper Interveners Inter-veners the confident prediction that soon-r or later we 6hall tap In that region the richest rich-est granary and mineral region on the faco o' th earth. If these predictions come true, the Atlantic coast may expect to sink Into Inslgnlflcanco! Col. Oeorgo n. Emerson, general manager of the Croat Northern Rr.llway, who organized In 1917 a regiment of railway men and took them to Siberia tinder terms of the Interallied Commission to operate the Transslberl.m Railway. Is authority for this alarming statement. In order to back up his caso he referred to the fact that a wheat area greater than that cf the I'nlted States. Canada and Argentina Is tripped by the Siberian railroad. During the war disturbance the J 5.000.000 Inhabitants Inhabi-tants of this region raised 400.000.000 bushels of wheat And for lack of any more suitable lubricant, tho Yankee railroad men grea-sed their locomotlvo wheels with butter. Harbin Is still storing 10.000 carloads of Nans, dumped there two years ago. nwalt-lng nwalt-lng tho market not yet set up for them. I According to Col. Emerson, these fertile areas, hiding no one knows what mineral wealth, and yearly producing riches In unmarketable un-marketable beef, butter, hides and so on, are begging for American mide articles, fiom pins to locomotives. Naturally Seattle, Seat-tle, with five transcontinental trunk linos at Its back. In addition to this prospect before be-fore it. ts seeing visions. At that, it Is not the technical methods lv which it has risen 10 such an opportunity tint should sot New York to thinking Fir years New York has had before H. to comparatively com-paratively little avail, the example of niod- mles in operation In the small ports of Europe, in the technical and practical way. Seattle mav have little new to show. Not thi thing done Is Important, but how It was done and In what spirit A communal ef-Inri. ef-Inri. a municipality organized In audi a manner for such a purpose, is something of a pattern. Nothing ojinte of the sort mav be possible in n port so great among Interests so va.s and scattered, as here. There al.-o Seattle enjoyed a last and greater advantage The city Is new. It Is scarcely older than a ngle generation. It had accumulated no priceless but outworn properties to take iH oei no hard and fast customs and preju- I iflH dices to break down It had no need to cut- 1 jJ Bklde tough old growths in cutting fresh 1 IJ roads to progress. Tl-.ls (act remains, how- f 'l ever Seattle saw Its opportunity, and met fiLI it Met It by united effort In a bold ex- Ml perlnienf. Its people had unity of purpose. ( 'H roadlnes? In enterprise and the daring 'o 1 H risk a novel step In the loan of municipal Nl authority to the Interests of trade. These j lH featl may tie easier In a small and compact 'H community. They are not Impossible here j |
